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Rift: Spoils of War Prelude Event Preview
SBFord
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Trion Worlds has partnered with MMORPG.com for an exclusive preview of the upcoming prelude to the Rift v1.2 Spoils of War update set to deploy soon. MMORPG.com News Manager Suzie Ford had the opportunity to chat a bit with Trion's Design Producer Hal Hanlin and Lore Lead Morgan Lockhart to get all the goods on the Spoils of War Prelude that arrives on Wednesday, May 4th. Check it out!
As the name implies, the Spoils of War is related to the River of Souls event. Telarans successfully overcame Alsbeth and her minions and now the rewards have arrived. The prelude offers players four new daily quests centered on the mysterious treasure-like items literally falling from the sky in some cases.
Read more of Suzie Ford's Rift Spoils of War Prelude Event Preview.
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I am sorry... but so far from what I have seen with v1.1 and now coming with v1.2.
Then sadly the EverQuest2 Live team is still on the throne when it comes to live and holiday events with actually story driven quest lines, with actually fun rewards!
Just dumping a couple daily repeatable collection quests in the game you need to do a horrible amount of times and increasing the frequency of Rifts and call it a Live Event is not what I call original nor very attractive in my book.
Rift was great at launch. Very polished and fun to play for a short while.
But so far these so called live events just end up being nothing more than an ordinary boring grindfest!
Heh, the phrase "fool me once..." comes to mind.
Sorry Trion, not resubbing over any previews this time. If I actually read a few rave reviews about how the game no longer falls flat at 50, I'll think about it.
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
It sure beats other games. You don't have to wait, sometimes years, for content.
OOooo Another event.... I'm happy! Loved the River of Souls, and now can't wait for this one!
((&*^%(*&^% Anyway, there were 2 tiers of 10mans, raid rifts, 4 warfronts and a 20man raid at launch. One month after launch they already added another 20man raid. They are working on 10 mans and considering how fast River of Souls came out I doubt we'll be waiting that long. How does the game fall flat at 50? Most guilds on my server haven't downed Greenscale yet, much less Alsbeth
I have to give to them that they are really trying hard and therefore i wish them to have more luck than with their previous event.
Grinding instances just isn't my thing, I guess.
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
People are bashing Rift's events for what reason exactly? WoW's "World Event" were mini-rifts and a dragon that killed you, and they've been around for years with millions to spend, yet a new game is getting mocked after 3 months?
People must really be butthurt that a good game came out and they weren't consulted in all their knowledge about it...
It always amuses me to see the few who always complain about every game. Rift may not be the 'perfect' game.. but it is a damnsite better than the others out there that i've tried.. If there was a better game out there, i'd be playing it..not here crying about a game i'm not playing....
All I have to say with some posts is 'heh', we are just entering month 3 and this will be the second event and major content update featuring yet more reasons NOT to say in cities and actally get out into the world.
Before you say 'the LFG system stops players leaving the cites' - may I say thats their own choice not to leave as the system 'frees' them from spamming in the channels and actally allows them to DO somthing else while they wait, it's not like Rift lacks any 'other' content outside instances, if you only content raid/instance loot as the only thing 'meaningful' in the MMO thats your falut not Trion's - Titles, Pets and Crafted stuff are important to other players as well..
I still don't get the 'dies at 50' comments either, again unless you only count 'getting raid gear' as content, fair enough, that can be true it's not exactally instance heavy, but then again thats not the whole game, I'll ask do you have every title? Do you own every pet and/or mount? Have you maxed your rep and craft? Does your guild own every perk? Are you constantly beating other players in pvp? ALL that is STILL relevent content, it's not Trion's falut that people choose to devalue that as 'meaningful', irronically some consider owning a one of a kind title/pet more meaningful then gear that WILL be replaced at some point.
Perhaps it IS just the old epeen cropping up again with the whole 'my gear is top level so i am more important then you', but this isn't what Rift is, it's not a race or a sport, it's a game, it may not be the most popular or the largest in content but it's strongest point is freedom of choice - it's not the game's falut or Trion's that people choose to limit themselfs to one form of content.
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
Well I hate to agree with all the negativeness, but sadly Rift has gotten boring, sadly the combat is such a snoozefest in the game im not sure any amount of content or rifts can save this for me.
Yeah not sure what game your playing but i enjoy the combat and the fact that i can run multiple specs, not just 2 like that other game.
"Its better to look ugly and win than pretty and lose"
I only recently bought in and all that fun stuff. So far been worth the first month, might be worth the second. Then again the sky isn't falling because there is a queue, I figured there would be when I created all my toons on a high pop server.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
The other game. That is so funny. More like the game. I play both and have bored with Rift alot faster then with "THE GAME" Grinding rep is not end game, Collecting pets is not end game. Titles is no more then just that!! Name 1 thing that rift has done that hasn't been done better already. {If you are going to say LAUNCH!!..No need to reply} Servers are pretty baron, with the occasional OP one. THE GAME may be losing some of it's luster, but THE GAME was new and interesting when it came out and......This game is just a copy cat of all with not 1 thing new. Nothing, nothing at all NEW......Same ole song and dance... THE GAME will still be making it with a P2P script, while this game falls down the ladders do a F2P bore.
Just sayin
We will see with this event if they have learned their previous mistake.
I've played dozen upon dozen of MMO's - 99% of which I played at release.
Rift would be tied for the MMO I got bored of quickest. Grinding warfronts and instances at endgame -most of which I've already done enough of for the previous 49 levels- sadly doesn't really hold my interest.
I like that they are trying hard and i enjoy the game.
Although once Swtor comes out i won't have money to spent on 2 mmos at the same time.
Sorry trion but we have a real world also and from what it seems swtor will be a masterpiece.
sad to say, this is bang on.
I have nothing against this game - it was fine while it lasted (about a month and a half in my case) but content dried up, and the grind became dull as ditchwater.
no world pvp/rvr = boring quick
I played both WAR and AoC longer than this game.
Listen, other game have already done what Rift is doing. There is nothing new here. What they do is great, but everyone has done it before. As I figured, I lasted a little over a month before cancelling. If you've never played an mmo.. you'll love this game.
Fabulous PvE stuff again...
When a PvP game comes out peoples /cry that there isnt enough Pve content... Every damn other MMO give PvE content constantly... But, we PvPer we're stuck with always the same old thing.
there was talk about RvR zone on the rift forum, devs talked about it too. Where is it ? I dont give a $#@ about a cat, i already have one in game and 2 irl. Give me something to do and no i dont want to grind instance for the fabulous purple stuff that 3/4 or players want. I want to kill, be killed and use tactics that mobs cant counter to kill the one that killed me before.
Trion wake up on the PvP/RvR or your game is gone ! Oh and small scale please... zergs are boring...
Thanks
It's crap but atleast you don't have to wait for it. Or you can tell the dev's to take their time and put out quality instead. It's your choice.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
theres always have "some one" that likes to talk bad about all the games... thats the trill for him, respect the ones that like the game. since we respert all bad you have to say about it ... the the same way you enter the game is the same way you going out ;)dont like dont play it go back for whatever makes you happy.....
Love this game can whait for new stuff and TRION is doing a hell of a god job for a game that just come out
if this is true then from what it seems GW2 will the new god to praise.....
let the time dictates what will be a masterpiece, so far swtor seems generic (notice i didnt say bad)
Quit playing MMOS please or just stick to sandbox but hey wait they have their own kind of horrible grind for example Darkfall.
Looking forward to it, good work again Trion.