Losing interest from one day to another! :/

Elikal · May 2011

I dunno what to say. Maybe it's just a bad day. But, it's like you wake up at the side of your partner and from one day to the next you stopped loving him/her.

So it happened to me with Rift. I hope it is only a temporary low. Maybe I played too much. But it was quite abrupt. I got to level 38 with my Rogue, and the days before I had entered Moon-something mountains. You know, where the Dorfs are. And there is a subjectively felt 2 million mobs EVERYWHERE, you can't move a frigging inch without fighting it. The area is always filled with rifts and rift idols or what they are called in English. Ever since I passed beyond level 25, people stopped caring for invasions. And where I was often grouped in the beginning, now everyone is soloing. Where once I was always getting new interesting abilities, now in the higher levels they are all just statistical changes of what was known already.

And PVP is a catastrophe now! I played dozens of PVP matches no matter what BG, and we, the Guardians, lost 99% of them. I feel SO disheartened to spice up my levelling with a bit PVP, which in the beginning I used to get away from questing now and then. But now... it seems like impossible.

And questing since late 30ies starts to feel like a grind. Fetch 20 of this, mark 10 altars which all lie of course right in the middle of 2000 mobs.

I feel bored. And I am not very happy with it, since I used to love Rift. Until yesterday. Sigh.

Torgrim · May 2011

I felt the same around lvl 35 my cure was unsubbing and uninstalled the game, haven't looked back since.

NBlitz · May 2011

Originally posted by Elikal
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I feel bored. And I am not very happy with it, since I used to love Rift. Until yesterday. Sigh.

You used to love Rift or did you think you did? As in, did you fool yourself in to believing you actually liked it because everything is there and on paper you should have been having fun and loving it?

Kyleran · May 2011

Yep, been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. The higher I went the more I felt the grind, you just knew you were going to be sent down the road a short ways only to have to gind some more quests in the same area, and fight your way through hordes of npc's to get there.

Heck, I fought so many npcs in my journey to 50 (and upper level skinning) that I reached the top with tons of unfinished quests everywhere, certainly can't complain that I ran out of quests too early or anything. (a good thing btw, other than the repitition and lack of imagination)

But then the real boredom hit at 50 when I realized i wasn't interested in a gear grinding end game (which I knew going in actually) but I had hoped for some replayability in leveling up another alt or something.

Perhaps Rifts flexible talent system let me play too many rolls, or perhaps it was the very repetitive quest system, but I didn't feel like doing it again.

But the folks who really into gear raiding really seemed to dig the game, and were having a great time.

thebigchin11 · May 2011

Ditto. I dragged myself to 50 although quite bored with the grind, but once I got there the boredom really set in and I unsubbed.

Lobotomist · May 2011

Originally posted by Elikal
I dunno what to say. Maybe it's just a bad day. But, it's like you wake up at the side of your partner and from one day to the next you stopped loving him/her.

So it happened to me with Rift. I hope it is only a temporary low. Maybe I played too much. But it was quite abrupt. I got to level 38 with my Rogue, and the days before I had entered Moon-something mountains. You know, where the Dorfs are. And there is a subjectively felt 2 million mobs EVERYWHERE, you can't move a frigging inch without fighting it. The area is always filled with rifts and rift idols or what they are called in English. Ever since I passed beyond level 25, people stopped caring for invasions. And where I was often grouped in the beginning, now everyone is soloing. Where once I was always getting new interesting abilities, now in the higher levels they are all just statistical changes of what was known already.

And PVP is a catastrophe now! I played dozens of PVP matches no matter what BG, and we, the Guardians, lost 99% of them. I feel SO disheartened to spice up my levelling with a bit PVP, which in the beginning I used to get away from questing now and then. But now... it seems like impossible.

And questing since late 30ies starts to feel like a grind. Fetch 20 of this, mark 10 altars which all lie of course right in the middle of 2000 mobs.

I feel bored. And I am not very happy with it, since I used to love Rift. Until yesterday. Sigh.

Didnt you noticed that in beta ?

RelytDnegel · May 2011

Originally posted by thebigchin11
Ditto. I dragged myself to 50 although quite bored with the grind, but once I got there the boredom really set in and I unsubbed.

Hmm exactly what i did! Seems Rift isn't what some of us are looking for.

Dark_Pegasus · May 2011

Exactly how I got, after a while the shiny new features wear off and the paint begins to crack. Its just the same old MMORPG experience, in a different skin. My friends and I made the decision to leave, a month after release unfortunately for our pockets after buying the Collector's Edition. Better not to throw good money after bad I suppose...

Good luck on your search to find another MMO home.

Quadnads · May 2011

Wow level 50? I'm impressed. I think I got as far as level 8 in the beta before it's (admittedly quite beautiful, visually at least) lustre tapered off for me. I've yet to see a rift critique that couldn't be superimposed with every other critique. I'm just surprised it takes so long to see through a pathetic attempt to pull a fast one on a mostly wow-jaded audience. It goes to show you can't replicate pre-existing over-played formats, put a new coat of paint on it and expect the punters not to run for the hills long before its expected lifespan is up.

snoocky · May 2011

I am heaving the same issue, but I got it with all MMORPS...

I am more enjoying single player rpg's now (Oblivion/ Risen)

Jakdstripper · May 2011

i was bored of this game in the first 4 hours.

hate to say this but Rift, much like Warhammer, has no uniqueness about it. it's just exactly the same as 99% of all other WoW clones with a different skin. there is absolutely nothing that you can say it's completely unique to Rift and totaly different from all other mmos. even the soul system it's nothing but a glorified talent tree.

at least Aoc had a different combo system. at least Aion had flying combat. at least Warhammer had.....well actually, much like Rift, it didnt have much and got boring quite fast.

once you get used to the shiny new skin, this becomes extremely evident in Rift too. personaly i'v already done that "WoW" thing for many years, in quite a few different games and i'm quite tired of it.

Kyleran · May 2011

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Originally posted by Elikal

I dunno what to say. Maybe it's just a bad day. But, it's like you wake up at the side of your partner and from one day to the next you stopped loving him/her.

So it happened to me with Rift. I hope it is only a temporary low. Maybe I played too much. But it was quite abrupt. I got to level 38 with my Rogue, and the days before I had entered Moon-something mountains. You know, where the Dorfs are. And there is a subjectively felt 2 million mobs EVERYWHERE, you can't move a frigging inch without fighting it. The area is always filled with rifts and rift idols or what they are called in English. Ever since I passed beyond level 25, people stopped caring for invasions. And where I was often grouped in the beginning, now everyone is soloing. Where once I was always getting new interesting abilities, now in the higher levels they are all just statistical changes of what was known already.

And PVP is a catastrophe now! I played dozens of PVP matches no matter what BG, and we, the Guardians, lost 99% of them. I feel SO disheartened to spice up my levelling with a bit PVP, which in the beginning I used to get away from questing now and then. But now... it seems like impossible.

And questing since late 30ies starts to feel like a grind. Fetch 20 of this, mark 10 altars which all lie of course right in the middle of 2000 mobs.

I feel bored. And I am not very happy with it, since I used to love Rift. Until yesterday. Sigh.

Didnt you noticed that in beta ?

Some of us don't beta games, in the hopes that we'll get a longer playing experience with the launched version.

Mistaken hopes in my case, but was worth a shot I suppose.

DarkPony · May 2011

Elikal once more confirms his supreme reign as most dramatic poster on this site.

*wipes tear away*

That's the way it goes for me as well with games that don't have longevity for me: a sudden collapse of interest after two-four months, leaving my soul behind screaming in a gaping void emptiness.

gessekai332 · May 2011

i am pretty sure the majority of you quit because you didnt bother finding a well-organized guild, which is pretty much a requirement to enjoy most of the endgame content, such as raid rifts and raid dungeons. Just aspiring to be the best tank, dpser, healer, support or whatever role in the guild allows me to have fun because I feel I truly am building up my character. Its not just gear grinding too, it is finding the best builds, the best rotations, and learning the strats, in order to bring your character to the top. I have played since launch and i still have a lot to do in terms of what i just said.

If it werent for my guild i would have quit a loooong time ago.

Meowhead · May 2011

Originally posted by DarkPony
Elikal once more confirms his supreme reign as most dramatic poster on this site.

*wipes tear away*

That's the way it goes for me as well with games that don't have longevity for me: a sudden collapse of interest after two-four months, leaving my soul behind screaming in a gaping void emptiness.

Pft. When I lose interest in a game, my soul doesn't just scream... I weep blood and gnash my teeth, clawing at my face while my whole body writhes in the sheer unmitigated torture that can only come from your brain chemistry realizing that not only were you addicted, but you were addicted to something stupid. Every inch of me is wracked with spasms as the most exquisitely torturous sensations of pain turns me into a twisted, drooling wreck.

After the mandatory 2 week 'I should have taken up heroin' period where I curl up in a fetal position in the corner of my room, I finally reenter the world, gaunt and starved, having survived purely on a diet of self pity and my own tears.

As I feed myself with a combination of cat food and twinkies in an attempt to continue my self-punishment over my tragically bad decisions, I shamble over to the computer, and with my twisted, gnarled fingers I type out angry deprecations of said game, and all those so deluded as to think they enjoy it.

I rant, I rave, I preach the truth, I let people know that not only is that game a failure... not only are the producers and developers of said game a failure, but each and every human who has even idly brushed their eyes across a screenshot has performed an atrocity that would make the most hardened war criminals blanch. A crime against all humanity stands for, a monumental failure of judgement and a spit in the eye of all things that are held good and right in this world.

This usually dies down after about two months, and I try desperately to rejoin humanity, a broken empty shell, wondering how I will ever regain my self respect again.

To be honest, it's usually about 6 months later than that before I realize I forgot to cancel my subscription, at which point in time the period of violent recriminations, angry rantings and throwing my keyboard across the room resumes once more.

... at least the NEXT MMO I play will be the One True One that will definitely not fail me in any respects! That's the only thing I have to look forward to after the horrible broken trainwreck of a travesty that the previous MMO I played turned out to be.

(PS. I'm not actually talking about Rift people, please don't send me long angry EMails about how great Rift is. (Or how bad it is, and how I'm not taking it seriously enough by suggesting the process of quitting Rift is so gentle and flowery) I've never even played the beta. So don't take this as a comment on Rift at all. :P ) (... but darn it if I'll let somebody ELSE walk away with the 'Ultimate Drama Queen' title. < )

elocke · May 2011

Originally posted by gessekai332
i am pretty sure the majority of you quit because you didnt bother finding a well-organized guild, which is pretty much a requirement to enjoy most of the endgame content, such as raid rifts and raid dungeons. Just aspiring to be the best tank, dpser, healer, support or whatever role in the guild allows me to have fun because I feel I truly am building up my character. Its not just gear grinding too, it is finding the best builds, the best rotations, and learning the strats, in order to bring your character to the top. I have played since launch and i still have a lot to do in terms of what i just said.

If it werent for my guild i would have quit a loooong time ago.

Not I. I hit 50, ran experts and expert rifts for a few weeks, did the BIG event that came out. Loved my guild but not enough to make me keep slogging through the boring post 50 dungeon grind, good guild or not. For me it's just a tired mechanic to me anymore. I require more dynamic content at 50, like massive world pvp with objectives or housing or Alternate Advancement systems, anything but having to run dungeons 10 or more times a day to in hopes get 1 piece of gear every so many days just to rinse and repeat. I don't mind 1 run or 2 a night but I need more to look forward to more than just gear progression.

gordiflu · May 2011

Originally posted by gessekai332
i am pretty sure the majority of you quit because you didnt bother finding a well-organized guild, which is pretty much a requirement to enjoy most of the endgame content, such as raid rifts and raid dungeons. Just aspiring to be the best tank, dpser, healer, support or whatever role in the guild allows me to have fun because I feel I truly am building up my character. Its not just gear grinding too, it is finding the best builds, the best rotations, and learning the strats, in order to bring your character to the top. I have played since launch and i still have a lot to do in terms of what i just said.

If it werent for my guild i would have quit a loooong time ago.

Heh, I found my well organized guild even before the betas started. It was a guild I had belonged to in another game that was moving to Rift on release.

Ventrilo, forums, event calendar, class officers, blah blah blah, all the things that a well organized guild is supposed to provide. It's an excellent guild that has scored first world and first server kills in many different games.

Know what? Boredom is there too.

I applaud Trion for releasing a well polished product and for managing it properly, providing (so far) frequent updates and hotfixes. However, as some others have posted, the game has nothing special. It's the epithome of same-old-been-there-done-that. Even the rifts always spawn in the same places and pop the same mobs which run on the same direction to set the same stronghold in the same place all the times.

Also... well, sorry to be so blunt but if I wanted to play WoW... I would be playing WoW. I was hoping for something different. There's a certain amount of time you can have fun with the old "grind to level cap so you can grind tier 1 so you can grind tier 2 so you can raid tier 1 so you can raid tier 2 so you can....".

DarkPony · May 2011

Originally posted by Meowhead

Originally posted by DarkPony

Elikal once more confirms his supreme reign as most dramatic poster on this site.

*wipes tear away*

That's the way it goes for me as well with games that don't have longevity for me: a sudden collapse of interest after two-four months, leaving my soul behind screaming in a gaping void emptiness.

Pft. When I lose interest in a game, my soul doesn't just scream... I weep blood and gnash my teeth, clawing at my face while my whole body writhes in the sheer unmitigated torture that can only come from your brain chemistry realizing that not only were you addicted, but you were addicted to something stupid. Every inch of me is wracked with spasms as the most exquisitely torturous sensations of pain turns me into a twisted, drooling wreck.

After the mandatory 2 week 'I should have taken up heroin' period where I curl up in a fetal position in the corner of my room, I finally reenter the world, gaunt and starved, having survived purely on a diet of self pity and my own tears.

As I feed myself with a combination of cat food and twinkies in an attempt to continue my self-punishment over my tragically bad decisions, I shamble over to the computer, and with my twisted, gnarled fingers I type out angry deprecations of said game, and all those so deluded as to think they enjoy it.

I rant, I rave, I preach the truth, I let people know that not only is that game a failure... not only are the producers and developers of said game a failure, but each and every human who has even idly brushed their eyes across a screenshot has performed an atrocity that would make the most hardened war criminals blanch. A crime against all humanity stands for, a monumental failure of judgement and a spit in the eye of all things that are held good and right in this world.

This usually dies down after about two months, and I try desperately to rejoin humanity, a broken empty shell, wondering how I will ever regain my self respect again.

To be honest, it's usually about 6 months later than that before I realize I forgot to cancel my subscription, at which point in time the period of violent recriminations, angry rantings and throwing my keyboard across the room resumes once more.

... at least the NEXT MMO I play will be the One True One that will definitely not fail me in any respects! That's the only thing I have to look forward to after the horrible broken trainwreck of a travesty that the previous MMO I played turned out to be.

(PS. I'm not actually talking about Rift people, please don't send me long angry EMails about how great Rift is. (Or how bad it is, and how I'm not taking it seriously enough by suggesting the process of quitting Rift is so gentle and flowery) I've never even played the beta. So don't take this as a comment on Rift at all. :P ) (... but darn it if I'll let somebody ELSE walk away with the 'Ultimate Drama Queen' title. < )

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

Thanks for making my day, Meowhead

p.s. Even though you write like a champ, you're much too reasonable to be a true drama queen.

p.p.s. Would be a perfect story for an mmo comic ^

Miles-Prower · May 2011

Really? I spent the last 3 Invasions yesterday with full 2 groups of 40 on Wolfsbane (I'm level 40 Rogue) . We combated 3 Invasions in Scarwood, despite failing one because of the Guardians. we all still had fun. When the invasion was about to start, I started inviting people. When it started, We had so many Defiants ready to pounce that the Invasion was over in 7 minutes. I'm not even kidding. Everyone was left standing with "Was that it?"

Honestly, it's SO easy to organize raids for these things. Take a stand and do something about it. Waiting for the magical "Join Public Party" button won't happen.

If I'm in a zone and there's an invasion, I organize and lead them no matter what level the zone. I've even done Stonefield invasions simply passing through it after some Cairn.

Everyone listened and followed my waypoints. We all moved as one group. People defended that were asked to defend. Had no problems what-so-ever.

I even had a ton of people whisper me after the invasions telling me how good a job I did. I realize I'm one of the minority of people, but the point is you need to get things moving. When you hear an invasion is coming, that's your queue to ready a group. Not sit by on your hands and wait for them to over run you.

And if you're Guardian on Wolfsbane, then I'm sorry for you.. Because there's like 5 Guardians in every zone.. There's just NO Guardian players on Wolfsbane. Lol

First steps to a successful invasion thwarting:

Post in General and level channels which are appropriate for your zone (I.E 30-39 for Scarwood) that you are starting a Raid
Ask anyone joining to meet at a specific point so EVERYONE can move as a unit.
Ask everyone to REMOVE all Waypoints BEFORE the event
Once the event starts, ANNOUNCE THAT EVERYONE FOLLOW THE WAYPOINTS.

~Miles "Tails" Prower out! Catch me if you can!

Leethe · May 2011

Sigh

I quit yesterday. I bought a 3 month so i think I may have time to check out the crafting update but i don't plan to renew.

Rift is a good game made by a good company. I wish them all the best. Especially with their other game on the horizon that's in partnership with SyFy or whatever it's called now. That has me interested.

I quit Rift for the same reason I quit DCUO: Fairly early on after the new MMO smell wore off I saw the life of all my character mapped out in front of me on a giant gear ladder that towered into the sky like a bean stalk. It's cool at the beginning when you can still see the ground but after a while it's all rungs.

Like others ahve said, it's a good game but it's a place we've all been before. Soul system is awesome but the rest is doesn't hold my interest...for now.

Merlin1977 · May 2011

Originally posted by Torgrim
I felt the same around lvl 35 my cure was unsubbing and uninstalled the game, haven't looked back since.

Have to say I was struggling around lvl35 as well, didn't have any motivation to log on with my cleric. However a couple of days ago I bought another role, my 4th, and now am Inquisitor / Warden / Cabalist and enjoying the game again.

But to the op, you're not alone, alot of my guild which used to play WoW and were in the headstart have either taken breaks from Rift or haven't logged on for the past 20days or so.

Dark_Pegasus · May 2011

Originally posted by gessekai332
i am pretty sure the majority of you quit because you didnt bother finding a well-organized guild, which is pretty much a requirement to enjoy most of the endgame content, such as raid rifts and raid dungeons. Just aspiring to be the best tank, dpser, healer, support or whatever role in the guild allows me to have fun because I feel I truly am building up my character. Its not just gear grinding too, it is finding the best builds, the best rotations, and learning the strats, in order to bring your character to the top. I have played since launch and i still have a lot to do in terms of what i just said.

If it werent for my guild i would have quit a loooong time ago.

Actually funnily enough a friend and I ran our own guild since beta, was 170 members strong when we quit and we were the first on our server to engage in Raid Rifts. Tried the high end content including experts, rifts, raids etc but it was still very samey. Great people, just not such a great game after the newness wore off.

Ender4 · May 2011

It takes a while to realize that Rift was designed by Trelane the Squire of Gothos.

During the meal, McCoy noticed that the food and drink had no flavor, while Karl Jaeger commented that the fire burned brightly, but emitted no heat. These things, and Trelane's error in time, suggested that he wasn't infallible and that he knew of the Earth forms but none of the substance.

That sums up the game for me. It knows the form of a good MMO it just lacks all of the substance of one.

Hellfyre420 · May 2011

Heh, it was happening with me too.. Funny thing is im lvl 40 and right where you are at.. I hardly played rift that much this week, spent more time watching anime on my ps3 lol.. But after a few days break i got on last night and was stuck infront of my pc for a few hours, got my way out of moonshade and did a few war fronts.. All in all i'am gonna see it through until im 50, and since i've never really tried this type of end game (never got into WoW and personally have never "raided) i'am gonna stick with it till the end to see if i like it or not.

I'am hoping within the future they add some new war fronts and give some possible incentives for world pvp.. I have faith in Trion they have been doing a good job so far.

Tardcore · May 2011

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Originally posted by Elikal

I dunno what to say. Maybe it's just a bad day. But, it's like you wake up at the side of your partner and from one day to the next you stopped loving him/her.

So it happened to me with Rift. I hope it is only a temporary low. Maybe I played too much. But it was quite abrupt. I got to level 38 with my Rogue, and the days before I had entered Moon-something mountains. You know, where the Dorfs are. And there is a subjectively felt 2 million mobs EVERYWHERE, you can't move a frigging inch without fighting it. The area is always filled with rifts and rift idols or what they are called in English. Ever since I passed beyond level 25, people stopped caring for invasions. And where I was often grouped in the beginning, now everyone is soloing. Where once I was always getting new interesting abilities, now in the higher levels they are all just statistical changes of what was known already.

And PVP is a catastrophe now! I played dozens of PVP matches no matter what BG, and we, the Guardians, lost 99% of them. I feel SO disheartened to spice up my levelling with a bit PVP, which in the beginning I used to get away from questing now and then. But now... it seems like impossible.

And questing since late 30ies starts to feel like a grind. Fetch 20 of this, mark 10 altars which all lie of course right in the middle of 2000 mobs.

I feel bored. And I am not very happy with it, since I used to love Rift. Until yesterday. Sigh.

Didnt you noticed that in beta ?

He said he did, and I remember him making a few posts that he wasn't going to play this game because he found it boring in beta. Then suddenly here he is playing the game. Now he's burnt out it. Sounds like he is stuck in the same cycle of bored self destruction shared by many MMO gamers. They are sick of gaming yet seem unable to find some other activity to fill that MMO void. And please fellow posters, spare us all the "We are just tired of clone games" malarky because if that was true you would just quit playing instead of draging yourself back to these games time and time again.

Anyway on Rift, I'm not finding myself burnt out yet, but what Elikal describes is exactly how I've felt every time I've gotten tired of a game. EQ, DAOC, Shadowbane, Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, Wow, WAR, LOTRO, Fallen Earth, Mount and Blade, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Elderscrolls Oblivion, Morrowind, an endless list of first person shooters, console games all the way back to the 90s, aracde games such as Pacman and Asteroids, table top D&D, chess, go, dominos..... etc. None of these burnouts were the fault of the games I was playing, but of my narrowminded focus on playing just these games and nothing else.

People need to quit blaming the games they are playing for this kind of burnt out boredom and instead expand their focus of enterainment.

RemyVorender · May 2011

I really didn't think it would happen until much later with Rift. I was REALLY into it for the first 6 weeks or so after launch. I thought I had found a new home for a good long while, but hitting 50 and being faced with that same ol' gear grind unleashed the perverbial floater in the pool. I need to get out and dry off now.

Sigh...I think my MMO days may just be coming to an end. No one is trying to make living, breathing worlds anymore. MMOs are just video games to be played and thrown aside much like an extended single player game, but with a chat feature. I'm hoping GW2 might be different and immersive enough to break me out of my MMO-Burnout funk, but who the hell knows anymore...I am sad.

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