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Rift: Summer of Savings
Drew
Member Posts: 434
Looking for a time to resubscribe to Trion`s MMO, Rift? Now would probably be the time! Throughout July, the team at Rift is offering subscriptions at a discounted price. Head over to the website to check out the specifics.
During the month of July, RIFT is offering special Summer of Savings subscriptions, including a new annual option. Take advantage of the summer bargains and save up to 40% on your subscription while you join your friends in rift-ravaged Telara!
Check out the prices and more at the Rift Official Site.
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Forget about it. Saves you $2 for a 3 month sub, its not all that different from the regular prices.
Does this feel like desperation to anyone else? Seems as though they're really pushing out features and now this. Wondering what their numbers look like compared to how they were at launch. I reached level cap within my free 30 days and just didn't see myself subbing beyond that. I will come back for a month eventually.
Do yourself a favor & Don't buy Rift , there just trying to grab for Cash unless they offer your the game for free then a small mothly payment to play , My idea Run for the hills & save your money for a real game ..
I think this deal might grab some people who are on the fence about trying it out again. I don't think it would hook a new customer. What got me to buy was LOTRO when they had the three months for $30 deal. They should try something like that.
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
ya no way would I go back to Rift, game was so boring, unless the change the combat mechanics.
My money will go to the next MMO who tries to show us something new.
I really liked the idea behind rift, and as a theme park game its great.
However, this is pretty much a mockery of a sale. Sure its "technically" on sale, but the savings are so small its not really worth mentioning.
Nine times out of ten I would say a comment like this is ridiculous, but this time it really does feel desperate to me way more than usual. They've had a lot of 'special offers' so far for a game just recently released. I don't know what they're doing offering all these specials in such a short time frame. From the couple 'free' weekends, to the somewhat misleading 'lowered price' without 30 days included offered twice already, and now yet another misleading 'reduced subscription cost'... It feels like if I bought it now, they would just lower something else a week from now. I might as well wait until it's free at this point.
at this rate, free to play is coming soon.
At what rate? You mean as more servers become high pop and/or full?
More servers become high pop or full? really? been playing it since head start and numbers have been going down not up.
Then you're not paying attention. There was 1 low PvP server last night and 1 low PvE server. more than 35% of the servers were high, the rest medium. That would be a population increase, not decrease.
Of course there are servers with higher populations currently: 1- there's an event going on so even the raiders that have previously cleared content, got bored and were doing something else have returned (for now). 2- a number of servers have been set aside for trial accounts only- that means the original populations of those shards had to go elsewhere.
Also, on top of that no one outside of Trion has the foggiest idea how many people it takes to make a server high/full or if they've changed the number of people it takes to hit those ranges. Your naivete is cute.
Why all the hating? I don't play Rift anymore but I also don't spend my time trying to trash talk it.
at 7AM... 14 servers medium pop at night CST... 30 medium-high pop and even some full
EU 20 servers medium pop... seems if anything EU has a weaker population as NA has a strong one if server load means anything (Which it does unless you're a troll conspiracy theorist)
"Sometimes people say stuff they don''t mean, but more often then that they don''t say things they do mean"
not a big fan of all this area segregation.. but i guess they have their reasons.. i do play on the EU servers though and... not really sure where they are getting the idea that Rift is losing players, always seems to be lots of people around... im inclined to go along with Trions statement that numbers are still increasing... at least until i see some evidence to contradict it.. something more than hearsay... .. which .. my own experience in game could represent i guess.. still.. if there is some evidence to suggest otherwise.. i'd be interested to know what it was.
I too, as someone alluded to earlier, smell the stench of desperation. I was in Rift Beta once upon a midnight dreary and promised myself I wouldn't give Rift even one more minute of my time but I go to my inbox and they've sent me an ad saying they're temporarily selling it for $4.99. I'm like $4.99??? With free server transfers too??? For a game that officially released in March? Yikes.
Oh and as for "server pops" being medium or whatever, you guys got a lot to learn about network architecture and load balancing to believe some colored line is giving you accurate data about the health of the game population. 10 is 50% of 20, but 10% of 100. Server pop status means NOTHING.
... if you can get it for $4.99 then thats an absolute bargain.. as currently its for sale on steam for like £14.99 ... .. as for the rest of your statement.. implication without verification.. also means nothing.
Well hopefully 1.4 will be come in July, then I'll scrap up a 3 month plan and hopefully enough content for 3 months......
How much WoW could a WoWhater hate, if a WoWhater could hate WoW?
As much WoW as a WoWhater would, if a WoWhater could hate WoW.
Wrote it in another thread, this looks quite like a desperate move to keep their population together during summer.
The game is out for 4(?) month and the OP states about re-subscribing? Usually, a decent mmorpg doesn't have to bargain people to re-sub within 4 month already, as players should be still playing and discover content altogether. Guess that happens when you release a game that need 3 weeks to get to max level and another 3 weeks to go to all the content, semi casually.
Then, there aren't any "saving"s one could speak of. If 2$ makes a difference for you for whatever reason, you should probably think twice about spending your money on games.
If Trion would have done a better job releaseing a more complete game, the marketing guys wouldn't have to work overtime for weeks so to say. But all Trion's coming up with is more WoW for the already WoW burned-outs. "We're not in Azeroth anymore" - what a running gag.
Rift was alright, boring PvE but it wasn't terrible.
Thinking back though my biggest gripe is that the endgame is level locked to 50. I remember back in the day when you used to have an endgame that spread several levels, but now it seems to be level first, raid later.
I'm no huge fan of Rift. it does some thing okay, other things not so well, just like most MMOs released.
However I find it interesting playerbase cries out for advertising should a games population begin falling in any way (which almost every MMO does after the 30 day honeymoon period after release), and yet Trion has been actively advertising since more or less day one, and the players instead say it comes off as desperation.
Like most other circumstances, Trion is stuck in a losing battle where the players themselves don't seem to know what they want.
Even the attack on server transfer being free. FFXI has server transfers, WoW has server transfers, WAR has server transfers, Rift has server transfers. The only difference between all those games is the fact Trion has stated Rift's transfers will remain free for the foreseeable future. A game succeeding or failing doesn't affect the fact that some servers have a healthier population, for one reason or another, then others as proven by WoW still trying to get people to play healers and tanks even with cross realm LFD tools
I am firmly of the belief that the current situation with the world seeming dead to the players is more a problem of the entire genre becoming far more anti-social then anything else. When you allow players to solo 1-X then suddenly tell them no more effective soloing after X, of course they will be hesitant. Top it off with more and more instancing, and of course you will find it hard to find other players in the field wanting to group.
in business, when something starts to tank, the first thing that gets cut is its marketing. Those of you who consistantly crusade around the thought of a game being on its last leg because its marketing campaign is excelling prove you really dont know anything about success or failure in any business model, much less MMO's where its financial backing lies directly on investors during its infant stages.
theres so much contradiction in this thread it makes my head spin.
I'm forced to agree that it does come off as desparate and I really don't get it at all. Rift is, imo, the most solid game to be realeased in years and even though it is currently a little short on content, Trion has proven that they have the technology and know-how to pump out high-quality content much quicker than we've seen from any other developer. Personally, I believe Rift has the potential to be THE mmorpg in a few years and I think Trion believes this as well. So why all the crazy sales? Are they just trying to make certain that they gain players to make up for the loss that comes to every new game so that they'll have enough people to spread the good word about every content release? Or does their marketing team not understand that when you devalue your product too much it makes people believe your product is not worth the standard price? And what happens when the player base stabilizes and now potential new players expect to pay prices that are just too low for what Trion is offering? It all seems like bad decision-making to me - but then again I've never been a developer of an mmorpg, successful or otherwise, so what do I know?
I was pleasantly surprised when I went from Apprentice to full 5 star Elite in under 2 months. I was pleasantly surprised again when I went from Elite to just barely Hardcore in 2 weeks. Apprentice, here I come!
That's because it is weekend and due to the event. Try paying attention during weekdays sans event and see if you get same results.
Completely agree with you. As it stands with me lately, their whole marketing campaign just reminds me that if I wanted an MMO like WoW, I will play WoW. I still can't justify any reason to play Rift if I am tired with WoW. It just doesn't make sense for me to play an MMO so similar with a lower playerbase and less content. It might be in Telara instead of Azeroth, but if I had a choice between going to Chinatown or China for the same subscription cost, I think it's pretty obvious going to China would be the better deal even if I've been there before (and probably more so because the replica is just that - a fake alternative). You can't beat the original at it's own allure, and there are plenty of other MMOs with solid gameplay now for people tired of WoW.
I hate to say it, but I don't think Rift's stable release means much at the end of the day because there are plenty of stable MMOs at this point. They might be older and got off to a bad start, but that's a moot point. They are all still $15 per month. I still hope Trion has set a higher standard for release stability in the genre, but unfortunately I don't think it has enough punch to stand on it's own for very long. It might be very fun for a month or two, but then it's time to find something with more content.
That's what I am thinking. Maybe the new model for MMOs, if it doesn't look like it will ever get WoW numbers head to F2P and cash shop at 6 months to 1 year....that way you can make money and keep players longer.