Rift

[Andaas]

I know several of us in WoW are planning to play (though my Rift play will be far more casual than my current casual-ish WoW play).

There are also going to be a lot of old/new faces returning from other incarnations of Hoss from EQ to DAoC.

[omnipresence]

I was just wondering. Maybe thinking of picking it up if there were a number of people going to play just to casually take part in something new. When does it kick off again?

[Allara]

If you preordered, you can start playing tomorrow at 10 AM PST. If you didn't, you start one week after that.

[Lonskils]

Rift isn't even worth one month of play. You can't kill WoW by cloning it.

I'm not playing WoW btw. My sub expired last week. If I didn't need to maintain addons, I probably wouldn't even have gotten 85. I've been playing on Project 1999 for the past 3.5 months now. (I HIGHLY recommended it, btw. Having way more fun than I thought I would. If anybody tries it, send a tell to me on Torven or Torvie)

I haven't raided in WoW since the AQ gate opened, either. (except for some 10 mans, and some Nax kills) As bad as it is -- especially now -- WoW's PvP was pretty much all I've done since '06. (trust me, you guys don't want me in your BG) One thing WoW really got right was the play control and UI. It's just a shame nobody at Blizzard PvPs and that aspect of the game is so neglected.

Played Warhammer for a full month and glad I did. Probably the best new MMOG in recent years if you like PvP, but still had it's problems. I like a lot of what EVE is doing as well, but didn't play past the trial. LotRO and CoH/V bored the shit out of me. Vanguard had potential that wasn't realized and lacked the charm EQ had.

The only new MMOGs I have any hope for are indie games. It's not exactly an indie title, or new, but I've been having far more fun playing on a server developed by a dozen guys in their spare time than I have in WoW since its beta. (PvE wise, anyway) It's the smaller less funded teams that are going to have the balls to do something that isn't WoW. CCP was a nobody before they introduced something radically different; now they run one of the most successful MMOGs. I really really want to see Infinity and Dawntide get off the ground.

What keeps me from playing EQ and I know this sounds awful, but it is true. But mouse look. I drives me crazy after getting used to the way wow did mouse look and move to even try and play eq. Well that and I don't have time to level a character by standing in one place and killing mob after mob to gain a sliver of a level after 10 hours anymore.

[Maegwin]

Orc Hill..../shudder

Crushbone? Double /shudder

[Torrid]

Clicking on the !, not reading the NPC's text, killing 10 of completely trivial-to-kill mob X at location Y pointed to you by the in-game map, returning to the ! to get your free item which had nothing to do with the quest to begin with and is a microscopic upgrade in the slot that has an item you got one level ago. Repeat the process hundreds of times, never grouping with anybody to the level cap. /shudder

Well that and I don't have time to level a character by standing in one place and killing mob after mob to gain a sliver of a level after 10 hours anymore.

That's the beautify of EQ-- the more skilled you are at the game, the faster you level. My 100% untwinked unpowerleveled druid hit 50 in 12 days played. If you want ez-mode, you can roll a magician and be 50 in a couple of weeks. Even in my 40s I was making sub 2 hour levels on my mage.

I actually found that killing mobs for exp in EQ was far more enjoyable than doing WoW's lame quests because killing mobs in EQ is more challenging and depending on the class, there are many different ways to kill mobs.

This



is more fun than doing a quest that has you run to a point on the minimap, clicking the sparkly, and returning to the NPC.

[Wresh]

Ok we get it dude....you don't like Rift..

[Rhedd]

I'm a little confused, did you not like Rift or was that Torrid, Wresh? +D

[Widespreadd Panic]

What? Rhedd you are against Rift? How dare you sir!

[Andaas]

Got stuck on a fucking call right before 10, now there's a 900+ user queue.

[Widespreadd Panic]

im at like 450ish atm

[Zappo]

position in queue is 185. est time... 7mins!
i did not plan for this!

[Widespreadd Panic]

position in queue is 185. est time... 7mins!
i did not plan for this!

you are going to be late =)p

[Cardinal]

Queue position 1257, est time 5 hr 8 min . . . I see a very typical MMO clusterfuck for launch day . . .

[Allara]

Yeah they're launching new servers every few minutes, but they can't/won't raise limits per-server. I got in and got my name luckily. Going to try to stay logged in.

[Widespreadd Panic]

I dont even know what i want my name to be yet. I am going to suprise myself after creation! I am actually not going to be a chick this time too.

[Cardinal]

Queue times don't even seem to be improving despite big chunks of people dropping..... now 1058 in queue with 5 hr 20 min wait....

[Andaas]

Slight panic when I got a "disconnected from server" box. When I chose Faeblight again I didn't lose my place in line; sitting around 147 @ 43 minutes now.

[Widespreadd Panic]

lol mine went black on me when i tabbed to the forum, logged back into the character creation.

[Wresh]

What trade skills are you all going? I am at the 1st trainers now and trying to decide..