Poll: Rift Is it worth it?

[bliebblob]

Actually, instead of monthly updates for a monthly fee, guildwars gets it cash through publishing major expansions regularly. This way they can say there is no fee in hopes of getting exactly ^this^ reaction. It's still loads cheaper than WoW though, wich esentially does both (fees AND an expansion every now and than). But yeah just wanted to give you a heads up so you're not horribly disapointed once the first expansion is announced within months after the original release.

Rift is not releasing extra content with any extra cost so price wise it sounds like
Rift cost = Guild Wars
so with Rift your subsciption pays for content rather then how world of warcraft works EG 2 extra instance/ raids ever 3 months and then an expansion every so often.

lol, yes they are. They've been doing server messages about "pardon our dust" when temporarily enabling expansion content for quick tests on the alpha server. They're working on an expansion.

...I just... Can't. Seem. To run... fast enough... to SEE IT!

Wait I'm confused so...
WoW = fee + expansions
guildwars = expansions
rift = fee + expansions?

 

[weker]

lol, yes they are. They've been doing server messages about "pardon our dust" when temporarily enabling expansion content for quick tests on the alpha server. They're working on an expansion.

...I just... Can't. Seem. To run... fast enough... to SEE IT!

Wait I'm confused so...
WoW = fee + expansions
guildwars = expansions
rift = fee + expansions?

WoW = fee + expansions
guildwars = expansions
rift = fee
Thats correct THEY ARE NOT CHARGING FOR EXTRA CONTENT all you pay is for subscriptions and the game it self, The devs dont want extra cost on top of the subsciption you are already paying which sounds fair to me.

 

[bliebblob]

lol, yes they are. They've been doing server messages about "pardon our dust" when temporarily enabling expansion content for quick tests on the alpha server. They're working on an expansion.

...I just... Can't. Seem. To run... fast enough... to SEE IT!

Wait I'm confused so...
WoW = fee + expansions
guildwars = expansions
rift = fee + expansions?

WoW = fee + expansions
guildwars = expansions
rift = fee
Thats correct THEY ARE NOT CHARGING FOR EXTRA CONTENT all you pay is for subscriptions and the game it self, The devs dont want extra cost on top of the subsciption you are already paying which sounds fair to me.

Okay so no expansions but will the monthly fees come with any content updates or are they just for keeping the servers running?

 

[weker]

I enjoy the story, especially from the Defiant side, its WAY more interesting than the Guardians, which is a generic "oh we need defenders, so we are bringing you back from the dead"... The Defiants have TIME TRAVEL, are a genuinely oppressed race because for whatever reason the Guardians blame the RIFTS on the Defiants, even though if they had a brain between the lot of them would realize its a scapegoat... and the Defiants are trying to defend their civilization against the Rifts, and now have the Guardians to worry about too since they are being righteous pricks.

Great post firstly sums up a problem many players are having with RIFT.
The deiant will push propoganda in your face about the gaurdians being bad and silly but its no true FOR BOTH SIDES. From what i can tell both sides are being silly and childish as they both dont want to work together. the defiant decided to use sourcestone for energy in their machines causing them to be dishoned by the major gods.

The prince of matoshia caused a civil war by allowing the defiant machines to be reintroduced becuase he wanted to summon Regulos the god of the death plane. Defiant = Victim, Gaurdian = Victim and Regulos and Andraxis(Prince/King) = Mastermind/Villan. and now all the Other planes water, fire and so on decided not to be lead by regulos and rebel all fighting each other.

 

[weker]

Okay so no expansions but will the monthly fees come with any content updates or are they just for keeping the servers running?

They are planning to constantly updating the game for as long as they have subscripers with no extra fees. Warhammer currently does this just very badly.

furthermore there content seems like it can be chucked into the game at a moments notice as they do insta quick patchs with a 30 min warnings and also are using the unreal engine with a fully fleshed out creation systems so differnt RIFTS can be made in vast quantites in a day