Poll: Should I get Rift or WOW?

[Hristo Tzonkov]

World of Warcraft, at least for the amazing and rich lore.

You mean amazingly fixed lore.It was interesting up until BC when they had baddies to kill off.Then they had to go back and change the timeline since they needed naxxramas again.It's a jumbled mess and they fail to deliver because of the small development team and other projects.I remember the promise for an instance below Karazhan(There was even a large door looking ominous) and a new instance in that desert that they introduced in Cataclysm.

What also adds is that Blizzard has put that Moron Metzen in charge, which complicate things even further because for Metzen subletly is a made-up word.

And it only get's worse when authors writes Warcraft books which is proclaimed canon by Metzen even though they're hated by the entire community, and now, 6 YEARS later Metzen has realised that and trying to make the game contradict the book. And while that madness is going on the persons that write the quests texts are barely involved with Metzen at all and they have almost no knowledge about the story whatsoever. And with cataclsym it has gone Bananas because Metzen don't want to simply say that the game is more canon than the books and over and over tries to insert "cool" things into the story where they don't fit at all. And while that is going on, the company retconns and retconns established lore in Warcraft 2 and 3 to make the villains seem more relevant.

Simply, the WoW story is a god damn clusterfuck because of incompetent leaders, too many people involved, wrong mindset, a too big playerbase, chilsidh humour and simply very bad writing.

Oh I completely agree.I mean how did Kael'Thas who was antagonized by a rogue Alliance leader and Illidan who was always the person with a sort of secret agenda but never that bad of a guy become main villains in Burning Crusade.Also the first game was very very witty in quest writing.Afterwards the references and wit became more akin to Family Guy.

They've also been majorly copycats in their development rather than making new stuff.And as evident of the Starcraft engine(revamped WoW) great things can be done with some creative thinking.Instead they copy whatever element of any new MMO coming out.

 

[Nanaki316]

I've played WoW for almost 5 years and it's amazing. I deviated to participate in the BETA of Rift and yes it was good and very attractive, but it just isn't WoW. There's just something about WoW that makes it the best.

But it is very addictive... be warned x

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

World of Warcraft, at least for the amazing and rich lore.

You mean amazingly fixed lore.It was interesting up until BC when they had baddies to kill off.Then they had to go back and change the timeline since they needed naxxramas again.

You know in Dragonblight there is a quest chain that explains why naxxramas has returned because the person we gave kel thuzad Phylactery betrayed the argent dawn. http://www.wowwiki.com/The_Phylactery_of_Kel%27Thuzad

So it's not like they went back and we pretend that naxx 40 never existed.

I've seen that.It's a cleverly explained retconn because 0.5% of the entire playerbase had even seen Naxxramas.That was the main reason it went back and the story as seen is free to be butchered.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Rift is 90% a watered-down WoW clone with a poorly implemented gimmick tacked on. It has almost everything that WoW does, but the quality is much lower and the world feels much less unique than Azeroth.

 

[Centrophy]

Neither, don't get an MMO. They're essentially devoid of any real gameplay. Unless you like repeating the same actions, over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. You also have to deal with guilds where you're left behind and suddenly can't find a party, the realization that you just spent 6 hours grinding for that extra .1 point of damage, the gold spammers, the people who can't play their class after 80 levels, the corpse camping gankers, the queues, the cool off times on everything.


Yeah, just don't.

 

[Raizekage]

In case no one has mentioned it, both games have a free trial. WoW's is something like 10 days, while Rift is 7 days. You could try one, then try the other. Or you could just try World of Warcraft, get addicted, play that for 5-6 years, then when you wake up in your coma and you are angry at WoW for taking away all your time then you can try Rift.

 

[Malrock]

Well I have never played rift so can't comment on it; but if you are only going to play for a while, I can vouch for WoW's rich leveling experience now that cataclysm has improved it. I for one find it thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable.

 

[Tehlanna TPX]

Oh I completely agree.I mean how did Kael'Thas who was antagonized by a rogue Alliance leader and Illidan who was always the person with a sort of secret agenda but never that bad of a guy become main villains in Burning Crusade.Also the first game was very very witty in quest writing.Afterwards the references and wit became more akin to Family Guy.

They've also been majorly copycats in their development rather than making new stuff.And as evident of the Starcraft engine(revamped WoW) great things can be done with some creative thinking.Instead they copy whatever element of any new MMO coming out.

I'm going to guess you didn't play Warcraft 3 to be wondering how/why Kael and Illidan are baddies.

OP: I've played both, but I've invested too much time in WoW, and honestly I enjoy the lore (yes, rehashed, retconned, rewritten lore) too much to move onto a game that felt like a watered down glass of flat soda; all the pop is missing. Rift was fun for a bit.. it made me nostalgic for old school (luclin and pre) Everquest. But ultimately it failed with it's horrible marketing (really? a wow killer? That makes me want to shit on your product just to spite you) and it's lack of enjoyable end game. Also, not a fan of the 'rift' mechanic anyways, and lets face it, if you don't go for the main game mechanic you might as well not play.

As everyone has said, there are trials out for both. Go enjoy some free test runs and then decide .

 

[DaMullet]

Pft... neither. Get City of Heroes, so much more fun!

 

[Caveworm]

Stay away from both!

Suck you in and take your soul they will. XP.

I would have to say WoW. Loads of content and rich lore. Plus you can't beat being a cow druid (horde side).

 

[Circusfreak]

I say, Wait for Guild Wars 2 instead. however i have had more fun in rift that ive ever had in WoW. (i have only played trial for both games)

 

[Kill100577]

Neither, get LOTRO

 

[Zanaxal]

Rift is a compliacted and at lategame a hard game. Wow is easy and Boosts you rocketspeed up in levels. The raiding and lategame in wow is easy, so if you like to use little brainpower and just press 1 button go for WoW. If rift, roll a cleric, its the most useful thing in the game and can fill any party role. Rogue is a noobtrap, as in it is horrible bad and annoying + leveling is a pain also 70% of server pop is/was rogues and its not ez mode stunlockpvper/hunter leveler ^^, also pvping is rewarded enormously in rift..

 

[Aeshi]

WoW, the two are basically the same anyway so you may as well go with the one that has the most players and the best Developer.

Unless you happen to be a member of the "MAYNSTREEM GAYMS R EVUL!!1!" crowd of course.

 

[Evil Top Hat]

I've played both.

RIFT is basically just WoW, but with better graphics, a better game engine, more features and a much more interesting world. WoW is 6 years old, and by god it shows.

I actually don't play mmos anymore, but if I had to get back into them, I wouldn't even consider WoW.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

RIFT: Cheap ripoff of Fantasy MMO's (Mostly WoW and the Warhammer MMO) with higher graphics req's but (imo) worse overall graphics and nothing driving as far as storyline (if you're into that) or any interesting quests. I gave RIFT the chance and it disappointed.

WoW: Still overall the best MMO as far as playability goes. Anyone can pick it up and enjoy it. There's a lot of different styles you can choose and leveling 1-60 basically can be a single player campaign if you want it that way, though 61-80 does skew slightly since they didn't update that content with Cataclysm and you can tell its an older style of play. 80-85 picks back up and is pretty fun. Now, depending on the realm you choose (PvE, PvP, or the RP version of both) you will have to contend with some major elitists if you decide to do instances. Not all the time, but a lot of assjacks play WoW and think because they might know their class inside and out it makes them better than everyone else playing and thus talk down to those who don't hit some nebulous damage number (not talking about raiding or heroics, don't get me started there). All in all, you will have to deal with: Trolls in Trade Chat. Possible Chuck Norris jokes or Anal jokes (you'll see) from 12 year old mentalities who think racism is king of comedy. Generalizing there but you get the gist. There are a lot of good people who play WoW though, and /ignore is your friend. Also don't ever EVER buy gold.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

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Oh but I have.Which is why I find it weird.Illidan made an amazing transition from "Oh Tyrande my lurv" to "You are not prepared".And Kael'Thas had a really thin story written to him after the events in War3.Working for the legion obviously corrupted them too much.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I played World of Warcraft since it was released back in 2004 and I can say from experience that is the best MMO I have ever played.

Blizzard took their "inspiration" from the older MMO's which were available then(Everquest etc)and used their best bits and worked 5 years on the game.Of course it was a hit and still is high on top and most played MMO's.Graphics which are very old isn't a big issue for WoW,since people relate to it from Warcraft 3.

Rift on the other hand,I have tried it after playing 3 Beta's and I can literally say that it was WoW under a different cover(story/looks of races/professions).The only extra things that rift has compared to wow is 2011 graphics/the public quests(rifts) implemented from Warhammer 40k and the multitude of speccing talents(souls).You have around 40 possible soul builds that you can switch around.I think this is one of the best things from Rift.

Rift requires a more powerful computer than WoW to run,mainly due to the graphics.If you want an easy start you should go with WoW.

 

[gamerguyal]

The WOW free trial lasts a month, while the Rift free trial lasts 7 days.

 

[thisbymaster]

With only a month, you will not be able to make a complete dent in Wow in quests or lore. Go with Rift you may have a chance of getting to end game.