RIFT going F2P on June 12

[Golgatha]

Come to Greybriar. We have cake!

 

[KidNiki1]

shard transfers are free right? ive been playing on my own, but it would be nice to have someone to bug for questions.

 

[lupi]

They should be, my guardian chars are still in the trial server, and now there is only one pvp server, yikes.

 

[Coffinmaker]

So what are these 4 souls I'd be missing out on by not buying the Storm Legion expansion? Are they mandatory?

 

[gothamhunter]

Played the AH last night...put $20 into credits, bought 1250 credits worth of items and sold for 1500 plat to vendor, bought up REX on AH for 1500 plat or less, and repeat. Basically free loyalty points unless someone put in under 1500 plat. Think it might be patched now though and no one is putting in under 1800 plat. Still converted all while I could as I think the price will go back down.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I'm on three springs playing as defiant

 

[lupi]

Have no idea what any of that means.

 

[crownjules]

Have no idea what any of that means.

REX = Rift Exchange, an item you purchase ingame which gives you store credits. So he took advantage of low REX prices to make a net gain of credits for a single deposit of $$ and then rinse and repeat to multiply that gain.

 

[Craig234]

After the mess with their service - where they announced free to play right after an auto-renewal of an annual membership refusing any option to reverse it - I sent them a note to at least provide the expansion at no charge (it sells for $20 on Amazon), which they had offered as a promotion to anyone who signed for a year.

They at least did that. Still haven't logged in in the 2 months since the renewal, but might do that in a bit. It has its good points and some fun.

 

[chalmers]

I just downloaded the game and tried to play, but there were only 8 servers and all had a 2 hour waiting time. Is this normal? If so it'll be a quick delete.

 

[Craig234]

I just downloaded the game and tried to play, but there were only 8 servers and all had a 2 hour waiting time. Is this normal? If so it'll be a quick delete.

I have no idea, that didn't used to be the case before f2p. That would be a nasty side effect of it...

 

[Vaux]

I am going to download this game and give it a try. I don't think I am up for starting a new MMO though, just seems like a lot of work.

 

[pandemonium]

Surprised it took that long. Did they really survive that long on subscriptions? I mean, it's not EQ or UO.

Played the beta, pre-paid for the collector's, became enthralled with collecting artifacts and playing the "find-the-really-odd-puzzles-and-get-a-silly-title" after getting bored with the WoW quest model system, then cancelled my account when I hit end-game.

 

[pontifex]

I have no idea, that didn't used to be the case before f2p. That would be a nasty side effect of it...

possibly due to everyone and their brother trying the new F2P game. will most likely die down in a few days.

can you play your old subscription characters on the F2P model?

 

[TechBoyJK]

possibly due to everyone and their brother trying the new F2P game. will most likely die down in a few days.

can you play your old subscription characters on the F2P model?

Yes.

 

[crownjules]

I just downloaded the game and tried to play, but there were only 8 servers and all had a 2 hour waiting time. Is this normal? If so it'll be a quick delete.

Do you think you're the only person out there who wants to try out the game now that it's F2P? This is what happens with any big name MMO that goes F2P. People swarm to try it out that didn't have the chance to play it before. It'll gradually subside over the next week or two.

It might also help if they swapped those trial only servers to regular servers. Apparently, they made the old server I used to play on into one of those so I had to transfer my character before I could play. But those serve no purpose anymore since there's no need of trial/demo with it being F2P.

 

[ThinClient]

American shards just went down 10 minutes ago. They'll be down for 45 minutes. When they come back up, they'll have done a few hotfixes and they will have re-enabled 2 more old shards.

 

[chalmers]

Do you think you're the only person out there who wants to try out the game now that it's F2P? This is what happens with any big name MMO that goes F2P. People swarm to try it out that didn't have the chance to play it before. It'll gradually subside over the next week or two.

It might also help if they swapped those trial only servers to regular servers. Apparently, they made the old server I used to play on into one of those so I had to transfer my character before I could play. But those serve no purpose anymore since there's no need of trial/demo with it being F2P.

No, I just figured they'd have more sense than to make their game F2P and then not project a reasonable amount of server space so that we don't have 2 hour queues. If they're going F2P, they want as many people playing as possible I would think. For someone new to the game, that's about as big a turn off as can be.

 

[blankslate]

Even with the new servers the game is mostly Full at primetime going into the weekend.

Hopefully as some of the people choose to stop playing the servers will settle down to high and medium populations.

I logged in and found the patron queue to be 240 players long.

It's a fun game for f2p. No subscription fee and but I'll probably end up paying more than $20 dollars for convenience perks a few times a year.

 

[crownjules]

No, I just figured they'd have more sense than to make their game F2P and then not project a reasonable amount of server space so that we don't have 2 hour queues. If they're going F2P, they want as many people playing as possible I would think. For someone new to the game, that's about as big a turn off as can be.

I think they're sense comes in realizing lots of players surging in now won't be playing much or at all in a week or two. It's the same story with every MMO that's transitioned to F2P. If they did build out additional hardware for extra shards, they'd go to waste at that time and tens of thousands of dollars would be lost. I don't think it's the kind of money they'd make up for by securing the small percentage of players who get pushed away because of the queues. I'd bet a very small percentage of that group would end up spending any kind of money in the game.

 

[pontifex]

I've never been able to get back into a MMO after quitting it. Usually I hit max level and it got to be a grind with running instances and not much to do.

I've tried going back and playing other factions but I think knowing what the end game will be like is what prevents me from continuing.

I reinstalled Rift and logged in but haven't done anything but look at one of my old characters so far.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I had trouble the first few days getting into servers after F2P went live, but this weekend has been fine. No wait, busy realms, etc.

Been good so far. I figured after the first initial rush for newbies it would level off. Seems to be working good now.

 

[Dominato3r]

Why is the movement and targeting so weird in these games? I seems like WoW is the only one that did it right. Rift is pretty much perpetual moonwalking

 

[TidusZ]

I resubbed a few weeks ago when they announced F2P and leveled 50 to 60, which took way longer than I expected. It's a hell of a grind. Anyways I lost interest quicker than I thought I would. If anything it made me wanna play WoW but I know better

 

[Craig234]

I think what I might like least about Rift are the combat mechanics, and possibly most is hunting for those artifacts, but there's almost no reward for them.