Rift: Random Complaint Thread

[Hioki]

fuckin lol. it hits 12pm... all we get is a server msg saying "to prepare for the event we are applying a small patch in 25minutes.. expected downtime is 15 minutes" such fuckin epic fail i cant even begin to describe it. They had a week to prepare for this.. an EXTRA week.. and this happens... W.T.F.

I already quit and today is my last day.. i guess this event is gonna make me want to resub /sarcasmoff

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Wat? It's a reset to activate the event. The hell kind of complaint is this...

[niwaar]

I know it's only a month or so old, but they put everyones expectations through the roof with their flawless beta testing and perfect headstart. But their final release came in shambles. I am sure this game will be amazing in time to come, but unfortunately I don't want to play a half working game whilst I could be playing a fully established, non buggy and perfectly functional game.

Also, my guild has completely evaporated, most members havn't logged on for weeks. Maybe the game is thriving for other people but for me and my enviroment it's kinda dying.

I still am not 100% on the "flawless beta" and "perfect headstart" bit. There were quite a few issues in there. I will hand it to them, they gave us a game that was drastically more polished than any other release game in recent history. (Although I do not 100% recall any severe bugs or headaches with Aion on release, it just wasn't nearly as well done on all the little things and gameplay as Rift was.)

Its not just you man, our group who was basically almost our entire raiding core from WoW + a few other long time friends went from all logging in everyday to not logging in at all. The game is extremely fun the first few times you play to 20ish, but then the game fades away and the tedium starts to build around the 30s. Even after everyone hit 50 and was running Experts (I never quite got there) they had fun for a bit, then pretty much all evaporated. Not worth staying in a game when ALL your friends have left due to some stupidity or another in game design.

Hopefully Trion gets back on the ball and starts merging servers and fixing shit to put the fun element back into it, so we can have more than 3 groups running experts during primetime.

Not sure they were ever really on the ball, just seems like we all got fooled by the PR machine's smoke and mirrors. That being said, server merges and even an old school looking for dungeon system would have kept a lot more people playing. As of the 10 minutes before the supposed start time of the event today, only 9 servers had queues. Less than 20 servers were listed as high and 25 servers were listed as Medium. That has to tell you something, when they are doing a one time only event and more than 1/3rd of their servers are medium population.

fuckin lol. it hits 12pm... all we get is a server msg saying "to prepare for the event we are applying a small patch in 25minutes.. expected downtime is 15 minutes" such fuckin epic fail i cant even begin to describe it. They had a week to prepare for this.. an EXTRA week.. and this happens... W.T.F.

I already quit and today is my last day.. i guess this event is gonna make me want to resub /sarcasmoff

One of the major selling points for this event to the masses was that the second phase was "predictable" and you could go out of your way to schedule your involvement. Coming back and telling us the day of "the event will start between noon and 2pm depending on your server". Then only to have to patch the servers AFTER that time has come. Then get the message:

"Alsbeth's attack is imminent! (ETA 30min)"

Cause after all this, having a countdown server message really makes things feel all that epic. I dunno, as you can tell, I am less and less impressed with Rift as things go on. Not necessarily with the game itself, but with the lack of understanding and intelligence shown by the developers. WoW has similar stupid dev issues as of late, since Ghostcrawler fell into that vat of baconfat and stupidjuice, but these Rift guys are ridiculous.

[Katlan]

Wat? It's a reset to activate the event. The hell kind of complaint is this...

um... no.. the event was alrdy coded to start at a certain time. there is no reset to start the event. its not an expansion or anything. its an event thats programed to start at "X" time. they arent releasing new content and new areas or anything. The raid is already fuly in the game, they just need to flip a switch to allow ppl to enter. learn what you talking about before you start defending and sound like a complete idiot.

Event has been super fail and their coding is horrible, its the reason why they need to apply patches

[Katlan]

lol.. like 500+ ppl waiting for Alsbeth to spawn in this tiny area. it reminds me of XI Jueno back in the day since XI can only load so many players at once. everytime you take a step anywhere more ppl load


AND.. the event broke.. no fight.. ingame CS was cool but that was all.. what happened to the epic fight i heard about? And wtf at p2 giving everyone a weapon cache when its too late into the event to even finish that quest ?

[Greedouw]

Emberlord has such a low Guardian population =(

[niwaar]

Wat? It's a reset to activate the event. The hell kind of complaint is this...

This was not a reset to activate an event. When was the last time there was a reset to activate any event in any major MMO? WoW's start at a certain time and just appear without server maintenance. Hell even XI's come and go without a server reset.

The server was reset to complete a serverside patch in order for the event to not break certain abilities in order to function properly. On EU servers any ability that required the server to "think" were disabled for the better part of the event and then had to manually be turned back on. These abilities were basically anything that we would consider a "smart heal". So all those Chloromancer healers were pretty useless on some over populated shards as the server software shut off their ability to heal.

AND.. the event broke.. no fight.. ingame CS was cool but that was all.. what happened to the epic fight i heard about? And wtf at p2 giving everyone a weapon cache when its too late into the event to even finish that quest ?

I am more certain now that it did not break and they removed the fight on top of the castle on purpose. It supposedly was a wipefest because of boss mechanics with 500 people were a lot more difficult than boss mechanics with 5. That being said, the CS was pretty cool, but the ENTIRE event was pretty much a waste of time. P1 did not change how we played the game from day to day, just gave most zones a third or fourth type of invasion. P2 was a complete joke, it was nay impossible to die, even while taking on two bosses on top of each other. The bosses never even showed to be targetting any one person because of how many people were attacking them. They dropped a measly 10 shards and a quest item that you can no longer complete. P3 was a complete let down. We were promised this epic thing, and were given a short little CS instead.

More and more I see the "we developed the technology and THEN decided to make an MMO" theme going on with Trion. Some of them need to go back to MMO school, I have this feeling that a good chunk of the dev team has very limited MMO playing experience let alone designing.

[LidenbokValour]

I take my hat off to Trion in one sense though, I have been in and out of MMOs for years, prior to RIFT only two of them I got to the max level and experienced end game. I am not an easy person to please..I have the attention span of a cabbage. RIFT pulled me in enough so that I got max level within a week of its release did 90% of end game content, grinded most achievements and made some decent friends.

I think RIFT is a game to watch out for in the years to come, it's still an amazing game by all means. It's done tons better than anything thats been released recently. I just think it takes a specific person to play through the condition it is in right now.

[niwaar]

I take my hat off to Trion in one sense though, I have been in and out of MMOs for years, prior to RIFT only two of them I got to the max level and experienced end game. I am not an easy person to please..I have the attention span of a cabbage. RIFT pulled me in enough so that I got max level within a week of its release did 90% of end game content, grinded most achievements and made some decent friends.

Part of Rift's problems was that you could get to max level within a week. I fear the same issue will happen with other new MMOs as well. Ask yourself how much of the fun you had playing those MMOs that you did get to max level with, how much of that was leveling. Right now, believe it or not, the fun to be had in Rift is during the early part of your leveling process and not in the end game. Aion had similar issues, but luckily for Aion, the game took a considerable amount more time to level.

I truly believe if Rift had given us a more complete world with more of it,multiple leveling paths and longer leveling path, then the game would be a far better game. Nevermind the end game that is as much a debacle (if not just barely worse than) WoW's. Giving it a bigger, better world would in and of itself make the game much better for replay and sticking with the game for a much longer haul.

(If they got rid of stupidity like "Exposed")

[LidenbokValour]

Ask yourself how much of the fun you had playing those MMOs that you did get to max level with, how much of that was leveling.

QFT

Leveling was merely a task to conquer before the fun was to be had, rift's leveling was the epicentre.

I do remember feeling burnt out about 2 or 3 weeks after dinging 50, but I think that was because I wasn't in an active guild. When I finally got into one, raiding GSB 4 times a week. I loved the game.

I can't put my finger on it, but something has actually killed a lot of their subscribers. My server was the first EU PVE server so it was absolutely full to the brim, to the point of producing the famous "8PM Lag" where EU times would peak and the server would just crap out for an hour or so. And being "Full" on the server list. To now "Medium" and next to no community left.

I will just wait for FFXI's patch in a few weeks.

[Hioki]

This was not a reset to activate an event. When was the last time there was a reset to activate any event in any major MMO? WoW's start at a certain time and just appear without server maintenance. Hell even XI's come and go without a server reset.

Regardless, QQ'ing over 15mins downtime is still retarded.

[Jintu]

Trash in ros, especially clearing left to warmaster! I'm guessing they want us to take longer to clear the instance and I admit gsb trash is a joke but still it takes forever! More bosses, less trash? Hopefully their next tier raid has more than 5 bosses.

[LidenbokValour]

Anyone downed anything in RoS yet then?

Edit : Trion know how to over do it with trash in most dungeons, trash to boss ratio is ridiculous. I guess there is a chance it could rain epics and it could be completely fulfilling but they nerfed the drop rates in 1.1 lol

[Man0warr]

Next raid Hammerknell has like 15 bosses

[Katlan]

Next raid Hammerknell has like 15 bosses

Just imagine all the trash for that instance. It's gonna be crazy

[Ohemgee]

Kind of getting bored with my Shard and guild. It sucks to be the highest ranked guild on a small server. Nobody to really run instances with.

I want a shard transfer option

[Mytiwar]

I want a shard transfer option

Woooord
or at least a server merge.

[tonyg]

Woooord
or at least a server merge.

Fully agree on the 2nd motion

As for my complaint of the day : Invasions in silverwood for the epic quest. Simply horrible spawn rate, been here for 2 days, 12 hours at a time and only saw one of the two needed for the quest.

[Cyn]

Kind of getting bored with my Shard and guild. It sucks to be the highest ranked guild on a small server. Nobody to really run instances with.

I want a shard transfer option

It's supposedly coming, maybe next update.

Fully agree on the 2nd motion

As for my complaint of the day : Invasions in silverwood for the epic quest. Simply horrible spawn rate, been here for 2 days, 12 hours at a time and only saw one of the two needed for the quest.

Didn't the latest patch increase invasion frequency? (I just hit 50 yesterday and still need those Silverwood bosses too haha....)

[Ohemgee]

Not to say that I want easier expert dungeons. But for fucks sake, if you're undergeared, you fucking suck.

Never bring a random Cholomancer to expert DD and expect them to do well on the scorpion

[Zerocool]

They really need to get Gersh the fuck off the balance dev team and hire somebody competent.