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#1 sqldbaman
Member since 2005 • 25 Posts

/agreed. I was doubtful... but I have been play for several weeks... and it is very solid. I have several chars... and my latest one is up to a 21 Necro. Between item drops, the fun of being in big groups out of the blue, the fun of jumping out and still being able to do most of the quests by yourself... yeah... I would say this game will be around for a bit.

Engine is quite clean and snappy.

As far as content goes... seems fairly diverse and plentiful, but the jury is still out on that one. As far as others saying things like early quests are "boring"... well I would answer back that that is exactly true... about has boring as every other early quest in every other MMO that I have played (WoW, SWG, Asheron Call, Asheron Call 2, Aion, Conan, LOTR, etc.). Yeah... I have played alot of them, never got over the cartoonie style of WoW... but to each his/her own. SWG was the one I stayed with for 7yrs (on and off). It is nothing like in the hay day of players... but for depth... it set the mark. Crafting in SWG made crafting in any other MMO literal child's play --- I reference Bioengineering and DNA work in SWG as an example. Is Rift the answer for crafting... I have no clue on that aspect... I will let someone else figure that out. I will say that drops are fairly good... and since there is no decay... crafting seems and uphill endeavor.

Is Rift a WoW killer, etc.... blah blah blah... time will only tell. WoW has been there for a very long time... comparisons are useless unless you are talking about the here and now... and I would say that Rift holds a lot of promise and hope... if not just plain fun. However, it is still very, very young. Are there severe bugs, etc... graphical or otherwise... I have not experienced or seen them. Since I have 4 other people in my house playing this game as well... I feel like we are an excellent test-bed for this new MMO.

For those that don't care about this type of game... go read something else. For those looking at something to try... go for it. Oh and having the latest hardware for this game is a mis-nomer. My son runs this on a dual-core AMD chip (old one) with 4 GB of memory and 1GB nVidia video card. Works fine. He is running Windows 7 too.

Again... try it out if you have if you are looking for something fun. Don't listen to haters and trolls.

Jupiter