Those Rift guys are clever.

[CrazyBard]

I was hoping it would act as a subtle hint to the Defiance team. If they could see that the PTS could help generate revenue....

A test server would be nice, but it was ages before Rift got a decent one going and omg wasn't it painful to use (and probably still is) - so no wonder they reward people for using it. The problem with a test server, is that it's only going to work once they've stabilized the game a little more and can get around to less frequency between patches, at that point it will be viable and I almost guarantee they'll provide one then.

But.. we all know it will only give the whiners something else to moan about "OMG! SEE THE GAME IS BROKEN! WHY ELSE HAVE A TEST SERVER?????" :/

[jarrodlovesmusic]

xD

Seriously though, the devs claim to read everything, and posts have been locked, so someone is paying attention.

No they only pay attention to posts about ****ty the game is and people whinning blah blah blah. Its like someone is like, whoa we cant be having that no sir rebob. lol Idk if you noticed but if you go through and check the posts that are closed, go to the end of the post and look at what the dev wrote as to why its closed. Its the same post everytime. They have a good amount of people going through then, and that post must be template that they just copy and paste and BOOM! case closed. I swear when they close post they must be thinking
"your post is squashed, and your accounts blocked because you spoke out against the people who own you." then later in the breakroom they must chat about all the accounts they have blocked today and laugh like this
"muwahahaahahaha!" god im bored

[MacDeath]

No they only pay attention to posts about ****ty the game is and people whinning blah blah blah. Its like someone is like, whoa we cant be having that no sir rebob. lol Idk if you noticed but if you go through and check the posts that are closed, go to the end of the post and look at what the dev wrote as to why its closed. Its the same post everytime. They have a good amount of people going through then, and that post must be template that they just copy and paste and BOOM! case closed. I swear when they close post they must be thinking
"your post is squashed, and your accounts blocked because you spoke out against the people who own you." then later in the breakroom they must chat about all the accounts they have blocked today and laugh like this
"muwahahaahahaha!" god im bored

Mods use copy/paste for consistency. Just like the game has many GMs, the forums have many mods. The mods all need to sing from the same songbook. Ideally, they will all interpret the Code of Conduct and the ToS the same way to determine if a post/thread has violated the CoC / ToS. Warning messages, banning messages and, yes, thread closing messages need to be consistent across all mods.

[Gratty]

fyi the defiance team is all so the rift team to

That is actually not true. They are separate teams and have stated that before

[MacDeath]

That is actually not true. They are separate teams and have stated that before

Not JUST separate teams, but from two different studios, 500 miles apart. Rift team is in Redwood Shores and Defiance team is in San Diego.

[ironhands]

i played rift all weekend. The guild banks were down, and it's been 3 days and I haven't received a response to a support ticket. also, did a few rift events where certain mobs didn't spawn, some enemies were invisible, and in some areas landscapes weren't spawning right away.

pretty much, exactly like the complaints with Defiance... Can't see why people seem to hold Rift to such a higher standard, I've had more bugs with that than Defiance.

Also, the last 2 were because I was downloading a massive torrent at high speed, not because of bugs on their end :P

[Whisky Tango]

fyi the defiance team is all so the rift team to

False statement.

[MacDeath]

i played rift all weekend. The guild banks were down, and it's been 3 days and I haven't received a response to a support ticket. also, did a few rift events where certain mobs didn't spawn, some enemies were invisible, and in some areas landscapes weren't spawning right away.

pretty much, exactly like the complaints with Defiance... Can't see why people seem to hold Rift to such a higher standard, I've had more bugs with that than Defiance.

Also, the last 2 were because I was downloading a massive torrent at high speed, not because of bugs on their end :P

The Rift team was cut pretty deeply a few months back. The management team of Scot Hartsman, Russ Brown, and Hal Hanlin who, IMO, were most responsible for the success of the early game have all moved on. It's not like it used to be.

[ironhands]

The Rift team was cut pretty deeply a few months back. The management team of Scot Hartsman, Russ Brown, and Hal Hanlin who, IMO, were most responsible for the success of the early game have all moved on. It's not like it used to be.

I didn't see much of a difference TBH. Storm Legion zones looks like they could mesh with the base game easily, a few new nice mechanics have been made. The main city seemed like a ghost town a lot of the time - a lot are hanging out in the new main city.

Rift is a decent game, but like most MMO, the novelty can wear off pretty quickly. Was a post on ... pcgamer or kotaku, about how only 2 MMOs have been successful in the Americas, EQ and WoW.

What I miss, and loved, about Rift was the world event story updates. I hope they're still doing those, they were a great draw.


What I did do, was kill hellbugs Couldn't solo the final/tough one though, had to duo it. Lotta people running around with the mount.