RIFT's 1.3 update bringing new raid, free transfers, and more

@Dril How many people play MMOs to play house or tea party? Not many.

@Celestian

Sorry, you're right, they should just make MMOs more like FPSs and get rid of storytelling in multiplayer entirely (thus no story in MMOs at all), make people do the whole levelling process 10 times over to get a shitty little picture next to their name, and they reduce the need for communication so everyone over the age of 5 can join in and scream profanities at eachother for not defusing the bomb. Did I mention all MMOs would now have bombs and lazers in? Well they would, because everyone wants cool stuff like that, not housing.

mmoRPG. Roleplaying Game. You are in a WORLD. People need SHELTER.

If all you want to do is pew pew, World of Tanks and COD are right there for you.

@Dril

hes right, no1 wants to play tea party and dress-up. your dolls are that way --> and Incarna is that way

@(Unverified) No one wants to play dress up? Are you guys really this stupid and if you are you need to shut your moron mouths. EVERYONE LOVES to play dress-up in an MMO. That's the whole god damned point of the entire god damned genre, grab uber gear to dress your character up in.

Idiots.

@Vagrant Zero

I'll be neutral here. Yes SOME people dress up for looks, but others get gear purely for stats. A good friend of mine did the former while I did the latter.

While I find estate systems to be interesting, I actually like the tiered progression - as repetitious as they might be. Sometime there are more interesting encounters, and it is the teamwork, group dynamic, and dedication that really pique my interest in an MMO.

@Dril I think you flew off the deep end a bit. I get you housing is cool, but goddamn, the failure to include player housing doesn't automatically mean every MMO becomes a sci-fi shooter O_o

@Dril

Hate to break it to you, but everything in an MMO is designed as a "timewaster". Those things you refer to as "timewasters" are really "content", though perhaps not the type you, specifically would prefer.

Housing could be rightfully seen as a "timewaster" by a player if that was not something that interested them, and they technically wouldn't be wrong - but to someone else, it could be seen as "content". It's all in the point of view, if a person believes it is something positive or negative, that will heavily effect what they ultimately consider a specific gameplay element to be.

I don't see the point of housing if they're going to instance it (A metagame for RPers and something that offers further immersion but is totally disconnected from the game-world sounds entirely counter-intuitive), and for them to make it open-world when given the limited size of the world and the fact that 98% of it is covered in hostile NPCs, is unlikely.

TERA will supposedly be introducing non-instanced player housing, but that's in their initial design... It would take a lot of changes to the current system design in order to implement such a system into RIFT, and I'm not sure if the Dev team will ever find it to be a fiscally beneficial investment of resources to develop such a feature.

@Dril
I'd love to see a lot of different things:
1. the ability to craft wardrobe and other vanity items -- maybe mechanical companions and other items.
2. With housing, I'd like to see the majority of items be obtained (again) through crafting. Maybe even have display cases where you can place trophies from various achievements, drops from bosses and rare spawns, and so on. You can even have mannequins to display armor sets, etc. (granted,these ideas come from user-created oblivion mods, but still... a good idea is a good idea)
3. I'd love to see fishing and cooking as viable professions. But only if they do it in a fun and useful way.

@Protheus The fact that the LFG tool didn't put you in any group, is not the fault of Trion. It's the fault of the players. LFG works great at max level since there are more people actively playing at 50, then there are at levels 1-49.

Blame your fellow players for not queueing up when they play on their lower level characters/alts.

@Protheus LFG needs to be cross-server.

@Celestian

No it doesn't.

Judging from your other comment: you really do just want things to be instant, easy, and in-your-face don't you?

Cross-server ruins communities. One of Rift's big positives is it doesn't have diluted server communities (yet.)

@Meurik

Yet another reason not to have levels or stats in a game. (Grin)

@Mikkhail

Pretty much my feelings exactly.

@Mikkhail That was my problem too. And all I ask is simple things like player or guild housing, possibly a casino or something and just other things that isn't grinding rep or gear at end game.

I don't even care if rifts take over my housing. I'll fight for it! lol

@Mikkhail
Ugh...me too.

I loved a lot of things about Rift but ultimately it's a pretty conventional fantasy MMO and I'm just completely burnt out on that.

@Mikkhail

Just wanted to second this. Rift is a solid game and worth trying, but it was a 2.5 month investment for me. The content isn't emotionally engaging, but is well designed. In the end, it basically boils down to the same model that every other MMO uses.