Love It Or Hate It: Rift

Rift is really a great game. And its actually Free 2 Play. If you've never tried it I'd give it a shot. The bard class is dopeeee.

I played Rift when it came out and enjoyed it a lot and stopped few months later only only because of SWTOR. It's strange reading comments saying Rift got old quickly when you realize it came when Wow Cataclysm was already out. Anyway I wish Trion all the best, there wasn't better MMO launch than Rift in history of MMO games.

Rift is an amazing game, but its age really shows.

Personally, I don't mind the graphics, but what really gets me is the combat pacing. Rift has a much longer global cooldown than many traditional MMORPGs I've played, and it really drags the whole combat experience down. Of course, popular belief now is that traditional MMORPG combat systems are dated and shouldn't exist anymore, which is complete bullsh*t, tbh. I would much rather have a game with a good traditional combat system, such as ArcheAge (labor/housing system aside) where I'm jumping around, using escape and mobility skills, trying to get behind my enemies, timing stuns to cancel out their major skills, etc. as opposed to something like SkyForge where I'm literally just standing there spamming shield cooldowns and "left click, left click, right click" over and over again until the enemy dies... anyways, personal frustrations aside, Rift doesn't have that great of a combat system, likely due to age, and it makes the game much less approachable.

I find the class system in Rift to be very deceiving as well. You're limited to the play style of the class archetype you chose at character creation, with many of the "souls" within each archetype being slight variations of each other. Yes, they added healer/tank souls to all of the archetypes (for $$ of course, and they aren't cheap) but they could have avoided having to do that altogether and gave players much more control over their character build had they simply allowed warrior x mage, rogue x mage, etc. soul combinations. It's a bummer, but after playing ArcheAge for a year I'm really spoiled when it comes to class systems (yes, referencing Archage again, but despite the many reasons to hate the game, it has arguably the best class system in existence).

I, personally, wouldn't mind an updated Rift (maybe a Rift 2?) with the same quality of content but improved combat and class systems.

+ its not anime
+ tons of roles
+ old school target system
+ open world
- there is no fall damage......
- no arenas

Rift is best F2P mmorpg FOR ME... cause it's copy-paste of GOD of MMO -
- w o r l d of w a r c r a f t