Is Rift a worthy alternative to WoW?

Yes, it a great mmo... just needs some expansions

If it was free it might be the best game ever, although thats probably not going to happen. mmo with a good storyline

I've just been playing the Rift trial, and so far its fun, with some additions and time it could be serious competition for WoW

I played the trial and it looked very sweet. IMO much better graphics than wow's sometime cartoon-ish look.


I've enjoyed wow so I want to make sure people who never played it understand its a GREAT game. For someone new to mmos may have a harder time getting into it as I did back in 2004 since the lower areas are rather under populated with a majority of the players in the more hardcore areas... common for games that have been around for 5+ years.


If your looking for something really different consider dofus (www.dofus.com). Its a 2d (yes 2d) turn based fighting mmo in the spirit of FF tactics. With 11 million players worldwide dofus has been the #1 French mmo for many years.


What took me away from wow to play dofus really is the guild wars. In this game you can plant a NPC from your guild that "taxes" XP and drops from the area. Then you can collect all the loot yourself for free.... Now what makes this interesting is other guilds (or single players) can attack your perc and collect all the loot. Guilds get very touchie when players start killing off there percs and before you know it you have a FULL TILT guild war.

The players are VERY hardcore and often take the IN game fight so serious it can often extend to real life where people track you down for some out of game harrassing and trash talking too.

With in server politics and guilds one straw away from distorting each other with in game spies and double crosses the game has allot more to offer then leveling up and dungeon runs.


The leveling is interesting too, this game since launch goes to level 200 and takes years. In fact to get from level 199 to level 200 you have to repeat every single xp point from level 1-199.... AGAIN it really can take YEARS.


Also since the fighting is turn based people often sub 2,3,4,5,6+ clients to make "teams" they play themselves. This makes the mmo feel almost more like a rts.


Anyway while I play allot of mmos off and on (examples: wow, warhammer, flyff and others) The French game dofus really is for me.

to bad for them. AoC is going to be free in a couple of months ! :D nais aoc is best mmorpg ever :D because its not noob friendly so noobs gtfo !noo noobs in a mmorpg :D

I recently quit wow because of boredom and I did try the Rift trial and beta,but I never really hooked me. I don't know why I guess I am just done with that kind of games.

After the release of Wrath of the Lich King, thousands of players quit, therefore I wouldn't be surprised if any game succeeded WoW.

I tried it in beta, and I tried it with a 6 day trial provided by the Arena here and I just don't like this game.

I prefer Runescape... >.>

After 6 ish plus years I think it is finally time for WoW to take the long walk and retire. Its time for some new spice to mix in the drink.

Rift is pretty fun with the dungeons, rifts, and invasions. The grind like every other mmo though is something that turned me off. Compared to WoW the graphics are better and the gameplay, but WoW has more social tools and support. In addition WoW can easily add Rifts to their own game.

As good as Rift is compared to most MMOs they need to add more things outside the game to be as competitive not only to all the other mmos, but to all online games that players would play instead.

I don't Think its a alternative to WoW but its a good game too

well i try it but i dont like it i will stay on wow( my own opinion)

Sever1ty said: After the release of Wrath of the Lich King, thousands of players quit, therefore I wouldn't be surprised if any game succeeded WoW.

Why did Wrath of the lich king cause people to quit? I play off and on, Infact I didnt buy wolk until the Black Friday amazon thing where it was $5 or whatever

But I'm curious why people didnt like it.

Rift is new. Trion seems much more supportive than Blizzard IMO. Trion is making very difficult and yet interesting content, and their updates are frequent and important. 4.1 in WoW was a complete joke, and 4.2 is basically setting up to look like a new raid and a complete waste of time daily quest hub. Moreover, WoW is trying to milk its consumer base of money with $10 pets, extra monthly fees, and $15 server transfers. I prefer Trion as they are much more supportive of the community. They are focusing on keeping their players rather than milking their players. They are implementing something that WoW should have had years ago (free server transfers). The game plays of the games are very similar, but Trion completely outclasses Blizzard on the side things (IMO). Blizzard is a fantastic company and they have given us many good games (I am so excited for Diablo 3), but if I had to choose a side of Rift vs WoW, I'd take Rift only because I prefer Trion's policy towards its game to Blizzard's policy towards WoW.

@Zerosama,
I like you comment apart from trion hasnt been around the same amount of time blizzard has, havent go the fan base yet, so of course there going to be more player supportive but i bet, when they/if reach the same fame blizzard have they will milk just as much ;)

Xinct said: @Zerosama,
I like you comment apart from trion hasnt been around the same amount of time blizzard has, havent go the fan base yet, so of course there going to be more player supportive but i bet, when they/if reach the same fame blizzard have they will milk just as much ;)

I sure hope not. Only time will tell, but Trion seems different. Blizzard started out milking for money. As I recall, the paid server transfers for WoW started in late Vanilla. I would argue that TBC is when the game reached the huge fan base that it has. Trion does have the advantage of age: their game is newer and they know what to do and what not do. I would hope that even if they hit the critical mass of players that WoW has, they will not milk their fanbase. Thus far, Trion has not shown itself to be very greedy. They could have easily charged $5 for the server transfers (much less than WoW), and they would have gotten mild reactions, but they decided to make the transfers 100% free. Moreover, players directly asked Trion for certain features (LFG tool in particular), and Trion immediately answered. The size of the community has part to do with this (WoW's community is always split in some way), but Trion seems to want to make the best decisions they can for their player bases. Blizzard... just gives WoW players revamped dungeons, and a new boring daily quest hub (who asked for these in the first place?). I hope that Trion will keep up what they are doing now... once again, though, only time will tell.

the beta was cool, and if they dropped the price to like 50% of WoW's they'd steal millions of players.

I'll second that anyone who would cut their rate and not just jump to free to play but pay out the ass if you want to do anything would kick WoW pretty hard.
Rift is good, got my hopes up as an old table top guy hoping this was a Rifts RPG MMO. but was still funt to play through but for the same cost I'll stick to WoW.

Too bad it`s a p2p.

It's a horribly boring game with crappy pvp. Thanks 4 that. My whole guild quit playing it after 2 month...hiphip!

havent played yet but i think thats better than WoW

A few of my friends switched from wow to rift...and havent come back. it's lonely without them):

ive tried the beta and i like it so far

it an okay game

Well seeing how I was a Wow player since day one, and quite when Wrath came out. This seems like a viable alternative!