RIFT - Will it be big, or just another flop?

[darkhawk918]

With World of Warcraft still holding the MMO reins, will RIFT be able to gain enough market to be an MMO giant?

Most people who play MMOs either play WoW, or have had an active subscription at some time or another. Will RIFT be able to take the WoW playerbase for their own?

What do we think RIFT will achieve? Has anybody played it?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

No idea what it is...But my guess for many future MMOs:

It will flop, and within a year, there will be a Free-To-Play version.

 

[Talal Provides]

Two threads for the price of one! So I'll just copy/paste what I said in the other:

I've spent some time with it, and the really interesting class system is, in reality, confusing and a bit of a crapshoot right now, since nobody's really played it enough to know what's an effective set of souls and what isn't.

It won't even make a dent in WoW. Nothing will. MMOs need to stop trying to take down Godzilla and just concentrate on finding an unfilled niche and claiming that.

 

[darkhawk918]

Yeah I agree. I noticed from the screenshots the graphics are excellent, which isn't always a good thing - seen as good graphics get beaten all the time, whereas WoW's graphics, despite the recent overhaul, stay fairly timeless