Rift

[LochnarITB]

I really shouldn't be paying one subscription, let alone two, and Rift won't be taking that one away from WoW. I can see fun being had, and would buy it, but only if the servers were free. I've only played Guild Wars (if that even falls into the same category) and WoW and saw nothing really new to those other than the rifts themselves. While the soul system seemed more flexible than WoW's trees, I felt it forcing me in ways I didn't want to go. Given, my character was young, but even with the points of a much higher level toon, I couldn't see a path that wouldn't make him mediocre at many things and master of none. I also see the rifts, their selling point, kicking them in the head, even if the system dials them way back. People are going to get bored with them. They will get in the way of questing. In low population areas, their level will have to be cranked way down or they will never get sealed. In well populated areas, they might even give rise to folks logging off with a case of the let-someone-else-do-its. There will also be complaining about loot rules and tagging and fair distribution. Rifts will not carry the game for very long.