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Enter At Your Own Rift What Scott Hartsman's AMA Portends For RIFT The Trion team is nothing if not persistent. In an elaborate plot involving Dr. Pepper and a one-means locked office, the devs have been able to finally get Trion CCO and RIFT Government Producer Scott Hartsman to take part in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. It was an engaging discussion that touched on quite a lot of topics, from up and coming titles resembling End of Nations to Hartsman's journey from GM of the MUD Scepter of Goth to his time with SOE and his present endeavors with Trion. We learned that he is a reasonably hardcore raider, that he plays incognito, and that his raid drink of choice is Grimbergen Blonde. However the main target of the conversation was RIFT, and whereas he didn't shed too much gentle on the upcoming expansion, he did drop just a few hints about what we might see sooner or later. In this week's Enter at Your own Rift, we'll have a look at some of the highlights!  Free-to-play and RIFT  We're within the age of free-to-play proper now, so it is not a surprise that one recurring question was about whether we would ultimately see RIFT be part of the ranks of the free. Previously, the answer has always been that RIFT was snug with its subscription-based model, but in the course of the Reddit dialogue, Hartsman hinted that Trion would possibly indeed add in something resembling free-to-play. He defined:  One of many issues that shocked me after we first launched RIFT and have been doing our personal analysis was the quantity of people who admitted they had been previous Sub-primarily based avid gamers only, who, in 2011 would now merely refuse to play any game that required a subscription. Clearly there were loads who were okay with sub still present, however the swing in the final sentiment was undoubtedly there, and really pronounced. We took that as our challenge to make damn certain we have been going to have the ability to go above and past in terms of what people were really getting for that sub, which we categorical via our updates and what they contain. Once we drilled down, the resistance to a sub in 2011 was in no small half because of the overall state of the financial system. The number of people that merely would reply with: "Look, I might love to play - This is strictly my sort of recreation, but I just plain can't afford the $15 a month I used to on leisure. It sucks, but I can't."  He went on to say that RIFT Lite was one solution that makes the sport accessible to those that is perhaps tight on money. Later in the dialogue, he added that the main target is on the expansion and the live game, so players shouldn't count on to see a brand new payment model till after that. It's noteworthy that Trion is exploring ways to create a more flexible plan, but much more eye-opening is the revelation that players have not only accepted the free-to-play mannequin however count on it from trendy video games.  Bards, sing and rejoice!  Whereas we all know that Storm Legion can have new souls, one individual asked about whether present souls will see any major adjustments. Hartsman confirmed that souls will be tweaked and that the Bard in particular shall be given some consideration. He mentioned he is been playtesting it and his group is looking at ways to make it a extra fun class to play, notably on raids.  PvPers are like snowflakes  Some players expressed dissatisfaction with the brand new three-faction Conquest instance and consider that Trion has neglected its PvP neighborhood. Hartsman gave a shocking answer, with just a little pushback to the oft-heard complaint:   On segmentation.. One thing I've positively observed since we got Rift off the bottom - is that lots of people use "PvP Participant" as if it was a single minded phase that's simple to handle, "if solely we would hear!" I'll use a totally unfair and exaggerated example only for illustration's sake - It is almost like referring to "The Liquid Drinking Public" and trying to come up with one answer that fits all of them - while forgetting that even among themselves, there are a lot of, many contradictory opinions.  At this level, there are a minimum of a dozen sorts of "PvP players" out there, who all tend to describe themselves as "The PvP Participant." Individuals who think arenas are the end all be all, but need gear progression. Individuals who need TF2 - No gear, just cosmetics, excellent steadiness. Carry your ability only. People who want Frontiers. Individuals who need Alterac Valley. People who for some cause Really enjoyed six hours of "beat up the keep door" in video games previously (PvDoor? Did we just invent a brand new style right here?) ...and loads extra.  The best we can do on this world is to make the very best PvP that we are able to, that actually fits in our gameplay system, and hope an viewers is there to get pleasure from it. Might we decide a type of pre-present varieties of PvP and do a more targeted and modern up to date model of it? Completely. But we're attempting to make our own way. That will yield some enjoyable issues, and there'll also be missteps alongside the best way. So - Brief reply. Can we worth our PvP gamers? Rattling proper. Will we plan on persevering with to trying to create and refine our personal PvP? Hell sure. Is Everything we do going to make everyone who identifies themself as "a PvP player" completely satisfied? Not an opportunity. Maybe half if we're super lucky.  This reply really highlights one thing that usually will get overlooked, which is that we simply determine the wide range of PvE playstyles but don't at all times acknowledge the same to be true of PvP players. It is refreshing to listen to a sport designer discuss a few of those different playstyles, but it also helps clarify the challenges of constructing a game that includes both PvE and PvP content. He went on to say that Conquest took months of labor from the crew with a purpose to create 1,000 participant matches on dwell servers and make it work. It won't be everybody's cup of tea, but Trion continues to tweak PvP and plan new PvP content material to satisfy a greater variety of PvP playstyles.  Alternate-ruleset servers  One question about permadeath and experience loss led to a curious trace about whether or not RIFT fans would possibly see some servers with more hardcore rulesets in some unspecified time in the future in the future. Hartsman posted:   Funny factor. We have an inner playtest list that additionally accumulates random ideas. The same idea has come up there now and again. Most recently, last month! By no means know what the long run will bring. I do agree, though, that particular ruleset/short lifetime servers will be a extremely enjoyable thing.  I'm intrigued by the thought of a brief lifetime server as a result of it's so opposite to the by no means-ending persistance of MMOs. Players are used to some form of closure in single-player video games, but that's not really the case in MMOs, besides when a recreation has to shut down from financial difficulties. If there were servers with a particular ruleset and a pre-ordained, restricted lifetime, we might change our method to MMOs and how we play.  The state of gaming  A number of questions got here up about MMOs normally and the way they've changed by way of the years. Hartsman provided his view on not only the evolution of gaming but the place we is perhaps headed down the street:   Competition has gone by the roof, clearly. 10 years in the past, simply attending to launch meant that a fairly large number of individuals would at least check you out. Not so anymore. Following on to that, production costs of what it takes to get to launch with one thing carried out "the classic means," that can stir up enough curiosity to get sufficient people to check you out, have gotten insane and are at the point of being unsustainable. I think that, in live performance with the fact that people use different online companies (like fb) for social connections, which did not used to exist -- when previously many avid gamers used MMOs as their outlet for "being social, at dwelling, on a pc" -- has led to the brand new styles of online games which might be centered far more on gameplay -- LoL, Minecraft, and so forth. Tighter targeted games which can be clearly all concerning the gameplay. I feel we'll continue seeing extra of "on-line, extra focus" and fewer "MMO world that costs virtually a quarter billion dollars."  He went on to discover the topic in a later reply, and that i added it here as a result of I feel it's an interesting point of debate about whether the hardcore gameplay of early games like Ultima On-line would have been as fashionable if there had been a large number of MMO selections back then. He explained:   Although at the very least inside the trade is the open query: Did it ever even work for UO in any respect as soon as competition existed? Dropping all the things was incessantly a loss of life sentence for the shopper - they'd stroll. Some would stay. Many would bail. Provided that, I do not know that it is as black and white of a subject. Is it "the gang who performs games now's That much more danger averse" or is it "that it did not really work even among a big crowd back then; and it solely worked as long as it did as a result of it was the one recreation in town at that time?" Or one thing in between? Like I mentioned, I'm definitely not the professional there - Just repeating what I've heard others opine on. Some sensible individuals have stated some smart issues on the topic.  I'm solely ready to focus on a couple of quotes here because of column length, however the full Reddit AMA is effectively worth reading as a result of Scott Hartsman has so much to say concerning the MMO landscape over time and the state of the business in the present day (including an awesome comparison between Star Wars Galaxies' NGE and EverQuest II's drastic revamp proper after launch). And if you're a budding game designer, he offers up some precious advice as well. minecraft So break out the Dr. Pepper and check it out!  Whether or not they're holding the vigil or defying the gods, Karen Bryan and Justin Olivetti save Telara on a weekly basis. Protecting all elements of life in RIFT, from solo play to guild raids, their column is devoted to backhanding multidimensional tears so onerous that they go crying to their mommas. Electronic mail Karen and Justin for questions, feedback, and adulation.

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