Rift 2021 First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?"

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Rift is a free to play, fairly traditional styled fantasy MMORPG that initially released in 2011, Since then the game has released multiple expansions to a declining playerbase, Rift is most known for it's open world RIFT events in which you kill enemies until a boss spawns and the rift closes, this game also features PVP, Raids and a quick adventure mode that scales new players up to higher levels so they can participate in multiplayer content with friends.
What do you think about Rift in 2021? Do you think this game died year ago and I'm scraping the bottom of the MMORPG barrel by covering it again (you're right) or do you think this game had a lot of potential and was ruined by the publisher? let me know in the comments below!
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--Rift Steam Description--
ABOUT THIS GAME
Download RIFT and enter the vast, magical world of Telara. Experience an unprecedented class system, massive dynamic battles, and player housing like you’ve never seen before.
BUILD YOUR PERFECT CHARACTER
Create a character and class to fit the way you play. Start by choosing from six races and dozens of unique Souls, each with hundreds of traits and abilities. Mix and match on the fly and re-specialize anytime you like.
MASSIVE DYNAMIC BATTLES
Telara is a living, dynamic world where chaos can erupt at any moment. Whether you’re battling planar invasions or ancient titans alongside scores of your fellow Ascended, the next adventure is always near!
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
In the deep, dark places of Telara, foul creatures breed, scheme, and hoard the treasures of ages. Gather your friends and delve into dozens of dungeons and raids for groups of 2, 5, 10, and 20 players.
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Rift 2021 First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?"
• Rift 2021 First Impres...

[@TheLazyPeon]

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[@Daemon883]

Bro nice videos just to let u know that archeage announced new fresh start maybe u want to cover it for content. L Much love from greece

[@Guirssane]

BnS on mobile is kinda fun, yes its your autoplay shit at the beginning but its almost the same gameplay as on pc and pvp and dungeon is manual ;)

[@erhanoyunoynuyor]

Blade & Soul 2 is better ofc, expected release date March 18, cross platform with Purple, 4K resolution available at PC.

[@ニャ-g7g]

If offer only class individuality !!!!! wow killed class individuality WOW don't feel like an RPG any more unlike RIFT. RIFT model and company and population are not worth spending time in unfortunatly

[@jakubabudek9909]

Can you cover the games you ad for or is it against your contract/or just not worth covering ?

[@seannowlan4389]

Man this takes me back years ago, I loved this game back when you still payed for it lol

[@Xenospire]

it WAS so good. Could have easily been better than wow if it had gotten noticed.

[@ruineka_one]

I still own the DVD for it.

[@randomnessocity]

Rift was awesome when it first came out, but they really should have gone all in with their initial design philosophy of making the game all about dynamic events rather than a hybrid event and quest system. To date, it still has my favorite class system.

[@Sandman_TV]

Hell yes, Rift was sooo good and I enjoyed it so much. I even liked it more than wow at that time.

[@ZIIHI]

i found my 2 best friends in rift....we still see each other irl and talk shit in discord

[@Drack093]

It’s honestly sad that this game didn’t do better, I still hands down believe it has the best class system I’ve ever seen.

[@bethanymay3056]

I agree.

[@hurion1]

When they switched to F2P they charged way too much for QoL things like bag slots. I remember playing the saboteur class in beta and release and having a blast.

[@aLi112]

Archeage have better class system Imo you can become whatever you want anytime not just at the character creating screen

[@Seamorn]

The selection in character creation is Only a preset, you can always change skilltrees to other roles. Quite similar to archeage

[@Tragedyval]

@@aLi112 disagree, on archeage the choices are all just illusion because there are other combinaton thats better and those combination pretty much nullify the other classes.

[@IsCarryingACuriousMap]

This is f*cking depressing. What a game this was as it felt alive once.

[@Crobian]

Yeah, I loved this game for a few months.

[@Goremize]

Played it for a very long time when it came out. Man I remember the Rift events at area's, how enemies would be alive and running around everywhere and everyone was fighting them to close the rifts and it was so hard to stay alive sometimes. All the raid bosses... then the game went F2P and tbh, watching the game die as it did was depressing. Kept at it for a good while after but man did it fall off

[@kirapyromantic4431]

Absolutely heartbreaking

[@rylandvance5304]

I was there with my gaming buddies from my work place for the beta. We thought Rift was gonna be the next end all be all mmo

[@axelavex9577]

Oh yea i love that too enemies conquering stuff ppl get together, what an mmo. My theory is that blizzard sabotaged this game's community somehow, afterall it presented itself as wow killer, and the com was really off IMO Of course it didn't have the best endgame gearing from start, but no MMO had it in its release when you rushed through.

[@neo-kusakarel5136]

Rift was my first Mmorpg, I was 14 years old back in 2011 when my Uncle got me into playing it with him, at that time i knew literally nothing of Mmorpgs, doing Midnight Raids, All night Pvp, Those were the days for me just spending hrs upon hrs, Zone wide events, Crafting and Dailies, Just me and him we bothed loved this game, He died in 2016... Rest in Peace RIFT.

[@LCInfantry]

Didn’t rift come out in like 2009 or 2008?

[@koffinkat666]

This game was so Godamn fun back in the day......I was there at the begening and you will never know the amazing feeling of Zone wide invasions of Enemies and seeing a thousand people fighting them back....SO GOOD!

[@lell717]

I remember being a new player and one day a HUGE dragon appeared in the zone I was questing in and a raid style fight happened in the middle of the open world, so good.

[@koffinkat666]

@@lell717 Dude exactly, Those moments I never had experienced in an MMO, Very sad to see this game in it's current state, Been passed down through three Owners already and basically R*ped for it's beauty and innovation. Cheers to old times we may never see again.

[@Shockernor]

Yeah, thinking of the earliest days of Rift makes me tear up a bit 😓😓 It was just amazing.

[@Briansgate]

Same here. was a zoomancer on day 1!

[@Darthyankee13]

Agreed, I was there on launch day, such an amazing experience. It is sad to see the game so empty now :(

[@StylizedStation]

Wow, what a throwback. I was a high-ranked PVP dominator mage, never had so much fun playing a class before.

[@bobbyhartfelt5855]

Dom/Chloro or Dom/Pyro. The first could heal decent and basically was a total troll. The other had instant fireballs. I actually made a wonky Dom/SC that slowed and DOT'd people. It was crazy good and I never saw anyone else playing it. This game was AMAZING. It seemed the level increase and soul contribution percentages is what killed the classes. Hybrid/unique builds couldn't compete to pure or mostly purist builds because of the native 1% bonus per point spent into a soul. :(

[@MyHonFreaksTv]

I used to play rogue back in the day when it was pay 2 play I was rank 8 which was max back then Leveld all classes up to max then that fire island appeared in one patch I think it got f2p back then and that's why I quit I really loved the riddles in each zone you could do for gear And the dungeons back then were amazing too

[@TEMINIX]

Rift in 2021: "This is actually fun." High praise

[@oldplayer9033]

Your overall opinion at the end of the video says all: sadly Rift was destroyed by the incompetent and greedy puplisher :-/

[@vroitwyrd]

Agree. I really praised Trion during their first year. Was a serious raider for quite a while. Stepped away from the game for the next big thing and they transitioned to f2p model. Logged in once since then and never considered returning. Shame really, because it was one of my favorite games.

[@Crobian]

I believe they had a lot of issues internally in regards to finances and legal issues (I think). Sucks because it was a great game.

[@Krieghandt]

I'm surprised Arena Net/Guild Wars 2 are still around after joining NC Soft. I also notice GW2 isn't in NC Soft's standard lineup. Sony Online also was bad, I remember paying $12/month to play Planetside, and found out there was only ONE developer left maintaining the game. let's see, 20,000 X 12 = $240,000 a month, and they couldn't be bothered to have a team of developers.

[@modumsnus]

This game had one of the coolest caster class ive ever played "Chloromancer" or how u spell that, such a cool concept for a healing / dps mix. Loved this game, such a shame it died out.

[@ramonrodriguezist]

Man i can totally agree with you, i played all the classes but always was mage main, so many diferent combination and mix, pyromancer, chloromancer, i was a mage healer too and mage tank also.

[@ChillandQuill]

chloromancer was better than new disc priest from wow and came out ages before it too.

[@SentinelFury]

Chloromancer is the most fun and unique class I’ve ever played in any MMO

[@ChillandQuill]

@@SentinelFury the mesmer from guild wars 2 is another great, unusual class =)

[@SentinelFury]

@@ChillandQuill oh yeah for sure! That was actually the next class that came into my head when I was thinking about unique MMO classes. Unfortunately I didn’t get into gw2 much, I wasn’t a fan of the ability system

[@lordcorgi6481]

RIFT is one of those games I always go back to from time to time. I really liked the class system, raiding, and story.

[@bread_dawg]

Rift was AMAZING on release. It's arguably the most customizable MMO when it comes to creating your own builds and it's still the most fun PvP I've experienced in an MMO. But by 2015 it fell off pretty hard, mostly due to competitors like FFXIV and GW2. Kinda sad to see it so dead these days, but it never really tried to evolve.

[@mikkelstornberg6906]

100% agree, do you remember Conquest? man those FPS lags were shitty but it was the best pvp ive have ever played.

[@voldren]

agree, pvp in this game was really good, i spent most of my time in this game tinkering with my build and testing it out in pvp, it was really good, i think the most pvp i've had in mmo was rift and gw2 it's too bad thelazypeon didn't have a chance to test it out, because this game shines the most in pvp

[@oplawlz]

I'd say it died when they nerfed the shit out of their talents.

[@DanteDacoit]

Man I hated pvp. Like in almost every game I hated it. But it was sooooo good in rift. I was spending days just in pvp because it was so much fun

[@inscription8099]

@@mikkelstornberg6906 Yes CONQUEST and PvP rifts were actually quality pvp content!

[@sizzfizz2722]

They should really revive this game and make a remastered version

[@malazan6004]

I'd give it a try

[@COMICFAIL]

lost a gf back in the day when the game released. i remember i went in so hard i was sleeping 3 hours a day. good times

[@therealbabemagnet]

Hope you found her man

[@georgepajeejo7045]

have you tried calling her cell number

[@whackronomicon]

Game was the alternative to WoW and man did it deliver. Miss my tanking rogue. Still crying over those broken +9s tho.

[@RetroTintin]

I remember being addicted to hunting artifacts in this game.

[@DigiCube4]

Bruh! True!!

[@astyages889]

Yea ! Essences ! Oh boy hunting them was my main hobby !

[@hairysticks74]

Oh man, I forgot about this 🤘

[@lizbotnick]

Even after I fell off the leveling/main story, I'd still run around gathering artifacts. It was just so soothing and satisfying.

[@Cyromantik]

Shinies

[@TheRigby19]

I still play this game. still do the raids with my guild each week. It's a good game. its just lost alot of popularity after Nightmare Tide there is still quite the playerbase, its just not as big as the bigger mmos are. theres always something to do in RIFT which is nice. cap is 70 you're right. and the map has much more once you are past that first area. Warfronts are dead at low levels but high levels people still pvp and raid. intrepid adventures (which is what you did) are like dummed down raids, you were in a Nightmare Tide raid which is one of the cooler ones i've done playing this game. Gamigo took over RIFT some time ago after Trion failed. They swear up n down they'll make new content soon, whenever soon may be. If you want to really see more of this game i'd be happy to show you.

[@andreasp.5368]

When you reach lvl 70 is pvp popular or you got to wait 15 mins for a game?

[@iagodiago]

Gamigo will not deliver content. Thats not what they do. They buy whale infested games, drain them, close them, and then move on to the next game.

[@qojalibass]

Can i join your guild, im an active player, just play like 3 day straight till now, my name IGN: Matnasrin

[@michaelcollins7925]

what sever / shard is your guild on?

[@harirouchsanderson489]

Прошу помочь мне заново начать играть в рифт,по возможности отпишитесь

[@PickleDrinkBleach]

The hype when this game came out has 100% died off. Shame it had some good things going for it.

[@Nightstriker995]

once it went ftp they got greedy and it quickly became ptw. I imagine if it had stayed a sub based mmo it would have done better and would have gotten more content updates. I used to love this game it had potential to be great but was ruined my greedy devs and publishers. now its only a shell of its former self.

[@AzureRoxe]

@@Nightstriker995 If it had stayed sub-based, it would've shut down. How do you people STILL don't understand this?

[@Busketroll]

@@AzureRoxe This. Sub based models are exclusive to big businesses who can afford to get away with it. Only 2 or 3 such mmo's can feasibly exist and remain successfull at a time.

[@Nightstriker995]

@@AzureRoxe why do you people STILL don't understand that opinions exist on the internet?

[@curlyhairedgamer]

@@Nightstriker995 that argument isnt based on opinion though. He stated FACTS on why it cant happen. Cant really argue against that with an opinion lmao. Also theres such things as bad opinions

[@Prixmlol]

Rift and Wildstar, two games that deserved better.

[@genericfutureman9454]

Wildstar was highly underrated, imo.

[@Crobian]

For me and many others, wildstars SciFi theme and overly cartoony art style were too off-putting to give the game a real go.

[@RammsteinRockt]

I miss wildstar tbh

[@BlueShellshock]

Agreed. I played Rift back in beta, and it just felt mismanaged; some great ideas, the PvP was fun (despite some balance issues; Saboteur Rogue OP), and a varied class system, but they were just obsessed with being the 'next WoW'. I remember all the gloating that they were 'stealing WoW's playerbase'; that energy really should have been put into making their own game fun.

[@onigames7309]

@@RammsteinRockt Me too. I was there when it ended :(

[@Wreclis]

I miss this game. In it's short lived time, it was one of the best. Great raids, class skill builds, world events, and community. Just failed to keep up with other MMO's. Sometimes you have to bring in what the other companies are doing well to evolve and they did not. They rode the horse they rode in on until it literally was just about dead. The company did try to make some other MMO's that pushed new ideas but they should of focused on one MMO. They had a gem.

[@FoetusInYourNoodles]

Man Rift was a really fun game, the character customization when it came to combat etc was amazing, PVP was great! It's just very dated now isn't it.

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

Yea then why complaint about p2w lol ofcourse theyll be p2w Its YALL who aint loyal, dont blame games 😂 me however, loyal as ever to rift and guild wars (stfuu about that too gw aint p2w either)

[@purplefanta7142]

Think you missed a major part of this game, you make your class by combining 3 skill trees available from your spec. I made a tank rogue back in the day without buying anything. Really fun. Also made a bard that would heal as much as healers despite me being a support.

[@Miragexe]

That's what Archeage does as well, but the vast majority isn't really viable.

[@hairysticks74]

I loved the Bard healing so much in Rift.

[@Crobian]

Bard healing was hella cool lol. As someone who plays mainly hybrid classes in WoW I loved that my rogue could tank, melee dps, ranged dps, heal or a mixture of all based on the soulbinds. Was such a great game wish it didn't die.

[@summerlily2123]

One of my faves that I play to this day is the Primalist Tank/Healer class. As far as support goes yes, Bard is amazing to play and so is the Warrior Class with [not kidding] 11 different RAID buffs and also has 6 self buffs, of which 4 can be turned on at same time... NOT including the Raid buffs on top of it! Primalist Tank/heals has several buffs too which gives unlimited room to work on group play combinations and the soul system allowing us to switch on the fly by going from full tank to Ice-Mage heals with multi-layered Buffs/Heal and heal over time spells leads to only one conclusion imo.... RIFT was years ahead of its time and if that game was being released today on an upgraded version of the original Engine, there would be a server farm somewhere breaking from the sheer volume of gamers wanting to pre-order it!!

[@CharlyDerKater]

I remember Trion (makers of rift) hosted a party which you could sign up for in the game forum in cologne Germans during gamescom they rent out one of the best locations in cologne a huge sky tower they had a huge selection of alcohol and non alcohol as well as food and all of it was for free I was only 15 at the time however it was still one of the nicest parties I've ever been to they actually picked you up in a glass panorama school like bus never seen anything like it before also if someone from Trion or random person knows the Trion cocktail (it was green and kinda tastes like peach) recipes im willing to pay money for it I want to drink it once again so bad

[@Kryzzah]

I fucking loved this game when it came out. So sad to see what it has become, I really miss it..

[@tken118]

Its still pretty popular.

[@tken118]

About 1k people on at primetimes

[@Y4J]

I do as well. =\ It was also the best guild I was ever in.

[@Darkfrost7456]

@@tken118 no it’s not it’s barely got any players. If you like it cool but it’s hanging by a thread

[@tken118]

@@Darkfrost7456 Wouldnt say 1000-1500 at prime time is barely any players lol

[@Aykela]

I met my husband in this game, 9 years ago.

[@bethanymay3056]

How cool!!!

[@darkskindeep]

I met your husband 8 years ago and we both in love

[@thracereis3755]

Nerds

[@gubzs]

Everyone forgets that on release this game was like the _pinnacle_ of mmo graphics. Like people were going out and buying GTX 600s just for this game.

[@SecrethLab]

No, no one is forgetting how good this looked 10 years. But they arent evolving and adapting to new tech. They could port this to mobile now in its current state and increase their casino mechanics even more and they might actually have a player base. This game is dead on PC and that wont change.

[@Zero-it5od]

I remember playing in the beta one night and remember hundreds of players fighting some rift boss in the open world, it was one of the craziest things I saw at the time and got me really excited for release. If you told me then it was going to kill WOW I would have said yes and so would have everyone in the game that night.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

same thing happened with Pubg...

[@Goremize]

@@Zero-it5od yeah, to be honest this one, with its awesome 10man content and great gameplay pvp and open world Rift battles. It could have been the only MMO to exist to beat WoW. Heh, its too bad the game died as fast as it did the moment it hit F2P.

[@zenwilds2911]

I'd play Rift nowadays if they simply updated the graphics. Rift furniture can't compete with ESO or BDO furniture, but Rift has the best housing system out of them all. It's just a graphics issue.

[@zylle1993]

This is still to this day the mmo ive had the most fun in, i played warrior tank since launch but quit when it went p2w. Its so sad to see this game has died out completely

[@js2188]

me to, in the dungeons you could tank multiple bosses to each other and take them together (was fun). plus there was cool achievements, I remember we unlocked one where you had to have all your party members tank the boss during the fight.

[@Crobian]

2nd funnest next to WoW for me, and I've tried a lot of them.

[@바보Queen]

can u switch roles if u want to play another role within the same class? or are u locked on what you pick?

[@siberiankhatru5440]

What a great game back in the days. Played it from start till 2015,so many good memories about community,raids,pvp,exploring achievments. Classes system combining 2-3 souls in different ways to create different builds - one of the best still. 36/30 Pyro-warlocks,Support 51 archons builds,Aoe StormCallers and so on. Raids in this game was something incredible. First time progressing actual Hammerkneel Fortress or Infernal Dawn,Endless Eclipse or Gates of Infinity/Planebreaker Bastion/Mount Sharax.... Pvp was pretty good - black garden,Codex and 3-4 others. And then 3 faction Conquest with 100 ppl each faction introduced - boom,so much fun during first months of it... Tears...

[@asickmuse2612]

This took me back to the golden age of MMO

[@NunYurbis]

The golden age of mmo's ended half a decade before Rift was even released.

[@kicoDbz]

you mean 90-2000 ?

[@Goremize]

Yeah, I remember when everyone was playing MMO's. Just don't see that these days. Even them boasting with how many players they have now, it still feels tiny compared to how many people played MMO's a decade ago. So many played Rift, and so many played Warhammer online. Now, no one does

[@BlueShellshock]

@@Goremize MMOs just lack that spark they had. Instead of a few solid MMOs, there's hundreds of these mini-MMOs. You look at Classic WoW, and it's clearly broken in places; it was built with "hey, what if we did THIS" type developers who were new but trying things because they were cool, whereas modern WoW is streamlined with everything quick and organized for optimized progression and balance -- but at the cost of class-unique buffs, more significance placed on your race, item restrictions depending where you are, and class abilities being curbed for balance (are there even any 1 hour cooldown spells anymore?).

[@Saintknick]

I really loved this game, my daughter and I played it every day, we still talk about it, more MMorpgs should allow you the flexibility to modify toons, I played a healing image, man was she powerful. If more people played it I would go back even now

[@darkblue4959]

then go back now, many players returned during pandemic

[@1337-Nathaniel]

I remember playing a Chloromancer out of necessity. Looking back, it was kind of great

[@NERDPotion]

Me : I cannot wait to see his reaction to how souls work to create unique classes! Peon: Souls tutorial vid pops up, "I dont need it" Exit..... Me: Soul Crushed...

[@Necroziz666_]

To be fair even if he did watch the video he probably wouldn't have worked out how to do custom classes. That "tutorial" is horrible as it never mentions anything about how to swap the trees and I've seen people make it all the way up to endgame on several occasions with no idea that swapping trees is even possible.

[@missmurdocko]

Such a shame. I played RIFT back in Beta and even quit WoW for it. It was absolutely amazing at launch. Hands down one of the best MMOs I have ever played. I still have so many fond memories of zone-wide invasions and super intense battlegrounds. So sad to see it run into the ground.

[@GaborSzabo747]

The skill system of this game was the best, ever!

[@bethanymay3056]

Agreed.

[@bvbxiong5791]

absolutely loved it. but then i found WoW Ascension and i'm back in Azeroth.

[@Crobian]

I'm surprised newer games haven't copied it. It was bonkers fun.

[@84drumz]

Aaah Rift. Good old times. Was a fantastic game back then. Still the best MMO when it comes to class variety. Mage tank. Warrior healer.

[@supercal3944]

Mage tank and a warrior healer lol, actually laughed at that part. Kinda cool tho.

[@_Encie]

Peon: "I will make less mmo based content." Peon:

[@Shazoo1997]

You can take the mmo's out of peon, but you can't take peon out of the mmo's

[@wolframsteindl2712]

"less" doesn't mean "none"

[@FatZombie1712T]

Bro being an old sub of this channel, seeing all these mobile version of the mmos that at one point I was hyped for the pc release back in the day is really trippy

[@justinjohnston8923]

literally why mmos are dying, f

[@wanderingraven]

especially when you remember how hyped everyone was for Blade and Soul, and how it actually delivered. And now the actual game is a P2W ghostland (they finally announced UE4 lol)

[@tomasolearcin4071]

let's just all start play it and make it alive again lmao

[@ohno7582]

The problem with mmos is that they are such an absolute time drain compared to a regular game that most people basically pick one and stick with it for years and considering there are much better options it will never be competitive in the marketplace.

[@KrugerFS]

@@ohno7582 'Much better options' is your opinion, I've played most other mmo's, and RIFT is still better in my opinion.

[@axelavex9577]

Thats possible but you have to make A SCHEDULE , ask around at stuff like reddit get together, then All that gathered in a monzh will start together :)

[@Kai0nTheMoon]

@J.D. I'm one of the people who came back in July. No special reason either. I just was thinking about games I used to like and randomly strolled back in. I'm doing the fun Halloween events now.

[@anacronrealz]

You didn't talk about the Best system of the game.. soul talents. So many combinations. Rift was my second best mmorpg after wow.

[@OrganicJKW]

That's because he didn't want the tutorial. 😅

[@jrockwing]

At the time-it WAS the best mmo over WoW in my opinion. It just got ruined with free to play and lower player count and never recovered :/

[@SentinelFury]

Yeah it’s a big shame that the video doesn’t quite showcase the extent of the class customisation :( it was definitely the major selling point of the game for many

[@whiskizyo2067]

yeah dumbass literally missed out on the best most unique system in the game. instant dislike on video from me.

[@lukalalosevic200]

@@whiskizyo2067 I am shocked that he gave this game any pros , they might have an interesting idea , but after putting 12h into a game , I can easily say that game is a complete and utter trash at this moment , combat feels okay ( just okay not good ) , graphics are trash , story is trash , leveling is trash , nothing is good . 2/10 . Doesnt matter what he says when you cant play the game for longer then 2 days even when you are looking for any kind of mmo to just drop your time .

[@grimhellraven1557]

This was my first MMO at launch. I played as Warrior Bahmi, just seeing those woods brings back the fondest of memories. We had a SOLID pvp community back in its golden Age. If you where good, you where actually known by name throughout the entire server and people would seek you out to test their mettle. Guilds where AMAZING back then. The FacTion wars on the pvp servers where fucking LEGEND. We would constantly do raid parties where we would go and decimate people in the enemy faction capital and vice versa. This game will always have a place in my heart. Thanks for this revisit. I found your impressions fair to the highest degree. I truly wish this game where resurrected from its current state, and that strange feeling you can’t explain is the games ability to make you feel at home.

[@bradarmour3532]

When this game first came out it was amazing. The 3rd raid, Hammerknell, to this day, has been by far my favorite MMO Raid in any game. It was a great time.

[@yohaneswi4935]

in the past, i love building my house in Rift. i love the Graphics, makes the lands look magical.

[@skyshatter3633]

I remember the time when Rift released and i was hooked up on the "Rift is the new WoW killer" and i truly believed that. To be honest had some rly good hours in this game years ago

[@spartenvselite]

I miss Camping people with my Rogue trying to gear up for their Myrmidons set. The open world PvP in this game will most likely never be topped when it was in its prime. The drop a flag for the clan to tele to system was amazing. Really hope this game sees some growth again.

[@RudyTheNinja]

I LOVE THIS GAME 😭 NOTHING, *NOTHING* compares to this game Ever since it's downfall, I could NOT find a replacement for it Obviously, Archage is as close as it's going to get, but its also ded :/ Now for the rant :D The way the skills work is INSANE so many combinations AND YOU CAN SAVE AND SWITCH TO DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS Like from a warlock to a healer (or something like that, its been a long time ok) THE LIFE SKILLS I *SPENT* (not wasted) soooooo much time just doing things like fishing, leatherwork, and crafting fun trinkets with the tailor I remember always giving myself a 2% mv spd boost and always being the fastest around ;v; I wasn't around for its downfall, but man was it fun while there were a lot of people The new player zones were one of my favorites to see active, peopling were always running around and talking Everyone would usually be chilling at that shipyard town trying to catch that one fish for the daily The PvE and PvP were a lot of fun as well, the way they implemented it was so seamless You queue up, you keep playing, and within 5 mins you would get a yes/no popup to join Might update this if I remember more xD

[@Shazoo1997]

You could make pretty cool combinations in ESO aswell. Like Sorcerer Ranger. Try it, you might like it.

[@Goremize]

@@Shazoo1997 Only problem with ESO is it sort of died on release. people loved Rift in beta and that love stayed for a very long time

[@xAeternax]

Rist was really cool with their class-system. Also THE best healing system for one of the classes whereas healing was based off of the damage you did. The most fun I"ve ever had healing.

[@jesterokjones4954]

You could do that with a Monk in WoW too, not as viable as in this game, but still pretty cool.

[@meetboy352]

The amount of nostalgia I got from this video omg. Rift used to be my go to back in the day

[@lilWhiteEmo]

this makes me really sad seeing the state this game is in atm dude there was so much pvp in this game there was battles of 100s of people and the q time for pvp for all lvls was really fast and now it's just dead and that makes me sad I had a lot of fun in this game

[@Amabar]

That's what I remember most about this game, the massive amounts of pvp.

[@iilluminumooconfirmed1676]

I love how Peon never reviews his sponsorships because he knows how bad they are xD

[@FabricateFrog]

@Ryan John its called paying bills not being a shill. Im guessing you live in moms basement with 0 adult responsibilities.

[@Applejack6718]

Hey I'm not gunna fault anybody for paying them bills.

[@Drothen-]

hes a pathetic sellout, he has no standards he just says Yes to money, he will attempt to sell child organs if it get him paid. no wonder hes trying to "find himself", he is lost.

[@lukalalosevic200]

@@Drothen- ye imagine watching his content for free ... hypocrite , are you giving him anything on patrion or anywhere ? Ofc not , you probably still sleep until your mom wakes you up .

[@paulgotik]

@Ryan John To be honest that mobile game is super popular in Korea. It's in the top mobile games played right now. I've never played but to be so popular it must be a reasonable game

[@fudwgemar]

Rift 2021 First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?" while in the side recommended videos is "death of a game Rift" its just too funny

[@moiracroft4944]

I'm so sad this game died. This was 99% of my teen years :(

[@jasonivy28]

I miss my pc 😢. Brought back a ton of awesome memories from this one. I wish more games had this depth of progression and builds

[@bethanymay3056]

Me, too! Rift was such an awesome game.

[@JesseKerson]

That was one of my favorite parts about Rift, you didn't feel like you needed to quest or raid you could just get lost running around killing world mobs and doing rifts.

[@benkle3000]

Thanks this vid gave me some big nostalgia. I spent a big chunk of my early twenties playing this game, raiding and exploring the world. Good times.

[@attila2246]

Hurt me a bit seeing you breeze through hammerknell in about 10 minutes when it took weeks of progression to get akylios and only ended up killing him about 5 times. Fun times raiding that summer.

[@Salamol07]

Right?! Some of my best MMO memories are in Rift, most of them revolve around the raiding and I've not experienced anything like it since. Hammerknell and later the 10-man stuff when our population dropped.

[@F3ARxTH3xB3AST]

out of curiosity what guild were you in/server did you play on at the time? if you remember

[@attila2246]

@@F3ARxTH3xB3AST I don't remember the guild name. I checked my old email account though and I believe I was mostly on Kaleida. I also spent some time on Amardis.

[@Crobian]

@@Salamol07 Damn I never tried Hammerknell, I hella enjoyed the PVP and Dungeons I tried before I quit though :(.

[@Mathew2190]

I still love this game and still play it from time to time. Rift is one of the few games I've played that has a Support spot in a group and has an actual Bard that is support!

[@Dolf9271986]

Come back everyone! This game is so fuckin good! It can't die, it just can't, it's way too good. Don't let it die!

[@xaviergrebnijw4325]

Is warlord warrior still a good tank? I want to hop back in!

[@jamesd7786]

Played RIFT from release to about 2014 - at its prime it was genuinely the most fun in any MMO i've ever played. Specifically the Hammerknell era was so good for progression for guilds from softcore (clearing 2-3 bosses) all the way up to the hardcore doing all 11 bosses a week. I'm so sad the game pretty much started dying a slow death when it went F2P

[@Maourin]

the game is dead, literally. this is coming from someone that still plays the game, dont waste your time.

[@TreemanMikeheals]

What keeps you playin?

[@Maourin]

@@TreemanMikeheals mostly the guild that im in, we cant decided on a game to move on to and none of them have a system as cool as Rift's when in comes to classes and builds. though we mostly login once or twice a week to do raids and catch up.

[@roroo3670]

@ElderMaOu Ashes of creation will have similar class system i think. :) But you still have to wait :)

[@GangBlud]

@@Maourin oldschool runescape?

[@Koitsuba]

So how is the game "literally" dead if there's an entire guild (and more) playing it..?

[@eddielockhart7768]

This was my first MMORPG played from Alpha to Beta to Release. Was completely addicted and consume when it released. Sadly, this game became of the PERFECT example of "Micro-Transanctions Gone Wrong". The fact you have to actually buy bag space with actual RL money, the ability to buy Raid Level Gear with RL money, and other MicroTransanctions available to players killed this game.

[@jeffsantos93]

Next video on playlist: Death of a game: Rift Welp...

[@darkblue4959]

Rift is still alive and has some updates coming, so what's up?

[@jesperburns]

Wrong channel ;)

[@VS666]

I remember buying this game at gamestop many years ago. I played it again recently and it actually wasnt that bad. it is cozy tho. I have a screenshot of my healer that reminded me of that I came across recently.

[@Str8UpFax]

Whenever I hear “mobile” in an mmo ad I immediately stop listening

[@feldmuis]

mash the right arrow key lol

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

install the chrome addon sponsor block. this addon literally changed youtube for me. it's so much better.

[@OxMan95]

Try “ warhammer odyssey “ and you will change your mind

[@Frugg]

Harth Alneamy no

[@Jesse__H]

Whenever I hear "ad" I just start tapping on the right side of my phone until it's over 🤷‍♂️

[@Opharg]

13:50 That is a raid boss, in fact the whole scenario is lfr like rotating wings. I remember spending hours in there, trying to reach 1k hit, not even knowing if that would work. Fun fact: on that boss there is a safespot in the front left where no aoe hits you. I remember playing it so much, when I couldn't afford wow because I was too young. I played a ton of open world content from 2.8(?) onwards. I had the most fun when Nightmare Rifts were released, just endlessly grinding them either on my 2-button-Shaman (honestly who ever designed the macro system was insane) or tanking them to wave 100+. I know there was an instanced Rift system, but I never really joined a guild, except once, but I was hopelessly lost in the game, so I felt uncomfortable and left. I played so much in that patch, that I'm pretty sure I reached open world (pre-raid?) BiS, including the thingy that goes into the bottom slot on your character pane, that cost currency cap. I even spammed the hard queueable dungeons, though I was almost definitely underperforming on the damage side, which didn't make them as much fun. I still don't know how I could have reached 1k hit, before a quest was introduced that apparently gave an insane 350(?) hit weapon. I loved having to put on 10+ buffs every hour because I kept some runes and items that would give me like 2-20 of a stat and 2-button-Shaman had so many buffs. Also, I was one of the first, if not the first to pull the legendary crab mount out of a box, I think.

[@CssHDmonster]

man, rift, so much potential, so much wasted, my fav pvp on launch

[@cibetka76]

So sad this game ended the way it did. It was such happy, fun game and so advanced and polished considering it was small company such as Trion and not some of the big companies behind it. Some of their concepts such as wardrobe, mentoring system etc were visionary. I SO wish some big company would take over and keep developing the game. I would return instantly.

[@axelavex9577]

Yea so great ideas and also execution, Rifts, wandering monsters(conquesting you). That was a true MMO not some facbook fake wow IMO where you sit alone in your basement sending missions (ofc I know bout raids duh)

[@zorbathut]

For what it's worth, I worked on Rift and was the guy who proposed the basic outline of the wardrobe system . . . . . . and we stole it wholesale from DC Universe Online. They get the credit for that one. :) (But yeah I have no idea why other games aren't using the same system. We stole it because it was great, and it's still great, and now it's like a decade old, so why isn't it universal?)

[@cibetka76]

@@zorbathut Well thank you for your work and stealing good ideas :) I am a life long gamer now in my mid 40s, former WoW die hard addict and veteran of many many MMOs, but Rift was my happy game for 5 years. Thank you for it, and for friends and memories I still carry from those times.

[@zorbathut]

@@cibetka76 You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it - stories like yours are why I work in the game industry :)

[@CharlesGarwood]

I remember playing this game back in launch, it was so fun and the talent system is probably still the best from any mmo. RIP

[@billytucker9763]

I do miss old trion. I got to chat and get to know the developers for both rift and trion. Their involvement with the community was just unlike any other to me.

[@drago939393]

I remember this being touted as a WoW killer. Back in 2011, I could see it! shame it didn't get good support after.

[@W.M.1]

I played Rift for years since launch, back when it was sub-based. It was epic and the raids were as good as Wow's. Many of its features were unique and surpassed Wow even. The game went downhill when it went freemium. I made some awesome memories though.

[@mytechnique2833]

me too mate - ive always looked back at the times on RIFT with very fond memories

[@Goremize]

Its honestly good to see all the old Rift players here, all of us who played the game under Trion before they messed up. Before the game went F2P and they made it P2W with paid for equipment slots.

[@smit.shahYT]

Man this brings back memories. When I first started rift all the way back when it launched, I had never played an online game let alone an mmorpg. After coming across a lot of helpful people and a year later. I had my own stacked guild, we were doing 20 man shard first raids. Some of the best time I have ever had, very hard to explain but those were some lifetime memories. I quit when I realised how much time I was spending in the game ignoring real life issues. But Man If I had to do it again I would not change a thing.

[@axxurge]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Lord of the Rings Online, I started playing it a few days ago and I was really impressed by how well it played. Standing Stones, the publisher I believe, is fairly aggressive on the monetization side, but I got into a really nice Kinship (the LOTRO guild system) and I'm enjoying it alot. Thanks again for the great content Peon !

[@bluestar4ever1]

Killing Akylios , last boss in hammerknell, felt soo good back then, and getting legendary weapon from there was actually one of the best feeling i had in mmo's. And the legendary was actually a legendary feellike...

[@themrnails]

Not unless I missed it, but I'm surprised you didn't show off the talent tree. The talent trees were great in this game and being able to do all roles from all classes is fantastic. Rift

[@lava1rain]

Elder Scrolls attempt at letting every class play every roll is nowhere near as good as how Rift did it.

[@Li0nMa5K]

Don't let your dreams be dreams! XD I love the vibe of RIFT though, it is so nostalgic and heartwarming. Furthermore, bro I am looking forward to your next vlog videos! Also, tell us more about the dating scene in Thailand, how is it?

[@404waenotfound]

The class system is just nutty and I love it. A lot more MMOs could use a big slice of Rift's class system, most MMOs have gotten a bit lazy when it comes to their classes

[@DaenaMichelle]

So many memories... it's so sad, if it had a better publisher it would still be alive and I'd still be playing it I keep you in my heart, Rift, forever will

[@Silent.Program]

I played Rift a couple of years ago around the time when the nightmare tide expansion came out. The different options of playing my mage were a lot of fun. Especially the tank spec and the DPS-healing (both as a mage) were really great and something pretty much impossible in other games. What I did not like so much were the grindyness of the game. Sometimes my guildmates took pity on me and showed me were those stupid little artefacts from the zone event were, because I could not see them for the life of me. But there were a lot of customization options and gimmicks you could actually use to have fun with your friends. I will never forget scarring the shit out of our healer with one of these huge Halloween transmutations. Good times... I am really hoping there will be a game that lets you choose how you want to play and not only which role.

[@DuckMastah07]

Rift mechanic was cool but the best feature was how customizable the base class was and how it kinda broke the tank/dps/heal triad with combo builds.

[@FilthyRich247]

PvP used to be really fun in this game due to the fact that you could spec into 3 different souls at any given time. The instant adventures would put you into a random raid group in the open world, where you'd then run into another friendly raid group doing the same quests as yourself, then all of a sudden you'd come across an enemy raid group and it'd kick off. That and world bosses used to be where the open world PvP pretty much happened. Seeing HK again hit me in the nostalgia. The game died during their Nightmare Tide expansion, they essentially made an earring slot which you had to pay to unlock, which made the game P2W. They then made it F2P thinking that was a decent business model to get more potential customers to buy these slots. Trion messed up. I think I was one of the few who stuck around doing the world bosses until there wasn't enough people available to kill them. That was pretty much when I quit. It's a shame really, as the game itself was good.

[@Goremize]

Oh yeah I remember that slot! Oh man SO many people quit the game with that one. Trion had a gem of a game, and they tried to milk it way to hard and did not focus on it enough, I remember them making other games at the time too instead of just focusing on Rift.

[@nndn-wc6ko]

LOVED RIFT back when it released. man... haven't thought about it since then. the best thing about RIFT was the classes. no idea what it's like now (peon didn't watch the tutorial vid lmao) but the way you construct your class within the archetype is the key to the awesome.

[@NOxHYPE]

This was the game that had me hooked back in the day lol

[@revenous167]

Hammerknel fortress was a raid in the original release of the game. Was regarded as one of the best raids of the game back then.

[@marijn1772]

10 years already. Played it only few weeks still got some nice Nostalgia feels.

[@axelavex9577]

I agree its much better than almost any other game in this regard.

[@TheBTRGarage]

I actually really enjoyed this game for quite a while after it came out. Lots of fun! And damn, 10 years old now :o

[@paulmasters8666]

Two things where really good about this game, you picked a class then could make your character by picking 3 trees from i think 9, so it's really the ultimate hybrid and of course the rift system was epic, small rifts all over the zone if left unchecked became bigger and bigger until a massive world event was triggered it was really cool, and you are right greed killed this game...

[@eliotness107]

The best thing about this MMO was for me the BARD class. Nowhere else can i play a Bard like this. Its so fun!

[@gortex123]

I still remember playing this game, had such a great time in it, getting a beta invite from their halloween copetition was pretty fun. But the game did great in many points in my opinion, the way they did achievements was pretty good, having it reward currency you could use on different things made it a lot more motivating to do them. And well, the main thing, the rifts themselves was just an amazing feature to do where I had a lot of fun, and just seeing the rifts for the first time, seeing their animation when you opened them was really cool. I miss this time in Rift quite a lot honestly. Their class system is also really good with having the different classes having several sub-classes where you could create many types of playstyles and new "classes" from them, another really fun thing about rift was the dungeons, they were pretty fun to do and even more fun when it comes to group composition since in Rift, you have the regular Tank, DPS and healer role, but you also have a designated Support role which was fantastic to have in an MMO. Another thing I really loved about Rift, which is something ALL mmo games should do, is that when you are a caster, either dps or healer etc, then your weapon is an actual part of the animation when you are casting spell because it just makes it so much cooler when you are actually using your weapons when casting your spells. I'm still pretty dissapointed that this is not something we have in WoW, I would have loved to see this in WoW too, so tired of MMO games where all the casters just run around with their weapons on their back all the time and never actually using them when casting spells.

[@bradmills713]

The rifts used to grow too if left unattended and would take over entire zones. But the talent trees were the best of any MMO past or present IMO.

[@zeroxthree568]

I used to love rift back when it was still subscription based, since it went free to play it ust felt all fucky.. Hella nostalgia

[@blakekford]

This game should be the standard that all MMO's look to in regard to class building. Being able to mix skills/passives from 3 separate classes on a micro level offers the most unique and diverse class system ever. I loved it and miss playing this game dearly. I would happily play again if it had a decent playerbase.

[@bivanco9577]

From the start, you said, "there's not to many mmo's... " that aren't showing their age. I keep crossing my fingers for Anarchy Online to revamp character creation models; they revamped world graphics by leaps. I can't cope with how characters look though. Side note, just subscribed; older gamer 50+ For a couple years, been enjoying your videos. Keep it up.

[@mr.m9979]

Holy shit. Anarchy Online. I haven't heard anyone mention that game in well over a decade.

[@jeffreyraia5804]

Is Anarchy Online still around? Man I miss that game.

[@HeffeFrank]

This was one of those games I used to return to once in awhile, but once PvP queues died out that was the end for me

[@oldschoolrivethead]

I played Rift at launch and the faction capital was absolutely packed with players. It's very strange to see it completely empty, my brain is inserting "ghosts" of what it used to look like. Maybe there's a level-cap capital somewhere where you can still see a bunch of players running around? Apparently the world has at least 3 continents now, at launch there was only 1.

[@iLurtz]

i played this when it first came out, was alot of fun. might give it another try. Cheers Peon

[@Heakz]

Back during the original mmo goldrush, Rift absolutely ruled when anything except not life wasn't good enough; comparing it to how it is now says more about the way the genre went rather than Rift itself. It may be dead now, but I was glad to be one of the few who got to enjoy it when it wasn't.

[@davidbateleur8357]

LazyPeon: "I didnt realise this game even had a wardrobe system...." Rift Players: "U do realise that Rift was literally the first MMO to have a wardrobe system!?!?"

[@galic711]

I remember this was my WoW killer back in the day. Sadly they couldn't keep up the pace of enhancements and polish....the class's and rift's made this game so fun to play

[@nfc14g]

"Hope you all had a successful day". Me lying in bed watching KZbin at 1pm. Oof 😅

[@lyxiagaming]

This game was so great. I met and played with many wonderful people. Rift invasions could spawn anywhere in the open world with bosses appearing. It has a cosmetic/transmog system better than any other mmo. With the wide variety of class specialisations, your single character could be anything you wanted it to be. It had so much potential to be one of the long-time great mmos of today. Unfortunately, no new content has been added in the last 4 years.

[@pcwtkmp]

I was just thinking about this game when watching your “State of the MMO Genre” video.... can’t believe it’s still around!!!