Trying out the Rift beta!

[farseer_lolotea]

It's still very crashy, and getting signed in is a chore:  It took me a while before I could even get to my character creation screen, then it took me a while before I could sign in on said character, and then the server went kaput while I was actually playing. Hopefully, this will change before it goes live

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[weiila]

I get so amused about how everytime a new MMO comes out, people want to claim it's the one that's going to kill WoW. At this point, the only thing that can kill WoW is probably WoW itself.

[farseer_lolotea]

Yeah, WoW won't die until it collapses under its own weight and causes a massive sinkhole of wank in the process.  How many competitors it has is irrelevant; it also has loyalists.

Admittedly, Trion did put themselves in a tough position when they openly flung down a gauntlet to Blizzard.  They're going to have to be competitive and keep trying to show up WoW at every turn now.  The main difference I see is that, from what I saw, I think they can handle it-not in the sense of killing WoW, but in the sense of not getting steamrolled by it.

It should be noted that one edge they appear to have is that all accounts will be able to access both US and EU servers.