Before max level forget queuing up for a warfront or dungeon it will never pop.

Auction House however will be from your "home" shard.On the other hand, RIFT's world has increased considerably since the chocolate times, players are dispersed and the main focus for many also is level cap content thus another reason why lower zones seem empty. However, which of those games had received more content or expansions during its life?

And their answer to people who wanted an older version of the game is a shitty server that's limited time and just the current client with stuff removed. Of course a long long time Bard player, rift gets up vote for having bards.It is free to log on and try so why not. One of the reasons why is it's declining population. Don't know if my noobish experiences help, but I hope you find the answer you seek either way. For example, Tera's population is tired of Elins, and only female classes with a lack of actual content since the last lvl cap and only cash shop updates. The best part IMO is the levelling up experience through questing (despite the lack of people), and the worst by a long shot is the insane end game grinds.I prefer guild wars 2. For some reason not even knowing about Prime server announcement decided to give it a try back. The first worship the higher gods of Telara, among the representatives there are high elves, dwarves and the race of Northerner Mathosians.The Defiant, on the contrary, does not adhere to any religion because of historical and cultural reasons or because of personal choice.

That was a lie.

I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people I have run into. In the world of the game - Telara - there is a conflict between two factions: the Guardians and the Defiant. It’s actually informative instead of the typical shit show people post on this subreddit.Its extremely dead. Just enjoy the journey at your pace.I've only been playing about two months or so, but I notice a fairly good number of players on many of the shards I play, even in the middle of the night (I have terrible insomnia and am hooked on Rift lol). Top MMOs in 2020. While others only add a few gender lock classes or housing, Rift had 2 expansions since going F2P after Storm Legion and yet they are adding more content for this year as stated in their producer's letter. I think they would have done better off if they kept the traditional subscription model, and not had a pay to win shop. In addition to the division into races, players can choose from five classes: Warrior, Cleric, Rogue, Mage or Primalis. You don't need to have all souls, or even pay for anything to enjoy the game. RIFT is ranked #50 out of 129 tracked MMOs for player populations. It is unequivocally declining.It is, at it's core, a very good game, but successive bad decisions by Trion with an underlying theme of milking the whales, have turned it into a semi-P2gamlbe2W skin for a casino. total player base of 490,769. If you shard hop, even in TB, you see hardly anyone around and the levelling zones would be empty. I played EQ1, WoW, SWG (admittedly before NGE), Vanguard, EVE, and a number of others. Previously known as Rift: Planes of Telara and just as Heroes of Telara, it's free-to-play MMORPG in a fantasy setting.In the world of the game - Telara - there is a conflict between two factions: the Guardians and the Defiant. On all but the most populated WOW servers would see just about as many people in Tempest bay as I would Orgrimmar.Now I have only been playing a few days but I am having fun learning the game again. Rise up and take the war to Crucia! Especially when they made the optimal 1-60 method IA spamming which I barely even see anyone in these days.And on the EU side only time I see chat active is when it's absolute peak time.

These games are suffering the same issues right now, population, content issues, playerbase fatigue, etc. I logged on after work yesterday and popped IA queue and low and behold it was a 20 man raid in that IA. :)The game died for me when they went free to play and were saying it would never be pay to win. The game feels -- and maybe is -- dead.However, I still think you can find a lot of friendly guilds that'll fog that emptiness. The world has gotten too large for any number of people to be seen questing or exploring, however.Let's not pretend the reason we don't see people out in the world is because "it's too large".

(It'll count both EU and NA players)Thank you for this post!

Rift had a healthy population when it went F2P in SL, but the population has trended down ever since, based on my estimation.

One thing I always loved about Rift is the class system. Chat is quite active in NA, of course it will depend of the hours. We estimate that 9,325 people play per day, with a This is from observing chat, AH trading, guild raid achievement, leaderboard tables, counting players online etc.

It also seems that Trion is making future decisions to make this more severe with their prime server bullshit.

I dropped and moved on to other MMO's and floated around. Honestly you're better off downloading guild wars 2 if you're looking for a fun, very active, different than WoW mmorpg.Rift is as dead as any MMO I have ever played.