Riftancing

TN has heard rumours that Blizzard, makers of World of Warcraft and Trion makers of Rift are jointly testing out a technology termed Rifitancing^TM.

This is how it seems to work – level caped players with both WoW and Rift Accounts complete an instance based quest chain. When this has been completed in both chains and players gain access to a new instances / Rifts with drops of Telarothian armour. On gaining a full armour set (ranked at 431 I WoW not sure on the Rift side) and have found the Easter egg portal / rifts they gain the transportal ability, which means they can use Portals / Rifts to:

JUMP BETWEEN GAMES!

Yes playing Rift in WoW and WoW in Rift. TN has also heard that a joint press release will come out soon, extracts that have appeared on the internet seem to suggest that the companies have come the joint view that ‘basically these are the same game’ and ‘why make players choose’. We hear that there are a number of talent tree issues that need to be sorted out but these might be solved through specific racial i.e. new races added to each game in the next major expansion.

This seems a good idea, but why pay for two subscriptions and boxes, my personal view is that they should off a discount package for both games. Oh and I'm sure they got the name from the on going joke about re-naming The Instance podcast, so, nice idea but a bit of a rip off.

 

Comments

[Jim]

1.

Bit late but nice try ;)

[Edward Castronova]

2.

The two companies are also going to implement a cross-game spellchecking facility. ;>

[Lailokken]

3.

LOL @ Edward

[Ren Reynolds]

4.

>> The two companies are also going to implement a cross-game spellchecking facility. ;>

Sadly there is not techmolgly advanced enough to correct my spelling.