Trion Releases Dev Video About Rift's New Three Faction PvP

Written by: QuintLyn (Twitter @QuintLyn - Google+) | May 24, 2012 12:29 pm

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We all know the Trion team has been pretty quiet for a long while. But now they’re back with all new, three-faction PvP action for RIFT and the team is pretty excited about it.

To be honest, so are we.

This three-faction PvP will take place in the high-level zone of Stillmore. The zone has been restructured to be an open area for the three-faction battle royale.

Trion did not add a new faction to go along with the Guardians and the Defiant. Instead, there are three completely different sides that players can choose to be part of. These factions represent the choices an Ascended must make regarding the future of Talara.

Just to let you guys know. I’ve already hopped back into RIFT because I can’t wait to try this out. It looks pretty promising and I hope it’s what PvP players have been asking for.

So to hear more about Conquest from the developers themselves, take a peek at the developer video above.

Trion Releases Dev Video About Rift's New Three Faction PvP

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http://twitter.com/moosewithaj john nuyen

People still play rift?
- http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
  
  I was thinking the same thing, GW2 pvp is the game that gunna attract pple, not a game with horrible pvp and adding a 3rd faction wont balance it. I think Trion finally ran outta ideas.
  - http://twitter.com/phant35 phant
    
    gw2 pvp was overwhelming disappointing – I got bored with the beta after just a couple of hrs (this from a game ive been waiting for a longtime) - world pvp is just standing there afk to break down gates/walls – or just massive spamfest with no real skill .. the 2 pvp “battlegrounds” is so melee focused with all the LOS features and anyone with any skill can dodge their way around the map with 2+ people chasing them
    - Spammerbam
      
      Did you explore other options in WvW? There’s many things you can do to contribute like build siege weapons to break down the gates much faster, defend/attack supply lines, flanking, etc. It’s just that everyone was new to the game and WvW, that very few strategies were being implemented.
      I had a totally different experience in the beta, where I was pvping more often than breaking down gates.
      If you wanted to really test your skills, you should’ve joined the structured PvP, where skills do matter and everything is balanced. From my point-of-view, the GW2 (and GW1) skill-base system is the most complex of all the MMOs I’ve seen. It may seem simple at first, but you’ll be surprised how far it goes.
      - http://twitter.com/phant35 phant
        
        Yes I spent most of my time in gw2 beta in WvW cause lets face it the pve was nothing new - we were using seige weapons/ cutting off their supply / split pushes – didnt make it any more appealing.. to each their own .. already paid for the game so will play my character to 80
      - http://profile.yahoo.com/ADEN6X6TYCORSSGEHKWMBIHDHY Eclipse
        
        Good luck. Hope as you get more experience in WvW you see that it is really fun.
        
        Pro tip: 3 rams bring down a gate in less than a minute. 2 rams probably like a minute 30. The reason why it took so long during the beta was because people either didn’t have one, or only had one.
        
        Expect 2-3 rams to become the norm especially for blitzkrieg attacks.
  - http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
    
    When I found out Rift was down to 250k subs, this just now stinks of desperation.
    - ChristopherMitchell1
      
      I love when people say that like its a bad thing haha! Rift isn’t ‘down’ to 250k subs it has had a stable community for ages and Trion has been nothing but accommodation to it’s players. Of course, I haven’t been one of those people but other things came up and I never went back, but you can’t deny that the game was decent and apparently still going strong.
http://www.facebook.com/tony.golightly Tony Golightly

not gonna lie… this might just make me resub to RIFT for a little bit, sounds awesome.
- http://twitter.com/NuDimon Ruben Hanssen
  
  Was thinking the same thing…
  - http://twitter.com/phant35 phant
    
    I just resubbed to check this out – from gw2 beta i was
    overwhelming disappointed – and no other game can keep up with the rate of content
http://www.facebook.com/tony.golightly Tony Golightly

people still play *insert whatever game you actually play here*?
- http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
  
  Star Wars Galaxies?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Filip-Buhov/1379207683 Filip Buhov

short answer : NO.

Just the fact that they are clearly scratching their entire lore just to basicly copy 90% of the 3 faction pvp system from other games , rly makes them drop down in the shamelss mud in my eyes. So sad Trion have no balls left
- http://www.facebook.com/nathan.vani Nathan Vani
  
  haha yes ! let’s crucify them for trying things new with their game, and for trying to adapt a wonderful three-faction system that has been acclaimed in games such as DaOC and hasn’t even been tried to be adapted in any recent AAA MMO !
  
  /sarcasm and seriously I bet you don’t know jack about Rift Lore and I doubt many people care so don’t pretend like you do
  - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
    
    Adding a 3rd faction isn’t something new, its Trion trying to cover up what was there and this just makes it worse, Only one game has 3 faction PvP and thats GW2. this may attract pple for alittle bit, but will die off not to long from now.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/Z36GPOU3Q2QIQYBIDVNQAVGNGE Raul
      
      TSW has 3 faction PVP
      Elder Scroll Will also have it
      Battle for Dominus will Have 3 faction PVP.
      The Repopulation will have it as well.
      
      3 faction PVP does not look like it will die off anytime soon.
      - Sharuko
        
        Dominus is canceled and you forgot the most important game with 3 faction PvP and that is PlanetSide 2 which is solely based around that concept.
    - http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
      
      and of course, GW2 was not the first to have 3 faction PVP. While WvW is fun, it really breaks the immersion in the GW2 world.
    - http://www.facebook.com/richard.peppers Richard Peppers
      
      So Trion gives people what they ask for and people get upset? wtf? People:”Trion, please give us 3 faction pvp.”
      Trion: “O.k.”
      People: “Trion, you p.o.s. how could you!?”
  - http://www.facebook.com/richard.peppers Richard Peppers
    
    Exactly. I was about to write this, how they hell is this sliver not a part of rift lore? right? Why does rift get all this teenage hate. They act like rift stole their puppy or something. If you don’t like it move on losers stop wasting everyone’s time with your uneducated troll posts.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Filip-Buhov/1379207683 Filip Buhov
    
    Being a good game developer is sticking to what your game is in soul. Rift lore has some big open doors in it , but for the most it’s oriented around the blue/red factions. Every single lvl-ing zome is like that , capitals and everything. Rift just pulled the short straw , just like TERA did for EU and US players. Devs from gw2 state that they took notes form other games with 1v1v1 pvp. Rift is just riding the hype train , no deny that is just being blind or having fanboy problems.
    - ChristopherMitchell1
      
      LOL! You talk about lore but call them the blue/red factions and guess what… GW2 has NO lore for it’s WvWvW, just that you fight in the mists to fight off invaders from other world’s which has literally no place in GW lore and I am king of GW lore and enjoy GW2 WvW. I can’t wait for GW2 but what you said Rift did is exactly what GW2 did lol! And Rift actually has alternate dimensions in their lore so GW2′s wvw lore would actually fit just fine in Rift’s lore. L2Lore nerd >.>
QSatu

Isn’t Rift one of those games where gear> skill? Then no matter how many factions they put against each other it will be bad pvp.
- http://twitter.com/SaintKristopher Kristopher
  
  Rift has ben out for a long time now so if you dont have high end gear its time to grind it out bub, lol peace.
- http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
  
  Yes Qsatu, its the same as WoW PvP, but Rift’s PvP has been bad since the game launched adding a 3rd faction wont fix anything. This is just something that will bring pple small amount of pple in for maybe a month or 2 than they leave.
  - ChristopherMitchell1
    
    I actually preferred Rift’s pvp to WoWs but it’s all preference anyways. But the gear grind is the same which is unfortunate
http://www.facebook.com/toph1980 Christopher Fischer

Personally I’m not going back to Rift. But nice to see Trion making progress.
David Alcon

If PvP gear was also standardized, then a lot of players would not even be on the fence about this.
http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm

Doubled Post
http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm

Doesn’t seem that great to me, Oh we added a 3rd Faction and changed the Lore (never knew the game add any, it must be pretty awful). PvP will prbly be the same unbalance and garbage like it has always been.
- http://www.facebook.com/richard.peppers Richard Peppers
  
  What lore did they change? Clearly your up on your Rift knowledge.
http://twitter.com/lSeKToRl Asif

Nothing can salvage rift.
- ChristopherMitchell1
  
  Who said it was broken? it still has a large profitably community that’s stable. I stopped playing but there are crazy amounts of people that still do and I’m even considering going back. So I ask, why does it even need salvaging?
  - http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
    
    Looks like the Rift community numbers are really dropping. Not sure if players who left SWTOR will go back to Rift. Like me, I think they are waiting for GW2.
    - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
      
      I think so too
    - ChristopherMitchell1
      
      Oh so you know what the community numbers were a couple months ago and know them now and have seen a drop? Then this is a case of conflicting evidence then sense all that I have seen is that the populations has been steady/stable, not much droppage has occured so not really sure what you are talking about.
- Justin Bania
  
  Thank you for your completely constructive comment. My view on the game has been changed now because of the depth of your arguments.
http://twitter.com/ItsatrapLOL KB

Gotta admire those Trion guys for keeping their nose to the grindstone and pushing content out at breakneck speed.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=219706704 John Francis Kronenwetter

“We all know the Trion team has been pretty quiet for a long while.” Really? What makes you say that? They’ve been constantly putting out content and in constant communication with customers since launch.
- http://quintlyn.com/ QuintLyn Bowers
  
  Compared to how vocal they were at launch, they went very quiet. But now we know why.
http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

Wow, didnt realize Rift was down to 250k subs.
- http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
  
  I wouldn’t expect them to be that low maybe 300k – 350k, but it be great if Trion actually released numbers quarterly like every other company does.
  - Sharuko
    
    Private companies don’t have to. Rift was a blazing success for a random unknown company that was unheard or until late 2010. Rift made $100 million in revenue in 2011.
    - http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
      
      Yeah I was shocked, the charts I’m looking at shows Rift went from 600k subs in 2011 to below 250k now. Seem like a really good game, just lost my interest.
      
      I am still active in WoW, tried Rift until level 20. Left Rift and waited for SWTOR. Still active in WoW, left SWTOR and now waiting for GW2. Looks long term will be WoW and GW2.
      - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
        
        Im currently playing WoW & TERA, but wont be doing any end-game in TERA once I hit 60 i will prbly stop like I did in SWTOR.
http://profile.yahoo.com/YMH7VXLQXQQDVD2K6LBLE7PLA4 Andreas

Hi all

I just saw the reaction on the gamebreaker trailer about trion’s 3 faction pvp. So much hate. They stole it from GW2. The PvP in Rift is shit anyway…..
I was like????? WTF!!!!
Sorry but you can’t blame trion for implementing this. Trion was always a company that was trying to improve their game and if they see something that works or player want they try to implement it. I don’t think you can name one mmo company that works harder and interacts more with the community then Trion. Shure they have a huge problem to balance pvp (with that many trees no wonder). But i don’t get the hate against Rift. They try to improve their game and if they see something works in other games they copy it. What is the problem about that? Wow did it all the time and all other mmo’s that want to be succesfull will also copy what works.

So why all this hate?

Falstaff
- http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
  
  I will explain my view on this if you don’t mind
  
  Rift PvP has always been terrible, unbalanced and very boring. For along time its was very one sided on many servers and they didn’t do anything about it until majority of there player base left, some have come back and some prbly havn’t. The main reason for the hate is almost like the hate for SWTOR now. It was hyped to the max and proclaimed to be like the second coming of MMOs, it even attacked Blizz & WoW and than fell on it face and like myself and many pple we wasted money it on. So ya nothing is wrong with trying to make your game better, but waiting more than a year to fix or change anything is pretty stupid if you ask me (honest opinion).
  
  Honestly in my opinion Rift is in the same situtation as SWTOR, its a sinking ship and wont recover it to far under the water to be saved (if you put it in that perspective), Also even if Trion trys to release an Expansion for Rift it wont help the game, pple may say they wanna try it, but they will prbly think twice. I really thought SWTOR would of been a hit and successfull I bought 2 Collector’s Editions and I was wrong big time 300 bucks down the drain .
  
  Blizzard maybe copy an idea, but it they do it in there own way, theres nothing wrong with doing something your own kind of way and doing it better, and that what Blizzard does with WoW. Alot of games have copied the LFD model and Blizzard doesn’t complain about it, In the end like I said I believe people are just tired of hearing about Rift and I do think if Trion was smart they would drop to the B2P/F2P cause that would bring in more people and I would defiantly try the game again if it went to that model, cause im not gunna waste more money and still not like it.
  
  Now a days I’m gunna stick to 1 MMO i lost all hope in MMOs these days, to
  much money wasted on failed MMOs and even though I have given them a chance, im not gunna waste my money to try something I disliked
  the first time and that can apply to any game not just mmos.
  
  Well thats about it, it just what my view of the whole situation is and theres nothing wrong with expressing your opinion even though the Internet hates it. Cheers!
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/YMH7VXLQXQQDVD2K6LBLE7PLA4 Andreas
    
    Hi Luke
    
    I totaly don’t mind that you give your opinion. Hope you don’t mind i comment it.
    
    first paragraph of yours.. PvP unbalanced and boring from the begining. Well unbalanced (not even WoW could do it from the start and needed years to balance the treesystem and rifts is more complex) boring (this is always a question of teast). they didn’t do anything (thats not right they tried in each patch) they didn’t succed but you can’t said they weren’t trying. The game was hyped (no the game was nearly on no-once radar befor launch). They attacked Blizz (they didn’t say they wanted to be as big or wow-killer. they just used the name of blizzard in a good context to get people talking about it).
    
    second paragraph. yes rift is loosing and only time will show if they will get subs back. generally no. mmo’s is a impress the players or you wont get a second chance. i agree totaly with you here and sorry that you wast so much mony with swtor
    
    third paragraph: also trion did copie things and made it better. area looting. public events, … and other things they did their touch on it. . why dropping to B2P or F2P trion did 100million in revenue 2011. they are succesfull and will open in aisan too.
    
    forth paragraph i totaly agree with you there, i think i will stay with rift till secret world and then i will see. gw2 i will test anyway.
    
    last yeah i agree people will hate but as long we can say our opinion and try to do it in a nice way. (thanks for your good arguments) we might bring people to keep the hate down
    
    Cheers!
    - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
      
      No Problem everyone has a right to speak there mind Your right no hate is needed.
  - http://twitter.com/NuDimon Ruben Hanssen
    
    Atleast Rift has better PvP then WoW does.
  - http://www.facebook.com/Hard.Candy.Boy Leo Garcia
    
    Rift been hyped to the max?
    hahahahahahahahaahha what the hell r u smoking dude…plz stop making yourself sound even more retarded like it already is.
Sharuko

Rift is doing it right. PvP is actually PvP, you aren’t going to be fighting walls, gates and doors 90% of the time, you aren’t going to be running around fighting random wolves and dragonflies. It isn’t going to be a cat and mouse game and castle hopping where you almost never see the enemy who are most of the time hiding in their safe zones and shooting random arrow carts.

And I like the fact you can see your enemies names, so it doesn’t feel like PvE. I always loved how I knew who the enemy was and you could build relationships even negative ones with people. That is what people want and looks like the Rift devs are doing it right once again, many people could learn from them.
- ChristopherMitchell1
  
  Well you sound quit confident in something that hasn’t really reached a testing phase yet… it sounds like you are using this as way to bash another game but I can’t be sure… I like GW2 wvwvw so sorry that you don’t, let us play Rift together then! lol, seriously thinking about going back now that there is ridiculous amounts of content since I left.
  - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
    
    Sharuko I know you hate GW2 alot, but cmon its prbly the best PvP experience any of us has ever had since Warhammer Online or DAoC. WvWvW is awesome and is one of the main reason Im giving the game a shot and atleast the game lives to good portion of the hype.
    - Kicknpups
      
      Hows Tera coming? I hear there practically giving it away now on Amazon for free? no wait 50% off…Isn’t that a first for an MMO? to go on sale less then 30 days after launch..Enjoying that fail PvP Sharuko? The problem your most likely having is that your Xbox controller batteries died on ya..It’s okay all the great MMO’s have that problem………..
      - Sharuko
        
        Funny you mention that when GW2 went on sale for 30% off in EU before it even launched. Ok let us take your word and judge and MMOs success when it went on sale, the following MMOs didn’t have a sale on Amazon during the first month:
        
        Aion
        Warhammer Online
        AoC
        
        See where I am going. They were all amazing successes. In fact, I think it would be a great idea to give Tera away for free (with monthly subs off course), so people can see that it is the best MMO of 2012.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Ronny-Sunrock/100002737688676 Ronny Sunrock
        
        I think AoC had a really good PvP concept. Best MMORPG sens Acheron’s Call if we only look at the PvP concept. To bad the rest of the game play failed.
      - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
        
        MoP will be best MMO of 2012, but not best game. Best Game will prbly be a console game.
      - http://www.facebook.com/Hard.Candy.Boy Leo Garcia
        
        haaaa another wow fangirl….
        and yes best game will be a console game like it should.
        
        instead been closed minded about it keep it shut and go actualy play an EXCLUSIVE console game they r the best end of story.
      - http://profile.yahoo.com/SMGRLFM4UASOO7QO26HTHBLIOI Shawn
        
        You must be really high if you think Tera is the best MMO of 2012. I mean really high..GW2 has way more to offer than Tera. If you want an Eastern MMO with a Grind and a subscription fee sure pick Tera up, but I ain’t falling for another Aion, no sir.
      - Sharuko
        
        GW2 is not even in the conversation really. It is either MoP or Tera. GW2 is just another game with hype and zero substance. It will be like SWTOR, last for 2-3 months were people praise it and hype it up, and then it dies quickly.
        
        They failed while making it an MMO. It basically feels like Warhammer Online/Rift with no carrots to keep players around.
        
        There is nothing in the game that will keep you around for more than 3 months. Forget Tera you don’t like there, there is no reason to pick GW2 over MoP. None.
      - http://www.facebook.com/Hard.Candy.Boy Leo Garcia
        
        Tera grind ?
        
        Do u even know what the word GRIND means?
        If u dont i suggest u to go play aion-Lineage-silkroad.what the hell r u smoking dude so u can give us some.Let me guess u stoped playing around lvl 10 max lvl 20 and u start bashing the game.The lvling in tera is even faster than swtor.have fun with warhammer 2 oups sry i mean gw2
      - ChristopherMitchell1
        
        lol fail troll is fail
    - ChristopherMitchell1
      
      Um if you are going to comment/address someone by name at least respond to their post >.>
- Spammerbam
  
  Not very surprised to hear this coming from you..
- Justin Bania
  
  I fail to see why, when Sharuko states his/her perfectly valid opinion on siege-style (specifically GW2 it seems) PvP everyone jumps down his/her throat about it. He/She has a perfectly valid opinion. I disagree with it but I hope he/she finds entertainment within his/her game of choice.
  
  Also: WvWvW is a stupid acronym. Every time I see it I say “squigly line” in my head.
http://twitter.com/Thaguf Thaguf

I thought Rift pvp was quite boring.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Ronny-Sunrock/100002737688676 Ronny Sunrock
  
  I agree Rift had some what interesting PvE but there PvP was at best average.
jayremy

Trion is a great company, they just didn’t perhaps pan the market well enough before finishing the game as they should’ve. They lacked in many things at the start and early on that would keep players playing or get players turning their head. The game play is… typical, nothing else to really say. Generic combat MMO #1000, though the class system they made was good, I felt it really didn’t have that openness it should have and the abilities weren’t visually appealing either.

All they had was Rifts on an unknown IP. Honestly I would say comparing Rift to Cataclysm and most of WotLK, Rift is far better as a game after a few months of being launched. Problem is I would’ve at the time never have left WoW for Rift, because it felt too much like “starting a new character in WoW” from a very weak and poor standing.

Being how much a let down it was, I really do love the Trion team working on Rift though, they have been very good active, not price gouging businessmen but game developers they were.

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