Rift is great, and you have no excuse for not playing it.

[Hathen]

Browsed through the site and I noticed this game has a lot of classes. In a lot of the cases I'm having a hard time knowing what the differences even are (EX: Assassin VS Nightblade). I've actually heard a lot of positive things about the game so I might check it out. The only thing I'm not crazy about is how the races all seem to just be humans...though I haven't read enough about the story or lore to know if they're trying to go for a more "realistic" sort of thing.

[D-Rider]

Nah, only two of the six are humans, the Eth on the Defiant side and the Mathosians on the Guardians.  Two flavors of humans, two flavors of elf, and your choice of dwarf or geniespawn. :P

[(Tunnels)]

Bahmi > Every other race

[Daggerstrike]

Made a warrior named Atar. I am digging warrior.

[Ramza]

Hi there.  My name is Daniel.  You might remember me from my years-long stint as the administrator of these boards, when I regularly banned fifteen people a week for crimes like having more numbers than letters in their user names.  I'm here today to talk about MMORPGs, and I have a question to start things off:  what's your favorite MMORPG?  Take your time, I'll wait.

Really?  I had a feeling you'd say that.  What's the thing you like the most about it?

Yeah, that's a pretty good feature, man...or it would be if this was 2007.  But this is 2013.  We've lived longer than the Mayans thought.  It's a brave new world, motherfucker.  And you're playing obsolete garbage.

See, there's a game out there called Rift.  Everything your favorite MMORPG does, it does it better.

Dungeon design?  Better.
World design?  Better.
Class mechanics? Infinitely better.
Casual play?  Better.
Hardcore poopsocking raids?  Better.
Story?  Better.
Visuals?  Better.
Lack of pandas?  Fucking better.
Crafting?  Bett-well, GW2's crafting is probably better, but it's as good as crafting ever gets.

I could go on and on.  Rift is to WoW what WoW was to Everquest: a refined and perfected version of its predecessors.  If you're playing anything else, you're playing something that's second best.

I can hear some of you already.  "B-but you have to p-p-pay a monthly fee and herp and derp and a bloo bloo bloo fdaiud0ufdjkay894y" Look man, you can play the first 20 levels right the fuck now with Rift Lite.  Twenty levels out of sixty for free ain't bad, bro.

And that won't even matter when the next major patch hits, because it's gonna go free to play.  Zero excuse.  Trion is giving you this game, man.

Read more about Rift at the offical website.  And then play it, because it is great...and you deserve greatness.

See, what's too bad about this is that Trion *didn't* pay you. Because that's the best pitch I've heard for this game, and it has me thinking I might start on it.

<3 you Stringer-mayn

[Taelus]

I played for about four hours. Seemed fun, then I remembered that MMOs in this mold reeeeeallly bore me. Great skill system, though.