Rift Podcast 14: Questing with Simon ‘Dead Simon’ Ffinch

by on Oct.04, 2010, under Blog, Podcast

Simon ‘Dead Simon’ Ffinch, Trion’s Senior Design Director. He takes time out of his busy schedule  managing the Content Design Team to talk to us about the Questing system in Rift: Planes of Telara and to let us in on exactly why he’s known as ‘Dead Simon’ and why every dev wants to kill him most in open pvp.

One of the most exciting things he talks about is Reputation questing, which is something people have been curious about.

Some of his main points are summarized below – but he does go into more detail and talk about some other topics in the actual podcast.

  • There are multiple storylines – each faction expresses their own views on events around Telara through their own storyline.
  • Quests will be available in solo, group, and raid difficulty.
  • Souls will be obtainable through Quests – difficulty will vary
  • The new revamp of the starting areas has been designed to draw the player into the story more
  • There are multiple ways for people to stay busy once they reach level cap
  • Away with Access Quests! No plans to have them currently at release.
  • Putting the MM back in MMO: The only instances around are the Dungeons.
  • Guild Quests: What types? How difficult?
  • He also touches on Dynamic Quests, Epic Quests, Daily Quests, Hidden quests, Endgame Content and quite a bit more.

Abi also stops by briefly to say hi, and she and Amary will be joining us next week for a chat.

We will be announcing a competition next week. We hope you enjoy this podcast. All the links are below the cut. Check back towards the end of the week for a rundown on the latest podcast?

Tuesday Sept 28:

1.     Deepstrike Mines background information released. - http://www.riftgame.com/en/world/instances/deepstrike-mines.php

2.     Guild Beta Applications has been started – http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?3774-Beta-Guilds

Wednesday Sept 29:

1.     Name a Soul! Renaming the Chloromancer. – http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?3816-Name-a-Soul-for-Rift!

2.     The polls have reopened! Amary asks the community which faction they want now! – http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?3819-POLL-The-Faction-Divide-Round-Two!

Thursday Sept 30:

1.     Abigale shares some information on Extra Life, a charity some devs are involved with – http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?3865-Extra-Life

2.     The MMO Report did a special segment on Rift this week – http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/707826/The-MMO-Report-Rift-Planes-of-Telara-Preview-Special.html

Friday Oct 1:

1.     Scarlet Gorge Flythrough video – http://www.riftseekers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70

2.     GameTrailers.com released a couple new videos, including how to change your class and customize your character – http://www.gametrailers.com/video/character-rift-planes/705352

3.     In the second instalment, they show an Earth Rift and some “The-class-that-will-formally-be-named-Chloromancer” abilities – http://www.gametrailers.com/video/character-rift-planes/705350

4.     The 13th IRC discussion took place again on Friday. Check out the logs http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Portal:News/IRC_Transcripts/01_October_2010

6.     ZAM released some more information from MIssDoomCookie on the Kelari – http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=23450

7.     Abigale releases some beta info ahead of schedule – http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?3942-Your-Chance-at-Beta

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Written by Arithion

Arithion was insane enough to start the production of The Rift Podcast back in June 2010. Apart from hosting The Rift with Desikis she also writes articles for the site and has a fascination with corgis.


4 Comments for this entry

  • Lowfer
    October 4th, 2010 on 11:13 am

    Excellent Podcast ladies. Simon did a great job. He was full of answers and the quest system sounds very good. Sounds like there will be a lot of options of stuff to do all through the game. Great info and a great job by all. Thanks Cindy for getting dead simon to come talk to us.

  • Suga
    October 4th, 2010 on 12:44 pm

    Links above podcast should open in new pages. Instead, they navigate you away from the podcast and you lose your place.

    Mild style point is all. Otherwise, podcasts and site are great!

  • Saryx
    October 5th, 2010 on 2:06 am

    Great podcast, and loved the Q&A…can’t wait for the contests :)

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