{"id":3305,"date":"2011-02-24T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2011-02-24T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:56:57","slug":"there-is-no-room-in-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/02\/24\/there-is-no-room-in-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no room in Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3305\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_full.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rift_full\" width=\"600\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_full.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_full-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s encouraging.  Rift hasn&#8217;t even launched yet &#8212; this is just the headstart for pre-orders &#8212; and the player population on every single server is listed as &#8220;full&#8221; as of a half hour after the game went live.  Well, I might as well see what happens if I try to join a server.  I mean, what am I gonna do, <em>not<\/em> play?  Here&#8217;s how that worked out:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3305\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_queue.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_queue.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rift_queue\" width=\"400\" height=\"129\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_queue.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rift_queue-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Rift&#8217;s queue time seems to move considerably faster than real time, so I&#8217;m guessing this is just some provision for managing the initial flood of users.  But it&#8217;s a strange first impression to basically be told the game has no room for you and won&#8217;t for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>If you plan to play Rift and you&#8217;d like to join the folks on this forum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/game-talk\/showthread.php?t=63690\">here&#8217;s where you can find us<\/a> when we actually, you know, get into the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>There is no room in Rift - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/02\/24\/there-is-no-room-in-rift\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There is no room in Rift - 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