RIFT is awful now it's gone f2p, I don't know if it was always like it but everything is shared, it's ****! There was this mission on the tutorial after you go back to the past, and you have this sort of magical device that plays a message when you use it on some machine. The only problem is, you have to use the machine yourself to get the quest progress, not just view the same message that somebody else is getting because they beat you to using the machine. There were about 30 people standing around it (yes there was only one machine) and each persons turn took about 15 seconds, people were getting so annoyed. Then there was another **** quest where you had to destroy mutant plants on a farm, and you had to destroy 6. No more than 4 would spawn at any given time, they'd take in excess of a minute to respawn and there were about 30 people trying that too, it became a case of simple 'go here, click x amount of interactive objects' quests taking absolutely ages and becoming frustration as hell, I enjoyed it for about an hour or two but then quit because of dumb **** like that.
The combat/graphics/world are great, but their quest system is a complete joke and then some.