After yesterday’s hotfix #10, a very small number of players experienced a minor rollback of around a few hours. The rollbacks, for the most part, seemed to happen on the Threesprings shard. At this time, the cause is unknown. For players who were impacted by this rollback, they are encouraged to contact RIFT’s in-game costumer service department. Elrar issued this announcement late yesterday:

Originally posted by Elrar (Source)

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Hey guys,

This appears to have impacted a very small number of people, but if you were one of them simply contact Customer Support in game and they can assist you.

We’ll be sure to investigate and root out any possible causes – thanks for letting us know and apologies for the confusion it caused!

Most of us kind of figured Trion wasn’t going to be issuing any sort of rollback over the Conquest spawn camping mess from two weeks ago, but yesterday we finally received word from Trion confirming that assumption:

Originally posted by Daglar (Source)

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There is no rollback planned at this point in time.

I am sorry that people are upset about this. Yes, sometimes we over-reward.
We generally look at each situation in which we do this and have to make the call.

Daglar
Lead Game Designer: Rift

Later on in the thread that this statement was made, he replied with:

Originally posted by Daglar (Source)

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Did we want it to happen this way? No, we didn’t want it to happen that way. I wish we’d gotten a fix out sooner – but sadly we didn’t.

At least now we know. And yes, Trion should have gotten a fix out sooner, but at the end of the day– it’s reassuring to see the company acknowledge their mistakes, at least.

Now that Conquest is, well, mostly stable, and Trion has spent quite a bit of time fixing the issues players experienced since its release, one important question remains to quite a few players– will we see a rollback from the early farm-fest sessions? Which farm-fest sessions, exactly? The ones during the first two days of Conquest’s release, when some players were able to go from rank 1-50 in a weekend, or gain 15 or more ranks within a couple hours.

This is a tricky situation, obviously, and Trion has been kind of avoiding it so far, but it is a continued issue for many players. Earning PvP ranks in RIFT is intentionally grindy, so when players were able to suddenly rush through them like it was nothing, players knew something wasn’t quite right. But as I said, it’s tricky. The players flying through ranks really did nothing wrong exactly– they simply took advantage of the mechanics in Conquest and the current boosted reward levels.

But then again, isn’t ‘taking advantage’ of game mechanics kind of wrong to begin with? Many players think so, especially when Trion’s intentions for Conquest were obviously miles away from what actually happened during those first couple of days. But are actions taken against the intended mechanics enough for Trion to provide a punishment or rollback? That’s another question entirely.