Patch 2.7 Bloodline for the online role-playing game Rift should be another milestone in the history of the MMO: Four exciting new souls, countless quests, and UI improvements are just part of the new content. Unfortunately, the anticipation was overshadowed by two mishaps:
First, there was a serious error, which announced that the deployment of the update would be slightly delayed. In the meantime, the update has been successfully deployed (at least partially). Given the emotions that flared up immediately, the development team of Rift was probably very glad to be able to write these lines on the planned release date for the patch:
We are proud to announce that our RIFT Update 2.7: Bloodline is now live.
But the second issue has still not been resolved: There are localization problems and the translations of the skills of the new souls have not been fully translated into German. As a result, the ability names are missing, or they are all simply the same.
If you are playing in English anyway, you might wonder who could be bothered by this – one could just switch the language. However, there are many players who want to play in their native language and with their familiar interface and addon settings, which is currently nearly impossible – and they feel quite frustrated about it. A community manager from Rift commented on this last night as follows:
We are currently investigating what exactly has happened here, and the new German text will be provided as soon as possible.
Today, a hotfix is supposedly set to be deployed that will partially resolve the issue. We will keep you updated on this!
Katja: Mistakes are, of course, human! But we still hope strongly for the disappointed players that a solution will be found. With a price of 5,000 diamonds (rounded up to about 25 euros) for the soul package, one can expect that everything works as it should.
