That's why Rift is not a WoW!

The launch of Rift: Plains Of Terala in really really close,so the Hal Hanlin,Trion World's Design Producer, in interview revealed some secrets about Rift and told us about the difference between Rift and WoW.So here they are:

There's no right way to play a class:
You can play one, but develop it in few different way, you can go deeper in subclass abilities or continue developing skills frommain class.

Massively social and dynamic gameplay:
Servers of RIft are not zone-based,so when more people come in location you start lagging.Servers are fuction-based,so people with high graphics or physics demand will be based on one server and and people with less powerful graphic properties will be logged to  another.And when you'll se the rift,you're starting to run towards it and you're starting to notice that there's 30-40 people like you running to rift,and to complete the mission you all must work together,that's the social component in  rift battles.Rift engages everyone in the zone and gives the same quest to all like defendingzones,killing enemies,closing rifts.

The Rifts:
Rifts are not only usual public quest which you can complete over and over in the same location.it's a dynamic part of gameplay that consists of several parts,it could pop up anywhere on the map and by some scripted scenes youcan figure out that there's a rift in your location before it'll apper in your quest log.

Loot distribution based on contribution:
Rfits including the storytelling og each zone and it can change every zone and to gain more loot you need as soon passall stages of rift so to do it you obviously need more people to help you.

Drop In/DropOut public raiding :
Battles for rift are not necessary thing ,you can  in any moment press the button in upper left corner to join or leave public raid.

Almost any group can complete an instance:
Because in rift you can change souls there's really not very hard to complete instance, you can pass first boss but for some reasons second is too hard so you can go out of combat,switch souls and try another tactics and that what rift can give in instances - tactical advanteges.

Full video-interview presented by RipTen