Yes and WoW's class/ability system was 100% original..
Did you guys play EQ? Or DAoC? Don't you realize that that is all MMO's do these days? Rip each other off? LoL...
The queues were a bit crappy at the start, but thats a typical launch for a MMO, they sold 1 million copies (pre orders) so I expected as much, which is why I took yesterday off instead
Rookie MMO mistake, trying to play on day one!
I will also admit the PvP has not impressed me so far.. but I reserve judgement for end game content. The leveling is a joke compared to Vanilla WOW or EQ or DAoC or any other decent level based MMO, so I will stick it out and give the end game content a serious try.
One thing that ticks me off so far is the lack of interupts. DAoC's 8 man PvP was so great because you could interupt the other casters, so it became a huge strategic game of positioning, fake casting to make people waste their abilities etc.. Similar to WOW but a lot more in depth. Even UO it was about interupts.. in RIFT so far I have zero, as a Bard, and that bothers me. Every class should have some way to interupt even if it means being right up in the guys grill.. I am hoping the end game PvP will use CC a lot more than the current game does.
It is hard to judge a game's end game content on half of the abilities...