While I can’t see myself using RIFTconnect, I do like the level of integration they’ve managed to create – especially being able to start recording video and automatically post it to youtube from within the game client.
The social media stuff, well.. automatically spamming your ‘achievements’ from any game to Facebook/Twitter is just a great way to piss people off, really really quickly. It might not be so bad if there was a setting where you could choose which achievements to broadcast – these days MMOs are so focused on making everyone feel like a winner that you “achieve” simply by logging in each day – “Congratulations, you’re not playing a SOE game! Your password wasn’t stolen!”, and it’s that kind of constant spam which is just so irritating.
If you were looking to implement such an option, you might word the checkbox something like “Broadcast only non care-bear feel good achievements, i.e. those in which something was actually achieved to social media sites” – or something like that.
I guess what I’m saying is that I could have seen myself using this in SWG for events such as a Jedi unlock, or completion of the Knight Trials.