[AL:Rift]Official Site: RIFT
Studio: Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Gamigo says RIFT’s ‘great first update’ is still happening, still won’t acknowledge layoffs
Readers will recall that at the top of the week, we reported the unfortunate news that Gamigo had conducted widespread layoffs from multiple MMO...
Vague Patch Notes: Community workarounds don’t excuse broken pieces of MMOs
It's many years in the rear view now because these days it's someone else's show, but there was a time when Choose My Adventure...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 366: A blunder and a blunderbuss
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's next expansion, New World's latest patch, Gamigo's layoffs, Black Desert, and Elyon, with adventures in LOTRO, DDO, GW2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on MMO longevity and volunteerism in MMOs.
LOTRO Legendarium: Should LOTRO’s raids be made accessible to all?
Despite playing Lord of the Rings Online since beta and covering it professionally since 2010, there is a big part of the game that...
Gamigo has suffered yet another round of layoffs, including some RIFT and Trove staff
We've got more bad news for fans of RIFT and Gamigo's other MMOs: RIFT's community manager, CM Vilya, announced on Discord Friday that she...
Massively Overthinking: How long should MMO expansions be?
Star Wars The Old Republic's Legacy of the Sith struggled for many reasons, but the one I've seen echoed over and over is that...
Old School RuneScape Guardians of the Rift bug necessitates server rollback
Care to play a minigame? If you're a Runecrafter in Old School RuneScape, you very likely have been for a while as the devs...
Perfect Ten: Favorite NPCs from my favorite MMOs
In a recent episode of the Massively OP Podcast, we had a terrific question winged our way asking about our personal favorite NPCs from...
Diablo III prepares ‘echoing nightmares’ for Patch 2.7.3
Starting Thursday, Diablo III will be testing Patch 2.7.3 in preparation for the release of Season 26 later this month. The keystone feature of...
Old School RuneScape outlines release plans for new quests, a new raid, and the runecrafting minigame
Old School RuneScape has several different teams working away on updates to the MMORPG, and the recent Gielinor Gazette has provided a roadmap for...
MGI Q4 2021: Gamigo’s parent company guns for mobile, takes over Wizard101 EU publishing, ignores RIFT
Gamigo's parent company, Media and Games Invest SE aka MGI, released its Q4 2021 financials to investors this week, reporting a 65% revenue bump...
Massively on the Go: How pokedex building could be used for server-wide ‘science’ questing
Well, I'm sorry to report to multiplayer gamers that despite having online features like New Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Legends: Arceus is very much a solo game,...
VR MMO Zenith has officially created a public test realm
Earlier this week, Zenith developer Ramen VR mentioned that it would be creating a public test realm as part of efforts to improve its...
Massively Uplifting: MMOs show true love through helping kids, planting trees
Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit...
Massively Overthinking: What else could Blizzard do to fix World of Warcraft?
Last time in Massively Overthinking, our writers and readers sure did have a lot of good ideas to fix New World that Amazon won't...
Black Desert’s Gyfin Rhasia Temple underground rework is live in today’s update
You know it's a Wednesday when Black Desert's PC version has released no less than 11 announcement posts on its front page. Chief among them...
Black Desert Mobile merges servers, Black Desert PC discusses planned quality-of-life updates
The world of Black Desert Mobile is shrinking. Sort of. The game's world isn't getting smaller, but the number of servers is, as the...
Gamigo’s forums are down without explanation or ETA, affecting RIFT, Fiesta, Trove, and more
Hello everybody! It's RIFT's Fail Whale here to tell you of another little "oopsie" that's happening in Gamigo's neck of the woods! Apparently all...
Not So Massively: Hearthstone’s Lunar New Year, Apex Legend’s Defiance, LoL’s Renata
Welcome back to a quick roundup of news and events in the Not-So-Massively multiplayer realm!
Hearthstone - Lunar New Year begins in Blizzard's OTCG as...
RIFT dataminers uncover new content as hellbugs arrive for Valentine’s Day
Good news, RIFT fans, there's actually a new patch with stuff to datamine! It's been a really long time, as is noted in the datamining post...
