[AL:Rift]Official Site:Â RIFT
Studio:Â 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 is surveying ArcheAge, Trove, and RIFT players about monetization
Psst. Hey. Do you have opinions? Strong opinions? Strong opinions about Gamigo's games? Of course you do. Gamigo would like to hear them. I...
Riot teases League of Legends’ Clash, new champions, and next Legends of Runeterra beta for 2020
"New year, new Rift" promises the start of League of Legends' latest video which showcases a number of new features and developments players of...
RIFT players sponsor an elaborate contest to build cave dimensions
Yesterday, we watched in bemusement as our piece about MMOs people want to play in 2020 blew up on Twitter, specifically with former RIFT...
The Daily Grind: What is the best MMO holiday event minigame ever designed?
While Halloween seems to bring out a lot of spooky instances and trick-or-treating in MMORPGs, I've always felt that the Christmas season sees more...
PSA: RIFT’s second Battle Pass season gets an end date of January 16
Have you climbed through the 30 levels of the RIFT Battle Pass? If not, your window to do so is beginning to close. The...
The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup
The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions
The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...
RIFT players tussle over the return of Planeswalker summons as Trove console goes Into the Deep
Ah dangit. Yesterday's post on RIFT's Fae Yule was supposed to be fun and games, literally. It's Christmas, people. But apparently there's a bit...
RIFT kicks off Fae Yule and makes tweaks to Mages and Clerics in the latest patch
The rumors of RIFT's death continue to be exaggerated, though the latest patch to the MMORPG isn't exactly full of marquee features, either. Still,...
Gamigo 3Q 2019 revenues are up thanks to ArcheAge Unchained and Trion acquisition
We're already in Q4 as far as the fiscal calendar goes, but it's never too late to peek back at the quarter passed, which...
The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO features?
I love me a good feature in an MMO. If it's well-done, useful, engaging, and implemented the right way, a feature can greatly enhance...
Scoop up your very own RIFT 5th Anniversary Racing Snail from Gamigo and MOP!
If you missed out on RIFT's 5th anniversary a few years back and don't have the account-wide Racing Snail mount, then heads-up because Gamigo...
Gamigo tells MMO players ‘the development of RIFT hasn’t stopped’
It's been a nail-biting year for RIFT players following the collapse of Trion Worlds and the sale of the game over to Gamigo. There's...
The Stream Team: Happy Harvest Festival in RIFT
Massively OP's MJ has stretched the Halloween events out as far as she could. Today's hop into RIFT's Harvest Festival marks the end of...
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO will be ‘different at a glance’ from LOTRO
Even as Lord of the Rings Online prepares to unleash Minas Morgul next week, Amazon Game Studios is working in the background to fashion...
The Daily Grind: What other MMOs need the ‘Archeage Unchained’ treatment?
Last year, it seemed like the trend was legacy servers for everyone. This year, the anti-pay-to-win push has been big, with ArcheAge Unchained at...
Halloween approaches for RIFT, Skyforge, Destiny 2, ARK, and Dauntless
We'll have our complete guide to Halloween across the MMO universe early next week, but we would be remiss not to mention some big...
Riot announces team shooter, card game, fighting game, co-op game, and mobile League of Legends
If you felt a small earthquake last night, don't worry -- it was just the response of Riot Games' community at all of the...
Interview: ArcheAge Unchained’s Merv Lee Kwai on housing, RMT, and the future of the game
The announcement of ArcheAge Unchained and its buy-to-play, no-pay-to-win ruleset has been one of the big surprises of the season for the five-year-old MMORPG...
The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb
By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...