[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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RIFT datamining uncovers the gear and pets of Summerfest
It's summertime, and that means seasonal events will flow like wine in MMOs. Why go out into the heat and sun when you can...
Trion just bought up Gazillion’s assets to beef up its MMO publishing arm
Did you see this one coming? VentureBeat has a piece out this morning interviewing Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman, who's apparently just revealed that...
RIFT issues another progression server challenge, loses lead raid developer
It's time to play the catch-up game with RIFT, starting with this week's new challenge by the devs to progression server players. For the...
Get your dapper on with Warframe’s new Limbo Prime, the game’s 57th ‘frame
High fashion arrived in Warframe with the golden gentleman, Limbo Prime. Of course you can look snazzy while skewering enemies; this 57th playable Warframe is...
E3 2018: Deep-diving Trion’s kid-friendly voxelbox Trove and its upcoming Geode expansion
One thing Trion Senior Producer James Karras drove home during my meeting with the team at this year's E3 is that with Trove's Geode...
The Daily Grind: Will you sub to EA’s new ‘Origin Access Premier’ service?
During EA Play this weekend, EA announced Origin Access Premier, its attempt at a subscription service on PC. For $100 a year, you'll basically...
The Soapbox: Do MMOs still fall victim to the copycat curse?
When Radical Heights launched, I was inspired to put together a whole Perfect Ten about why trend-chasing doesn't work for online games. Obviously, my...
Trion makes summer plans to port Prime’s best ideas back to RIFT – here’s what both server types can look forward to
It's about to be summer in RIFT - Summerfest, that is. In Trion's latest developer letter, the team lays out what the season will...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best mount selection?
Lately my attention has been arrested by all of the news coming out about Battle for Azeroth's mounts. I know it's totally dorky, but...
RIFT increases experience and sells mounts for the long weekend
It's Memorial Day weekend here in the US, a time for people to... well, theoretically remember something, but in practice it's a long weekend...
RIFT players datamine changes to the Prime XP curve and new item packs
The fine souls at the Ghar Station has once again turned to the latest RIFT patch to mine out relevant information, and the results...
Global Chat: Dipping back into MMO underwater combat
Guild Wars 2's recent renovation of underwater combat has brought back some interest to this oft-neglected sphere of gameplay. Inventory Full's Bhagpuss used this...
RIFT hotfix brings soul changes, dragons, and events to the servers
While its rollout has been rocky today, RIFT's "lucky" 13th hotfix brought a lot of content and changes to both the regular and Prime...
Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle
With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...
One Shots: All giant spiders, all the time
Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...
RIFT datamining uncovers new decorations, items, and damage values for Prime
Datamining: the time-honored practice of digging things out from the client files for a game that hasn't yet been put into the game. RIFT...
RIFT opens a progression test server
What's better and more useful than one test server? If you're Trion Worlds, it's two test servers! No, the studio hasn't gone loco just...
The Daily Grind: What has been the best MMO expansion or update of 2018 so far?
We are about to put four months of 2018 in the can, and during that time there has been quite a lot of movement...
Impressions of Sea of Thieves, one month in: Deep-diving retro world PvP
It's really hard for me to not to gush hard about Sea of Thieves. I know many out there won't agree, and it's easy to say why,...
RIFT gets ready for patch day while ArcheAge re-enables transfers and name changes
A couple of small notices swung our way from Trion Worlds' MMORPGs. Tomorrow, RIFT is going to be updating the game, and with the...
