rift

[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

What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games

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Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...

RIFT Prime lays out progression server plans

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The path ahead for RIFT's thriving new progression server has been revealed, as Trion Worlds finally laid out plans for what's to come on...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 165: Step into the Morninglight

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Justin and MJ discuss Secret World Legends, DDO, WoW, Conan Exiles, RIFT, LOTRO, TERA, Ultima Online, ArcheAge, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on combat combos and recapturing former players.

Trion declares RIFT Prime a ‘massive success’ with ‘thousands’ of subbing players

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You'd hardly expect an MMO company to send along a press release declaring its game a failure, right? Indeed, Trion's PR this morning argues...

RIFT throws out second progression server challenge

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While the wait continues to hear what RIFT is going to do with its Prime progression server, Trion Worlds has kicked off a second...

The Daily Grind: Are there MMO mobs you feel bad about killing?

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Call me a softy, but I always cringe when I am sent in to slaughter the small, the fluffy, and the cute in MMOs....

Making my way through RIFT Prime’s progression server

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It has been a month since that fateful day back in March when the MMO collectively lost its mind by rushing back to play...

GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities

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As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 164: Shroud of the Heroes

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Justin and Bree discuss April Fools' Day across the MMO world, RIFT, DDO, Trove, Guild Wars 2, WoW, Sea of Thieves, Shroud of the Avatar, SWTOR, and FFXIV, with mailbag questions on MMO tourist modes and character customization.

RIFT Prime to talk about progression unlocks later this month

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As RIFT's Prime progression server enters into its second month of existence, questions have loomed above the community that's making its way to level...

Global Chat: RIFT Prime numbers

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RIFT's new Prime progression server certainly has recaptured or recruited many MMO bloggers to the game as of late, and it is all anyone...

GDC 2018: ARK Park’s Snail Games on VR, science, and the future of the franchise

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As you may recall, I was given just a little time to hit up Snail Games' ARK Park a few days before I left for GDC...

Battle Bards Episode 118: More starting zone themes

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What are your favorite memories of those first few days in a brand-new MMORPG? Chances are that those memories are inextricably connected to the...

The MMO Book Club introduces the good kind of lootboxes

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Not quite a year ago, we covered a brand-new MMO community called the MMO Book Club, whose goal was to bring MMO players together...

GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel

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Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...
Maybe I can hammer it into working well?

RIFT is tweaking ability performance to address area impact

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There's a bit of a problem that's turning up on RIFT, both the Prime server and the live servers. That problem? Some abilities just...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 163: Expansions ‘Я’ Us

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Justin and Bree talk expansions for Elder Scrolls Online, Star Trek Online, and Skyforge, with news on Bless, GDC, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, a new Star Wars title, Project Gorgon, RIFT, WoW, and Trove, with mailbag questions on whether Gorgon vs EverQuest and our Steam Team.

First impressions of the newly launched ARK Park

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By the time you read this dear reader, I'll already be dead... dead tired, that is, from running around the Game Developer's Conference talking...

RIFT Prime jacks up its quest experience, works on lag

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Players on RIFT's relatively new Prime progression server will see one major complaint addressed today: Trion Worlds is tripling the experience rewarded from quests...

Perfect Ten: Why MMO progression servers are a brilliant idea

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...

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