[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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Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2018
Let's talk about value. A couple of weeks back, I did an article on the healthiest games at the end of the year; today,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 149: Bringing back the MMO magic
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, WoW, MMO holiday events, ArcheAge, the site awards, EverQuest, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, RIFT, the Star Citizen lawsuit, and Funcom, with mailbag topics on horror MMOs and "iterating the magic away."
Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Best MMO Housing of 2017
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Best MMO Housing, which was awarded to WildStar last year. MMORPGs eligible for this award can...
RIFT course-corrects on $100 mount pack while Trion gets into the holiday spirit
Well, that didn't last long. RIFT has already yanked its controversial $100 random mount packs from the game store following strong opposition from the...
RIFT would like to sell you a random mount for $100
We were talking on the podcast this week about how Trion Worlds tends to aggressively pursue different revenue streams in its MMOs -- and...
Tamriel Infinium: Our 2017 report card for Elder Scrolls Online
All in all, 2017 has been a fabulous year for the Elder Scrolls Online, and although I have been light on talking about the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates
Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.
RIFT pulls pay-to-win packs out of the store — for now
Reacting to massive community pushback over what is perceived to be pay-to-win packs in the RIFT store, Trion Worlds announced that it is pulling...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem
One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
RIFT puts an endgame currency out for real-money sales
Look, we can all agree that "pay-to-win" is, at the very least, a difficult concept to be certain about. Right? There's a lot of...
The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?
One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
One Shots: The rat race
At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...
All the best MMO sales of Black Friday 2017
Step aside, turkey and fambly rage: It's time to buy stuff. Because we don't already unload our wallets the rest of the year on...
Here’s the full list of Trion Worlds’ Black Friday deals
As you plan your Black Friday shopping strategy (ours: sleeping in and lazily shopping on Amazon Prime), Trion Worlds wants to help out by...
Hyperspace Beacon: Assessing SWTOR one week after the big server merges
Many people believe that server merges are innately bad because in games like ArcheAge (or even all the way back to Star Wars Galaxies),...
RIFT’s fall festival lockboxes rankle players
The latest batch of lockboxes in RIFT isn't making friends among the playerbase.
The current Autumn Harvest lockboxes seem to contain more exclusive items than...
The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?
Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can live out your giant robot fantasies
Two years ago, NCsoft dealt a harsh blow to a certain subset of gaming fans when it canned the development of Project HON. This...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 142: The state of the sci-fi MMO genre
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, Destiny 2, RIFT, CCP's studio closures, Warframe, and Star Citizen's CitizenCon, with tidbits on Guild Wars 2, Trove, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and BlizzCon, and a mailbag question on the future of traditional MMORPGs.
CCP Games ceases VR development, closes two studios – no negative impact on EVE Online
Icelandic business website mbl.is has just reported that EVE Online developer CCP Games is planning to close two of its offices and cease all...
