[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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Massively OP’s guide to the 2016 MMORPG winter holidays
It's time to get all snuggly in front of a crackling fire, roast up some chestnuts, down a gallon of hot chocolate, and log...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is another new consideration for us this year...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is a new award we're doling out...
Global Chat: Knights of the Eternal Throne debate
With the arrival of SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne, the MMO blogosphere lit up in lively discussion about the expansion, its story, and...
New research suggests head-mounted VR sets are unintentionally sexist
A new research study conducted by University of Minnesota researchers Justin Munafo, Meg Diedrick, and Thomas A. Stoffregen says that head-mounted virtual reality is unintentionally...
RIFT has a ‘mind-blowing’ housing update planned for Patch 4.1
If you'd rather be fiddling around with player housing in RIFT than out fighting in the field, you're our type of homebody. Also, you...
RIFT challenges you to a combat-free puzzle dungeon — if you can even find it
RIFT's newest dungeon is so obscure and inscrutable that most people might not even know it is there. Tok's Proving Ground's entrance is hidden somewhere...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG developer quotes of 2016
One of the fun things we implemented on the site this year is a database of quotes from developers (among other entries) that are...
RIFT hotfix tackles several Starfall Prophecy issues
Over a week after Starfall Prophecy's launch, RIFT is still trying to get on top of the many issues and bugs that have plagued...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016
As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...
RIFT responds to players who say Starfall Prophecy’s launch was a ‘mess’
Not all is rainbows, unicorns, and talking dragons over in the land of RIFT these days. Serious concerns have arisen about the MMO following...
Global Chat: Evaluating the latest MMORPG expansions
This week in our tour through MMO blog posts, we're going to witness a lot of evaluations of recent update and expansion launches that...
RIFT steps up its DDoS countermeasures
While RIFT players have been sallying forth in Starfall Prophecy to combat the forces of Ahnket, Trion Worlds has faced a much tougher fight of...
Trion offers compensation to ArcheAge and Rift players for server outages
Good news for players of ArcheAge and RIFT: You're getting some free stuff as an apology for the unstable servers that both games have...
The best Thanksgiving and Black Friday MMORPG deals
Getcher credit cards ready, folks. It's time.
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The Secret World is part of the Humble Bundle this week; you can...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 92: A talk with RIFT: Starfall Prophecy’s devs
Justin and MJ interview RIFT's Starfall Prophecy devs and discuss EverQuest and EverQuest II's expansions, their shared love for The Secret World, and G-Star 2016's reveals.
RIFT compensates players for server instability
Fans of RIFT have a new expansion to play, but that requires the game's servers to be cooperating in order to actually play it....
One Shots: A home away from home
If you were to move into an MMO for real, where would you live? I posed this question last week to the One Shots...
The Daily Grind: Are you going back to RIFT for Starfall Prophecy?
After a briefly delayed beta event last month, RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion launched this week. RIFT is Trion Worlds' crown jewel, and this third expansion...
RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy expansion is live today with a brand-new trailer
Trion Worlds is throwing its hat into the expansion ring this week with today's launch of RIFT: Starfall Prophecy. The MMO's third expansion takes...