[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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Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
Wisdom of Nym: The powerful stuff in Final Fantasy XIV that went missing in action
First things first: This article is not about your favorite ability that has been removed from Final Fantasy XIV over the years. No, even...
Black Desert merges silver storage on console, adds individual war rewards for PC, tweaks Bell of Aal on mobile
This week has once more seen all three variants of Black Desert get their own individual updates, which means another three paragraphs of condensed...
Gamigo shuffles out RIFT’s old Hellbugs event for the Lunar New Year weekend
Gamigo's been a bit of a mess the last couple of months, and by all accounts RIFT's last community manager was let go earlier...
Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio
Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...
Fractured Online returns to closed development over ‘platform troubles’
Over the course of this week, we've been covering the ongoing Gamigo clownshow: The company suffered layoffs it didn't disclose, which took out the...
Fractured vanishes from Gamigo’s site, Fawkes Games opens a weird website
Yesterday, we covered the distressing news that Gamigo had suffered layoffs - including the loss of RIFT's last remaining community manager, which is already...
Gamigo transfers publishing of Aura Kingdom, Grand Fantasia, Shaiya, and Last Chaos amid layoffs and Aeria portal closure
It just wouldn't seem right to end the year without watching Gamigo light itself on fire, now would it? Fortunately, the company has indulged...
Old School RuneScape layers on new features for speedrunning worlds and applies the last of Poll 77’s updates
This week has brought some new goodies to the speedrunning worlds of Old School RuneScape. Specifically, two new quest options are moving from "beta"...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have gotten too grim and dark?
While we expect grimdark themes in certain MMOs -- such as Secret World, Mad World, or Star Stable -- even the most light-hearted among...
The MOP Up: SWTOR spins a Bounty Hunter yarn
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it was nearly your bedtime and Star Wars: The Old Republic sat down next...
MMO veteran Scott Hartsman discusses why overseas game publishing is so messy
All right, so Blizzard and Netease are no longer working together for publishing the former studio's games in China. That's significant, but it should...
Gamigo is apparently opening new official forums for Trove and Fiesta Online after eight months of downtime
Back in February we were all pretty surprised by a sudden shutdown of the official forums for Gamigo's suite of MMORPGs, effectively turning off...
TERA’s console version continues to see new weapons and dungeons in monthly updates
We are now roughly four months removed from the sunsetting of TERA on PC, which leaves one question: How is the console version doing...
Choose My Adventure: Alone in the crowd of Lost Ark’s endgame
Even at the max level in Lost Ark, I find that I'm still kind of playing alone. A little bit. Though I suppose I...
Old School RuneScape shares player reactions to Poll 77 as the Jagex launcher gets multi-account support
Earlier this week Old School RuneScape opened up its 77th poll with the focus on making a host of quality-of-life features. As usual, the...
One Shots: Fresh from the portal of death
When he stepped through the portal and toward a brand-new world, this Dwarf didn't realize that he'd be disintegrated -- and an identical copy...
Aion and RIFT mark the spooky season with Halloween sales and quests
'Tis the season for the Pumpkin King to be doing what he does best, which is apparently spreading terror throughout Aion and adding a...
The MOP Up: Embers Adrift’s soundtrack swells prior to launch
With less than a week to go before Embers Adrift becomes the newest launched MMORPG on the block, the studio pointed out that its...
The MOP Up: Valheim comes to Microsoft’s store this month
That kooky Norse survival sim Valheim is sending a raiding party to new shores -- in this case, to Microsoft itself. The company announced...
