MMORPG.com Latest News https://www.mmorpg.com/ The latest content from MMORPG.com's industry leading editorial team. en-us Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:43:20 -0000 Rift is Getting a New Round of Server Merges, Gamigo Offers Chance to Manually Transfer Before Then

Gamigo has announced that Rift will get a series of server merges in the North American region.

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Rift Marks 10 Years on Steam and Offers Spooky Pets, Mounts, and More As Autumn Harvest Returns

Rift is in a celebratory mood, with a Steam anniversary and the return of the Autumn Harvest and Halloween bonuses. 

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Scott Hartsman Discusses Rift's Memorable Launch Campaign and Lessons Learned After Initial Success

Scott Hartsman, the former CEO of Trion Worlds, has shared a new blog reflecting on the Rift launch campaign over a decade ago and lessons learned after a successful launch. 

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Rift Brings Back Carnival for its 12th Anniversary

Celebrating its 12th anniversary, Rift brings back the Carnival Festival, with minigames, quests, and prizes.

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Gamigo is Offering New and Returning Rift Players Some Free Premium Time Starting Tomorrow

Gamigo is offering both new and returning Rift players a 15-day free upgrade to Patron status, with a number of bonuses. There are also some server events for even more boosts.

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Rift Brings Back Summerfest With Scavenger Hunts, Activities, Cute Pets, and More

Rift continues along with the return of Summerfest. The event returns to the game as part of a renewed effort to keep up updates and events for the game. The Summerfest update brings back the celebration of flames in Telara. 

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Gamigo Starts a Rebooted RIFT Battle Pass Season Today With Fiery Cosmetics and a Mount Up for Grabs

Gamigo has launched a rebooted Battle Pass campaign for Rift starting today. The new pass could let you earn some fiery cosmetic pieces or mounts with flame effects.

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The Budgie Carnival Celebration Returns to Rift, Along With 11th Anniversary Activities

Fresh off promised updates and events, Rift brings back the Budgie Carnival Event, ushering in spring and the game's 11th anniversary celebration.

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Rift Getting a New Update This Month, With More to Come, Including Reset Battlepass and 11th Anniversary

After some rumblings and direct statements about Rift getting an update, the team announced today that a new patch is coming this month, and it will be followed by more updates and events.

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Report: Gamigo Hit With Layoffs Impacting RIFT, Trove And More

It seems that MMO publisher Gamigo has been hit with layoffs affecting multiple teams at the publisher, notably the oft-forgotten MMO, RIFT.

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The Hellbugs are Back, as Rift Gets a New Update and Shifts Maintenance Day

Rift has been updated, and the Hellbugs are back. Get rid of them for some useful rewards and help some terrified people.

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MMO ReRoll - RIFT

Mitch tackles RIFT in the latest edition of MMO ReRoll. How does the MMO hold up in the years since its release? Check out his toughts in his latest column.

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RIFT Is Celebrating Its 10th Anniversary This Week With QR-Code Powered Event

RIFT players who noted that last week's 10th anniversary went by without much fanfare will be interested to see that the developers are marking the occassion this week with a gift-laden scavenger hunt.

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Gamigo Clarifies RIFT's Status, Stating It Will 'Continue Working On The Title' Amid Concerns Over MMO's Future

Gamigo has clarified its stance regarding the MMO RIFT after a week of speculation about the MMORPG's future.

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Opinion: Gamigo Has a RIFT Problem

Gamigo has a RIFT problem, and right now the way it's publicly handling that problem doesn't seem to be alleviating fan fears about the MMORPG's future.

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Gamigo Lays Off RIFT Developers, Though Stresses MMORPG Will Continue [UPDATED]

It looks like the Gamigo purge from two weeks ago isn't seemingly over, as it's been learned Gamigo has laid off an "unspecified" amount of RIFT developers, though stresses that the MMO is continuing.

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Rift Battle Pass Season 3 Now Underway

The Rift Season 3 Battle Pass is live now. Here's the scoop.

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RIFT Valentines Day Contest Underway

A creative contest is underway in RIFT to kick off Valentines Day celebrations.

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Rift Patch Notes Provide Minor Fixes

The latest Rift patch notes provide some minor fixes for some good old fashion bug squashing.

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Fae Yule Returns to Rift in Latest Patch

Fae Yule returns to Rift in the latest patch, along with tweaks to several classes.

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Rift 5th Anniversary Racing Snail Giveaway!

MMORPG.com has been given special gift keys for Rift that will give players the Racing Snail in game mount! Get your free key now!

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Rift Development Has Not Stopped, Says Gamigo Community Manager

A community manager for Rift has assured the community that development for the game has not stopped.

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RIFT Patch Notes Include Cleric Ability Fixes, PvP, More

RIFT patch notes outline several changes and fixes coming to the MMO, including fixes to Cleric abilities, PvP, and more.

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Rift Team Has Plans for More Incremental Content Releases Over Big Expansions

The Rift forum has a new post from the gamigo development team that lays out their plans for content releases going forward. In the past, the letter begins, players have had to wait up to two years for a large expansion. Going forward, however, the goal is for more incremental content releases. This includes dungeons, raids, quests and levels coming to players more quickly. This also means that class balancing, callings, souls, abilities and items will also roll out over time.

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Today's Rift PTS Event Will Net You 100,000 Loyalty

Feeling a bit short in the Loyalty department in Rift? If so, today's public test shard event will net you 100,000 for your participation. The event is as a result of the test environment's migration to Google's cloud service and devs would like a hand "testing basic server functionality for a couple of hours". The testing opportunity begins at 2:00 pm Pacific / 5:00 pm Eastern.

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Battle Pass Season 1 Goes Live in Rift

The Rift forums have been updated with the patch notes from today's update that includes the new Battle Pass Season 1 where players can "progress through 30 levels to claim rewards". Free players can take part in four daily missions and three random weekly missions to progress through the Battle Pass reward ranks. Patrons can participate in six daily missions and three random weekly missions to earn rewards.

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Rift Devs Detail the Upcoming Battle Pass

A couple of weeks ago, the Rift team posted a cryptic Twitter message asking players what they'd like to see in the battle pass, all without any information about what that actually might be. Today, the Rift site has been updated with the first information about what the battle pass is. It includes 30 levels in season one that are accomplished by completing daily and weekly quests. Players can earn rewards for free, by purchasing the Premium pack for $10 or being a Patron.

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Rift is Celebrating Its 8th Annual Carnival of the Ascended

Rift is celebrating its 8th birthday with the annual Carnival of the Ascended celebration. Players will find a number of carnival games and special items that include mounts, essences, costumes, pets, consumables and titles that can be purchased with special currency earned during the event. In addition, the Enclave of Ahnket expert dungeon has made its arrival in today's 4.8 update.

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Gamigo to Introduce a 'Battle Pass' to Rift -- But No One Knows What That Means

The Rift Twitter has a mysterious new post saying that "The Battle Pass is coming soon!" However, there is no further information about what exactly that means for the game, though the tweet goes on to ask what players "wish to see". Respondents in the Twitter thread are rather snarkily responding that, with more information, they might have a few suggestions.

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Gamigo is Shutting Rift Prime Down on March 31st

The Rift site has been updated with a note from the Gamigo team to announce to the community that Rift Prime will be closing down on March 31st. No explanation is given for the closure. You may remember that Rift Prime is, or was, a progression server that started with "vanilla" and would gradually unlock content over time. Character transfers will be completed by April 7th.

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Rest Easy, Rifters, the Annual Fae Yule Event Has Arrived

The Rift site has been updated with the cheery news that the annual Fae Yule event has kicked off and will run through January 10th. Players will find the usual collection of quests, zone events, Instant Adventures, and Warfront.

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Gamigo Reassures Rift Players that Development Will Continue

The Rift site has been updated with a brief note from the new Gamigo development team to reassure the community that the game will continue to see new development. While the team is currently much smaller than before, the plan is to "move forward with development" with the future hope to expand the team in the future.

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New Rift Team Assures Players That There is Work Being Done

The Rift forum has been updated with a brief letter from the new Gamigo Rift development team. Without many details, the community is reassured that there is "work being done behind the scenes to build a strong foundation for the future". The team is also looking for "specific feedback on the kinds of quality of life changes" players would like to see.

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Rift: Prime Players Ready to Take on the Storm Legion

The Storm Legion has launched in Rift: Prime and players can take on the forces of the Storm Queen as she "wreaks havoc across Telara". Players will find new raids and dungeons and the level cap has increased to 60. The Empyrean colossus Volan is also out and about, so there is lots to do for Ascended.

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Rift Prime to Get Zapped by the Storm Legion on October 3rd

Rift Prime progression server will be getting a big update when the Storm Legion expansion launches on October 3rd. Subscribers will be able to explore new continents and dungeons as they uncover the lore and story behind the Legion's arrival. To culminate the new experience, players will ultimately face off "against the mighty colossus Volan".

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Storm Legion Expansion Coming to Prime Servers This Fall

Trion Worlds has announced that the "beloved Storm Legion expansion" is coming to Rift Prime later this fall. "Stand against the maelstrom of Crucia's evil forces as they attempt to utilize the power of the Infinity Gate to conquer the Steppes of Infinity".

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Latest Update Letter Details Plans for the Summer for Live & Prime

The Rift site has been updated with a lengthy post to lay out developers' plans for Rift through the summer of 2018. The post reveals plans for both Live and Prime servers. The letter begins with updates that have been deployed since the spring update including balance changes and other content patches.

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Players Being Offered Weeklong Prime Trial

From now through June 7th, Trion Worlds is offering a 7-day free trial on the Rift Prime progression server. It is unclear who can claim the offer, though it is probable that it is on offer to those who are or have been Patron members in the past. Players can download and try the game for a week's worth of time without any restrictions on the account.

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Vigil Update Reduces XP Required Per Level from 30-49

From levels 30 to 49, Rift: Prime Vigil players will not have to gain as much experience in order to level up. The reductions are smaller on the lower end of the span, with a higher XP reduction closer to 49. In addition, developers feel that soul changes deployed last week have met with success and that more callings and souls are being played throughout the game.

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Trion to Add Prime: Omega PTS as Early as Today

If you're a Rift Prime player who's dying to try new things out before they hit the live Prime server, you'll be pleased to hear that Trion is adding a public test server in the near future. According to the post on the Rift site, the plan is to release the Prime: Omega sometime today. The team will update "forums and socials when it spins up".

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Trion Heralds Prime's First Month as a 'Rousing Success'

Trion Worlds has sent out word that Rift Prime's first month of subscription-only play was a "rousing success". Players completed more than five million quests and "tens of thousands of dungeons". Rift Prime is not only subscription-only, but is a progression server that sees content rolled out over time. In fact, in the coming weeks, Prime players will be able to take part in the first-ever raid on the server to face off against Greenscale.

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Next Round of Prime Challenges Begins April 8th

Players on the Rift Prime server will be able to start on the next round of Prime Challenges starting April 8th and will have until May 17th to complete some of all of the three challenges. There is a PvE challenge, a PvP challenge and one for collectors.

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Quality of Rift Prime Life

Rift Prime is three weeks old tomorrow and in today’s Prime Progression report we get up close and personal about the QOL (quality of life) aspects of Vigil.

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Is Prime Really a Vanilla Server? Tastefully, the Answer is No

On Wednesday March 7th, Trion Worlds launched their first Rift Prime progression server. Excitement was extreme as everyone braced for servers to unlock, the sheer amount of players pouring into starter zones like it was 2011 all over again adding even more buzz. I’ve been there daily since and this is the first Prime progression report from Telara.

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Prime Server Launches - Time to Go Back to the Future

Is the future of Rift one that takes its players to the past? With today's launch of Rift Prime, the new limited time subscription-only version of the game as it was at launch, we'll know soon enough. Prime is a fresh-start server with a subscription-only revenue model that will progress at an accelerated pace and will offer "players an alternative way to experience the game". In addition, the in-game shop has been greatly reduced to cosmetic goods and services only.

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Prepare for Prime

On Friday Trion Worlds announced that the much-anticipated Rift Prime server will be named Vigil, giving folks the opportunity to put a much heated response for other choices to rest. Immediately focus shifted to getting prepared for Prime. Are you ready?

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https://www.mmorpg.com/previews/prepare-for-prime-2000107235 Previews Rift Kelley Kiwi https://www.mmorpg.com/previews/prepare-for-prime-2000107235 MMORPG.com Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:00:00 -0000
Prime Server Q&A Wrap Report

Late last week, Trion devs participated in a Rift Prime server Q&A and we've got the wrap report from the event. If you've been wondering how the whole Prime thing will be going down when it launches on March 7th, be sure to check it out.

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https://www.mmorpg.com/columns/prime-server-qanda-wrap-report-2000107217 Columns Rift Kelley Kiwi https://www.mmorpg.com/columns/prime-server-qanda-wrap-report-2000107217 MMORPG.com Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0000
Prime Progression Server to Launch on March 7th

Trion Worlds has announced that the subscription-only Rift Prime server will be launching on March 7th. As announced last month, the Prime server will "return us to the launch of Rift" when the cap was level 50 and at a time without boosts, supply crates, no equipment or bags in the Store and more. "This is the world of Rift before free-to-play".

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https://www.mmorpg.com/news/prime-progression-server-to-launch-on-march-7th-2000097820 News Rift Suzie Ford https://www.mmorpg.com/news/prime-progression-server-to-launch-on-march-7th-2000097820 MMORPG.com Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:38:36 -0000
Our Rift Prime Q&A with Producer Chris 'Archonix' Junior

Last week Trion Worlds announced Rift Prime servers sparking a lot of curiosity and questions. We gathered some of your thoughts a long with ours and are very grateful Archonix took the time to respond.

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https://www.mmorpg.com/interviews/our-rift-prime-qanda-with-producer-chris-archonix-junior-2000107138 Interviews Rift Kelley Kiwi https://www.mmorpg.com/interviews/our-rift-prime-qanda-with-producer-chris-archonix-junior-2000107138 MMORPG.com Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:00:00 -0000
Producer's Letter Introduces Rift Prime, a Subscription Based Progression Server

The latest producer's letter has been published on the Rift site to take a look back at the accomplishments in 2017 as well as to introduce a new server type called "Rift Prime". These servers will see players start fresh and will feature both a subscription revenue model and progression advancement through the game's expansions and content. There will be no lockboxes, a "significantly reduced store" and more current store items available through game play.

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https://www.mmorpg.com/news/producers-letter-introduces-rift-prime-a-subscription-based-progression-server-2000097591 News Rift Suzie Ford https://www.mmorpg.com/news/producers-letter-introduces-rift-prime-a-subscription-based-progression-server-2000097591 MMORPG.com Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:33:17 -0000