[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 Podcast Episode 455: Odyssey to the abyss
Justin and Bree discuss Riot's and Blizzard's layoffs, the death of Blizzard's Odyssey, Palworld, Kritika, The Day Before, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in Guild Wars 2 and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on memorable fluff loot.
Riot Games laid off over 500 people last night, and no we don’t know what it means for the Riot MMO
Riot Games is joining the seemingly endless list of game studios continuing to dump workers overboard: Last night, the company announced it is shedding...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024
As I say every single year and several people ignore every single year: This is not a column about the games that are most...
Trove’s Renewus event for 2024 is here to pump you up – in-game, anyway – as RIFT promotes 12-month sub
Are you ready to build muscle and become a voxel-y Adonis? Then the New Year-themed Renewus event that went live this week in Trove...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2023
This traditional roundup of the best Daily Grinds of the year is actually one of my favorites because it demonstrates just how long we've...
Jukebox Heroes: A yuletide soundtrack for a gaming holiday
The winter night hushed to a halt to allow the wind to whisper. "Take heart, my friends," she crooned over snow-capped hills and frozen...
Black Desert teases work on a ‘next-gen build’ on console and readies succession skills for mobile
Much of the big news out of Black Desert's Calpheon Ball was about the PC version of the MMORPG - there's the launch of...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024
It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...
RIFT welcomes back Fae Yule for another blast of holiday cheer
It was all the way back in 2011 when then-fledgling RIFT debuted its Fae Yule holiday event. Ever since then, the MMO has faithfully...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
The Stream Team: Peitha’s plan of resistance in Guild Wars 2
After chit-chatting with everyone last week, Massively OP's MJ learned that Peitha wanted help from her and the Ward to fight against Eparch, the...
Guild Wars 2’s weapon proliferation beta has begun as ArenaNet ungates SOTO for alts
It's weapon proliferation day in Guild Wars 2! OK, OK, it's the "Expanded Weapon Proficiency Beta," otherwise known as your first chance to try...
Nexon’s Vindictus launches new raid boss content over Thanksgiving
Vindictus is one of those long-running, successful MMORPGs that has been around forever and a day and yet still slips my mind until it...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
Trove heralds the return of Friendsgiving while RIFT kicks off a screenshot contest
It's time to report on Gamigo's (arguably) final two surviving MMORPGs RIFT and Trove, as both titles are spooling up some autumn season stuff...
Former Trion boss Scott Hartsman cautions studios to reconsider live service games
Former Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman has a few words of advice for any studio contemplating the creation of a live service game: Maybe...
The Stream Team: Into the Obscure in Guild Wars 2
Surprise! You may not believe this, but Massively OP's MJ's next task in Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure is to hunt rifts!...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...
Disney Dreamlight Valley gets multiplayer next month to go with its not-F2P launch
The reason that we at Massively OP have been following Disney Dreamlight Valley isn't because we're secret members of the Stitch Fan Club (well,...
Disney Dreamlight Valley ditches free-to-play plan as it heads for a December 5 launch
If you were holding out on Disney Dreamlight Valley's early access period to wait for the promised free-to-play launch edition, then we're sorry to...
