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Rift is now free-to-play. All content available to free players; cosmetic and convenience items available for purchase

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Rift is now free-to-play. All content available to free players; cosmetic and convenience items available for purchase

Trion have broken from the mould of other free-to-play MMOs by choosing to avoid paygates and pay-to-win items. Instead, all the content is available to free players, with only elements like extra character slots and cosmetic items coming with a price tag attached.

It’s a progressive approach, one outlined in a new free-to-play features trailer.

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Rift free-to-play vs everyone else’s free-to-play

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Rift free-to-play vs everyone else’s free-to-play

Trion today announced that their MMO Rift Online would be joining the great migration from subscription-based gaming to a free-to-play model, walking in the footsteps of Lord of the Rings: Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and DC Universe Online.

Though one key difference between Rift and all those other MMOs... we’ll let the list of restricted features speak for itself.

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Defiance bugs invade RIFT

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RIFT celebrates the arrival of Moonshade dimensions

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Trion shutting down RIFT in Korea

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RIFT celebrates its second anniversary with a freebie weekend and sale

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RIFT guild creates Star Wars tableau

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Rift users played for 58% longer when bribed with promotional trinkets

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Rift users played for 58% longer when bribed with promotional trinkets

Rift has been the great (read: only) new subscription MMO success story of the decade, launching in 2011 to applause and a flood of direct debit details. But by mid-2012 subscriber numbers had begun to wane. In October Trion Worlds launched a new initiative with gaming social network Raptr to draw in fresh meat. In essence, the initiative saw players bribed with in-game items to keep playing. The result? The planes of Telara ran red with metaphorical new blood, and players began to play for longer too.

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Rift 2.2 patch released beginning the Carnival of the Ascended; full notes detail changes to each class

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Rift 2.2 patch released beginning the Carnival of the Ascended; full notes detail changes to each class

Starting on Thursday, Rift's land of Telara has been taken over by the Carnival of the Ascended, bringing with it pets for your pets, carnival games and class changes.

The full list of changes is copied in below but the biggest alterations which 2.2 brings is the new Planar Attunement Tier 3, Planar Attunement of War Tier 2, and the Planar Attunement level cap lift, increasing it to 1079.

Check out the rest of the changes below.

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Rift 2.2 update brings the Carnival of the Ascended to Tempest Bay

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Rift 2.2 update brings the Carnival of the Ascended to Tempest Bay Rift's Carnival of the Ascended won't just be hitting the Tempest Bay this year but will spread across all of Telara, bringing with it hats that can be worn at a jaunty angle and colourful mounts of all shapes and sizes (that's a lie, we don't know what shape or size they'll be, they could be exceedingly similar shapes and sizes).

There's also a somewhat threatening world event planned, called Steppes of Infinity zone. Ooh-er, more below.

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Trion prepping bonuses for RIFT's second anniversary bash

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Enter at Your Own Rift: The burden of leveling

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Botting in RIFT and Trion’s Silence

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Dimension Spotlight: Aerial Storm Castle

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Ardent Domain Point of Interest Map

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One Shots: Worlds within worlds

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