I live in Japan, and today I open my e-mail to see this mail from Trion Worlds about my subscription:

Trion Worlds, with the rest of the world, has been following the unprecedented events in Japan. We hope that you and your family are safe and well. We understand that, at this time, you may have more immediate priorities than playing RIFT, so we have credited your Trion Worlds account with an additional thirty (30) days of RIFT game time. This additional game time will automatically be credited to your account — you do not need to do anything. If you have an active subscription plan, your first billing date will be postponed/delayed by an additional thirty days. No change will be made to the subscription plan you have chosen. We are grateful for the support that you have shown for RIFT by purchasing our game and hope you enjoy this additional game time. Sincerely, Trion Worlds, Inc.

Trion Worlds, you are now amongst my most respected of game companies. Thank you.

Heyo!
I’m back with an exciting update on the community-run progression event I posted about a few days ago. We’ve seen incredible growth recently, with new players joining who are experiencing RIFT for the first time, alongside veterans eager to roll fresh characters and rediscover the game in a semi-new way.

Here’s the big news:
We’ll officially be starting as a group on Friday, November 7th at 6 PM EST!

• The current level cap will be 50

• We’ll be tackling raids with significantly reduced raid sizes to bring back the challenge that’s been lost due to power creep

We’d love to share this experience with as many people as possible. If this sounds fun to you, hop into our Discord! We’re happy to answer questions and hopefully convince you to come join the adventure 😊

https://discord.gg/QQhMZZseQf

We will be rolling on the Deepwood shard.

Edit: The discord link has been updated.

The game for how old it is, still has a great graphics style, and I have an nvidia card as well, and if you turn on the game filters and turn on sharpening+ it looks even better I think :)

The 15th RIFT Carnival of the Ascended starts today. See the gamigo online writeup on the 15th anniversary for instructions on how to get 3 free days of Patron.

The offer expires March 4, 2026, 11.59 PM UTC.

Just a tribute post to how beautiful and atmospheric this game is. I always enjoy logging in to go around my fav locations for a few minutes. It just hits different than many other games' environment. I especially enjoy how the different weathers and times of the day (also when you walk through a rift) change the atmosphere.

I use screenshots as my desktop wallpapers, but we can't upload multiple pictures to the sub so I can't show my folder.

What's your favorite area in terms of landscape and atmosphere? Though I like Iron Pine Peak, my absolute fav is Droughtlands.

Hello from Germany.

I play Rift for 2 Years and me and my friend always had to buy Gamecards from onlineshops with paysafecard because Rift is not supporting ELV ( The most popular online payment method in germany) and neither Paysafecard. You have to know that maybe 10% of Germans own a Credit Card so its not a Option for us and many people dont have or dont want to use Paypal. Me and all of my friends that started playing now Have no option to support you and buy something in the Shop.

Please help us giving you Money trion and add a ELV or atleast Paysafecard option. Even before Rift went F2P many friends didnt Sub because there was no ELV, its a huge thing in germany and you are missing on a lot of Money if your not Supporting it like WoW for example.

I hope this gets attentions, i love your game and i love trion.

RIFT™ TO OFFER FREE CHARACTER TRANSFERS

Gather your friends in RIFT and play anywhere, any time

When the next major RIFT™ update hits early this summer, subscribers will be treated to a surprise – free character transfers. Trion Worlds announced today that with RIFT 1.3, players will have the ability to move to select servers in their territory once each week, taking all items, achievements, and titles with them. Additionally, guild leaders will be able to move their guild’s level and experience.

“MMOs are all about playing with your friends no matter which server they’re on, and that’s why we’re offering this as a free service to our subscribers,” said Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer. “RIFT is both a game and a service, and adding free server transfers is just one more way we can make this the best possible MMO experience available.”

Whether you want to play with friends, check out a new server, or avoid queue times on highly populated servers, you’ll be free to move about Telara. As a part of this grand experiment, there will initially be no limits on the number of times you can transfer your characters or guild.

Character transfers will remain a free service for the foreseeable future, and could become a permanent addition to the RIFT experience. Subscribers will be able to perform the transfers inside of the game itself once the patch is live.

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Stumbled upon this useful feature so forgive me if it has already been mentioned:

RIFT's new Store allows you to sell your Gray trash items anywhere; i.e., you do not have to visit a vendor NPC. To do this, open up the RIFT Store and click on any of the categories (i.e., Services, Boosts, Equipment). Now notice the Sell Grey Items button on the bottom, to the right of the Buy Back tab.