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Veteran Rewards Listed

Posted 21 September 2011 by [Comments Off]

TRION like to shower their subscribers with gifts and the latest update from TRION highlights the v1.5 Veteran Rewards which include a full Guardian or Defiant guard uniform for your wardrobe, a personal vendor, an on-the-go mailbox, and more. Check them out here.

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RIFT Nominated for a Golden Joystick Award

Posted 5 August 2011 by [Comments Off]

The UK’s annual Golden Joystick Award nominations are now underway and gamers can now vote for their favourite games from the last year. The good news for TRION is that RIFT has been nominated in the best MMORPG category and you can get your vote in now and show your support. Go on, you know what to do!

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Rift Easter Eggs and Pop Culture Guide

Posted 20 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

Spot the references

Just in time for Easter we have posted a new RIFT Easter Egg and Pop Culture reference guide up for one and all, something we have been meaning to do for a while to keep all discoveries in one neat place. We have scoured the Intertubes and hunted them down in-game to put this list together with help from the RIFT community. As a huge Rush fan I was pleasantly surprised to find the NPC called Peil Neert and it’s good to see someone at TRION has great taste in music ;)

Anyway, I will say this list will probably not be complete as more is discovered and if you spot any you can also add your own discoveries. For now though dig in and see what TRION added to the game.

TRION Compensates Players

Posted 1 April 2011 by [6]

As we know from talking to TRION in numerous interviews over the past weeks, they have pretty high standards for customer support and it looks like players are being very well compensated if they have had to wait for a long time to get responses from customer support. IncGamers guild member Dorjan had submitted three support tickets and had to wait three or four days. So how did TRION respond?

To Dorjan’s surprise he received an email a few minutes ago offering a full free month as well as special pre-order items to compensate him for the wait. Now you have to admit this is an excellent response from TRION who are showing they are very keen to keep players onboard and provide a top quality customer service. Here’s the mail Dorjan received.

Our goal here at Trion is to deliver the highest quality games and a superior customer experience.

Recently, you had to wait through an exceptional delay during the processing of your request for support — a delay that did not and will not meet our high bar for responsiveness. For that, you have our sincere apologies.

This is not the experience that you should expect from Trion Worlds. To help make up for the delay, we have:

  • Credited your account 30 days of play time.
  • Bestowed via in-game mail, to all your current and future characters, a full set of the special RIFT pre-order bonus weapon enchant runes that you may not have had previously.

No action is required on your end. These items and days of play time have already been added to your Trion Worlds account.

We know this does not entirely make up for the frustration you have encountered, but this is our way of thanking you for your patience.

I do hope TRION keep up this level of support, it goes a long way to keeping customers satisfied and breeds a healthy atmosphere within the community. With all the recent hacks and issues the support team were inundated with support requests so response times could be slow. Well done TRION for compensating players.

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Where did they Get the RIFT Chicken Emote?

Posted 13 March 2011 by [1]

TRION apparently watch the same TV shows as me, I am a huge Arrested Development fan and so are TRION it appears. If you were wondering where the /chicken emote actually comes from, it’s the chicken dance that different members of the Bluth family acted out in the TV show (See clip below).

And there is of course ‘The Calrton’ dance from Fresh Prince of Bell Air.

Sadly Arrested Development was axed even though it was proably the funniest sitcom ever created in the US. If you have not watched the show I urge you to go out an buy it on DVD, it’s a classic. There is talk of an Arrested Development movie being made so lets hope that does eventually happen.

So there you go, a fun little piece of RIFT trivia  for all you RIFT fans wondering what the hell the chicken emote is all about :)

Founders Pricing Plan Extended

Posted 10 March 2011 by [Comments Off]

Good news for players wanting to take up RIFT as TRION has now extended the Founder’s Pricing plan until the end of March. This means that early adopters of the game can get in now and take advantage of a £5.99 GBP/month price for a multi-month subscription. Now that is a good deal that I would urge anyone to take up if they haven’t already.


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RIFT Tops Digital Download Charts

Posted 1 March 2011 by [Comments Off]

Not long now until the full launch and to show how well the game is being received as far as sales are concerned, RIFT has topped two of the main digital download charts. Well done to TRION for reaching the top.

Steam

  1. Rift
  2. Dragon Age II
  3. Magicka
  4. Fallout: New Vegas – Dead Money
  5. Sid Meier’s Civilization V

Direct2Drive

  1. RIFT Digital Collector’s Edition
  2. RIFT Standard Edition
  3. DC Universe Online
  4. Dragon Age II
  5. DCS: A-10C Warthog
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Level 50s Appear

Posted 27 February 2011 by [Comments Off]

Well it had to happen quickly but the first level 50s started appearing in the past 24 hours with world firsts on the US Spitescar server. Our own server EU Blightweild has just got the first level 50 which was announced accross the shard which was pretty cool.

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Look! A Level 50

It’s pretty mental really, that’s some serious playing but no doubt some of the accounts will have been shared or levelled by redoing dungeons. Right now the IncGamers Guild has quite a spread of players as more recruits join the ranks. Nexxa is now our highest after hitting 30 yesterday, followed by Brakz and Wiazabi on 29. Progress has been good for the guild with Fae and Iron Tomb both being run yesterday for the newer members. We’ll be keeping everyone posted on how we are doing and if you fancy joining us then head to the IncGamers Guild forum

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Press Day Goodie Bag – Phat Loot!

Posted 25 February 2011 by [1]

As I mentioned earlier, TRION held a press day in London today is time for the early start. At the event the game was demoed and a few interviews took place, so stay tuned for that. While we were there TRION also handed out some cool goodie bags which included a copy of the game, a very cool RIFT shirt, a RIFT mouse mat and tote bag. Nice stuff. I snapped a quick pic, and hopefully, with any luck we may have some for you guys courtesy of Regulos!


London Press Day Loot

London Press Day Loot

Many thanks to TRION for a great day out, was a lot of fun.

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Waiting for Access

Posted 24 February 2011 by [1]

As many of you will be aware by now the queues to get on the servers are causing massive wait times of six hours plus, certainly for the EU at least. We are of course waiting to hear more about new servers but until then hang in there everyone, I’m sure TRION are on the case. This is a pretty common problem on an MMO launch day, which effectively this is.

TRION has been updating their Twitter with new server as they pop up so you can also keep an eye on that for updates.

Abigale also issued a quick statement on the queues.

It’s opening day and there are queues. That’s pretty standard for a situation where you have this many people trying to log on at the same time.

We are in the process of opening more servers. Please keep checking here on the forums and Facebook/Twitter for the latest news.

Thank you for your patience. We are working to accommodate you all as quickly as we can. We are as anxious to get you into Telara as you are to get there!

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