{"id":8366,"date":"2013-05-14T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2013-05-14T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T18:17:24","slug":"rift-goes-free-to-play-on-june-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=8366","title":{"rendered":"Rift Goes Free-to-Play on June 12th!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RIFTlogoFree.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8367\" alt=\"RIFTlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RIFTlogoFree-300x161.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trion Worlds just announced on the <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.riftgame.com\/en\/promo\/freetoplay.php\">Rift website<\/a> that the game will be going to a free-to-play model on June 12th. \u00a0I know what you&#8217;re thinking, It&#8217;s just another game going the free to play route, but Rift has been one of the longer running games using the subscription model. \u00a0At a time where games have been launching F2P or switching over within months, Rift has managed to last over 2 years with a subscription, and have even recently released a successfully expansion, Storm Legion.<\/p>\n<p>Rift has been transitioning though. \u00a0In January it\u00a0implemented\u00a0a free-to-play model up until level 20. \u00a0The game is very similar in controls and feel to World of Warcraft, but also has some nice changes, most\u00a0notably\u00a0the Rift system, which are random world events that spawn around the different game areas and allow players to work together to defeat them for experience and rare items. \u00a0It&#8217;s a well polished game as it has been maintaining a loyal player base for years now. \u00a0If you&#8217;re looking for a new game as a change of pace, give it a try, up to level 20 now, or max level within a month!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.riftgame.com\/en\/promo\/freetoplay.php\">Rift Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nTrion Worlds just announced on the Rift website that the game will be going to a free-to-play model on June&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=8366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Rift Goes Free-to-Play on June 12th!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[253,282,582],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videogames-2","tag-f2p","tag-free-to-play","tag-rift","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rift Goes Free-to-Play on June 12th! 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