http://www.soulrift.com/ Official Soulrift Website; news and analysis of MMORPGs. en-us http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=82 So Trion, the folks behind Rift, are merging some of their less populated servers into the more populated ones. Or, rather, "not merging" those servers, but simply "suggesting" that everyone on the underpopulated servers transfer to the populated servers so the underpopulated... Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:29:40 -0500 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=82 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=81 Happy New Year everyone! And to kick off the new year, a very special podcast with Bernd Lehahn of Egosoft, the company behind the X games. Our main topics are the recently released X3: Albion Prelude and the upcoming X: Rebirth. I'm a big fan of open-ended sandbox games and X scratches an itch that... Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:47:23 -0500 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=81 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=80 There were two big design elements that attracted me to Rift originally: the make-your-own-class system and the Rifts-and-Invasions dynamic content. I'm a big fan of dynamic content. I would like nothing more for MMORPGs to do away with "quest grinding leveling" and "end game... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:48:25 -0500 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=80 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=79 Square-Enix just announced that they will start billing for Final Fantasy XIV starting January 6th, 2012. This is one full year before they expect to launch the 2.0 client and basically re-do most of the game, in 2013. So, despite all the troubles with the game so far, now they want you to pay for... Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:33:10 -0500 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=79 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=78 Well it's new patches all across the board. Rift's 1.6 added Ember Isle, STO's Season 5 heralds the first big changes before F2P, and EVE Online just dropped a 1.2 gig whopper in the form of Crucible. Admittedly, I haven't been following EVE as closely as I had wanted since Incarna; the... Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:43:15 -0500 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=78 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=77 Just like Scott Hartsman hinted at in Episode 1 of the Soulrift Podcast, the 1.6 update for Rift added a bunch of great content in the form of Ember Isle. The premise is simple: produce a zone full of content tuned for level 50 characters who have cleared out most of the "old continent"... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:47:27 -0500 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=77 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=76 Well, I just got the word from... um... do I say Cryptic or Perfect World? Well either way, they picked a date for Star Trek Online's F2P transition: January 17, 2012. That's later than I would have expected, to be honest; I would have imagined they'd be ready before Christmas so they could get... Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:11:43 -0500 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=76 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=75 Champions Online has just revealed a new promotion: for a limited time, the current premium archetypes are going on free rotation. This means players can play the premium archetypes for a week each, with a free respec offered at the end of each week so you can keep on playing with the same character... Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:15:46 -0400 http://www.soulrift.com/index.php?article=75