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You can now play a seven day trial of RIFT, the massively multiplayer online role playing game from developer Trion Worlds, for free. Seven days is usually enough time to get players hooked when it comes to MMOs as it gives them the perfect amount of time to get their feet wet and usually acquire something cool like a mount or strong piece of armor that will leave them wanting more. You can head over to Trion World's website to sign up for the free trial.
Trion Worlds is also starting a new promotion that coincides with the free trial called "Ascend-a-Friend" where current subscribers of RIFT can give out the free trial passes to friends, and each time one of them purchases the full game after participating in the trial, the recruiter gets some sort of bonus, one of which involves corgis.
The bonuses seem to be purely cosmetic (which is a good thing), not buffing classes in any way but offering something fun for collectors and corgi fantatics like myself:
- Ascend 1 Friend – It’s like getting two friends for the price of one! If just a single buddy purchases RIFT, you’ll receive Courage, a fiercely loyal and utterly adorable canine companion.
- Ascend 2 Friends – You’re immensely popular, and you know it. Demonstrate this undeniable fact by donning the glorious Trailblazer Hat, which you’ll receive after Ascending a pair of peers.
- Ascend 3 Friends – You don’t get this many friends through charm alone. By bringing three new subscribers into the game, you’ll receive the Swift Ember Steed mount, a terrifying equine wreathed in flame that is sure to turn heads in Telara.
Ascended friends will instantly be added to the recruiter's friends list and you'll both gain the ability to teleport to one another every thirty minutes. This feature is so that the recruiter, presumably of a higher level than the new ascended friend, can hang out and help with quests.
Recruit-a-friend features are nothing new to MMORPGs, but how freaking adorable is that corgi companion!? Awwww!
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Nyokou
I have never played an MMO before, but that Corgi just looks so freakin' adorable. <3
Goodness, I wish I had a better PC though.
deedubya
awww... I wants a corgi!! Sooo kewt!!!
njdss4
Thanks for the heads up, G4! I'm always willing to give a new MMO a try, and free trials are the way to go.
Thunderkleize_
But why does the corgi have a tail!? Somebody failed on that.
jjfan1
all of the WoW hate...I personally like WoW and do not have any problems with it. I do not subscribe to it any more but I may pick it up during the summer if I am bored. I was invited for the closed Rift beta and it was a lot of fun. Sadly my almost 3 year old laptop could barely handle the settings set on low. I may try Rift again next month when I get a better PC. I never truly understood the hate with some MMOs that some people have. If you like it great, if you don't that cool too. *shrug*
jtgannon
Is this 7-day free trial compatable with a Mac, because i tried downloading it on mine and it didn't work, does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks
Shuklar
Took about 2 hours to download on cable.
Sorry, yet from someone so sick of WoW, just avoid this game. It's like they're using the WoW engine with a different coat of paint. If you're tired of WoW, you'll be tired of this too. Save your bandwidth!
NelsonDemifur
The only way a free corgi is going to make we wantn to play an MMO is if I get an actual live Corgi sent to my house for playing the trail.
h0use0fc4rds
I would be willing to help someone get the mount with my trail.
Dehnyen
WoW definetly borrowed from other mmorpg's. But that's the video game industry. No harm, no foul. That said, I think I'm finally done with WoW. I'm currently DLing this demo to give it a try. My only hope is that the community isn't as terrible as WoW's. That game breeds filth in humanity.
Infinius
I too desire that dog. More than a dancing merlock. (what does that say about me?)
jungan
Dudes I may try it just cause the Corgi.
Mashpotaters
I'm done with finals this week, but I really don't want to give Rift another shot. I really liked it from the beta, and the previous trials that I've done, but I just don't want to get committed to an mmo knowing that I will put it down for SW:TOR.
MasterBojangles
You really don't follow MMo's much do you, first off WOW is not the first to do 3/4 of the things you are complaining about. Second I played rift beta and never bought the game but am thinking of trying the 7 day trial to test out the post beta edition and see if it's better. In either case I am not defending rift as a die hard fan since I barely played it but if you pay any attention to MMO's this was a game that had a huge fan base at release and little to no troubles at release unlike so many MMO's like Aion and even WoW's patches. The game has a huge amount of players and is no way a flop. It's been voted one of the most innovated MMO's by numerous sites and critics. You have no basis for stating that the game is a flop. If I wasn't waiting for GuildWars 2 I would have picked up this game. Don't trash a game you know nothing about and say it's a WOW rip off, WOW was the game that invented ripping off ideas from other MMO's. There is almost no original idea in MMO's anymore beyond the upcoming Dynamic Events introduced in GW2 that oh wait RIFT is using as well. hmm that seems like somethign original, wonder if WOW will have that in their next update so you can say that RIFT ripped it off.
macross2012
Also News Flash.. the 7 day trial is because the game has flopped and should be 100% free in 90 days
macross2012
Is it me or does this picture rip off wow more than anything I have ever seen
Electric_larry
I've often stood up for a lot of MMOs that I didn't think were fairly declaired a WoW clone, this one...is the first one that made me sound like a WoW fan boy and call it a WoW clone. It looks JUST LIKE it only slightly darker and polished. Oh well...whatever it's free...I'll probably try it.
incredible78
That horse could use some tough actin' Tinactin.
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