The RIFT

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The Rift: Episode 41

This week James ‘Elrar’ Nichols, Amanda ‘Amary’ Fry, Erick ‘Zann’ Adams and Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens join Arithion and Desikis to talk about their many different playstyles and the adaptability of the soul system as well as the process of creating the podcast.
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The Rift: Episode 40

Will Cook, Rift and Events lead and Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens join Arithion & Desikis in today’s episode to talk about the following and more!
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The Rift: Episode 39

Elrar and Abigale join Shyntyrr and Arithion to talk about the prospects of patch 1.2, and the unfolding of the world event.
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The Rift: Episode 38

Adam ‘Gersh’ Gershowitz joins the podcast team today in order to clarify and answer some things which arose with Patch 1.1
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The Rift: Episode 37

Joined by Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens, James ‘Elrar’ Nichols and Cody ‘Micajah’ Bye from ZAM, the podcast talks about a few of the concerns and topics brought up by Patch 1.1.
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The Rift: Episode 36

As Patch 1.1 approaches, we sit down with Adam Hetenyi from the Rift Dungeons and Raids team to talk about the release of their new Raid instance: River of Souls, and get some questions answered about it and the current state of endgame dungeons and raids.
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The Rift: Episode 35

Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens and James ‘Elrar’ Nichols join the podcast team this week to discuss things post launch.
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The Rift: Episode 34

Esloan from HorRiftic Intentions and BC from RIFTIrc join Ari and Desi today to discuss some of the hot topics surrounding the launch game.
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The Rift: Episode 33

Today Ari and Desi are joined by – Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens, Karen Bryan of Massively, and Esloan from HorRiftic Intentions to discuss and comment on the headstart, launch and ingame experiences.
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The Rift: Episode 32

Esloan from HorRiftic Intentions joins Ari as co-host in this week’s podcast. Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens joins them to discuss the community, forums and the game’s launch.
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The Rift: Episode 31

After Ari’s Trion visit last week, we have the first half of a Dev Round Table with Scott Hartsman, Russ Brown and Hal Hanlin for everyone.
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The Rift: Episode 30

Berenger Fish – RIFT Instance and Raid Lead joins us today and covers the following topics and more!
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The Rift: Episode 29

The podcast team is joined by Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens, Karen Bryan of Massively and Shut up We’re Talking, and Yak from Yakcast – to talk about Beta 5 and RIFT as a whole.
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The Rift: Episode 28

Chris Junior, Senior Systems Designer for RIFT, joins us today to talk about PVP, PVP and did we mention PVP?
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The Rift: Episode 27

BloodPact officer Apatheus, and members Rival and Vekna join us to discuss RIFT pvp. Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens stops by to take notes on the feedback as well. Some points of interest include PvP warfronts, openworld PvP, soul versatility, and more!
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The Rift: Episode 26

David Reid, Senior VP of Publishing and Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens join us in this podcast and discusses publishing and expectations for release, pre-order and founder packages, releasing a polished game, the community, and more!
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The Rift: Episode 25

Kicking off the new year, The Rift hosts a mini roundtable discussion about the state of the Rift betas so far. Kaelistis, Ananiah and Aimgar join Arithion to talk about their overall impression of the game, the soul system and the recent and needed changes, the dynamic content, and crafting.
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The Rift: NDA-Free Podcast

Beta NDA is lifted. What a bloody beautiful day! We’ve waited so long for this. Scott Hartsman, Alyvian, and Cindy “Abigale” Bowens join Arithion to talk about Beta and some of the topics surrounding the first three Beta events.
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The Rift: Episode 24

Both Scott Hartsman and Cameron McNeil sat down with Ari while she was at Trion. Though their time was limited, they did discuss PvP vs PvE Gear, Soul design and Itemization, PvP Rankings and Achievements, Email Login, Testing Process, Beta, and more!
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The Rift: Interlude 1

During her visit to RIFT’s studio, Arithion sat down with the Dungeon and Raid Team to discuss well.. dungeons and raids. In this mini-episode, the Team talks about the number of dungeons and raids to be released at launch, the tiering system of the dungeons and raids, the design aspect behind some of the dungeons, and more!
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The Rift: Episode 23

This week Cindy “Abigale” Bowens is back with Adam Gershowitz, Producer for Trion World’s RIFT, for his second time on the show. Adam talks to us about some of the changes made based on feedback from the Beta 1 event and how it has affected the Beta 2 event. He also discusses some of the Dynamic elements of Rift, mainly the Rift and Invasion systems, starter souls and soul flexibility, the Global Cool Down system, Soft Ability Queues, and server rulesets.
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The Rift: Episode 22

Cindy “Abigale” Bowens joins us to chat about beta from behind the scenes. She briefly covers VIP Invites, how the servers held up, the overall response to invites, how the CSR programme was received, what they learned from the process, and how what they learned can make the next events better.
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The Rift: Episode 21

The Podcast has come of age – we’re 21 today! Hal Hanlin is our guest today. He is Rift’s Design Producer and tells us a bit about himself, and what he likes to play. He also goes over a lot of things directly Rift related and gives us some clarification on a few, and some new tidbits on others.
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The Rift: Episode 20

It’s our 20th Podcast – a longer episode commemorating Gamer Day at Trion. We were lucky enough to talk to Darcnova, Delith and Rabbit while they were still at Trion’s Offices with Cindy. And we managed to catch up with Doc over the weekend. They go into detail about their experience meeting the devs, playing the game, pvping, closing Rifts and playing with the soul system.
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The Rift: Episode 19

This week is lucky 19! We have the Community Team Invade the podcast. Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens and Amanda ‘Amary’ Fry join us again, and we get to welcome Erick ‘Zann’ Adams for the first time as they take us through how the Community Management team works, and the challenges and opportunities having so many social networking avenues like facebook and twitter poses. They also talk to us about the up and coming Gamer Day at Trion headquarters, and the rapid growth of the Rift Community and don’t forget the PIE!
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The Rift: Episode 18

Will Cook, the Rift Events Lead, made some time in his busy schedule to come and chat to us indepth about Rifts and their place in the world of Telara. He covers many things including, and not limited to: Rift Rewards, Rift contribution, Rift dynamic content, different types of Rifts, Endgame Rifts and how they do differ from the WAR public Quest system.
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The Rift: Episode 17

Cindy “Abigale” Bowens joins us to chat about her own experiences in Alpha, the recent contention about Beta on the official Forums and the up and coming Trion Gamer Day.
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The Rift: Episode 16

Scott Hartsman joins Arithion and Desikis on this week’s podcast! Scott talks a bit about PVP, Dungeons and Instancing, Raid Rifts and contested content, among other things.
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The Rift: Episode 15

Amanda “Amary” Fry makes her debut on The Rift. Arithion and Desikis also outline two new contests, one hosted in conjunction with Rift Seekers, each with a chance to win a VIP Beta Key for RIFT.
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The Rift: Episode 14

Simon “Dead Simon” Ffinch discusses Questing in Rift.
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The Rift: Episode 13

MissDoomCookie, CaptainCursor and Rift Lore.
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The Rift: Episode 12

Catching up with Cindy “Abigale” Bowens and contest winner Karen.
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The Rift: Episode 11

AutomaticZen joins us to give a veteran gamer’s perspective on PAX revelations.
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The Rift: Episode 10

Kalbuir and Ciovala chat to us about Gamescom, and playtesting Rift Alpha at the convention.
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The Rift: Episode 9

Cindy “Abigale” Bowens and Kalbuir join us to talk about the Gamescom experience and Rift from a gamers point-of-view.
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The Rift: Episode 8

Eric Vignola explains how our characters fight, dive and roll.
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The Rift: Episode 7

Special: Cindy “Abigale” Bowens clarifies beta questions.
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The Rift: Episode 6

Interview with Paladin class creator: Joshua Kurtz.
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The Rift: Episode 5

Cindy “Abigale” Bowens talks to us about the Official Fansite programme
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The Rift: Episode 4

Larry Boles talks about rift mechanics.
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The Rift: Episode 3

Cindy “Abigale” Bowens, Jessica “Jives” Ives and Ciovala join us for a community discussion.
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The Rift: Episode 2

An interview with Adam Gershowitz on the class/soul system.
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The Rift: Episode 1

An Introduction with Cindy “Abigale” Bowens.
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