In recent months, it has become evident that something is happening with Rift. Suddenly, updates have been going online regularly again. And now the MMORPG is even represented at gamescom 2025.
Why is Rift at gamescom? According to the official overview page of Senatis GmbH on gamescom.global, it states that in cooperation with publisher Gamigo and – attention – “a new indie team”, the MMORPG Rift will be showcased at their booth as a guest. There awaits a “thrilling insight into the upcoming steps of this long-standing online success” for all visitors.
What kind of insight that is, we cannot say at this time. However, riftgame.com mentions that at booth 31 in hall 10.2, visitors can meet at least two well-known members of the Rift team:
- Arcahem – RIFT Community Management
- Naerolin – RIFT Product Management (professional dwarf)
Players with a Rift account who stop by there can grab a voucher for the “GC 2025 Cape Bundle”, which includes an exclusive cloak and a nimbus for the MMORPG.
Rift is alive
What else is happening with Rift? In June 2025, the first update for Rift since May 2022 surprisingly went live . There were new features for the summer festival, expanded graphic settings, and more. Since then, additional minor patches have gone live. The most recent was on August 19, 2025.
Newly released features include (source: riftgame.com):
- The battle pass “Tentacles of the Pest” has been activated.
- A visual issue with the werewolf cloak has been fixed.
- A visual issue with the Pirate King’s mantle has been fixed.
- A localization error for the “GC 2025” cloak mail has been fixed.
- The halo spells obtained from newer cloak items now persist even after the player logs out.
Again, just a few minor things.
What do I need to know about Rift? Rift is a genre oldie that has been around for over 14 years and is known for being one of the few MMORPGs that had a nearly trouble-free launch.
This, in turn, allowed the developers to kickstart their content pipeline early for regular supply, enabling Rift to quickly establish itself as a strong alternative to WoW and similar games. This made the MMORPG more successful than most other genre representatives that were labeled as potential WoW-killers during the peak of online role-playing games.
Content-wise, Rift has long been said to offer a “best-of” from the content and systems of the MMORPG genre. There were hardly any original ideas. However, the well-known elements were adapted and combined so well that this was often highlighted as a positive aspect of Rift.
Unfortunately, two other ambitious games were also being developed at the time by the then developer Trion Worlds. Financial issues arose. The team had to be reduced. As a result, they could not convert the momentum built by the strong launch into sustainable success. You can learn more about it here: The MMORPG Rift mocked WoW at launch, celebrated great successes – former CEO explains what went wrong
