The Rift Podcast

By Rift Podcast

What's The Rift Podcast about?

The Rift - a podcast all about Trion World's AAA MMO - RIFT. Discussions, debates and interviews with developers and community memebers about the game and the community.

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The Rift Podcast episodes:

05.23.2011
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Today, in our final episode, we have Scott Hartsman and Cindy Abigale Bowens join us to talk a bit about the game from back when no one knew about it, through to today. We also reminisce about the podcast origins...
05.09.2011
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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...
04.25.2011
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Will Cook, Rift and Events lead and Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens join Arithion & Desikis in today's episode to talk about the following and more: • Learning from World Event 1 • The Future of World Events • Dynamic Content Expanded • 1.2 and Rifts • Authenticators Make sure to check out...
04.18.2011
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Elrar and Abigale join Shyntyrr and Arithion to talk about the prospects of patch 1.2, and the unfolding of the world event. • Patch 1.2 potential changes • Guild Bank...
04.11.2011
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Adam ‘Gersh’ Gershowitz joins the podcast team today in order to clarify and answer some things which arose with Patch 1.1 • Class Balance and Changes • Raid Healing Alterations • Corrupted Soul scarcity • New Rift contribution system • World Event • Profession Plaques • Dungeons Plaques • The Missing Dye Vendor
04.04.2011
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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 • Class Changes • Dailies and Plaques • World Event • Scarring Telara • Customer Service Improvements Next week Adam Gershowitz...
03.29.2011
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As Patch 1.1 approahces, 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...
03.21.2011
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Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens and James 'Elrar' Nichols join the podcast team this week to discuss things post launch, including: • Hacked and compromised accounts • Account Security • Ingame Spam • Fansites • Potential server transfers • and more! We hope you enjoy the podcast
03.14.2011
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Esloan from HorRiftic Intentions and BC from RIFTIrc join Ari and Desi today to discuss some of the hot topics surrounding the launch game - including: • Hacked Accounts • Customer Service • AFK in Warfronts • EndGame concerns • & some ingame stories! We hope you enjoy a laid back...
03.07.2011
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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. • Server Queues on Headstart • Hacking and Spamming • Expectations versus Reality • Likes and...
02.21.2011
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Esloan from HorRiftic Intentions co-hosts this week’s podcast with Ari. Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens joins them to discuss the community, forums and the game’s launch. They also present the 2nd half of the Dev Roundtable from last week and discuss some of...
02.14.2011
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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. They cover a lot of ground including the following: • Botting, Hacking...
02.07.2011
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Berenger Fish - RIFT Instance and Raid Lead joins us today and covers the following topics and more: • Tiered Raiding and Progression • Instance and Raid Lockout Timers • Multiclassing • ...
01.31.2011
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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. • Beta 5 • Soul Combinations • Racial changes incoming • Expectations and Reality • Private Chat...
01.24.2011
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Chris Junior, Senior Systems Designer for RIFT, joins us today to talk about PVP, PVP and did we mention PVP? • Raid Queues • Post 50 PVP • PVP: Valor, Prestige and how it works • PVP Souls, Crowd Control and Gear • OpenWorld PVP • Warfronts incl. Port Scion He talks about...
01.17.2011
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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. We also announce a great guild contest! We talk about the good and the bad of: ...
01.10.2011
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David Reid, Senior VP of Publishing and Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens join us today to look at the following: -Publishing and expectations for release -Pre-order and founder packages -Releasing a polished game -The growth of the community and the direction of the forums -Why we're not...
01.03.2011
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We Kick the new year off with a mini roundtable discussion about the state of the RIFT betas so far. Kaelistis, Ananiah and Aimgar join Arithion to talk about: • Overall impression of the game • Soul system and the recent changes • Rifts, Invasions, Footholds...
12.22.2010
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Beta NDA is lifted Scott Hartsman - Rift’s Studio General Manager, Chief Creative Officer and Executive Producer; Alyvian - forum and irc regular, beta tester and Tranquility Guild Leader and Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens - Sr. Community Manager for RIFT join Arithion...
12.20.2010
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Both Scott Hartsman - Rift’s Studio General Manager, Chief Creative Officer and Executive Producer - and Cameron McNeil - Senior System's Lead - sat down with Ari while she was at Trion and discussed some of, but not limited to,...
12.17.2010
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Berenger Fish - the instance and raid team leader Adam Hetenyi and Billy Shaughnessy - instance and raid content deisgners - made time to do a short interview with me which touches on: * Raid Instances...
12.13.2010
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Adam Gershowitz, Producer for TrionWorld's RIFT, takes time out of his busy schedule to join us for the second time. He talks to us about a lot of things, including but not limited to: * Some...
12.06.2010
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Abigale talks to the Podcast team about Beta and what it's like from the other side - ie: behind the scenes. She touches on the following: * VIP Invites etc * How the servers held...
11.22.2010
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The Podcast Interviews Hal Hanlin, Rift's design Producer. He talks to us about, but not limited to, the following: * Soul system and its diversity * Soul acquirement * Rifts in...
11.15.2010
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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...
11.08.2010
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It's a Community Team Invasion! Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens, Amanda 'Amary' Fry and Erick 'Zann' Adams join us to talk about: * Managing Community through all the different social media like Facebook, Twitter and the Forums ...
11.01.2010
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Will Cook, Trion's Rift Events Lead, joins us to talk about everything to do with rifts. He covers many things including, and not limited to: Rift Rewards, Rift contribution, Rift dynamic content, different types of Rifts, Endgame Rifts and how...
10.25.2010
RiftPodcast17
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. And - we announce our random comment contest winner for the...
10.18.2010
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Scott Hartsman talks about game scope, dungeons, EndGame (RaidRifts), level curves, pvp, rare drop rewards and plans to deal with gold spam/bots. Abi also drops by to say hi and we announce a short random VIP beta pass contest giveaway...
10.11.2010
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This week we meet Amanda 'Amary' Fry our Community Coordinator. Abigale talks a bit about Beta And we launch our first two contests to win a VIP Beta Key
10.04.2010
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Simon 'Dead Simon' Ffinch, Trion's Sr. Design Director, talks to us all about the Questing system in Rift: Planes of Telara including: Dynamic Quests, Epic Quests, Daily Quests, Hidden quests, Endgame Content and Reputation Quests. Abi also drops by...
09.27.2010
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This week we're joined by Morgan 'MissDoomCookie' Lockhart and Nick 'CaptainCursor' McDowell. They talk to us about all aspect of the Lore of Rift: Planes of Telara - and even have a few little surprises in store for us.
09.20.2010
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Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens joins us to chat about the recent conventions, feedback received, the expanding community and up and coming dev interaction. Karen (winner of massiveonlinegamers contest) also joins us to talk about her experience in the Rift offices.
09.13.2010
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AutomaticZen joins us to share his PAX experience and touches on Responsiveness of the controls, Character Customization and Individuality, the class system and Rift Invasions - the overall playability of Rift.
08.30.2010
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Kalbuir and Ciovala join us today to go over their experience of Rift at Gamescom and what impressions (both good and bad) they got of the game during the experience.
08.23.2010
RiftPodcast9
Gamescom week gives the community a heap of new information and fans the chance to experience gameplay at the Con. Abi and Kalbuir join us, and Kal talks about his experience playing the actual game.
08.16.2010
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Eric Vignola joins us to talk about the behind the scenes process of 'rigging'. An enlightening view of what it takes to make our character thrust, jump and roll. Cindy pops by to say hi and remind us Gamescom is around...
08.05.2010
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Abigale joins Arithion to clarify questions about the upcoming beta. She goes into detail about the different selection processes and avenues beta chances will be available from.
08.02.2010
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Joshua Kurtz, designer of the Paladin Class, joins Ari and Desi to discuss the newly released Paladin soul. Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens also stops by to chat briefly about the famous soon (tm)
07.26.2010
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Cindy "Abigale" Bowens joins Arithion and Desikis to discuss the day to day schedule of a Community Manager and what the responsibilities entail. She also goes into some detail about playing the game, encountering rifts and wandering mobs - as well...
07.17.2010
RiftPodcast4
This week we have rift systems content designer Larry Boles clarify a few things about the rifts for us. We discuss some of the most recent articles and Rift news and chat to Cindy "Abigale" Bowens about the 'sacrifices' she makes...
07.12.2010
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Abigale, Jives and Ciovala join Arithion and Desikis to talk about the community as it was and as it is now. Abigale goes into detail about the Future Official FanSite program.

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