The past 3 months have had fairly small patches, usually just fixing a bug or adding a mount that appears in the store immediately. The patch for April 27th is different, as in addition to a new mount, we are also getting a brand new armor set. The staged version is “STABLE-1-1142-a-1256293”, going live on April 28th. Let’s dive in!
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It’s been a few months, but this week we got a staged patch that I believe should make some guilds and events within the Rift community very excited. Staged this week is version “STABLE-1-1131-a-1256145”, and will likely go live on February 3, 2026. Let’s dive in and see what we find!
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New patch is staged this week – Version “STABLE-1-1110-a-1255963”. The current live build is “STABLE-1-1106-a-1255901”, which went live on August 19th. This is a longer time between patches since Gamigo started to get things out, but we do get 3 new reskinned mounts and some more store banners. As always, let’s dive in.
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It appears that yet another patch has been staged for Rift this morning. This is coming 2 weeks faster than the July 22nd patch, so an improvement in patch timings. This one brings more cosmetics, mounts, and seasonal/repeatable content as we would expect. Rift is in desperate need of new non-seasonal content, but that takes a lot longer to develop. […]
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Well, this is news and good to see, yet another patch is staged for Rift. Last patch went live on June 24th, and this one comes just a bit under a month later. Maybe this will continue? The Rift website has definitely changed as well, which is interesting to note. Well, new patch, new things, let’s dive in as usual.
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This is a record that will take forever to break again. Rift’s last actual patch was May 4th, 2022. Today is June 17th, 2025. After consulting google to math things out, that is 1,140 days since a Rift update. We don’t know the timing for when this patch will go live, but it is ready in Rift’s patch staging servers. […]
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Many Free to Play MMORPGs are swift to get labeled as “pay to win”. For some this is a valid criticism, but for others the actual facts put this term in a far more gray territory. Many of these games are careful to avoid allowing a player to obtain best in slot or gain a competitive end-game edge by paying […]
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Today the re-release of the 1st Battle Pass season was launched live for Rift, and with it came a fairly small patch. This didn’t introduce any new game assets, those came with the previous patch for Carnival, but it did provide a complete list of all planned event dates from now until the end of 2023. My cynical side says […]
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So, looks like we are getting Carnival and the Budgie CTA in April. It is important to understand that at the end of March there were layoffs on the Gamigo side, including a significant reduction of the Community Management team. Information suggests that this patch was being worked on BEFORE the layoffs occurred, and was in testing when layoffs did […]
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Rift’s last patch was March 25, 2021, with the last datamining being available on March 20th. Finally, after 313 days, there is a NEW patch for Rift. It’s small, it’s not much, but we have a few things to datamine, so let’s dive into it.
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