The Rift: Planes of Telara thread.

[Bryan]

Exclusive in-game digital items:

* Ancient Tartagon Mount: Available at level 20, this turtle mount increases player speed by 60%
* Collector’s Satchel: Increases the size of your primary backpack to 24 slots
* Bogling Wastrel: This unique pet sets you apart from the other Ascended

Exclusive in-box premium items:

* 8GB USB Drive: Exclusive flash drive branded with the Rift logo
* Official Rift Soundtrack: Featuring 17 epic tracks from acclaimed game composer Inon Zur
* SteelSeries gaming mouse pad featuring detailed art of a blistering Fire Rift
* Telara Chronicles Trade Hardcover: All five issues of the gripping graphic novel miniseries based on the Rift universe in one limited-edition hardbound book

Those who pre-order either the standard or Collector’s Edition of Rift will receive their choice of the following in-game pets: Cockatrice Chick, Deep One Spawnling or Hellhound Pup. Additionally, players who pre-purchase the game at select retailers will get one of the following exclusive weapon enchantments. Each rune grants your character +3 Endurance and protects against that element.

* Blazing Sourcestone Rune (Steam): Fire touches your weapon, causing it to burst into flame (+10 Fire Resist)
* Crystalline Sourcestone Rune (Amazon): Earth touches you weapon, encasing it in crystal (+10 Earth Resist)
* Frozen Sourcestone Rune (Best Buy): Water touches your weapon, encasing it in frost (+10 Water Resist)
* Pulsing Sourcestone Rune (Direct2Drive): Life touches your weapon, causing it to pulse with life energy (+10 Life Resist)
* Shrouded Sourcestone Rune (Trion direct and all other 3rd party digital retailers): Death touches your weapon, shrouding it in darkness (+10 Death Resist)
* Swirling Sourcestone Rune (GameStop): Air touches your weapon, wreathing it in lightning (+10 Air Resist)

Get ready rifters, as Trion Worlds has dropped a definitive release date for its forthcoming fantasy MMORPG. That's right, RIFT will be firing on all cylinders round about March 1st in the States (March 4th in Europe). Today's announcement also brings further word on the pre-order program and collector's edition items that we mentioned last week.

Pre-order customers can choose one of three in-game pets and are eligible to jump in and play RIFT a week before the official launch date. The head start period begins February 24th, and all pre-order customers are automatically invited to participate in the remaining beta events (the details of which are available on the official site). Finally, Trion is also discounting multi-month subscriptions to the tune of $9.99 US with a time-limited Founder's Pricing program.

"We've been able to create an exceptionally polished and immersive online world filled with adventure, surprise, and beauty. We can't wait to share RIFT with players around the world," said Trion CEO Lars Buttler.

That's a lot of swag. o_O

Probably the best Collector's Edition gear since Tabula Rasa's, which came with a personalized dog tag (which I still have), coin, poster, and other stuff. I'm starting to like Rift more and more, and after this next Warfronts (instanced PvP) beta. I'm going to decide whether or not I want to buy it. I've liked the first two betas.

[Ketsuarikado]

Woot a fellow dog tag holder :P

Anywho... I don't know if I will purchase this game or not... The beta did not catch my interest, and niether did the thousand bugs and invisible walls xD

[Jermatoo]

I'll problaby get the collector's edition just to see how well the game goes, the second beta did catch my interests but let's see how well the third one is.

[Pygoz]

I really liked the beta of this game, so I will definitely give it a shot

[sinnful]

I'm tempted to try it, but so many P2P mmo's have been an utter disaster lately such as APB and FFXIV.

[SnOwBunZz]

I'm tempted to try it, but so many P2P mmo's have been an utter disaster lately such as APB and FFXIV.

I tried it out and neglecting the rather resourcehog it is, it's not that bad.

I dislike the talent/skill system though, giving me a reason not to buy it. :/

[chili01]

this turtle mount increases player speed by 60%

whoa... it's like....whoa

[marcipaans]

Kinda suspicious. Would wait a few months after its release.

inb4shuttingdownin2monthsafterrelease

*Ty we got all your cash for the overpriced Collectors Edition and now we say goodbye*

[Thekobe]

i applied to the beta long ago but still didn't get an invite

[chaoscauser]

I just got invited to beta yesterday from wegame

[ArcDevil]

not interested in Rift at all, imo it stinks of PvE, and it aimed to be a WoW clone so it will fail hard due to that.

[redfiretruck]

I was playing the beta and realized that I was playing World of Warcraft but with big purple missiles of gas flying everywhere.