Rift: 1 million accounts, servers named

By Robert Purchese Published 24 February, 2011

Head start access begins.

More than one million people have made an account to play Rift, the promising new MMO kid on the block.

This doesn't necessarily mean one million copies have been sold - only that one million accounts have been made. It also doesn't mean one million people are paying £8.99 a month to play - that doesn't start until the 30-day free period ends.

Head start access to Rift begins today, with the servers opening for everyone on 1st March in the US and 4th March in Europe.

And don't worry about the Americans getting in before you - the US and Europe will have their own set of servers. They have been named and numbered (below). There are no Spanish servers; the European languages supported are English, German and French.

Subscription to Rift costs you £8.99/€12.99/$14.99 a month, or £5.99/€9.99/$9.99 if you commit to six months.

Give yourself a Rift.

European Servers (player versus environment, player versus player, role-playing)

English

  • Blightweald - PVE
  • Cloudborne - PVP
  • Firesand - PVP-RP
  • Icewatch - PVE
  • Steampike - PVE
  • Whitefall - PVP
  • Argent - RP

German

  • Akala - RP
  • Brutwacht - PVE
  • Trübkopf - PVP
  • Spross-Passage DE - PVE

French

  • Brisesol - PVE
  • Rubicon - PVP
  • Tempête - RP

US Servers

  • Belmont - PVE
  • Briarcliff - PVP
  • Byriel - PVE
  • Deepstrike - PVP
  • Faeblight - RP
  • Gnarlwood - PVE
  • Greybriar - PVE
  • Keenblade - PVE
  • Lotham - PVP
  • Reclaimer - PVP
  • Seastone - PVP
  • Shadefallen - RP
  • Shatterbone - PVE
  • Snarebrush - PVP
  • Spitescar - PVP
  • Sunrest PVP-RP
  • Wolfsbane - PVE
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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 12 months ago

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  • Ryboy #1 1 year ago

    Meh.

  • Dizzy #2 1 year ago

    It is not bad. I think it might do well. 500k players or so should be possible.

  • TheDudesRug #3 1 year ago

    Good luck to them, I hope it does well. I'm interested, problem is it looks awfully like a game I already play too much.

  • haruvister #4 1 year ago

    999,999. I won't be using mine.

  • login_name #5 1 year ago

    I enjoyed my experience during beta. I'll sub for 6 months and see where it's at after that, although with SWTOR and GW2 on the horizon, I can't see it keeping me long term. For now it's more than worthy of my attention.

  • ZeroAX #6 1 year ago

    boooooooooooooooooooring

    Are they kidding me? The game looks 100% unoriginal. They might as well have named it WoW-Clone 8.

    I don't know if the game is any good, or has anything original to offer (I doubt it), but trying to take down WoW with a WoW clone is really dumb and a waste of money (Warhammer tried it and failed miserably, though if it wasn't released so close to Wrath it might have stood a chance). And that video hardly makes the game stand out. Heck it could pass for a WoW gameplay video.

  • Scopeh #7 1 year ago

    Played the Betas it will struggling to hold on to players. Especially with WoW pumping out Content patches.

  • Raiten #8 1 year ago

    I'm guessing this contains all the accounts made for open beta also.
    Scopeh, rift might actualy struggle with holding on to players who've especialy quit WoW after getting bored with it, and that's mostly because it might be just lending a bit too much from wow for its own good, hence for someone who quite wow, you'll have hard time finding reasons to play rift, since it's loaded with features you've most likely grown bored off.

  • Chufty #9 1 year ago

    I hope it does well because a hell of a lot of work has gone into it. It's incredibly well polished; the beta was absolutely fit for human consumption, and it's rare for an MMO to be in such a playable state before or even soon after release.

    Unfortunately, as others have said, its polish is the only thing that sets it aside from every other WoW-alike MMO out there.

    Thanks, but no thanks.

  • Miths #10 1 year ago

    I haven't really been following this game closely, so I wasn't even aware there was going to be a headstart.
    I just bought the €60 Digital Collector's Edition though, and if the launcher keeps up it's current download pace (2-4 MB/s), I should be playing in less than an hour.

    Although reading the official forum - when I'm not getting a "server busy" from it - it sounds like this might be another MMO plagued by horrendous server queues at (pre-)launch. Well, hopefully the EU servers should be accessible at my typical gaming hours - in the middle of night :). Although I'm unfortunately feeling a bit too tired for that tonight.

  • JayG #11 1 year ago

    only 8 hours before i can play.

  • levitate #12 1 year ago

    RIFT, worth waiting for...

  • berelain #13 1 year ago

    RIFT is awesome. Everyone who says its just another WoW-clone clearly hasn't taken part in some of the amazing zone-wide invasions, where dozens - probably hundreds- of players across an entire Zone start banding together to take on the attackers. Throw in the threat of an attacking player faction at the same time, and you have an incredibly dynamic MMO experience that I've certainly never seen before.

    Plus the class system is fantastic.

    Now I just have to wait for the queue to die down...

  • Miths #14 1 year ago

    I got in right away without any queues. When I started up the game a couple of hours ago, two of the English servers had the population listed as high instead of full (all full now when I just quit though), so I got in straight away - and even got to try four different characters, as logging out to character selection doesn't kick you off the server.

    I'm unfortunately too tired to keep playing tonight, but I definitely liked what I saw here at the beginning of the game. The complex and varied class (soul) system in particular seems very interesting.

    Graphics aren't as impressive as I had expected based on the previews I've read, but I'm sure it looks better if I could run it maxed out (I'm using "high", with a few custom settings, at 1920x1200 and getting 30-60 fps on my Geforce GTX 260 + Core 2 Quad CPU).

  • Spekingur #15 1 year ago

    Probably won't be playing SWTOR (never say never, right?) but I will be playing GW2. That is however not subscription based so I'm fine with having a selection of MMOs to choose from.

    I am enjoying my time in Rift, even with all the long queues - yay for full servers! Couldn't get the character names I was after, either. I wish Trion had offered a chance to keep character names from beta to launch :/

    Btw, why say "it's a wow clone!" when you haven't actually played it to judge it? Just sounds foolish to me.

  • ircaddicts #16 12 months ago

    this will be lucky to have 100K subs after the free month is up. The only thing this has going for it is the rift system other than that its same old same old.

  • FortysixterUK #17 12 months ago

    I'm enjoying Rift...trouble is squeezing it in between all the amazing PS2 and Xbox 360 RPGs out there...one thing I will say about Rift is it seems a little "soulless", which is odd for a game based around souls. But it's fun and I'm hoping it will pick up.

    CE and 6 month sub for the win.