How busy is it?

— EU & NA – You will find levelling zones to be quite empty, but main cities have players in them.
— Players are funnelled towards the more active shards, these are Typhiria for EU and Deepwood for NA.
— Population is low, with most group activities only happening during peak times. You will need to be sure to match the peak time of your cluster to your own play times.

Can I find groups?

— NA & EU – There are PUG groups forming in chat during peak times for both Raids and Dungeons (Level 70).
— To find groups of players while you are levelling, you can join Instant Adventures! Open World questing is pretty much always solo play.
— At end game, there are often DRR/Crift groups each evening, as well as players calling out VP events and Xarth Mires.

Are there active guilds?

— NA & EU – There are a few large guilds with one or more regular raid groups as well as groups for open world content such as raid rifts. There are also scatterings of smaller guilds that may band together for group content or that purely PUG for group content.

Is there new content coming?

— There has been no content for a long long time. As far as we know, there are no proper developers working on the game. New content is highly unlikely.

Is the old content still playable?

— Every dungeon, raid, puzzle, open world zone, artifact collection etc is still there and is still in a very playable state.
— Some limited time mounts, pets, minion cards and wardrobe are currently unavailable. There are still PLENTY of these items available to collect that will keep you busy for a long time!

What about the old Raids and Dungeons?

— All the old Raids and Dungeons are still accessible, the only Raid that was ever ‘removed’ is the original HK, this was turned into a level 65 version HK which is still playable.
— Groups (for high level chars) sometimes form in chat to run old Raids or Dungeons as players attempt cheevos or just want the wardrobe unlocks from them.
— A lot of the low level Raids/Dungeons can be soloed once you reach high level.

How is the levelling experience?

— Levelling in open world is pretty much going to be solo play all the way to 70. However you can join instant adventures to group up with other players and battle as a team. You can also try your luck in the level chats to piece together a dungeon group, this can be successful, especially during peak times.
— Asking questions in chat is usually met with helpful people who will try to help you out.

How is the in game economy?

— Due to a well known exploit that is being used by a small % of players, the economy is very broken. The exploit is used by players to earn infinite amounts of platinum, thus these players have hundreds of thousands of plat and have used that plat to increase the prices of everything on the Auction House or traded.
— New players will be unable to buy REX from other players, as the price is now in the hundreds of thousands. A fresh player is only able to hold 5k plat!
— Thus new players will need to be mostly self sufficient, levelling up their own craft skills and keeping trading with other players to a minimum.
— The plus side, is that new players can easily make a bunch of plat by selling materials and artifacts at the now ridiculously inflated prices.
— To be able to participate in the hugely inflated economy, you will need to at least have your account restrictions unlocked so you can hold more plat, this means a small purchase with real money, to get to 1500 loyalty points. Or you can slowly purchase loyalty shards from other players.
— Note: Even players who do not use the exploit are still sitting on lots of plat, partly due to the inflation, but also due to longer term players having nothing left to spend it on, so it just builds up.

How is Shard Stability?

— EU – The EU shards are fine, there is an occasional crash every few weeks or so, this is usually resolved quickly.
— NA – The NA shards are more unstable, with some shards going down multiple times a week, mostly for an hour or two, but occasionally a shard can be down for 24hrs+, especially if it happens over the weekend. Usually this will only effect one or two shards at a time, but sometimes the entire cluster will go down.

What about purchasing and support?

— Buying items directly from the rift store works fine, and you can buy packs from the glyph website too. Some players experience issues with using steam wallet.
— The Rift Store is extremely outdated, there are a bunch of items on there (especially gear) that just shouldn’t be there anymore. So be careful not to waste your money! Ask in the chats for players opinions about what is worth it to buy, you may also find the Cadrift purchasing page helpful.
— Support Tickets are being answered, but sometimes players are left waiting for an answer for weeks. If you have an issue that you think may require support to fix, write the ticket asap! While you wait, have a look at the Cadrift tech help page, maybe something there will help.
— Forums – The official Rift Forums are gone. They were deleted without warning on the first week of February 2022. We know they went down for ‘security reasons’, meaning the old forums were simply not safe to use anymore. Players had been complaining about this for a long time! We now have community forums over at the Ghar Station.
— There is an official Rift Discord run by Gamigo, and there are some CMs on there. However all they are able to do is post info about sales and “pass along your message to the team”. They do occasionally run competitions, but they no longer sponsor player led competitions.