It's unfortunate that the turn of events that transpired, led to our chapter in Rift drying up again. This past week, Trion was sold to Gamigo and their staff minus 25 people was promptly laid off. Our hearts go out to all of the Trion folk and we wish them the best on their next chapter. This does however mark the end of our time in Rift officially.
I want to thank Berga, Elaenna, Varder, and Tip for their extended service while we tried to figure out what to do with our Rift chapter. All four of them will continue acting as elders moving forward. At this point, there are less than 30 people who have logged in in the past 30 days and there is no activities logged in several months. It seems that RIFT Prime was the shot that killed the community’s foothold there. Splitting our already small and hurting community between a paywall.
But I want to take a moment to remember the awesome times we had in RIFT. From the Coffee Crifting runs with Jexia to the massive siege battles of the Telara Saga, we had some great times. We cleared almost every raid set to Bentmer’s mixtape, raided Meridian and slayed all of the Defiant leaders, and brought together the largest chapter in Gaiscioch history. It was laced with a lot of fun times.
Our guild will remain in RIFT on Faeblight for those who want to keep playing to use as they see fit. But we will no longer be devoting resources to it and will be removing the marketplace functionality as work orders aren't getting placed and there isn’t many who can fill them anymore.
If Gamigo, the new owner of RIFT, turns that ship around we may make a return if there is interest. But for now that ship has sailed and it’s more work than it's worth to try to resurrect it, in a game that doesn't support our communities way of playing anymore.
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