Get RIFT for only $9.99 this weekend! Or $16.99 for the Collector's Edition! Prices are in USD.
The price is to upgrade your trial account to a full account - it does not come with a free 30 day trial so you'll have to pay for it right off the bat. However, these prices + a month of game time are still cheaper than buying retail.
Here is a 30 day time card for $11.24 (Thanks to izzeho):
http://www.greenmangaming.com/games/mmos/rift-30-day-time-ca…
Effectively making it $21.23 for the game and 30 days of game time!
You'll have to create a trial account first, and then upgrade the game.
For those of you feeling generous, here is my referral link.
http://www.riftgame.com/en/products/ascend-a-friend/invite.p…
By using this referral, I will get some neat in game items and you will also get some benefits such as:
You and your friends will be able to summon one another once every 30 minutes.
Your Ascended friends’ characters will be automatically added to your Friends List, and your characters will be added to theirs.
Your Ascended friends will earn the in-game title, “The Chosen.”
Not a bad deal but I think I'll wait until it goes Free To Play like all the other failed MMO's.