No other game looked like Spellborn The Chronicles of Spellborn seemed to provide a wish list of what people want in an MMO. You could look cool from day 1; the gear you chose at character creation could be upgraded by slotting in runes to increase their power. You could still find or craft items with more or better slots, but there was never a time when your character would have to look anything but cool as sheets. ...
If Tycho didn’t put you off with his description of Acclaim’s Coin-based subscription plan for the Chronicles of Spellborn, this weekend it is slightly cheaper to buy the Coins if you buy in bulk, as the bonus Coins given for bulk purchases are doubled this weekend! You can potentially get nine months of Spellborn for $8.89/month… if you do the math!
Just finished listening in on the Spellborn dev chat/‘webinar’. Lots of interesting discussion, some of which is after the break. While the devs were talking, I was programming. I went through everything on the Acclaim website, trying to figure out what combination of memberships, terms of subscription, and quantities of coin bought would combine to form the cheapest monthly cost? They will be, at some point, adding a set price of $15/month (for now, possibly rising to $18/month when they end the introductory price), but I thought we could get it cheaper. ...
Announced today, and thanks to Tierrunner for catching this, the Acclaim hosted Chronicles of Spellborn is now in open beta. Also announced is their pricing plan, which is managed via Acclaim Coins, their RMT currency, to tie it in with other Acclaim games. The game is available for free download, and lets you go to the first two zones and reach level 7 before being asked to pay. I’d urge prospective players to use the free download and level a char or two to 7 before deciding whether or not to subscribe to the game. ...
This isn’t going to be a new player’s preview to the Chronicles of Spellborn – you can find links to that sort of information after this post that point to my experiences playing on the EU servers prior to the Acclaim closed beta, or take a look at Dragonchasers’ excellent initial impressions. On the EU servers, I played a Rune Mage. My special power: Special tattoos that could be triggered to cause explosions. Rune mages are the EQ2 warlocks (or WoW frost mages) of Spellborn, and since many of my damage spells also triggered instant heals or heals over time, I felt very comfortable mostly tanking things, moving only to get out of enemy AOEs, but mostly just building and executing combos through the skill deck. ...
From Acclaim’s Community Manager, Historian, comes this news via Twitter: The Official Spellborn Download for Acclaim is up on our forums. … and when asked if those accepted into the beta test would know by checking their account status at the Acclaim site, or if there would be an email, replied: most likely checking your status will be faster than the email.. but If I get word people have been activated I will post it. ...
This is a transcript of the first half of the Acclaim Spellborn developer chat. The first half, as in, I typed until my fingers could type no more – and I was just halfway through. Even in the first half, though, many exciting topics come up. In attendance were David Perry; Howard Marks, the CEO of Acclaim; Neal, the CTO of Acclaim, Aaron from marketing and communication; Historian, the Acclaim Community Manager; and El Drijver, the Spellborn lead designer, on the phone from the Netherlands. ...
Acclaim’s Community Manager, ‘Historian’, just posted the audio for today’s Spellborn developer chat. In attendance were David Perry and El Drijver, Lead Designer for Spellborn. Head on over and give it a listen.
Breaking news! Acclaim CEO Howard Marks says Chronicles of Spellborn closed beta starts NEXT WEEK! I’d love to talk about Spellborn. I’ve been a big fan of it for a couple years now, wrote about it at every opportunity at Massively, even had the collector’s box set shipped from Germany and leveled up chars on the EU servers because I REALLY LOVE THIS GAME. Cue creepy “ ” music… ...
I don’t think that anyone is really surprised by this, but Massively reports that the launch of Chronicles of Spellborn in North America, UK, Oz, NZ and South Africa has been pushed back to January. However, the closed beta will now start on the 27th of this month. Europe (aside from the UK) will still see the full, live game on the 27th. So, if the game is LIVE, WTF do we need a CLOSED BETA for? The game will be LIVE. We can just head over to any of the Euro sites covering the game and read all about it. How you can have a closed beta for a live game that will ALREADY have an English version (along with their German and French versions). ...