Chronicles of Spellborn - now free to play

[Kale]

Did anybody ever play this game? The game is being redesigned into a Free to Play game. Thought it might be worth a try. I do love free stuff.

Edit: Major typo in title, no way to change it?

http://spellborn.acclaim.com/

Spellborn Goes Free to Play While in Redevelopment


It happens sometimes; a really good game will slip through the cracks. There are a lot of reasons why this happens and I know you will have opinions, but I’m not here to talk about that.

I feel like Spellborn was one of those games. A solid MMORPG with a twitch combat interface that meant that player skill actually mattered in PvP. Most of those who played it enjoyed it. And it did pretty well in the reviews online. It was originally a subscription based game with servers in EU and North America, and is now in redevelopment to be converted to a F2P. Acclaim still has servers running the original version and that is why I’m writing this.

We felt like people missed out. They didn’t get to see what Spellborn was really like. And we are going to fix that.

Today, as you read this, Spellborn as it currently exists is now free to play. Keep in mind that there will be no upgrades and no patches. It has become in effect, an Action RPG with superior Multiplayer. The only thing it will cost you to play is the time it takes to download.

So play it.

Now because it is frozen in time, we will be creating events for the players and we will help support any players that want to make their own events.
And if you have thoughts on how we might make this version more enjoyable as we wait for the New free to play version, we are glad to listen.

[Permafrost]

http://unmoderated.info/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=63

[Kale]

Holy crap I swear I searched for a sub forum and didn't see it. I'm blind as hell.

My apologies.

[Ozkar]

Well I knew it was "going to be" free to play but I had no idea that the free-ness started already. I still have it installed. Gonna check it out !!

[Sudo]

You can edit a thread title from the list of threads. Double click to the right of the thread title and it should become an editbox.

Do you want this thread moved to that forum?

[Xenogrant]

I also still have it installed, I look forward to rolling ozkar, unless he's a rune.

[Kale]

Originally Posted by Sudo

You can edit a thread title from the list of threads. Double click to the right of the thread title and it should become an editbox.

Do you want this thread moved to that forum?

Thanks!

Go ahead and move it. Better to keep things organized.

[Deyth]

I'm going to keep my eye on Spellborn F2P. It can still turn out to be a good game. I used to never look back at older games but nowadays I think that might be the best place to look.

[Xenogrant]

The game did a lot of things right, just never got a chance, due to fail marketing.

[Ozkar]

I am a bit sad that there is no real "tank" class since there is no standard Aggro System. Not that this game should just copy the same ol' tired shit. But I can't quite see how anyone is expected to run high-end raid groups if mob's will run around hitting everyone.

[Xenogrant]

You tank by simply being amazing, so mob doesn't switch targets. Easy.

[Ozkar]

Originally Posted by Xenogrant

You tank by simply being amazing, so mob doesn't switch targets. Easy.

Classes that are amazing at offense are rarely amazing at defense. So they need an amazing healer that will gain mob attention. Amazing is the new Taunt? heheh

[Aedh]

Wouldn't it be right up your alley Ozkar, if you could tell the mob that you fucked its mother and have it aggro you for it? Kind of like real life but they actually hate you.

[Quse]

Originally Posted by Ozkar

Classes that are amazing at offense are rarely amazing at defense. So they need an amazing healer that will gain mob attention. Amazing is the new Taunt? heheh

There is no "healer" in this game. The only classes that come close are the mage classes that offer passive and reactive healing spells tied to their nukes.

And honestly, aggro seems FFA but I've easily dropped it to another player (in group) by moving well out of melee range. The mob chases for a small amount of time then seems to switch to whatever else in melee range.

[Ozkar]

Agreed. So doesn't that make the whole RPG aspect of the game a bit off or strange?

[Quse]

I don't really see why aside from the fact that most magic classes of any game have found a way to master the healing spectrum of magic.

I'm not in the least bothered by the fact that there is no main healer of the game, I'm more bothered by the gameplay past solo play (aka- grouping which seems like a retarded FFA).

[JeanGrey]

Im playing it, but not good as i expected.