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Spellborn goes Free to Play

August 19, 2009

Just thought I’d let those of you that haven’t tried Chronicles of Spellborn know about an email I received today. I tried Spellborn for a couple of weeks on a trial and our very own Sres has written a post about it here on our MMO-Symposium. The email says that Spellborn is now a free to play game which will receive no more updates or patches, by the sounds of the email that means the game in it’s current form. A new Free to play (probably pay for extra’s) version is in development. A change so quickly in the game payment method doesn’t look good.

Anyway, here’s the email I received.

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The Chronicles of Spellborn

May 5, 2009

Shardship in SpellbornSometimes a game appears and you wonder where it came from;  The Chronicles of Spellborn is one of those games.  A free to download game from Acclaim, TCOS has pitted itself in a fantasy roll somewhere between WoW and the rest of the MMORPG world or so it hopes…

TCOS is one of those games that is trying to break the mould of how an MMORPG plays, it has a unique combat system that is trying to combine arcade games like Street Fighter, with an FPS style in an RPG environment.  Right now I’m as confused as you; but the fact remains that the although it’s a big change from the normal MMORPG, the combat does make you feel more involved, not only in combat but after combat when you need to visit your skilldeck to adjust the skills that you use during combat.

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