General Discussion

One of the most eagerly awaited online role-playing games is approaching the final stretch in its development. The German, English and French versions of The Chronicles of Spellborn are scheduled for release on November 27th, 2008 in Europe. In preparation of the release, the innovative fantasy MMORPG has started into the next phase of the closed beta tests along with a large content patch Wednesday, 17th of September..

The update brings along substantial advancements in the class system, the quest architecture, the fame system and the combat gameplay as well as improvements on art and general game mechanics lifting the game onto a new level of gameplay experience. During the upcoming weeks, developer Spellborn NV and publisher Frogster will invite more selected registered community members into the closed beta tests. A detailed beta and release schedule for The Chronicles of Spellborn will be announced shortly. Interested fantasy adventurers can register via the brand new beta registration on www.tcos.com to get the chance to have a look at the game before the actual release.

source - tcos.com/news/

Chronicles of Spellborn doing what other developers rushed their products to avoid(AoC, War). 

May not be releasing on the same day, but its within two weeks of the expansion is extremely close.

Developer(s) Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher(s) Activision Blizzard
Series Warcraft
Platform(s) Mac OS X, Windows
Release date(s) November 13, 2008

Only question in my mind now is, do i wait two weeks and try TCoS before the expansion? Or risk getting hooked into the expansion grind and probably not play TCoS till next year sometime?

Brave of them, I hope they find their customer base and be profitable.

Originally posted by obii

Brave of them, I hope they find their customer base and be profitable.

They will do fine.  The people that play WoW will not be too interested in TCoS.  Also, with it being a small company they wont have to pull in the overhead that some of the larger companies have to so everything should be fine.

I´ll sure be playing it. Seems as one of the few desent MMOs in development during the last years. Cant afford to miss it. Been longin for a MMO for a year now : (

This one still feels sketchy to me.  No insult to this game, but we keep getting burned here.  I'm keeping it at arms length until it holds up. 

damn thats 1 game i didnt want to come out close the wrath, oh well guess i buy wrath on the 13th then TCOS 2 weeks later. the combat looks great just hope it lives upto my expectations.

Honestly, there is no reason not to try it. Since it will have a Free to Play area to test it.

Won't have to put in credit card info or anything, just download and play likes its free.

Also, I agree Coffee. Its the one title I didn't want to see released so close to Lich King, but its also the one title i think has the least to fear from Lich King. Its not another clone of the EQ style gameplay.

TCoS is the FPSer MMO.   You'll die in the newbie area if you try to go stand still and trade damage moves like most MMO's.

I imagine to many who are looking forward to the WoW expansion TCoS will have little impact to them. So I honestly doubt WoW is going to have any impact on this release.  So far TCoS is very quite, not over hyped as other games this year have been. Along with a F2P trial area I think ppl will give it a whirl n if it interests them they will buy.

Originally posted by Kabbax

Honestly, there is no reason not to try it. Since it will have a Free to Play area to test it.

Won't have to put in credit card info or anything, just download and play likes its free.

This is one of the things that I feel will benefit them t