Originally posted by Bekkr

Good riddance to bad rubbish, IMO.  I wish more terrible MMOs would shut down *coughdarkfallrunesofmagicwarhammerageofconanetceteracough*, so the good ones could hold decent populations.

This was actually a good mmorpg. Better then most releases, but poorly marketed. No badly marketed.

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by mundus01

 

The I.P. blocking thing killed them right out of the gate,as far as I am concerned. Its too bad all their hard work will more than likely go right down the drain. Maybe they will do better on their next project if there is one.

 

No worries. The construct with Spellborn NV and Spellborn Works BV separate from Khaeon has been created to ensure the survival of Khaeon Studios, just in case.

 

No worries?

https://eu-players.tcos.com/forum/showthread.php?p=55422&posted=1#post55422

Kelas just posted in there.

They made a new deal with Frogster (altho new... it was their plan all along) to rerelease TCOS in 2010 in Asia as F2P.

As everything around the current game and it's servers is highly unsertain, they say they keep it running for now as is.

Right, if like any sane person is going to pay subscription for an unsupported game that no longer gets updated and patched lol.

Cheers

You always stay cheerful. But no, I was not responding to that, but to the fact that there would be no next project for Khaeon Studios, because there will be. No mmo for the time being though, I assume.

Originally posted by Hammertime1

Well nuts, there goes another game I was going to try.

 

Man, this economy is going to pressure out any game that isn't doing well, and it'll get a lot worse before it gets better.

The economy has nothing to do with it. Spellborn NV screwed up at every step they took. It was only a matter of time.

As for the news it will be a f2p in Korea, let's face it. As soon as you stepped into the game, "asian grinder" just screamed out at you.

Originally posted by Bekkr

Good riddance to bad rubbish, IMO.  I wish more terrible MMOs would shut down *coughdarkfallrunesofmagicwarhammerageofconanetceteracough*, so the good ones could hold decent populations.

 

Good games don't have problems holding on to their populations. If people aren't playing them it's because they don't enjoy them which is clearly the case with Spellborn. If people are playing "*coughdarkfallrunesofmagicwarhammerageofconanetceteracough*" it's because they do. Just not in great numbers

Originally posted by Bekkr

Good riddance to bad rubbish, IMO.  I wish more terrible MMOs would shut down *coughdarkfallrunesofmagicwarhammerageofconanetceteracough*, so the good ones could hold decent populations.

 

There are no good MMOs left to play. They have all destroyed themselves with bad expansions. That is including World of Warcraft too.

Lovely game. Such a crying shame :(

Saw this coming ten miles away.

MMOs are dead to me, no way I can get back to crappy mmos like aion or Idontknowwhatshittygameisgonnabethenexthype after spending 6 months on a game so unique. And sadly I don't expect a korean team to make a great work while tuning a game based on european culture into some crappy F2P shit.

Sad to see it go, but like others said, there was nothign really special about the gane.  The battle system although different was not better in any way.  The graphics were nothing special, more weird than good.  The newbie experience was really terrible, esspecially the tutorial space boat area.  I was easily killing multiple lvl 7 or 8 mobs at lvl 4 by just strafing around them.  That just didn't seem right at all.    The whole zone didn't seem alive, just constructed to be easy.  The animation wasn't too great either.

Maybe the game got better later on, but I don't care whats better at lvl 20 if its not good at lvl 1.  If people enjoyed it, they would play it, which means GOOD GAME.  Its always as simple as that.

I don't know, I'm more likely to play if it goes F2P with item mall than if it stayed P2P. After playing through the starter area I had no intentions of subscribing.

Originally posted by bobfish

Acclaim might buy it off them cheap and keep it running.

I thought this was acclaims goal right off the start. Launching the game months behind scedual, hardly advertizing the game, no real clue how to handle subscriptions...sell coins. Acclaim was the only reason I stayed away from this game. I did the trial and enjoyed the game tho.

It was pretty much the dumbest thing these devs coulda done...going with F2P companies to distribute their P2P game.

Originally posted by Redline65

I don't know, I'm more likely to play if it goes F2P with item mall than if it stayed P2P. After playing through the starter area I had no intentions of subscribing.

I on the other hand prefer quality in my games and paying for them over playing any crap just because its free.

This could have been good niche game in the hands of a benevolent publisher.

Originally posted by talismen351

Originally posted by bobfish

Acclaim might buy it off them cheap and keep it running.

 

I thought this was acclaims goal right off the start. Launching the game months behind scedual, hardly advertizing the game, no real clue how to handle subscriptions...sell coins. Acclaim was the only reason I stayed away from this game. I did the trial and enjoyed the game tho.

It was pretty much the dumbest thing these devs coulda done...going with F2P companies to distribute their P2P game.

Acclaim used to make good games!

Originally posted by sanders01

Originally posted by talismen351

Originally posted by bobfish

Acclaim might buy it off them cheap and keep it running.

 

I thought this was acclaims goal right off the start. Launching the game months behind scedual, hardly advertizing the game, no real clue how to handle subscriptions...sell coins. Acclaim was the only reason I stayed away from this game. I did the trial and enjoyed the game tho.

It was pretty much the dumbest thing these devs coulda done...going with F2P companies to distribute their P2P game.

Acclaim used to make good games!

And now they snatch good games and turn them into f2p crap?

Originally posted by sanders01

Originally posted by talismen351

Originally posted by bobfish

Acclaim might buy it off them cheap and keep it running.

 

I thought this was acclaims goal right off the start. Launching the game months behind scedual, hardly advertizing the game, no real clue how to handle subscriptions...sell coins. Acclaim was the only reason I stayed away from this game. I did the trial and enjoyed the game tho.

It was pretty much the dumbest thing these devs coulda done...going with F2P companies to distribute their P2P game.

Acclaim used to make good games!

Uhm the company called Acclaim to day has nothing to do with the old game developer with the same name. Its just a company that bought the name some time after the old company was closed.

Taken from the Spellborn Frogster forums

eu-players.tcos.com/forum/showthread.php

Post by Kelas, community manager (German)

Hi all,

I cant speak in behalf of Spellborn NV, but still want to tell you a bit more. Frogster (which I do work for) just released a press announcement concerning the re-design into a free-to-play version with a joint venture of Spellborn NV and Frogster Asia Co. Ltd.

For now, the servers and system (subscription) will remain the way it is. There are still people available for running the daily work and systems. The F2P version is currently planned to launch in 2010.

Originally posted by jinxit

Taken from the Spellborn Frogster forums

eu-players.tcos.com/forum/showthread.php

Post by Kelas, community manager (German)

Hi all,

I cant speak in behalf of Spellborn NV, but still want to tell you a bit more. Frogster (which I do work for) just released a press announcement concerning the re-design into a free-to-play version with a joint venture of Spellborn NV and Frogster Asia Co. Ltd.

For now, the servers and system (subscription) will remain the way it is. There are still people available for running the daily work and systems. The F2P version is currently planned to launch in 2010.

 

So they're going to make the players keep paying subscriptions while basically telling them they aren't getting any new content until the game goes F2P. Hahaha wow.

Originally posted by abbaba

Originally posted by jinxit

Taken from the Spellborn Frogster forums

eu-players.tcos.com/forum/showthread.php

Post by Kelas, community manager (German)

Hi all,

I cant speak in behalf of Spellborn NV, but still want to tell you a bit more. Frogster (which I do work for) just released a press announcement concerning the re-design into a free-to-play version with a joint venture of Spellborn NV and Frogster Asia Co. Ltd.

For now, the servers and system (subscription) will remain the way it is. There are still people available for running the daily work and systems. The F2P version is currently planned to launch in 2010.

 

So they're going to make the players keep paying subscriptions while basically telling them they aren't getting any new content until the game goes F2P. Hahaha wow.

We can keep paying to play on empty servers with only basic maintenance support, no bug fixes, no added content, nothing.

Wow indeed.

Originally posted by mundus01

 

The I.P. blocking thing killed them right out of the gate,as far as I am concerned. Its too bad all their hard work will more than likely go right down the drain. Maybe they will do better on their next project if there is one.

Yup agreed ...  IP blocking ,segragation of the community ,arrogance from the Dev's with their like it ot lump it attitude killed this game off before it even had a chance. It a shame because it could have been really good , it is different enough but sad it seems its not going to get the chance, unless Acclaim buy it an keep it going that is.

Wow!  Now, I'm ever so glad to have "won" a 30 day paid subscription to this FUBARed POS.