this was by far the best game 

that artwork, the athmosphere, the different way to use skills, and far far far more..

i definitely hate peopel who shut down such games, cause there are thousends of clones of clones, TCOS was NOT one of them.

Have to say that I'm a little surprised to hear it's closing down, given that it was relatively new in the MMO world.

While the player-base is a key componant, I bet the economy doesn't help much, either.

The players of The Chronicles of Spellborn were recently informed the game will be closing at the end of this month.

Since Acclaim sold out to Playdom months ago our community has been ignored by all administrators/moderators/support team and have been fighting keep the game going by contacting all the companies involved.

Acclaim did not reply to any e-mails.
Playdom replied stating they have no involvement in the game.
Spellborn NV did not reply.
Frogster directed us to their German site even after being told the correspondent was English and therefore unable to use a German site.

This latest news about the game's closure was not received by Playdom, but by a Games.com writer who received an e-mail from Playdom informing them of this decision, this seems strange as they informed us they are not involved in the game.

We love this game, and do not want it to end.

The players have created a petition here to keep the game online - http://www.petitiononline.com/tcos/petition.html

We have appealed to Playdom to review their decision but are not hopeful of a reply.

We think the online gaming community has a right to know about how these companies treat their players.

thank you for reading this

player name Debbilicious
Michelle Dodds

Unfortunately it could be seen coming from the moment asia gave up on redeveloping the game.

Spellborn was a brilliant game, with great potential. I would have given a lot to see it prosper even through all the other problems. I wil mourn the loss of this great and original game for a long time to come.

My suspicions about ack-lame only seeing the game as a potential milk cow seem to have been right. Cut the losses by giving it to someone they know will shut it down. So they don't look quite as horrible.

Shame how it only makes them look a million times worse now, after all the trouble the seperate publishers caused from the start. I have been suspecting this was all on purpose. Not so much by the people who loved the game and dedicated so much time, effort and love into the game, but from somewhere higher up. Suspicions however will be just that, suspicions.

I wish I had the funds to make the game stay myself.

I know there will be many that gave up on the game just over a year ago, upon the notice of the bankrupcy of spellborn N.V. (even though but weeks earlier we had been told there were still plenty funds) will mourn this. Our hopes and love for the game never did die, even if most of us did not wish to play a poorly moderated F2P version (which is what Ack-lame turned it into)

Chantal van Dijk

A.K.A.

Chista of the Forsaken Prophets

A.K.A.

The one who brought cookies.

For those who understand: I never stopped working on that dream of mine. I just need to work on the skills, they are hard to get a hang of for me ^.^;

si i really think.. 

yo uwere one of the developers who started that great game originally, true?

if yes: congratulations for doing so many great things

It's sad to see a game that wasn't a blatant WoW clone fail. Someone finally tried to think outside the box and this is the outcome. It will shy some devs away from doing the same.

thats what i am afraid of..

most game look more or less the same, and at least PLAY like that.

TCOS was different, but very very playable.

i think its really big fail of the PUB. not the DEV.

Nice game but it has been in trouble since day one. Had some good ideas going for it though. 

so lets resurrect it!

there are dozens of f2p publishers out there

(publishing dozens of dumb games)

if anyone knows how to start a campaign.. (including holy facebook or whatever)

plz do so..  the whole world of tcos lovers will appreciate it.

mm why did playdom buy the game if they wanted to permanently shut it down !i dont buy it .they ll polish it and rerelease it

graphic engine?it is dated!

oh acclaim was baught not just the game but the full corp

oh then it make sense for them to shut down stuff lol!

i thot they had baught cosb just to shut it

Originally posted by drbaltazar

mm why did playdom buy the game if they wanted to permanently shut it down !i dont buy it .they ll polish it and rerelease it

graphic engine?it is dated!

The last the TCOS needs is a graphics overhaul at this point. The game may be dated but it still can look very nice from what I remember.

dated.. but much more beautiful then most recent games..

even the huge world..

btw: playdom is only hosting horrible silly nonsense games