Originally posted by lovechiefs

Guys
I used to be a forum moderator/volunteer game master for 2Moons(David Perry's game and Acclaim) and yes.Acclaim will probably do the cash shop.
However,do not get excited too much.Acclaim will probably use GameGuard as anti-cheat and that will cause many issues.
In any case,I would suggest you check 2moons.acclaim.com to see for yourself what happened with 2Moons

You are still on that gameguard crusade? Well at least you are dedicated.

Originally posted by lovechiefs

Guys
I used to be a forum moderator/volunteer game master for 2Moons(David Perry's game and Acclaim) and yes.Acclaim will probably do the cash shop.
However,do not get excited too much.Acclaim will probably use GameGuard as anti-cheat and that will cause many issues.
In any case,I would suggest you check 2moons.acclaim.com to see for yourself what happened with 2Moons

Well for someone that was volunteer at 2moons you are not to clued up,2moons was devolped and published by acclaim so they were able to do whatever they wanted with the title,with TCoS they will be only 1 of 3 publishers and yes that makes a HUGE difference.

I've been a follower of this game for several years now, you might even call me a fanboi ....but .... if you spend time on their forums, and get to know the people behind spellborn, you would understand that they will never allow an item-mall ingame. One of their motto's is that nobody should be able to get an advantage over anyone else except due to skill.

The free zone .... perfect !! ... in these days where so many crappy products are thrown into the gaming market, I want to be able to test-drive before buying. Ofcourse .... the first 20 levels in AoC were brilliant, after that it was downhill on a 85% slope ...

Originally posted by daylight01

Originally posted by lovechiefs

Guys
I used to be a forum moderator/volunteer game master for 2Moons(David Perry's game and Acclaim) and yes.Acclaim will probably do the cash shop.
However,do not get excited too much.Acclaim will probably use GameGuard as anti-cheat and that will cause many issues.
In any case,I would suggest you check 2moons.acclaim.com to see for yourself what happened with 2Moons

 

Well for someone that was volunteer at 2moons you are not to clued up,2moons was devolped and published by acclaim so they were able to do whatever they wanted with the title,with TCoS they will be only 1 of 3 publishers and yes that makes a HUGE difference.

This is incorrect. 2moons was originally a title from Asia called Dekaron (some info about one of the versions)

Do a search and you will find multiple companies who have worked on Dekaron. Perry got the code to rework some of the inner parts of the game, and called it 2 Moons based on the fact the world has 2 Moons....lol. He was going to make it for a Western audience. His fix? Add swear words, and WASD. hehe.

I actually played the Asian version from Korea over a year before Perry started even beta testing 2 moons. So, no he did not "develop" it. There are more "publishers" for Dekaron/ 2Moons than Spellborn.

Cheers

Originally posted by lovechiefs

Guys
I used to be a forum moderator/volunteer game master for 2Moons(David Perry's game and Acclaim) and yes.Acclaim will probably do the cash shop.
However,do not get excited too much.Acclaim will probably use GameGuard as anti-cheat and that will cause many issues.
In any case,I would suggest you check 2moons.acclaim.com to see for yourself what happened with 2Moons

I'm going to hold off on a reaction 'til I see whether that comes to pass or not - ie. whether Acclaim retro-fits an item/cash shop deal into it.

If they do... personally... I will instantly lose 100% interest in it.

Which would suck, I've been really looking forward to this game.

Item/Cash shops, in my opinion, are the most devious and blatantly greed-driven concept ever introduced to MMOs. It's basically the company cashing in on the whole RMT thing as they know people who buy their money online spend a lot more on that, than they do on a $15 monthly fee.
 

So I'm *really* hoping Spellborn doesn't end up with item/cash shops.

Originally posted by WSIMike

I'm going to hold off on a reaction 'til I see whether that comes to pass or not - ie. whether Acclaim retro-fits an item/cash shop deal into it.

If they do... personally... I will instantly lose 100% interest in it.

Which would suck, I've been really looking forward to this game.

Item/Cash shops, in my opinion, are the most devious and blatantly greed-driven concept ever introduced to MMOs. It's basically the company cashing in on the whole RMT thing as they know people who buy their money online spend a lot more on that, than they do on a $15 monthly fee.

So I'm *really* hoping Spellborn doesn't end up with item/cash shops.

You pretty much just echoed exactly what I was thinking. So:

Originally posted by Myrathi

Originally posted by WSIMike

I'm going to hold off on a reaction 'til I see whether that comes to pass or not - ie. whether Acclaim retro-fits an item/cash shop deal into it.

If they do... personally... I will instantly lose 100% interest in it.

Which would suck, I've been really looking forward to this game.

Item/Cash shops, in my opinion, are the most devious and blatantly greed-driven concept ever introduced to MMOs. It's basically the company cashing in on the whole RMT thing as they know people who buy their money online spend a lot more on that, than they do on a $15 monthly fee.

So I'm *really* hoping Spellborn doesn't end up with item/cash shops.

You pretty much just echoed exactly what I was thinking. So:

If you watch the interview on the mainpage, it's explicitly said that there will not be item shops.

Originally posted by Szark

Acclaim Games CCO David Perry has written an open letter to the Spellborn community on the recent announcement that Acclaim will be the North American publisher for The Chronicles of Spellborn.

The CEO of Acclaim (Howard Marks) was the Chairman of Activision Studios through their massive growth during the 1990’s, and together we travel the world in search of the best new games that we can possibly find. Right now we’re tracking over 400 MMO games (yes it’s insane!). My poor old gaming PC is literally peppered with games in every conceivable language, and I’ve just kept playing, patiently waiting for that WHOA! moment. The game that finally got us there is Spellborn. When we saw it running, our jaws literally dropped to the floor. “Who the heck made this? We need to talk!”

Read more here.

Wow, everyone's jaw? Have they asked for some kind of compensation for this carnage?

Pff I was on the 2Moons exclusive beta team, the team with the level 150 characters in CB and the private server access. Please don't try to pull that the volunteer GM rampage that has been going on. You know little more than 5% of the original problems.

Spellborn will not have the same issues as 2Moons for a few simple facts. I am not at liberty to discuss these at this time, as I'm trying not to burn bridges at this point.

But like I said, you won't see the same stuff pulled in 2Moons as Spellborn. The main part being that Acclaim and Spellborn are not having p**** measuring contests, while trying to conserve or gain more cash.