The news about the delay which is mentioned above needs to be clarified.

A forum member, not an employee of Acclaim, went to the devs and asked questions.  Then acclaim added some more words to it and proffered it as their good communication. It's not there anymore but there was even a post from an Acclaim employee which had conflicting information as to the first delay. Acclaim has no problem deleting threads, locking posts, and their whole mindset is wrong when it comes to locking.

Acclaim didn't notify anyone of the delay. They just let people sit there and post on the forums. They couldn't bother to update a web page. Every single bit of information about the state of Spellborn for US was from forum members who were in beta and had contacted the developers.

Acclaim's Spellborn page, today, is still missleading. 

Seriously, these guys need to actually do some work or effort to show that they even exist. Because right now Acclaim has the appearance of a sham company with five to ten people who are all related or in on it. 

Porovaara, now it is you who needs some fact checking, you are making stuff up. A) Acclaim did notify the community of all delays in the forums, you can look it up yourself. B) A lot of information has come directly from acclaim, hardly just beta testers and personal contact with SiL. C) Accurate information is posted all over the Acclaim site and forums, the misleading information is on tcos.com when people click the button "Download to play" thinking the game is released in their region. tcos.com even has information descriping the regional publishing but no one reads it.

You sound like you are on some troll campaign to tarnish Acclaim. Again, I don't really care about the company Acclaim, I have nothing to gain from supporting them, and I'm not. As a regular of the forums I'm not going to let you spread lies and misinformation. Get real buddy.

 Xeno: acclaim did notify *AFTER* forum members got the information.

What is wrong with this picture?

Acclaim produced nothing on their own. It was all spawned from the community pushing against them and asking question after question.

I don't know which delay you're talking about, but the first delay was for the 27th and the second was for the 5th, and on both of those occassions Acclaim announced these delays in their forums. Since they have not set a launch date since they had to delay a 2nd time they have not failed to report any other delays.

As to individuals inquiring why the delay is happening, that is up to the individual. Frankly not every developer knows every reason, or will share everything they know. I encourage people to collect info and PMing devs is a great way to try. But don't act like any individual uncovered any significant information that hasn't been announced other places. If its of real significance its announced by Acclaim, if its little tidbits, you might here it from individuals.

I've been following the release of TCoS for quite a while. I never got the feeling that Acclaim was witholding any information from us about delays. It was usually clear what was going on. No, they didn't put up neon signs on the interstate on my way to work, but keeping up with the forums, it was clear what was going on.

The various delays came from a variety of places and its only reasonable if The Historian wasn't fully aware of the details about every delay. He's only a middleman and with so many delays coming from so many places, it makes sense that he would err on the side of caution and wait till he has some concrete information before making official posts. If a community member learned something before it was officially posted then good for them, but I don't see how it makes Acclaim any worse for it.

Porovaara, I think you're expecting too much from a small company. They aren't Activision or Electronic Arts. Are you trying to imply that they would do something underhanded with my credit card info just because it took The Historian an extra day to post something on the forum?

I agree that their website was confusing. It still is, but its a whole lot better. If the website is still confusing AFTER launch, then I'll agree that Acclaim has problems, but right now TCoS is still a game in development as far as I'm concerned. I'm not going to hold them to a released-game level of expectations until they are ready to take subs.

Lol wow, they managed to make a barely functional copy of the official TCoS site, hurray.  The flash banner that should be at the top is now a static image that doesn't even link to the article it's showcasing, the background image has been cut off half way down and the forums and account pages are the same.  After all this time I assumed they would at least have the site fully functional when it went live.  Ideally, I had hoped for a site better than the official TCoS one.  Oh well, it's a start I guess.  Doesn't matter much though.  The game has been gimped by poor decision after poor decision.  Even if it does stay afloat after launch, the community and overall game will be a fraction of what it could have been.  Given how great the game really is, it sure is a shame.

Originally posted by tcosaddict

Lol wow, they managed to make a barely functional copy of the official TCoS site, hurray.

Do you realize how big of an upgrade it would be for SOE if they could make a barely function web site?

Well with all the bickering..What is worst Acclaim with TCOS or Aventurine with Darkfall..  Now Something tells me that Acclaim is not bad after all. Compare to others..

Originally posted by hoopty

Well with all the bickering..What is worst Acclaim with TCOS or Aventurine with Darkfall..  Now Something tells me that Acclaim is not bad after all. Compare to others..

Hey, at least TCoS has official forums. I've seen plenty of big name companies make the fatal mistake of not having them. My guess is that Acclaim has 'a website guy' that is in charge of all Acclaim websites. Maybe an artist as well that splits their time between web work and marketting.

If that is the case and they don't have large teams for each of these then I'm not going to expect much beyond a servicable website. If I find out otherwise then I may be more judgemental. But for a company that was bought for a mere $100,000 just a few years ago, I'm not going to get my hopes up.

The company was not bought for $100.000

It was just the Acclaim name and nothing else, Acclaim entertainment auctioned off all its properties when it went bankrupt.

Howard Marks just bought a name for 100k and then founded another company using that name.