Originally posted by Cacaphony

Here is a post that illustrates the spam people are seeing, though not all claim to have seen so many of these messages in a short span of time. 

That guy at the forum has some leet math skills.

Latest sampling - 10 Galor spams in approximately 25 minutes. That's 40 spams per hour, or roughly 1 Galor spam every 1.5 minutes, consistent with earlier samplings.

Nothing of this really adds up like he says it does ;) 

It is also working for me: Changed my Acclaim password, then logged into Spellborn with my new password: Could play my lvl 40 char without a problem.

I have started playing again after having stopped a few months ago, and I was surprised about the number of people online.

It was not so bad as I would have thought. I even were attacked by someone in the first few mins of playing. So if you are interested in trying this game but are afraid that it will be a lonely experience, just give it a go. 

Drawbacks are Gameguard, and a few bugged quests and skills, though, which are not going to be fixed anytime soon. If you can overlook those drawbacks, it is really a great game. I really like the combat system and the art style. Imo, one of the best around, and still my favorite mmo.

Originally posted by Xiaoki

MMO fans will be turned off by non MMO features(lack of content, non persistant world).

I want to comment on the persistant world part. When I first started to look into WoW, and saw the "persistant world" part, I was excited. Only to find out what it means: There is a world that will go on even after I logged out, but nothing ever changes! I cannot make my mark in this world.

What I initially was thinking what" persistant" means is that player can change the world, and those changes will stick, even after they log out. For example Shadowbane. That is the only game I can think of that I would label as a game with a true persistant AND open world. Players could built a city, and destroy cities. Every time you logged in the other day, the map could have totally changed. Cities gone, new ones built. 

While GA doesn't have an open world, it is in my world in some aspects more "persistant" than other, "true" MMOs, like WoW, Warhammer Online, LotRO. Players can make their mark on the map, and it will stay, even after they log out (Well, as long as no one else takes it).

Originally posted by majinant

Originally posted by Toquio3

Id like to draw a parallel between this quote and evolutionary convergence....

  Eyes were devoleped before that...

Octopus and mamals branched off long before they developed eyes. It was indeed a parallel evolution.
You can see that in the design of the eyes, they are very similar, but have some very clear differences. The octopus optic nerve is on the outside of the eye, while the optic nerve of mammal eyes goes through the retina. They are different designs from ground up, with different advantages and disadvantages.

I haven't seen any event announcement in the forums since it went f2p.

Also, a guildmate of mine contacted them for help organizing an event, and never got any response.
Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but it is quite neglected right now, imo.