The Chronicles of Spellborn

 Not breaking news, a lot of posts already... Acclaim is going to make TCoS Free to Play with a subscription option.... I knew from the start that Acclaim would be a PATHETIC choice. spellborn.acclaim.com , see for your self, the site doesn't even function right and looks absolutely un-professional.

News is here btw: http://www.tcos.com/sbforum/viewtopic.php?t=14695&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

I personally just lost interest. What about everyone else? What do you guys think?

 Was just reading that myself, lost interest aswell... cant believe it.

Acclaim was THE WORST choice they could have possibly made... seriously...

I'm not sure what to think of this either. But at least have a little patience (yes, we've had a lot already, but a little more won't hurt). The press release is quite vague at some points and there might be more information on the topic coming up.

There is a very good possibility that the F2P-part is still only the lvl 1-10 areas. They haven't specified how large the F2P-part is yet.

If I was you I would follow this thread:

www.tcos.com/sbforum/viewtopic.php

And wait for some announcements on that forum in the following week.

Don't give up yet.

Originally posted by WootNation

 Was just reading that myself, lost interest aswell... cant believe it.

Acclaim was THE WORST choice they could have possibly made... seriously...

Gotta agree with ya on that one. I was lookin forward to this game, now not so sure.  Making the game F2P is really gonna kill this game fast. Just this idea has prolly driven away alot of ppl lookin forward to this game. Do the Devs feel this game isn't worth paying for? Or perhaps no other publishing company felt this game wasn't worth investing in.

It also gonna be f2p with frogstar in asia?

Gods i hope this f2p scheme backfires badly. When it was just 1 zone ok that's fine, gives players a taster but with thisnew scheme ffs... grr

Now i gotta wait for aion, jumpgate, darkfall, stargate.

QUOTE:

"Third, once again, repeat after me, there is no item mall. Premium services mean the same as we mentioned before - p2p part of the game. How much will be given for free still remains to be seen, it may be certain beginner zones, it may be level restricted, etc. As it is, beginning zones at the moment consist of 3 areas, in which people can get to somewhere around lvl 10-15ish, with ability to kiss the newbie zone bye bye at lvl 10. We haven't decided yet where we are going to cap it - if it will be 2 zones instead of 3, if it will be up to lvl 10 so people are locked out of traveling, etc. It probably will be somewhere around there +- few zones and levels. "

by Banshee on the TCOS-forums

www.tcos.com/sbforum/viewtopic.php

As I said: The amount of gameplay you get for free is probably  very similar to what have been announced earlier = the free part is effectively  no more than a trial.

I will still play it. As long they dont change the gameplay i dont care. Right now im dying to play a good MMO.....so i cant afford to not play TCoS.

From the looks of it Acclaim is marketing this game as a f2p game. That in itself is bad news, because:

1. It is not true and people who like f2p will feel betrayed.

2. It will keep people who do not like f2p games at a distance.

On top of that a large portion of the faithful fans will feel betrayed too for having to share the starter zones with who knows, goldsellers?

Not F2P game, but F2P starter zone... Buy the game, play around in the starting zone to lvl 10 or so.. wanna explore more, level up you pay a subscription fee ....end of story.

After being in the beta ( admitting you are in beta is not against the NDA ), all I'll say is you ain't missing much.