Comments on: Chronicles of Spellborn enters open beta!

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:13:33 +0000

In the most recent Dev Webinar, they mentioned they hope to take credit cards within the next week. As far as I know, the GameGuard anti-hacking software they use doesn’t work under Windows 7, so as far as I know, Chronicles of Spellborn won’t run under Windows 7.

By: dem0n

dem0n — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:08:17 +0000

First off they are going to accept credit cards soon.
Second of all I’m playing on Windows 7.

Thank you for your time.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:51:12 +0000

I bet there’s lots of stuff that doesn’t work with Windows 7 given that it’s a beta of an unreleased OS :P

By: Captain Angry

Captain Angry — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:38:32 +0000

GameGuard doesn’t work with windows 7 soooo /uninstall

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:00:22 +0000

I agree. How can I, with a straight face, try to get anyone to navigate through that confusing system just to play? The only people for whom this might not be an obstacle are those who already buy a lot of coins for other Acclaim games.

By: Graktar

Graktar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:56:08 +0000

A microtransaction based subscription model just seems idiotic, you end up with all the downsides of both models, and the nebulous nature of Acclaim “coins” makes it even worse. If they wanted to do a microtransaction model they’d have been much better off using one that made sense, or at least more sense than what they’re doing. Currently you have to pay to continue once you reach level 7 — why not continue that model? You pay a small fee at level 7 to continue into the ‘real’ game. You have to pay again at level 20, 40, 60, whatever. No monthly costs, just one-time fees to proceed into new content (sort of like Guild Wars, but more smaller transactions).

It would be annoying no doubt (Congratulations on level 20! Please insert 1000 Acclaim coins to continue), but at least it would be predictable, comprehensible, and entirely avoidable, which is the benefit of microtransaction models.

That’s just one possibility, there are plenty of other ways they could have use a microtransaction model (that doesn’t involve an item shop). The fact that you can’t purchase the exact amount of coins you need for a monthly subscription (or can you?) just makes the premium price ($18/month, seriously?!) even worse.

I’d love to try out this game, but not with this wonky, confusing, high-cost-of-entry method that Acclaim is sponsoring.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:33:47 +0000

You, sir, should play WoW.

By: Another Average Guy

Another Average Guy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:17:38 +0000

I want an anatomically correct life-sized doll of every character I make. If I make one for this game, I hope that they will accomodate me if I buy enough RMT coins.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:42:48 +0000

As far as I know, we get to keep our characters from now on. So do I keep my kick-ass Void Seer, try out the warrior like I wanted to do, or go for my rune mage?

Void Seer has a stupid name (something like “Davoid’Nseer or something) because I expected her to be wiped, so I can’t really play her…

By: Pete S

Pete S — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:22:32 +0000

BTW, since Premium Service is enabled, does that mean no more wipes? I can’t imagine them charging us to play then wiping our characters…