Spellborn's American launch pushed back, closed beta starts the 27th

by Samuel Axon Nov 19th 2008 at 7:00AM

Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Launches, New titles, News items, Chronicles of Spellborn

So we heard a couple months ago that The Chronicles of Spellborn would be released in North America and the United Kingdom on November 27th, coinciding with the continental European launch. Turns out it's been pushed back -- kinda. The European launch will still commence on the 27th, but the North American closed beta will begin on that day, with the actual, final launch occurring sometime in January.

Sure, we're a bit disappointed, but chances are we'll still get to play the game soon. Acclaim, the game's publisher in the region, went out of its way in the press release it sent us to stress the "Freemium" business model -- a newbie trial area will be available to all players, who can reach level seven before they have to upgrade to a premium subscription at the usual $15/month rate.

The idea of an unlimited free trial area with a level cap isn't fresh -- both Meridian 59 and EverQuest II have done that, but it's not a bad way to sample a game to decide if you want to invest your hard-earned cash in it. Might be worth trying just for Jesper Kyd's soundtrack

Tags: acclaim, acclaim-games, breaking, central-america, chronicles-of-spellborn, closed-beta, launch, north-america, release-date, south-america, spellborn, spellborn-international

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rollins said on 9:27AM 11-19-2008

Ugh, I knew this would happen.

Screw you, Acclaim.

Evi said on 10:29AM 11-19-2008

Dang, I was really looking forward to trying the game this month.

Rollins said on 11:09AM 11-19-2008

Just make sure to sign up for an account on the American TCOS page. According to one of the community managers, that serves as the application for the closed beta. He also seemed to imply that it won't be hard to get into.

That said, if you want entry into the European beta, you might like this link...http://concours.jeuxonline.info/concours/74

It's a French site that's giving away keys. They only have 370 or so left at the moment, so Google Translate away! :)

Evi said on 4:08PM 11-19-2008

Rollins: I've already applied for the U.S. beta, but thank you for the tip! :)

John said on 11:26AM 11-19-2008

I'm disappointed. I was counting the days until I could try this game. I Looked at all the movies of it and the art style really jumps out. Hopefully this will just give them more time to tweak it before we get our hands on it. I Might do the closed beta but I usually prefer to see it when as many bugs are fixed.

Now I just wish they would do a box copy of the game...I don't like relying on Online download cause I prefer to have a hard copy back up for emergencies...but we'll see what happens.