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A note about Acclaim, and to the future correspondent.

StinkyPestStinkyPest Member Posts: 97
in The Chronicles of Spellborn

I have personally done a few months volunteering with Acclaim. Not your average tester or what not. If anyone remembers 2Moons, there were a couple friendly level 150s in CB always testing and filtering through bugs from the content. After a while (shortly after CB, when we played privately) the leader of the volunteer testers had gone AWOL, leading me to talk to whomever personally. Eventually everyone quit, and I moved onto Dance! for a very short time. Had faded out in some time since there was a p**** measuring contest, mixed with hard feelings towards any volunteer.

 

Why I am saying this is to tell you not to expect the same 2Moons and 9Dragons treatment. I can't tell you how hacks are going to go, as they never listened to me on that subject (dumb decision). I can tell you though that you will see a much nicer flow between Spellborn and Acclaim. The reason why? There's a much more common bond between these two, and as Spellborn has said in the reading between the lines; they ARE the ones in charge, and Acclaim will be the ones that figure out how to market it into the masses.

 

I have not spoken to Rus, or David (only talked to David like.. ermm twice'ish ever) in a long time, but I don't think their medium (forums) will be the best way to discuss what you want in game. They have had several young-ins in their volunteer staff, and those young-ins shared a lot of secrets, accounts... heck a mod was the one who spread out how to dupe in CB. Since then they have been extremely skeptical to everyone not on the payroll. As much as I like and dislike parts of Acclaim, I have to say talking to whomever is decided as the community correspondent (I applied cuse... yeah... Rus is a cool guy), or talking with the developer's rather than publisher's forums will be a much better use of your time.

 

Of course talking to your correspondent will be the best use of your time, as certain people in Acclaim do get ideas across. Last thing, to the future correspondent, send me a mail and I'll hook you up with who to talk to, and little nitty gritty things that'll help you along the way.

 

EDIT - Lazy man grammar

http://spellborn.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Comments

  • ZyllosZyllos Member UncommonPosts: 537

    Well, I am just hoping the stigma Acclaim brings has having as their publisher do not foil this game's chances. This game has interesting gameplay mechanics and have been watching for a while so...

    MMOs Played: I can no longer list them all in the 500 character limit.

  • StinkyPestStinkyPest Member Posts: 97

    I could not agree more. They have burned themselves hard with the hacks in their game BOTS!!, bots in the game 2Moons, and ninja changes / lack of content in 9Dragons. The community had spoken to them what they needed, but they failed to listen or even attempt to implement things, for various reasons I can't discuss.

     

    That is why I'm so thankful Acclaim will have Spellborn taking care of all this, and basically being the needed, but lowly add-on  that'll have a much less chance of messing it up to be frank.

    http://spellborn.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

  • svannsvann Member RarePosts: 2,230

    I find it curiously amusing how there are so many posts in forums for games in production where people predict how things will go based either on their hopes or fears. 

  • StinkyPestStinkyPest Member Posts: 97

    It's true svann. Least what you have read here isn't based on sales, subs, cash flow, etc.

     

    The fact still remains that this IS a different setup than Acclaim has done before, and will change the outcome of the game. Easily noticeable when put side by side next to their previous releases.

     

    That's one of the points I'm tyring to point out in that long post.

    http://spellborn.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

  • iauheiauhe Member Posts: 8

    The problem with Acclaim is that they have published and released too many crappy games. I was hoping for Spellborn to become a full subscription game with everything a decent MMO can offer. I am never going to play a F2P MMO, because the free content attracts all sorts of unpleasant people. If they pay, this means they are really there to play the game, but free content means usually griefers danger.

    I know people will counter attack me, that most games have a free trial and this could be seen as an extended trial, but the trial is always limited and when I hit a level high enough,  griefers and bots alike can affect me in no way, their time is too short.

    And if the game is resembling 9dragons and 2moons, then I'd say "No, thanks" anyway

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