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Acclaim is going to be hosting TCOS in the United States
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http://spellborn.acclaim.com/press-release.html
" Personally, David Perry is very excited about ‚TCoS’. 'My poor old gaming PC is literally peppered with games in every conceivable language, and I’ve just kept playing, patiently waiting for that WHOA! moment. We’re tracking over 400 MMO’s around the world but the game that finally got us there is Spellborn. When we saw it running, our jaws literally dropped to the floor. This MMO is absolutely stunning, using the graphics engine from my friends over at Epic. We have millions of gamers that will be anxious to experience this amazing new game for free' comments David Perry, the USA Director for Spellborn on the successful deal."
Acclaim has yet to publish a worthwhile niche mmo to the US market. If they're going to make it a microtransactional game, well, I have my own opinions about this; suffice it to say "Free MMO's tend to attract a different crowd than what you find in pay to play MMO's."
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I think you're reading a bit more into this line,
"Acclaim will give North American players a free-to-play zone while subscribers will be able to explore the entire virtual world."
from the article....than what perhaps you should. I would just take it to mean what it says, word for word, rather than reading anything else in to it.
There is nothing I've read that has ever stated that TCoS will be an f2p game, nor that it will have cash shops or micro-transactions (w/e you prefer to call them) or anything of the like.
I also have to wonder why you think it will cater to a "niche market," just out of curiosity. When I hear "niche market"....I think more like Darkfall's 100% PvP FFA sort of thing. Have you read something somewhere that leads you to believe that TCoS caters to a "niche market" such as that? I'm just curious as to what's being said that I have somehow missed.
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Way to stick it to him girlgeek
they're making the first 10 lvls free so you can check the bizzy out before buying the rest of the game.
be happy.
OP I cant believe you found that post you quoted but managed to miss the dozens of post's on this forum and on the official tcos forum on how this game will be released...the mind boggles.
Anyway as the other posters have said the game will have a free to play zone maybe to level 10 then if you want to continue in the world you will pay a monthly sub,Acclaim are the NA publishers and have no devoplement rights at all so this will not change 1 bit from the EU version with the devs in Holland calling the shots.
so too sum up..
No item shops,No Acclaim coins,not free to play.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8