I'm really happy to hear Playdom has bought Acclaim, I spent the last few years there as the Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder. Acclaim bet early on the future of free-to-play (before it was accepted in the West), and also bet early on the future of digitally distributed (only) online games.
We learned a lot, researched a lot, and now Playdom has bought the company.
Congrats to Howard and Neil for closing this deal! Congrats to Playdom as these are very talented guys.
Because of my Acclaim experience, I really discovered the need for frictionless gaming, being able to try a new MMO with a single click. Why? As Chief Creative Officer, I very commonly would get 10 new MMO games to try in one day, at one point I was tracking 400 of them! Spellborn was a great example with a 3.5GB download.
It's tough to install all those games from all those companies and get them all running, as many were in beta etc. So that's why Gaikai really got my attention.
That said, I do miss working with the Acclaim team and wish them and Playdom the best.
Posted by: Rex Aira 
at August 19, 2010 1:21 AM
our community is despairing after being ignored from February 2010 by any owners/developers etc and our servers went off two days ago - here is a link to relevant details on the TCoS forum - http://phpbb.acclaim.com/spellborn/viewtopic.php?t=6574&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= if there is ANY possible information or help you can give us we would be very grateful. username - Debbilicious. thank you for reading this :) x
Posted by: Debbilicious at August 5, 2010 8:15 AM
I know you had a love for this game but our community is despairing now after being ignored from February 2010 by any owners/developers etc and our servers went off two days ago leaving us fearing for it's future - here is a link to relevant details on the TCoS forum - http://phpbb.acclaim.com/spellborn/viewtopic.php?t=6574&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= . We know that you no longer work on it but if there is ANY possible information or help you can give us we would be very grateful. username - Debbilicious. thank you for reading this :) x
Posted by: Debbilicious at August 5, 2010 8:15 AM
Hello, this is more a way of contacting you than actually leaving a comment. I added you on Facebook (Debbie Michelle Dodds) but there was no way to leave a message. I know you had a love for this game but our community is despairing now after being ignored from February 2010 by any owners/developers etc and our servers went off two days ago leaving us fearing for it's future - here is a link to relevant details on the TCoS forum - http://phpbb.acclaim.com/spellborn/viewtopic.php?t=6574&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= . We know that you no longer work on it but if there is ANY possible information or help you can give us we would be very grateful. username - Debbilicious. thank you for reading this :) x
Posted by: Debbilicious at August 5, 2010 8:14 AM
Hello, this is more a way of contacting you than actually leaving a comment. I added you on Facebook (Debbie Michelle Dodds) but there was no way to leave a message. I know you had a love for this game but our community is despairing now after being ignored from February 2010 by any owners/developers etc and our servers went off two days ago leaving us fearing for it's future - here is a link to relevant details on the TCoS forum - http://phpbb.acclaim.com/spellborn/viewtopic.php?t=6574&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= . We know that you no longer work on it but if there is ANY possible information or help you can give us we would be very grateful. username - Debbilicious. thank you for reading this :) x
Posted by: Debbilicious at August 5, 2010 8:07 AM
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Hope your cloud gaming scheme works out better for you than this Acclaim thing did. Right now, there's a whole lot of people in virtual limbo wondering what happened to you and the devs over there at Acclaim. Hope your making alot of money.