Acclaim announced in the beginning of July that re-development plans for The Chronicles of Spellborn would carry into 2010, at which point the game would become free-to-play. Well, it looks like part of that timetable has been pushed up, because Spellborn is free-to-play now.

Community Manager David DeWald explained in a recent post on the game's official forums that there will be no upgrades or patches to Spellborn during the re-development phase. "It has become in effect, an Action RPG with superior Multiplayer. The only thing it will cost you to play is the time it takes to download," he said.

DeWald said the team will help support players who would like to run their own events, and they're open to suggestions on how to make the "frozen in time" version more enjoyable while we wait for the new free-to-play version to launch.