March 25th, 2008

Crowns of Power Public Beta Announced

Crowns of Power Screenshot

Crowns of Power just announced that their beta client will be available to the public on the 31st.

Crowns of Power has been in constant development since 2006 and first went into closed testing in 2007. The game allows open-PvP where criminals/murderers will suffer the most consequences on death, including the dropping of items. It also favors open-ended character progression over the standard cookie-cutter classes and will be free to play.

Hello everyone,

I know that people have been anxiously awaiting a release date for the Public Beta of Crowns of Power. Well that wait is finally over and it is my pleasure to announce that we’ll be releasing Crowns of Power in a live, public beta on Monday, March 31st.

We’ve been working long and hard on this 3D project and are very excited to be able to share it with all of you, our players. Although not a final product, we feel it’s at the point where we can allow large amounts of testers into the world while continuing development and fixing any issues that will arise. Crowns of Power will never be a final product, as we plan to continuously add new content, items, spells and more throughout the life of the game, much of which will be driven by player feedback and contributions in the forums.

We’re counting on the testers to give us feedback throughout the testing process. This input from our users will be critical in helping create the best possible environment for our players to immerse themselves in. We’ll be looking for any bugs, glitches, performance, balance, and game play issues as well as any suggestions or feedback that you can share with us. Any feedback at all that you can share is valuable and much appreciated.

We’ll have the client available for download via the download section of our website at http://www.crownsofpower.com/downloads.php. We’ll bring the servers up live for people to login and begin playing sometime that Monday. We’ve never stressed the servers to this capacity, however we feel we’re ready for the volume of users that will be participating. Any issues that arise will be dealt with in as quick a manner as possible and any updates will be done via a patch updater.

For the many people who participated in the previous Crowns of Power tests and posted in the forums, I’ll be awarding unique forum titles so that you may be recognized for your contributions. Your interest and feedback in this project has been instrumental in helping us prepare it for this date and we’re sincerely grateful for your efforts.

We look forward to seeing you all in the public beta test and hope that you’re as excited as we are!

See you in the game,
Crowns of Power Team