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Originally Posted by Frein
I'm confused here. We have free-flight, do we not? Sure, it's only for a short duration at a time but it's otherwise free. I've seen some people wish they could fly more, though to be honest, I don't think it would work game mechanically so I agree with the dev team on this decision.
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Before E3 2006 Aion's flight mechanic was purely visual. It was "on-rails" completely, like a Gryphon ride in WoW. You had NO control.
Some of Aion's lead devs watched players try the game at E3 2006 with lvl 50 characters. Players wondered why they couldn't fly characters where they wanted to. NCsoft thought it was a good idea and spent a year working it DEEP into the game, where now it's a main component and entire areas are designed around "free-flight".
How's that for a history lesson? NCsoft got a great, huge, marketable idea from some probably-American nobodies at E3 and what do English-speaking players get in return? Just a game. Just a game that has been focus-group tested on a bunch of Koreans. No Europeans, no Americans, no Australians, no Filipinos, no Canadians, no South Americans, no South Africans, no Russians, none. We have these "Suggestion Phase" threads, but will the ideas we come up with in them ever actually get implemented by the Aion Team, Studio 5, in Korea?
Nah.
I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. Someone at NCsoft HQ needs to realize the entire world matters, not just one corner of it.