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Originally Posted by eVenom
The longer you spend on it, the better you feel, correct? So you spend building you character for 7 months; I should feel happy because I spent such a massive amount of time reaching max level? It's somewhat true, I guess. I like the idea of making leveling not so easy, but according to you, if they make it 2 years long the reward will be greater, yes? In theory you are correct, but I don't see myself or 90% of people dedicating themselves to 2 years of trying to reach max level on a single character. Maybe I don't have the experience of playing a mmo for more than 2 years.
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The catch is, of course, how fun the game is. If leveling isn't a chore and enough content is available to make players happy, then how long it takes is irrelevant. However, if the starving horse kills itself forever striving for the carrot (*cough* L2 *cough*), then you have a problem.
The spin the Aion devs are putting on character development seems like a two stage process: 1 to 50 in levels, and low to high in the Abyss PvP ranking system (whatever that ends up looking like). PvP is endlessly more satisfying for me than PvE, so hopefully the PvP points system will provide a decent endgame.