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NCsoft’s Chris Hager was remarkably candid, admitting immediately that “Aion doesn’t introduce anything radically new. What I think it does is polish things from other MMOs.”........It’s definitely a new way of entering the oversaturated MMORPG market. Frequently, newcomers to the field will try and handle the unstoppable presence of WoW by asserting that their game is different enough that there’s room for both titles. Aion, on the other hand, seems to be taking the opposite route: the game is similar to WoW because WoW is a good game, and its millions of players will be able to quickly and comfortably slip right in to Aion — and once they’re there, they’ll find a number of vast improvements.
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Nice. If this is indeed Aion's approach then they are off on the right foot and its very encouraging to hear. Ive been playing MMO's for a long time and seen so many fail after WoW because developers seem to be learning impaired. Despite what all the WoW haters like to claim, WoW is the immense success it is precisely because it is an excellent game and currently the best MMO around, because Blizzard didnt really reinvent the genre, they were simply smart and HUMBLE enough to learn from all the MMO's before them and improve on if not outright fix all the major issues. And they continually make improvements.
Ive been telling my MMO playing friends for years that the game that may eventually put up a good challenge or topple WoW is not one that will do things completely different, its the one that will keep the elements of WoW, but make small tweaks here and there, such as graphics which I think is one of the few legitimate issues that people may have.