the fact that they didnt get time to play for more than half an hour means they wouldnt have beena ble to experience any of aions pvp aspects, you cant expect themt o compare intricacies in the game in that space of time. Besides the reference to wow was more in relation to the games aesthetics, very much surface layer comparisons, nothing in depth, fact is, whther you like it or not, wow has 11 million players, refining wow's qualities is very smart. NCsoft clearly aren't releasing aion with the intention of revolutionising the market, im expecting more of that from blade and soul, i tihnk aion is something to break into wow, take away some of blizzards customers. Specualting more than anything here, maybe ncsoft are trying to develop some brand loyalty here, if they can take enough of the wow player base with aion and make the whole thing a success, blade and soul will undoubtedly do well at release, gameplay pending after that
Sure, aion has some kinda new stuff but its all safe within the genre, based on the limited information we have on blade and soul, i think its going to really push boundaries, but like we've seen with tabula rasa, you cant just dump a completely new concept into a gaming genre and have it work like magic, well, maybe if it was a toal masterpiece. I reckon blade and soul includes a lot of the newer concepts of aion, provided they work of course, and something completely new, it just makes sense, the whole 'new strange concept' thing won't seem alien because there will be a fair few elements there from a previous mmo (aion). People don't like an instant change from black to white, i dunno, maybe the last 2 paragraphs were just plain wrong.
Sorry for drifting vastly off topic, alright preview, decent read i guess, cheers