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Originally Posted by dagan
hi all,
so iam L2 player like most of u and i love it and ye after 3years now iam bored...
i was looking forward to aion and hoping it could be my lineage3...
but the info yet indicates to the wrong direction... i see a carebear game with wowlike xping and equipping... and ppl really seem to be happy about it...
whats the fun about ppl running around in maxlvl and topgrade equip after 1 month???
but thats not the topic:
i think AION = NC = Korea and that lets me hope...
so how casual can a Korean MMO be? those ppl play MMORPGs all day... wowlike xp would lead to maxlvls and topequip after weeks... how u wanna keep those players in game for years like it is in L2...
iam sure that grind will be less than l2 and xping will be faster but it still will be worlds away from WoW standards (at least i hope it)...
i cant imagine that the koreans would be happy with that... and 1 thing i learned in my years with NC now, they give a sh1t about american and eurpean customers but they listen carefully to their koreans players
Or is NC making this game only for western carebears who complain when they dont get 3 lvlups in 1 hour and 1 epicdrop too...
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You may not like WoW...but that doesn't qualify WoW players as "Carebears."
Personally... I like some personality in my games. I'd rather not have to grind mobs from lvl 1-99 just to be able to experience the game. That gives me a feeling of work and I don't play games to "work," I play games for fun. Hell...I think that's why l2walker is so popular on the retail...because there's many people who want to get to the fun part without the dreadful painstaking grind.
Now I definitely don't want the lvling process to be too easy/quick but I would certainly rather have it be a bit easier than be a bit harder. Now I don't think it will be a problem because the some of the most rewarding grind areas are in The Abyss...which is open pvp. Also a pvp death results in a loss of exp...so the odds of your leveling being a completely smooth ride aren't too high. Chances are you will get ganked and lose exp somewhere along the way.
The thing you need to understand is that Aion is Not Lineage. If you're looking for the next Lineage...I heard that L3 is coming out in '09 (don't know if this is true) and that will surely satisfy your craving. Sure Aion is from NCsoft...but so is Guild Wars, Tabula Rasa, and Exteel. Those games aren't L2 clones so I wouldn't expect this one to be either.
Now..it may borrow certain concepts...but it's clear from the info provided that it borrows from a few games. Now maybe that's not what you're looking for and if it's not, that's too bad because Aion certainly appears to be what I'm looking for and the more players the better. However if you don't like what you're seeing, I wish you luck on finding your next MMO.