[Translation] Aion's Release Schedule

[Karukan]

Originally Posted by Midgarsormr

Oi, just ignore Karu. Anyways,

I can say that Blizzard is an incredibly excellent company. They listen to player complaints, correct them, and they work thoroughly on all their projects. They spent over $100 Million Dollars developing WoW, now that is commitment. Saying they aren't really is stupid. Everything they make and everything they touch is gold, and I hate to admit that.

He was actually agreeing with me...

And I would flame you but it's really not worth it. You do a good enough job of making yourself look like an idiot.

[Midgarsormr]

...*Picks nose*...the hell are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Anuxinamoon

I'd say on release all the systems they planned on wont be there. Its just how it works. Alot of the time from here untill Gold will be polishing a tightening animations, Ai, code and lighting. With the design team fixing skills and quests and stuff. Implementing the stigma system will be the biggest priority besides a release. So at least we will have a fairly neat game by release.

I don't think they're done making Aion yet. When I say that, I mean putting in areas and such. Maybe they haven't hit that point yet, and then all the polish will have to come after.

[Calindor]

NCSoft spent hundreds of millions developing l2, aion and l3 in the making. Any big company is the same, they also listen to what their Beta testers say (in korea). NCSoft is worse in different aspects.


I love blizzard games, I played diablo 2, starcraft and warcraft 3 mini games (like dota) pretty hardcore at some point throughout the last 10 years. However I hate World of Warcraft. I can enjoy it for a brief time, then I will just get fed up/bored/unsatisfyed with it. I think it is mainly due to me playing previous MMORPG's before WoW. Had it been my first I probably would have loved it. It is an excellent game for people just getting into the MMORPG style, and with so many new MMORPG players that is the only reason it has excelled. However that does not make it a good MMORPG.

[Anuxinamoon]

Originally Posted by Kentaro

I just searched about Dominance War III is it some Company vs Company battle for which of their games are top notch and you win prizes.

Close but not quite. Its a big game art competition between some of the biggest game art forums around. Polycount, Gameartisians, CGtalk, 3Dtotal and stuff.
Basically they give you a topic, you design a character that will play its part in the war and you either make a 3d character or a 2d character depending on what one you want to do.
The pizes are huge and its really prestiegious to get in the top 50

Midgar: Level designers will be refining their levels, the QA team will be testing, the programmers will be fixing bugs and the animation team will be tightening their anims. The character team will probably be working on new armours and weapons for expansions now. And the localisation team woul have stated to break it down in document form what needs to be localised.
This is a guess but its usually what happens in a good comapny.

[Lemon Blossoms]

Thanks so much for the update!

[Anima]

Thanks for the translation! awsome as always

The news arent exactly nice, nothing we can do but wait :/
Good enough to keep the blood flowing hehe

[SoraNashimi]

Lol that stinks...Hopefully they will start the OBT in the summer time =p and 6 games...zomg wtf..We wants Aion!!

[Birdman]

Originally Posted by Midgarsormr

...*Picks nose*...the hell are you talking about?

Marchi agreed with Karukan, he simply used a much better analogy. What Karukan said was pretty spot on, I have no idea what you are going on about though

[Midgarsormr]

o.O...I just might have cared 6 days ago when I posted that...haha, by the way, check what I typed about chu on...whatever her name's topic in the Intro. section.

[Celestin]

This is the nature of software development people:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ima...-explained.png
Don't be afraid to click, it's just a comic. You can find the actual article and source here:
Coding Horror: On Software "Engineering"
It seems pretty well written though I haven't read it myself.

QA takes time. Especially once you get into regression testing and fixing. As much as it hurts me to wait any longer to play AION, this is the simple truth. But at the same time, another delay would be unacceptable.

Also, Blizzard was a good company. I had this brilliant post attacking Blizzard thought out in my head before I quit WoW, but I tested the waters first with a preliminary post and was immediately shouted out by Blizzard fanboys. In my post, I was planning to refer to Blizzard as King Midas himself because the simple truth is that without Blizzard, gaming might not be where it is today. Any idea Blizzard had was reincarnated into gold. But for those of you who don't know, the Blizzard you loved is not the Blizzard you know today.

A brief history ( *: denotes that this might be false ).

Blizzard begins as a startup with a series of mildly successful games.

Blizzard purchases some studio working on Diablo. *This studio, I believe, becomes known as Blizzard North. I think Blizzard North also worked on StarCraft.

A lot of these Blizzard North people become very important people in Blizzard. Blizzard is highly successful.

Vivendi purchases Blizzard. Vivendi is a French media conglomerate and is widely known for their greed overstepping their commonsense, leading to its own potential ruin and bankruptcy. In fact, if you look up Vivendi in Wikipedia, Vivendi is labeled as a textbook example of business ineptitude. I believe Sierra Software is another subsidiary of Vivendi.

Sometime in this period, development on WoW begins. *Though I believe WoW was not developed by Blizzard North, it is my understanding that they do heavily share resources.

An argument over creative control or something erupts between leaders of Vivendi and leaders of Blizzard. The aftermath is disastrous for Blizzard. Most of Blizzard's most important, prized and experienced figures including the president, I think the vice-president and several lead designers leave Blizzard. A majority of these individual band together to form Flagship Studios and begins production on Hellgate: London. Other employees find employment with ArenaNet ( NCSoft ) and a few others form another startup of which I don't believe there has been any news.

Blizzard is in very dire straits after losing most of its most talented, experienced and brilliant employees. They immediately begin hiring. Unfortunately, many of these individuals, though talented, are not up to par with the original Blizzard members who left.

The Blizzard that is bringing you WoW is not the dream team Blizzard that brought you StarCraft, WarCraft of Diablo. They are practically two different companies under the same name. It wouldn't be fair to tarnish the success of the old Blizzard with the failures of the new Blizzard.

If you don't believe me, look it up yourself. Blizzard is nearly as famous today as the company that splintered into a dozen pieces as for its successes.

[Birdman]

Blizz North only made the Diablo series. I'm not too worried about SC2. Flagship isn't exactly making groundbreaking games (Hellgate: Loldon) while SC2 looks great.

[Lakthazer]

As far as I know, Aion is due in Q4 2008 in Europe:

videogaming247 » Blog Archive » NCSoft Europe CEO: New City of Heroes titles planned, Aion for Q4 2008 release

[Calindor]

We need to make a rule that nobody with "Junior Member" under their name is allowed to make a post about Aion's release date, whether it be them speculating or asking.

[Nyteraven]

Originally Posted by Calindor

We need to make a rule that nobody with "Junior Member" under their name is allowed to make a post about Aion's release date, whether it be them speculating or asking.

just because they are a junior member doesnt mean they havnt seen a few things to speculate and if they ask just give them an answer then ask them to use a search feature next time it doesnt hurt to add a few words

[Caeis]

Originally Posted by Midgarsormr

I still hate the fact they're working on...6 MMO's at once. Six. By trying to be so money-****ing-hungry- none of those games will become successful. Except maybe for Aion.

They have different teams working on different games. NCSoft is just the publisher and the overall company, they can't send people from different project teams to work on Aion.