Chrome

Do you mean that our testing will only by launched after it has been fully tested, or even released in Korea ? Hmmm... I thought our tests might start while they were having OB, i guess i was wrong about that.

Mamonaku

100% Agreed. Especially with the bored-to-death-of-everything-else sentiment.

Aion looks to be the total package so... I don't mind if they take their time.

pyrocrazy

He meant that if you are not Korean you can't join any of their testing phases and that we will have to wait a bit longer until our testing starts

IceAge

A little longer then Korean's or .. ?

pernicion

To clear up a point that may have been lost in translation, the US and EU beta testing will take place at the same time date-wise, as in, Sept 1-20 or along those lines. The difference in time refers to say, morning testing versus afternoon testing. So, there's no need to worry that Europe will have to wait even longer than the US for beta.

Edit: Ah, he already edited his original post to make the point clearer. Ah well, I'll just leave this in case someone misses it.

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Cirius

Im all for the Dev team taking thier time with fine tuning and tweaking following Beta testing but these guys get paid a lot more than your average Joe, I pre ordered so long ago I dont think they even had the Interwebs back then, seriously it doesnt make me feel anymore confident that AION will run flawless from the off the longer they take to put out EU/NA beta or full version, if anyone is under the assumption that we will have a glitch/bug free mmorpg on our hands I suggest counseling.

That said im still looking forward to getting my hands on it finally, anyone thinking of starting a Legion/Ls/Guild what ever they are gonna call em please let me know.

My two cents, take care, Ciri

amschel

I think i remember reading somewhere that they just started translating not too long ago and they are probably going to wait to translate the abyss until after CBT3 so they get a good working version to translate. and I also dont expect it to be perfect the longer they take working on it but the longer they do the fewer problems there will be on release.

Szaman

Let them take as much time as they need, kids.
And in the mean time go and enjoy life while you're still young.

Yes. I'm an old prick. So don't mind me...

Kieron - have any decisions been made about the division of servers among NA/EU (will they be "exclusive", or will there be a change for a euro to play NA server etc.)?

LEVATHAN

I think......

Ncsoft is a company , that need money.

To earn money you have to make politics.

What politics ?

Like, i will not release AION cause i am not finished with the Lineage. I have more features to add to Lineage players.
If Ncsoft opens AION , a huge number of players will leave Lineage to play AION.

This is not good for NCsoft , because Lineage II still gather a huge amount of players.

Let's stay a little longer on Lineage II, to release all the features i have for it , and then we will start AION.
At the meantime Ncsoft will give us a feedback with Korena beta version , just to see some features of the AION.

Lineage have 3-4 updates more....

AION will be released just before Lineage II comes to the end.

pyrocrazy

You know that made no sense at all...


why waste the money updating L2 then if all those players that leave L2 will still play Aion


sooo all those players would still be with NCSoft and they wouldnt lose money....no point in even spending a dime on L2 if all those players will move to Aion and they would save money from L2....


People leave from L2 to Aion....both owned by NCSoft, how are they losing money? If they think that L2 will die when Aion comes out then why not save that money from developing L2 more and get Aion open....


Think about it your logic makes no sense on how they lose money

LEVATHAN

When you have all these players with Lineage II , why to relase a new game...

When Ncsoft feals that he needs a fresh start ... then he will release AION.
When players will be bored with Lineage II......

You will see....

Aion will come public Europe with official servers ( not public tests ) at the beginning of the 2010 , When Lineage II will have all the updates.

P.S Korean players have allready CBT servers because they have allready Gracia for Lineage II. At the end of the year they will have and the second update for Gracia.....They will not have AION public(official servers , not test servers) later that the second half of 2009.

So , we (Europe)will have it at the beginning of 2010 . It is the same time that Ncsoft scedulle to start working with Lineage III.

You will see.........

Saito

You should be happy korea gets closed beta first, of course we all can't wait to play Aion but the korean closed beta's are usually still early versions of the game and most of the bugs will be ironed out before it goes to the US/EU beta's so we will have a much cleaner and better version to start with then they do

Also, more bugs will mean more time for fixing is needed so server down time during kclosed beta isn't is pretty common

- Based on other closed korean beta's i've been in, no i'm not korean <_< -

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pyrocrazy

That guy is dillusional...


many players hate L2 with a passion, they are going for a whole different crowd...they arent saying OK L2 PLAYERS, AION IS OUT SO EVERYONE MOVE THERE

the more games they have the more business they have...

if they have it done they wont say, ok guys lets just hold onto this and hope not to forget about this until 2010-2011

if they dont have it done by 2010 I'm sure many people would have found something else to play instead of this

LEVATHAN

I am happy "Saito" that Korean players have games first. As you said , when we have it , it is more stable.

I just wrote my opinion of the Ncsoft release scedule , as i understant of his previous games all these years.

My friend , "pyrocrazy" AION and Lineage II is 2 games with the same base.

I think that when AION is alive , Lineage II will be ..... like Lineage I now. (second priority.....and free)

This is my opinion........

Saito

The only reason L2 is so popular is because of the private server community. Most people who really want to play the game have long given up on the offcial servers because of the lack of bot controle.

I just hope Aion won't turn the same as this... If so I'll be hoping for someone to create an emulator or for the game to leak it's not like NCsoft is known for good server security with what happened to L2.





Don't get me wrong I'd love to play Aion (and L2) on the official server but NCsoft better not expect me to play on a server with more bots then players and where e-baying is the only way to get to the top. I simply want an fair and even envirorment for everyone.

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