AION Community Consensus

[Noshoduji]

Crashing during a fortress siege over and over makes the game unplayable. Bots are a #2 issue. NCSoft should be able to walk and chew bubble gum and take care of the two of these simultaneously. Any other fixes or additional features are not needed nor desired until fortress siege crashing is alleviated. Bots can be fought over time but progress needs to be made now.

[EmeraldArcana]

Client crashes. The same issue that causes Fortress Crashes also causes me to crash when I walk through town.

[Manic33]

Bots.

They are even gathering Aether now! This bot has been in Beluslan for DAYS grabbing Aether Gems (Azphel server). I have reported it probably 3 times now. I really hope others are too.

Also, it's almost impossible to kill anything around Beluslan Fortress with all the bots. People in my legion have a hard time even finishing the quests/grind there with all the bots. There are starting to be more and more all over everywhere I go.

[kayeffem]

bots are by far the bigger issue since it affects the most amount of people.

[Pixii]

They're ALL pressing issues...
the order for me personally would be:

(certain issues are combines for relativity and because they're equal in terms of order)

1. Fortress Raid Crashes
   For obvious reasons, this had been added to the top of my personal list. I'm missing out on experiencing this aspect of the game. I can live with it, but I'd like to experience it.
   
2. Bots / RMT
   For obvious reasons, this is a pretty big issue. Spam can be controlled individually by the player, but players cant control other players (even if those players happen to be robots).
   
3. Server Downtime
   Matienence is GOOD. I like matienence. Yea... it sucks when there just so happens to be downtime during the ONE day I happen to have off that week... or I wake up 4 hours before I have to start doing my hair and make up for work.. but I can't play cause the server is down... and I can't fall back asleep >.<
   But, nevertheless, it's a good thing.
   However... 60 second warning for a server shut down coupled with an entire hour of lost play time... I looted a blue receipe estimated to be worth over 200,000 on the broker... GONE.
   And apparently, NCsoft claimed they lost an hour of data BECAUSE THE PLAYERS WOULDN'T LOG OUT OF THE GAME?! 60 seconds is retarded, to say the least - but I'm sorry if I wanted to use my 60 seconds to safely port to town, so that when the server came back up again, I wouldn't be 2 shot by whatever mob was standing beside me. (I'm a squishy)
   
4. Other - Abyss world PvP 10 Level 40+ beating on 1 Level 25 (o.O)! ouch my eye!
   I understand the idea behind the Abyss, and I think the concept is really cool, but 5v1 is never fun, especially when you're grinding with an already limited amount of playtime for the day. For Example: if you only have 1 hour to play that day, and you decide to solo grind in the Abyss... (which isn't a good idea to begin with) 30 minutes is usually spent travelling due to zerg/gankfest.
   Specifically for me, the Abyss is no bueno. I've participated in medium scale Red-Rover style combat with Asmos vs Elyos, and thought it was pretty fun - but as soon as I get into large scale or SUPER large scale epic battle combat... either I can't see anything but pets, I cant see anything at all but buildings, I rubberband everywhere, the client crashes... it's just a mess. My computer can actually handle A LOT of games, both big and small. It's a pretty decent machine, but even on the lowest settings, during certain scenarios, my PC can't handle AION :| Which is sad, because I'm really missing out on some awesome aspects of the game.
   
5. Other Client Crashes
   Usually my client freezes when I zone or enter the game. Not all the time, but sometimes. I've come to expect it, and basically wont hit any buttons on my keyboard for about 30 seconds when I zone into a new area. Randomly, my client will crash without warning. I still think it's odd that I can move my character and interact with objects in the game, and then all of a sudden a dialog will pop up, alerting me that I've been disconnected from the game. This wouldn't be as annoying if the client dc'd to the character... or even log in screen, rather than shutting down completly... I don't even think NCsoft recognizes this. I saw a thread somewhere around here, where someone asked Ayase (or someone else) about the client closing out completly, and he replied with something along the lines of "im not sure what you mean, if you mean such-and-such (which wasn't what the question was about) then yada-yada".
   
6. PvE Loot Tables
   While I agree that it's awesome bragging rights to be one of 5 people on a server of 500,000 to have a super amazing weapon... I would expect those statistics to be for Gold Items... not low level Blues. In reality though, it's not so much the blues that I'm even worried about, but the greens that have just as low a percentage rate to drop. (Using WoW as an example, not a comparison) I remember in WoW, players would get trolled to bits for wearing "quest rewards"... at level 50 ... (the worst kind of troll... is the kind that THINKS he's right, but actually isn't). Excuse me for getting a new piece of armor everyday and spending my time on more important things... like experience points. Honestly... like there's a plethera of armor to choose from in Azeroth.. the content that's been in WoW, virtually unchanged (sans making it easymode), since vanilla.
   Honestly, while leveling, I don't really care if I have the best of the best armor in the game for that level, as long as the armor I can obtain (through crafting, broker, quest rewards, instances) keeps up with my leveling. I've stayed with this blue armor set since the early 20s, and I'm starting to see that some of the greens at this level are upgrades, but with less manastone sockets. I would just upgrade my stones, but I'm afraid I'm going to wind up spending 100,000 on stones for one piece of armor, just to have that item replaced 30 minutes later... which for whatever reason - happens to me all the time. Not to mention, I can't really spend any money, since in 6 bars I'll have to spend ~360,000 kinah on new spells. Making kinah isn't a huge issue, but the game requires a lot of purchasing... of a lot of various things. One of those "things" is purchasing armor for players like myself, who never seem to see the drop they want, and when the item they want do drops, they dont win, and if they happen to win, they lose to a ninja.
   
7. Content Issues / Leveling
   I'm only Level 33 at the moment, and sadly have fallen into the "Casual Gamer" category (I used to have more free time before I had a full time job with full time classes at the college and bills to pay - growing up sucks *wah*). I was stuck at certain levels due to the 2 hour queue times in the first week of release, as well as simply being too busy and having a limited amount of play time. Certain level "blocks" were just... horrible in terms of finding a place to level up. I'm going to say, off and on in the 20s was the roughest for me, even with TG. In fact, during 25-28, I logged in, ran TG, logged out. Total play time of maybe an hour a day, if that. Once I hit 30 though, I found a HEAP of quests in hieron and even more back in Elten to keep my occupied, which I'm thankful for. I added this towards the bottom of the list, specifically because I think the inital problem was that I wasn't too familiar with the game; but now that I am, it isn't much of an issue.
   
8. UI Issues
   I add UI to the bottom of the list, because - for the first time in 4 years, I'm NOT playing a healer. My healers have always had the custom UI/addons. My dps alts never needed them. As a sorc, I can play fine with the UI, but if I had decided to roll a healer this time around, I'd probably place UI as number 4 on my personal list.

[ellsworth]

Customer Support

[Stttation]

Fortress Raids is practically the end game content.

No raids = no playable content = a game without its selling point.

Bots annoy the ever living hell out of me, same with spammers.

[Abyssinian]

I voted for "Other Client Crashes", but I would include fortress crashes in with that.

I think they they need to work on everything on that list, quite honestly (and they definitely need to do something about bots, as well as provide better support by way of GMs and customer service), BUT I would have to classify being able to actually play the game as the most pressing issue. .dll crashes, crashes caused by going over 2gb of memory, etc., I feel needs to be addressed. I haven't even experienced client crashes (apart from my computer just being a POS), but those who are affected by the client crashes (even with high-end computers) are not able to even take part in everything this game has to offer, and I feel that's a problem.

[HolyAegis]

Bots = RMT and bots can = bots outside of that.. so I say aim for the bots issue.


I can deal with crashing at times during a fortress siege... WAY better then a botter outleveling/farming me or someone buying a shitload of cash from a botter.

[Hinagi]

Only if this vote could have negative votes.

Because Whilist some issues are definitely shared at community level (RMT, Bots, Crash), some issues are definitely not shared by both parties in the community (levelling curve, loot drop rate, Add-on Addition etc).

IMO it'll come 1) bots 2) crash since gold spam is solved and RMT isn't as visible. RMT and Bots are somewhat related and with Bots more visible, people will vote Bots.

The 3rd up will most likely be levelling curve, but the vote does not indicate whether players 'disagree' with the opinions stated in the ridiculous letter.

[scarr]

Bots are annoying, but are simply a cause of the leveling curve, which is indirectly related to the content, or lack thereof. If everyone was immersed in a great game, the amount of complaints about the leveling curve would drop significantly. If the leveling curve wasn't an issue, bots from players would be less common (RMT bots are a different story).

[Toddski]

Crashes, bots, RMT.

[Ryuni]

I voted Fortress crashes.
I think crashes, bots are the biggest issue.

[Jarskaaja]

1. Bots and other effects from the lack of customer service
2. Crashes

Only the developers in Korea can deal with crashes. So NC West has one thing left to do: get their act together with customer service and GMs. The amount of bots is ridiculous and it ruins the game. Why level legitimately if NC openly shows how little they care about bots?

[Tool_of_Society]

I'm tired of being unable to complete quests due to the rampant botting that is going on. It's so bad that even legion leaders are botting since there is NO downside to botting right now...