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alz3abi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:26:31 GMT

Aion: Tower of Eternity review for the PC

i will Quote some points:

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Do you play games for graphics, or for the gameplay?

I love Aion graphics and yes Aion need some improvment in gameplay but at less it is playable...

if this game dont have PC to play Aion in Top graphics it is not our problem XD..

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If you’re into animoo – and you should know by now that I’m not – you’ll probably find the character design of Aion delightful. It’s basically impossible to make a character that doesn’t look like he’s from Bleach or Naruto or some other equivalent.

Will Aion Char Customization is cool and uniqe in some parts i think this guy love Gears of war or killzone becuase it is diffcult to make Char like them but anyway he didnt see Aion Obama video?

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What’s worst, however, is the painful grind of it all.

i think lineage 2 player will disagree ...

Another critical flaw

sinamatic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:22:34 GMT

Developers made a critical mistake with this game.

They spent waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time creating, developing, polishing and implementing character generation.

They must have spent an insane amount of time detailing every little hair-strand, and every little mole on players faces down to lipstick color, foot and hand size and yea, head-size too.

Too bad they spent so much time in this aspect of the game. Although it's nice, and it goes farther then any other mmo to date in this regard, imo they spent way too much time and way too many resources in this part of the game.

It's like they devoted 85% of their time and resources to character creation, and 10% on content and 5% on pvp and pvp balance. No wait, they spent 80% on character creation, 10% on content, 5% on pvp and pvp balance and 5% on flight ability, AH trader voice-overs and the crysystem.dll.

Nice to know you can make and awesome looking character that gets to play in a world that is as linear as they come and has replicated mobs lvl after lvl after lvl. I was impressed by the frillnecks however, I mean, the large frillnecks were almost exactly like the hissing frillnecks BUT they were different colors. Lepharists of all types wear different garb. Barely. Wow.

Anyways. Maybe next time a gaming company will devote more of their time and energy to the PLAYABILITY of a game rather then spend a majority of it on the over-all appearance.

Playing this game is like driving a Porsche that has a VW golf engine and 4 speed tranny and bucket seats from a Subaru Justy. Yea it looks great, but it's an under-performing, uncomfortable p.o.s.

At least my 36th lvl retired assassin looks good with her pretty mole and hand-held leaf fan!

What's up with the forts?

Artilius — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:25:06 GMT

It seems to be(at least on my server Israphel) that the times for fort. inv. is so far spaced apart, that the elyos always seem to have it the longest. I mean, Asteria and roah have not been vulnerable since the weekend. Wtf? They can have it for a week? This has got to change since they are advancing more than the other side is. Has anyone noticed this issue also on another server?

YourEMGN nominates Aion for Best PC Game: cast your votes

ruroken — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:27:53 GMT

Aion has been officially nominated for the YourEMGN Best PC Game Award. The list of competitors include Dragon Age: Origins, Sims 3, and Burnout Paradise. Therefore, if you think Aion deserves this award go vote at this link:

YourEMGN Game of The Year 2009 Nominees - The EMGN Nation

P.S: It's obvious that Uncharted 2 is snatching the rest of the awards :).

Quitting

Jaszz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:08:40 GMT

Yeah i can see there are 20 million thread about this, but i wasted 75$ on this game. So i think i deserve my own thread.

they did a good job of making 1-20 maybe 20-30 fun, but after that its grindfest 99 and im having about as much fun as i do at work. the pvp is also zerg based which is the real reason why im quitting. I could put up with a terrible grind if there was light at the end of the tunnel, but there isn't.

World PvP can be fun when it is actually world pvp, but in the confines of the relatively small abyss zergs are unavoidable, and small group pvp has almost no place with the exception of a very very rare occasion. And this right here is supposed to be the entire focal point of the game, the abyss.

Rifiting was probably the most fun i had while playing aion, but you have to wait entirely too long to do it. Once you die your done, and you can't do it again for quite a while. I don't see why they put restrictions on this.

All this game did was made me realize that i took WoW for granted. Everything about wow aside from graphics is unrivaled by aion (aion does 1-20 leveling better, but its all about endgame). I've been playing it for 3 years, and i've been bored of it for a while, and when a new game comes along and only entertains me for a month its just crazy to know how far off they are from being decent.

Treat the disease and not just the symptoms

Eraden — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:28:20 GMT

I am constantly astounded by the number of people who focus only on the symptoms and not the disease. Throwing all of your rage at people who bot or do RMT is not going to solve the real problem that is plaguing this game. BOREDOM. The grinds that are present in this game are plentiful, long, and tedious to the extreme. Gold sellers are not the only people who are botting. I have seen a great many normal players bot too. When faced with the amazing amount of tedious grinds that are present in this game, is it really a wonder why there are so many people botting?

Another misconception that seems to stick with a great many people is the idea that experience points are the true measure of advancement in this game. That is false. While experience is important, it is really KINAH that is the true measure of advancement. Without Kinah, you will not go far in this game. Whether it be for consumables, death recovery, purchase of gear, or crafting of gear, Kinah is the single most important thing in this game, bar none. Again, is it any wonder why people bot when the cash gained/cash required ratio becomes increasingly smaller as one levels? In order to amass sufficient quantities of Kinah to permit continued adventuring, one has to grind for increasingly longer periods of time.

The changes implemented with the latest patch not only do NOT address the root problem but actually EXACERBATE it. By increasing the experience gain for quests and not dramatically increasing the cash drops from monsters, you only increase the rate at which characters will level and decrease the amount of time that passes before the characters will reach the point where they will find it difficult to progress further due to inadequacy of gear. They will then have to start grinding again for Kinah. The net result is that nothing has been done to alleviate the boredom. Worse still, characters will, in the end, reach 50 that much faster and then the players will start clamoring again for more content.

In my opinion, the best way to have dealt with this problem would have been to dramatically increase both the number and variety of quests, slightly decrease the experience point gain from the quests, increase the Kinah gains from quests and monsters, and decrease the size of the gold sinks. This would make grinding less tedious and make it a bit easier for characters to obtain the funds needed to get by. In such an environment fewer mainstream players should find it necessary to bot. The only people left botting under these conditions would be hardcore gold sellers and rampant cheaters. Better monitoring of the servers and more timely punishments would help clear out this lot. Just remember though, when people buy gold or bot their characters, there is always a reason. Find the reason and deal with that. Treat the disease and not just the symptoms.

Everyone saying 'Aion is about PvP not PvE' look inside.

xXxBrxXx — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:50:44 GMT

How do you gain AP at 50? Farm guards nonstop.
Where is there to rift at 50? A level 20-45 zone.
Where exactly does this so called 'PvP' take place at 50? Ganking people farming fort guards and or SOMETIMES at the fail fort sieges.

This coming from a level 50, the game at 50 is basically even more of a grind than it was getting to 50. Grind guards nonstop every day for 8 hours and hope to get 20k AP.

To those of you hoping the long grind to 50 will be worth it for the end game content - Don't bother, It's not.

kiba52 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:47:57 GMT

This isn't a "rage" post, I simply want to let the majority know what awaits and maybe get some constructive ideas going. To put it simply this game has very little end game content to justify the long grind. I'll go into detail.

PvP
Fortresses - I think the majority of community has come to the educated conclusion that fortress raids are rubbish. It is over in 10 minutes after the boss has been zerged and just comes down to which faction has a bigger force, top that off with lag and crashes and it just becomes a chore to get medals.

Dredgion - This is something that i will give NC Soft props for, a unique zone that is alot of fun. So you've found something fun at end game that gives decent rewards AP wise but wait...you can only do it 3 times a day at specific times? This is a very stupid idea in my eyes and should be made available around the clock.

AP - Currently, mindlessly grinding fortress guards is by far the quickest way to accumulate AP but i won't go into this as it could change alot once more players are level 50.

World PvP - Again i can't come to drastic conclusions about this yet but it doesn't look promising.

So, that's it. We have a battleground we can only enter 3 times a day at designated times and some fortress zergs that dont offer much AP wise. This game needs some more instanced battles with a good internal reward system to give people the option to pvp whenever they have time to play.

PvE
World Boss's - Not a bad system overall, i like the average level idea. The main issue is that they are so damn easy and beatable by a single group. Currently it's possible for a small group to kill the end game bosses and know the exact time it will spawn the next day and do it again, giving everyone else 0 chance of take a shot at it.

Instances - There needs to be more of them and extend the longevity of the current ones by making them more challenging or something, we have seen people leaving the game already because the pve is so limited and easy to beat. Some raid instances would be fun too.

As a level 50 i am choosing not to invest a ton of time in the daevonian chain/abyss rewards/crafting equips because I have no goal to reach which justifies doing it, the only thing i see myself doing afterwards is jumping around in teminon landing which leaves me with one choice - leave. I know it takes time for new things to be designed and implemented but this game has been out for a decent amount of time in the east and is still very bland. I give NC Soft's marketing team credit though for creating alot of hype around a game that doesn't deliver anything we haven't seen before in hundreds of FTP MMO's.

Before the mass "Nyerk" or "Go back to WOW" comments amass from the level 30's please dont bother, this is supposed to be a constructive and informative post.

/Discuss

Instances in Aion is dreadful.

Wrath — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:52 GMT

Yes, i said it.

The first time i did any instance, it was fun. I can really look past the horrible drop rate from boss. However, by the time you do it the 15+ times, it started to get boring and became a chore.

Training Ground and Fire Temple is fairly easy. It can be done swiftly. But let talk about Steel Rake ( which you will end up running alot for Stigma Quest ), Theobomos Lab, Draupnir Cave, Aetherogenetics Lab, Alquimia Research Center, Indratu Fortress ( not really an instance but it is there ), Azoturan Fortress.

Steel Rake: There are 3 levels. You can clear middle deck around level 42. This deck is terribly long. I think the dev lengthen the instance by just adding lots of trash mob for the sake of being instanced. But dont worry, you gonna run this again a few times because the ape probably gonna drop nothing.

By the time, you hit 43+, you gonna try to do lower deck, the first thing you see is ....yup more trash mobs to clear. If you are lucky, you may get a rare spawn of Genie. Then more trash mobs to clearn to Engineer Lahu ( i chose to ignore the prison section because you are most likely end up with kinah, power shard, and potion from treasure boxes. Special delivery is more miss than hit. Even if you get a boss, you probably get a vendored green ) Kill Lahu, nothing drop. That is ok, you should get used to this after doing Fire Temple so many times.

Upperdeck: trash mobs are filled the deck as far as the eye can see, but hey it is the shortest deck. But more keys boss to kill with trash mobs to clear. Captain is getting nerfed today.

Aetherogenetics Lab / Alquimia Center : To be honest, Elyos version is alot easier then asmos' side. On asmos' side, there are just alot of trashed mob to clear to a laughable boss which drop nothing.

Indratu Fortress / Azoturan Fortress: Talk about being original, both instance has the exact design. They are just being filled with different mobs, boss. One will served as Heiron Last Campaign Quest while the other will served as Reshanta Last Campaign Quest. But boss can be leash pulled through a room filled with mobs. Did i forget to tell that you have to clear alot of trash mobs to get there? ( Not that many, but they are there )

Draupnir Cave So after your 20th Steel Rake runs, you are ready for this instance, which will be equally long in terms of trash mobs that you have to clear to get to bosses for more green items. You can clear your way toward the final boss, which will chuck norris your party and lol @ your failed effort. Dont worry, the drop rate from bosses are as bad as Steel Rake. Most of the bosses are tank and spank.

Theobomos Lab: Exciting..not. Yes...lots of trashed mob to clear to the epic boss, which will gonna drop a green for your party. By the way, you get a very sexy cutscene for finish Theobomos Campaign. You better treasure it, the cutscene is epic.

Conclusion: These instances in Aion are cumbersome. There are nothing original about design a small room and squeeze as many mobs in there and call it instance. As we reach level 50, it gets even more tired just to walk in an instance and know the fact we most likely end up with a few greens or vendored/extract blue. We do not mind killing the boss 15+ times for a gold item, but we really hate clearing the other 100 trashed mobs on the way to bosses. Let be honest, it would be smarter just to grind core guards for AP rather than doing instances beside Dark Poeta and Dredgion.

A picture speaks a thousand words...

Hairo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:44:56 GMT

Edit: Before some one asks me - 'no i don't like to alt'

update - review:

I like the game would give it a 7/10. But NCsoft is nyerking it up.

Lack of Communication, Support, Botting Issues, Spam issues is hurting aion.

End game atm is lacking and needs a revamp. This is my opinion and is from the EU side.

Holy botsandwich batman, my story.

Murse85 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:42:49 GMT

Troll. Go back to wow.
(There, I said it for you.)

This is my review of aion through the eyes of a 24 year old gamer who has played MMO's since ultima online's launch day.

With that out of the way, let me just say that I did enjoy aion as a game. I did all the betas and enjoyed every minute. I was completely stoked to get this game and call it's community, aionsource, my new home. I joined a legion, talked mechanics on vent, it was a very fine replacement for WoW. Until after a few weeks something happened. Previously, I'd suspected people with strange names were bots. But then I started seeing characters with names like |||||||||||||||| and aiouyzxb running around.

After coming here and learning that the /autoreporthunting action required multiple player reports to even function (let alone having limited charges!!), I knew this game was in trouble. And lo and behold, the next week, I would often find more bots than players (in channel 1, blatantly farming) in areas. The vendor-bots in the big cities spouting advertisements or even the chat-spam didn't bother me. The pinnacle was when we had a templar bot attempt to tank through FT. I-kid-you-not. In fact, that was so frustrating our group gave up after about fifteen mins.

Honestly, I feel cheated when I see bots playing other people's characters. It's hard work to 'get good' in an mmo. (Ok, maybe not hard, but it does require a time sink) Said time sink became devalued for me when I saw others achieving more than I, with zero effort of their own. This cheating struck at my core as a gamer as something extremely distasteful and reminded me of an older game I used to play...

I do know that botting and macroing has been around since ultima online. In fact, this game did remind me a lot of ultima online in one way. In that game, a lot of people (re: most everyone) afk-macro'd trade skills, magery, etc to get ahead. Heck, I confess, I macro'd in that game.

Now, does this make me a hypocrite? Yes. I am a hypocrite, because I used to be one of those people. However, as I have aged into an adult my views have changed. I want to actually 'play' my games, and not have my games play themselves. Especially now that I am spending my own hard earned money on them. I want my achievements to be hard earned and feel the satisfaction of finally saving up enough for that awesome sword of killingness. I guess what shocked me was at what rampant scale the botting/cheating in aion was happening. In UO, you had to at least be discrete about macroing. (As they had a gm staff there that regularly banned players for macroing) Here in aion, the blatancy of the botters astounded me.

There is icing on this cake. After running through a circle of about 5-6 botters to a group of mobs, I noticed I was not getting any loot from the mobs I killed. The bots had used /autoreporthunting on me. At this point I gave up. I said this is not my aion, this is not what I beta tested and this is not a game I will ever enjoy after the events that transpired. (After reading that last paragraph, I thought I would quickly clarify - I never botted in aion and never would. As per my prior statement of wanting to actually play my games.)

I actually like ncsoft. Truly. Guild wars was a game that took many years from me. Same with city of heroes/villains. I even dove into Xteel for awhile. However, this game has left a really bad taste in my mouth. And unfortunately it is not entirely the developers fault. I am definitely going to be paying attention to MMO launches from now on - to see if botting is going to continue to plague the gaming community. It does make me a little sad that we as gamers ruined this game (for me). That said, I almost feel like MMO's have left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't blame NCsoft entirely. I've said in the past that I won't buy from them again. I feel like I should retract that statement and replace it with, "I won't buy your MMO's again."

Perhaps MMO as a genre is something I've simply out grown or become disenfranchised with. Perhaps single player games or multiplayer games are finally catching up in quality. I'm unsure. All I know is I'm definitely taking a break from MMOs all together after this one. I definitely refuse to play an online game where it is essential to cheat to keep up with the cheaters.

This was not a typical review, assigning numbers or points to various things. I felt that had been done many times over and are often biased. So I simply thought I would share my story with the community. Take it for what you will.

Let me know what you thought, what your experience with the game was regarding bots. Do you share similar feelings or do you shrug it off? Or do you secretly bot or feel a growing need to?

Thanks for listening AS.

Steve

We, as a community, have to accept the fact that Aion...

Myspacetom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:49:39 GMT

We, as a community, have to accept the fact that Aion was released in the United States and Europe for the sole purpose of profit due to box sales. The level of support is beyond inadequate, it's like building a city the size of New York with only one Police station.

Aion is a fire-and-forget missile, they have our box sales and now have minimized overhead as much as they can, and now all the money they make off the bots and players that remain is pure profit in their eyes. I guess they didn't expect the game to do well to begin with and that's why they took this approach. It's rather sad, Aion was an enjoyable game but I can't in good heart continue playing for much longer knowing that NCsoft has no plans to support it.

Does this screen shot not sum up the entire situation? They don't care, at the moment there are more RMT bots than actual players, and from all the reports that I've heard they are choosing NOT to perma-ban the few bots that they actually do take action against. They won't want to lose that subscription money!

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http://sites.google.com/site/kipmoody/Bots.jpg

Ayase and Tamat are the worst as they openly lie to us. The person responsible for this travesty should be immediately fired, and whether it's a failure inside NCwest, then the community needs to get in touch with people at NCsoft and have these people removed, or if it's a corporate decision then make it known to the board and shareholders. Because this is nyerking retarded.

I'd probably have harsher words for Ayase/Tamat if they weren't protected so well by the mods on the Aionsource board, they have failed us.

You can flame them all you want on the official boards though as there is currently no moderation, just like the game itself. Friday night you had one person creating hundreds of spam threads littered with obscenities and no action was ever taken towards him or his posts.

Enjoying AION

Lexana — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:15:27 GMT

With all of the doom and gloom posts, flame wars and Go back to x game threads, I thought I would take a moment and share some positive thoughts with you all.

I am having an absolute BLAST playing AION.
I recently decided to mothball (at least for a few days) my main since launch (37 Gladiator) and start up a number of upstarts of each class. I leveled a Templar, Sorcerer, SM, Sin and Cleric all to ascension to see what I liked and get a feel for the view from some other classes.

While one thing I noted, was that the lack of different starting zones make the replay variety a bit less (unless you start Elyos or Asmo) I did however notice one thing, the thing that got me so hooked on the game in the first place, The addictive play style and driving theme, and while some of the quests and started mobs are certainly not that creative. There was on overall sense of a storyline

The cinematic cut scenes on the quests, the uncovering of the past and future and the path to ascension. it felt like I was a part of some story that would eventually unfold. its sad that the questing goes so dry and loses sight of this later on.

I decided to take my time and not stress over the leveling for a bit, do some crafts a nice temporary diversion that was refreshing.

now, I know down the road the frustration will set in again, and certainly this game is not without problems, but the shining potential it has just makes me want to fight to see this game succeed and what it COULD become if given some love and understanding.

I think there are definitely things that could easily be changed that would turn this game into a long-term western market success, im not going to go into details as there are plenty of threads about that and dont want yet another flame war.

All I would say is that if some people on either side of the fence could just loosen up a bit, and see things a little bit from someone else shoes and realize that just because you like this game doesn't mean all other MMOs sux and just because this game isnt like other MMOs means it sucks either perhaps we might just enjoy ourselves a bit.

Top Guilds Giving Up On Aion.

moviefreak — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:15:25 GMT

Voodoo Guild

While they usually update the site with their accomplishments, this is their latest post:

How's everyone else's guild holding up?(This question is directed to guilds with MOST of their members being AT LEAST 45+)

I played WoW for the first time in months - some pros and cons I noticed

LordChaosJester — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:28:42 GMT

While this post doesn't have a real point, nor is it fact based (mainly my opinions) I thought I would share some key positive points of Aion VS the most popular MMO of all time.

I am neither a WoW or Aion fanboy. I played WoW for around 3 and 1/2 years and thought it was a fantastic game. I have also played Aion since the second beta and also think it is a great game.

My wife is still a WoW addict and does not care for pvp at all, but has been begging me to come play with her again, so I got a little bored this weekend and didn't feel like playing Aion much, so decided to reactivate my WoW account and play with her.

While playing Aion you of course notice some of it's downsides - a fair amount of quests, but no where near as many as WoW's... smaller world, very few instances, instances are typically more of a tank and spank, very little large raid content, less end-game content, less classes (specs) to choose from.

With all the negativity though, I decided to post some of the things I really missed while playing WoW.

- One simple thing is the overlay map, never realized how much I liked this feature when I no longer had it.

- Overall movement - I got stuck on stupid things in WoW all the time, never realized how often that happened before Aion.

- The chat box/colors etc. Easier to see and read.

- Travel time. Flight paths are soooo much faster in Aion. I hated flying for 15 mins to places in WoW. So much nicer to just teleport. That is a con to a larger world. Also even with fast mounts, I felt like I did a LOT more running to different quests in WoW than I do in Aion typically. Even though in Aion it feels like you are traveling slower.

- Quests: WoW has MUCH more of them and they flow, but I complete them so crazy fast in WoW that I didn't get any feeling of accomplishment. While Aion's quests are pretty much the same - they take longer and usually seem a bit more difficult.

- Difficulty: I see people on here constantly saying how Aion isn't harder than WoW... I agree completely in instances, but you are dead wrong for actual questing and mobs. I was playing my 73 Boomkin Druid who has mediocre gear. I could EASILY two or three shot mobs at +1 my level. At one point I accidently pulled 8 mobs (running through a cluster and then decided to stop and fight them when I got dismounted) I aoed, healed myself, and killed them all. While questing there was NEVER a point where I felt like I might die. In Aion you have to be careful with pulls, even two mobs sometimes can mean death. More than two in a group often means death... (yes I am aware some classes [SM] can fight three mobs) even in instances normal elite mobs are nothing to really be feared, even CC is almost never used in combat, as it is rarely needed. Boss fights require much more thought in WoW and can be way more difficult, but Aion aggro is harder to manage, and normal fights require attention. Anyone who thinks WoW is more difficult in normal fighting scenarios is out of their mind. .

- Combat: This is really the thing I enjoy most about Aion. In WoW on my Boomkin example. Most mobs I can just hit Starfall, wrath x2 = mob dead. After buffs I usually only use Entangling roots, starfall, wrath, moonfire, and sometimes instect swarm. 5 powers total, very rarely are any other powers needed. In instances I may use those on single target mobs, but typically I aoe spam 1-2 powers over and over. If I broke down and set up a macro... I would use one button over and over. In Aion even at the low levels you have a full tool bar of powers that are NEEDED in combat. An example is my level 25 sorc. I have a full chain of 8-10 powers I use, then the next mob while others are on cool down I several other different powers. Not to mention chains were a neat idea.

You can feel free to disagree on many points, as they are MY opinion, but thought I would give a better critique than the typical - AION SUXXORS GRIND FEST -or- GO BACK TO WOW CAREBAER NOOB. While WoW has many strong points and Aion has many areas that greatly need attention, there are some big key differences that makes Aion a unique fun game.

Aion Fails and Should Have Had These Ideas/Changes

wb123 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:43:27 GMT

1)First off. the whole faction vs faction is bad idea. WOW already did this so did Warhamer Should have just stuck with the Lineage 2 Every man for them self. I think this game would have done alot better and would be alot more fun if there were no sides. Again this would change the whole approach to the game.

2) Loosing XP when you die is retarded. I can understand this concept over in asia, where the gaming is very different. Most of us that live in North America and have very busy lives, don't really have all day to play 10 hours straight and then loose half of our progress. Not to mentioned the countless times people have died due to server side problems.

3) The skill system is to basic, One class can only do one thing. Personally I like a talent tree type system, give a bit more customization and lets you build a spec to how you "want" to play not forcing you to play a certain style.

4) the crafting system is a joke. Seems like they just sorta rushed it.

This game does have upgraded graphics but it feels like I am playing Lineage 2, very basic.

Aion has not "improved" for a year;

Laris — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:59:10 GMT

Because NCSOFT were waiting for the EU/NA release to figure out what to implement next and release it on all servers around the same timeframe. So, in theory, content is on its way.
Discuss, troll, wish I was dead etc.

This game is good..nothing wrong with this game, it gets better later, later, later....GRR!!

AmirBorna — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:11:05 GMT

Before I say anything, let me start with positives.

Aion is an amazing game. When I baught (preordered) aion, I loved it so much. It was so fun in beginning learning the game, playing with people. Amazing graphics, great (beginning) storyline, leveling just happened as I quested. I joined a guild, met some friends, and continue. A great MMOrpg. it's actually my first, coming from Diablo II, so I like it a lot. I also like PvP a lot. I PvP and it's fun.

And now...I'm level 38. I need 29million XP to level, I keep doing quests. 1/3 of a bubble. 1/5 a bubble...now I have <50%xp with all quests done...I've been grinding so much. So-so-so much. I'm tired. Ever since level 24 on my sorcerer i've grinded every level. Doing training grounds and fire temple wasn't so bad. but no

I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of telling myself this game is as good as I think it is. I'm tired of myself telling myself at level 50 is when all the good things begin

WELL WHAT ABOUT NOW DAMNIT?

This game's a joke. It feels like a chore than anything. I struggle to grind, I lose focus because it's so damn boring. I don't understand how people can stand this. Killing the same thing over and over again. Spamming the same keys, same strategie, one monster at a time.

Now I know why people bot. I now understand those "DAMN BOTTERS, GET BANNED" people I use to hate so much. It's not anything that's wrong with them, you reach a point at level 38 where you have to either have a life and go nowhere in this game, or have none-and flourish.

How can one have a job/school/family/love mate and try to do anything in this game?

How do you accomplish the blow? Skill? Think again

Gathering...spend massive amounts of time doing the same thing over and over again
Grinding...same as above
Crafting...same as above
Questing...atleast in this game, it's super lame.

The original story in this game is BEAUTIFUL! It makes an awesome story!

BUT

I don't know what the hell is going on. Only thing I know is from the beginning cutscene, and the cutscene at level 25 when you go into the abyss. What the hell? A game in 2009, do I have to go to the story, or must the story come to me? Really? When you play a game, any game, a good game, a bad game, it has to PRESENT the story to you

Ask anybody, what's the story in aion

"It's about a world...broken...split...evolution...hated..."

Okay, that's the beginning. What the hell is going on when you're playing the game?

No story. No fun while grinding. Quests are absolutely pointless, just another means of getting XP.

Okay so why am I playing this game again? A game is ment to be fun, yet whenever I click the EXE for Aion, i'm always struggling to have any fun. It's been 1 1/2 or however much into the game, and I keep telling myself it's going to get better. Really?

Grouping...out of the water. You get **** XP, and only good groups are few instances...there goes the actual point of the game, to go through the lore with groups and get it done. But the only groups I see are for XP, not completing the game.

The game has SOOO MUCH POTENTIAL. It's UNBELIEVABLE.

Whoever is the head in running whatever is going on in AION needs to get fired. There are SO MANY problems in this game like bots, gold farmers / spammers, ENGINE ERRORS that make you crash 9 times during a fortress siege, DESPITE HOW GOOD OF A COMPUTER THAT YOU HAVE...

What do they focus on?
1. When you extract Aether, there’s a chance that Aether Poison Gas will infiltrate your body. The poison blocks gathering for a certain period of time unless you detoxify the poison.

- Once you are poisoned the only way to detoxify yourself is to utter the "Cleansing Word.”

- To utter the Cleansing Word, type the randomly given letters and numbers within the designated time

- When you utter the Word, you get three chances to enter the correct letter/number sequence. If you fail three times, Vitality Extracting and Aether Extracting are prohibited.

- The “/ExtractStatus” command provides your extraction status.

- When you have Aether Poison Gas in your body, you can still move and activate other abilities, so move to a safe place before you utter the Cleansing Word.

You got to be joking me right!?

It's an utter slap in the face. Like blocking pretty much all outside forms of communication until level 10 wasn't enough, the avoid the big problem, and get lazy on the little stuff. Is this a joke?

Also last, not Aion the game itself as it was created, but the people running aion.
Worst customer service / support / experience ever I have seen in a game. EVER. 50 million dollars already they have. They have yet to fix crashes. They have to fix bots. They have yet to fix gold sellers. Really?

Atleast tell the community you're going to fix it.
Atleast tell the community you're on it
Atleast tell the community...anything! AKNOWLEDGE!

Do something! I'm not paying 15 dollars a month for you to just take as a rent. We pay 15 dollars a month for renevations and upgrades..patches, expansions. That's why the whole 15 dollars a month was created in the first place.

NCSoft if you read this, this isn't the word of one. This isn't the word of few. This isn't the word of a group. This is A HUGE PART OF YOUR PLAYERBASE NCSOFT! STEP THE **** up or GTFO!

Honestly...good luck with this game. I'm going to continue this month, URGE myself to pull through december, but if it's just the same...so long aion.

Also please, to anybody who is about to flame me, I still like this game, but the thoughts above, which I ranted all at once without though, is just what keeps circulating through my mind when i Gather, craft, grind, quest..play the game pretty much.

I've never played WoW so I'm not going, nor do I play on it. I want to play Aion, the game that I know is good, minus 80% of the bad parts of it. I'll pull through.

:dazed:

[quick edit] People are saying they will be upping the quests of XP. When you have 30+ million to level after 38, raising a quest from for example 200k > 500k makes no difference what so ever.

Aion end-game is extremely boring.

LegendZodiac — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:41:00 GMT

Hello guys. I won't type up a long review but just a short post explaining why end game is boring. Now I know most of you are thinking "dude, most people aren't even lv 50 yet, you rushed to end game, etc." but it's not really that. The thing is, the grind doesn't stop at lv 50. In fact, it's just the beginning.

Your only options at lv 50 are Dark Poeta, which you can do once every 12 hours... the thing is, Dark Poeta get's boring and repetitive extremely fast. Then you have Dredgion, which is basically not even PvP. It's not challenging at all and is basically auto win if you have a spiritmaster on your team. Another option is rifting, which gets EXTREMELY dull and boring. Basically you can only rift in one zone and there is no real world pvp, all there is to kill are bots. I spent hours in Beluslan killing asmos and even had the Azphel's Curse but the zerg stopped coming after me, since none of them could kill me. I'm sure the top ranking asmo guilds were too busy botting in Theobomos to even come and try to kill me and my friends (who also had the curse).

Last but not least, fortress sieges. Let me just sum it up with this; There is no challenge, there is NOTHING special about it. All you do is rush to the guardian as soon as the castle gate is down. They seriously failed with fortress sieges. I've played F2P games with more end game content than this. It's a shame really. There is nothing to do end game while waiting to do either dredgion or dark poeta except craft, and that is a whole 'nother grind.

-Farming Instances for end game gear = Grind (Theo labs aren't worth it after you get the lv 50 wings, by the way.)
-Crafting = Grind
-AP farming for end game gear = Grind

Everything is boring to do, it's not fun AT ALL.

I know this seems like a whine post, but I'm just trying to give you the best advice and say, leave this game now. It's not worth it. I'll be canceling my subscription as well.

Aion is GROWING not decreasing

Gakus — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:53:50 GMT

maybe it's just me but i noticed newbie zones booming with new people each and every day

then again i'm not some WoW fanboi here to try and nyerk and moan cause Aion stole half my guild on WoW :)

lol@all the wow fanbois on this site tryna trash talk when the numbers speak for themself.

SOS, i have no idea what to do

Ravenknight14 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:23:14 GMT

Ok i have played this game since day 1, have yet to get to the abyss, but the more i read the forums of this site and others, this game is a pure grind after lvl 20, i have gotten to lvl 23 on 2 characters, and 3 others are 20+, and i cant get to 25. i mean i dont wanna say i HATE the grind, but i hate this grind, where its not enjoyable. anyone who says, "go back to WoW, nub", better think twice, the grind in this game is minute to RS, which was KILLER, but it was enjoyable. The quest grind and lvling in WoW is extremely ez, especially if u know the quests better than quest helper, but right off the bat u were able to group up and do RFC, WC, DM, and SFK before lvl 20. Thats what kept me playing WoW were the instances (especially SFK)

i guess what im asking is....the lack of pure content and rly pure enjoyment...worth waiting for the end game or the abyss even?

i am thinking about ending my sub for now, but if this game does get that one in 500 shot to MMO greatness (in the west), i will watch the forums.

So plz, is the abyss, instances, and endgame worth the back-breaking, annoying grind?:dizzy:

Should I keep going?

Sethisto — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:41:51 GMT

So.. My account just expired today. I've leveled a templar to 30, but the people I joined with quit. Then a week later my friends from WoW decided to try aion out, and I got a chanter to 28, but they all went back to WoW.

I am not sure if I want to bother anymore. It seems like everyone I join with loses interest. We keep seeing all these complaints about later on, where the levels take 9+ hours of grinding and junk. I haven't done that since EQ1, and was more than happy when they finally got rid of such a steep grind. And I've already dealt with 30+ bots, I can't imagine how bad they get higher up. It's fun to grief them, and get them killed.. but I really hate seeing them. It shows how bad the customer support is in this game. I reported a few of these bots, and came back 2 days later to see them still bottin away. The fact that they aren't banning these players the first time they catch them sort of speaks volumes. They obviously need the revenue from their subs.

There are a few control issues with this game that bugged us too... The mouse pointer disappears when you have alt or ctrl held down, which is 50% of my hotkeys. Pvp doesn't feel very smooth either, especially with all the rubberbanding. I wish they would have copied wow and made characters player side instead of client side. I forgot how frustrating rubberbanding was in guild wars, seeing it again here really sucked. And left click to pan the camera around works maybe 30% of the time while flying. For some reason it is really unresponsive. And an option to turn off autopivot on the camera would be really nice.

But I overall enjoy the game. I am completely sick of wow. Everything from the world to the classes bores the crap out of me. But this game has been out for long enough that these stupid issues should no longer exist. It's not like it's a new game. 10+ months now and we still play what is essentially beta. Call me a wow*** or whatever you want, but games these days don't have the massive grind for a reason. I can't get anyone to keep going past 30, and that more than anything will harm the population. My few experiences with keep pvp are pretty much the same as warhammer. Big laggy clusternyerks that never make it past the front door. I figured that though, i didn't join for the abyss. But it takes way too long to get to that end stuff to really keep people playing.

I might stick around though. I am used to the grind from eq1. Is the end game stuff really entertaining? I think the main thing we joined for was the pvpve raids, fighting over a boss against the other faction. How does that stuff work? Does it even exist? I haven't heard anything about it since we joined. Are instances more advanced than the boring tank and spank of NTC?

I'll probably just head back to WoW if the only thing to look forward to is keep battles.

AION players are QQing over teh wrong nyerking things.

cyberhedz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:17:33 GMT

So I just wanted to rant for a moment. I'm tired of seeing people on the board whining over the same repetitive crap that is unimportant next to the bigger issues. my first case: bots, STFU already, this is not the first game nor is it the last that will be botted. Bots will never go away so get used to it, Games develop stronger code, they write better bots, rinse and repeat. Now normally I would just ignore this but the fact that there are so many of you are whining about bots, its taking teh time of devs away from other issues like the memory leaks and cry engine issues.

short version of rant:

If you must QQ, then QQ about this:
1. Memory Leaks
2. Crysystem.dll
3. 64 bit client (we need one)
4. in game support
5. other important gameplay issues

please no more QQing about:
1. bots
2. bots
3. gold sellers
4. bots
5. QQ, moar like wow plz
6. bots
7. about how much better WoW is..

/end rant

Do most players quit Aion before reaching level 30? Statistcs say yes.

Sinister100 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:02:04 GMT

On my server, offical server statistics show that 80% of players are still below level 30, and ingame online player count paints a very different picture. By using /who and checking all the level brackets (max 124 per /who but that's ok because there wasn't a single level which has over 124 players online) I was able to find out just how many players there are at each level range. Note that this was for one side only, but that doesn't really make any difference to things.

Levels 1-10 online: 53 characters found

Levels 11-19 online: 111

Levels 20-24 online: 106

Levels 25-29 online: 113

Total players below level 30 online: 383

Levels 30-32 online: 110

Levels 33-34 online: 94

Levels 35-36 online: 98

Levels 37 online: 79

Levels 38 online: 61

Levels 39-40 online: 109

Levels 41-42 online: 101

Levels 43-45 online: 114

Levels 46-50 online: 122

Total players above level 30 online: 888

As you can see, 43% of players are below level 30, what does this go to show? That close to 40% of players quit before getting to level 30. This actually fits perfectly into what the poll about players quitting when their subscription runs out thread, where I think it was 43% of players will quit when their 1 month sub is up.

If you consider that my server has a 50/50 split of asmo/elyos roughly, then you can also get that there is approx 2500 players online on the whole server right now.

Oh, and let this thread be ammo for every time someone gets a fanboi arguing that the reason the economy is screwed for people in the level 30-50 level bracket is because most players arn't even level 30 yet. That only holds true if you include every player who has quit the game already.

Aion Boring?

1nsane — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:55:53 GMT

Ok, whats up. Been playing since Headstart now, have a 44 Cleric and a 32 Glad.

Is it just me or is this game boring?