[Translation] Aion Races to 200k Concurrent Users

[Hellrose]

Originally Posted by DemiGoth

Funny to see that it took WoW around 2 months to hit 240K users, while Aion hits 200K in less than a week

[EDIT]

Not bugging you with dates Hellrose, but you refer to november 2005..?

Oh oops. mutherfk..
Thanks

[Diablo]

Living in the past.....

[Kaldur]

Originally Posted by DemiGoth

Funny to see that it took WoW around 2 months to hit 240K users, while Aion hits 200K in less than a week

[EDIT]

Not bugging you with dates Hellrose, but you refer to november 2005..?

Nerd alert 1010101!!1

[devile]

I just want this game to be released all ready gurrRrr

[Tareith]

Thanks for the update.

While the total numbers themselves are cool and all, it's the rate of growth that I'm all giddy about.

[IntangibleFate]

Great news Thanks!

[koyy]

thanks for the tramslation Hellrose

[vasil]

Aion is currently drawing a slightly older crowd, with 79% at ages 20~30 and 12% at 40+, showing that the gamer base has aged since the launch of NCsoft's past products.

So wish same thing happens in EU/NA, damn WoW kids ><

[DemiGoth]

Originally Posted by vasil

So wish same thing happens in EU/NA, damn WoW kids ><

/agree


damn... 10 chars min... :s

[ern3sto]

great news, thx for this translation hellrose, cant stop imagining wow fanboys crying when there game isnt no. 1 anymore xD

[Key]

Thanks for the update Hellrose.

I hope this type of news will shut up the trolls on the livstreams of members here that are playing.

[Hotshot]

omfg thats sounds awsoum, thanks hellrose for the news ^^
still cant wait to get my hands on this game!!!
have tryed o download the korean (obt)
but i dont get it fixed yeat..
but after i read that you written to us all..
i can wait 2 or 3 mounths..
i have waited so long now, or we all have waited so long now!! we can wait a litle bit more ^^
super thank you!!! kiss kiss ^^

[omidus]

Originally Posted by Hellrose

[COLOR="DimGray"]But can Aion beat WoW? (In Korea)

At the current rate? It's more than possible.
Comparing Aion's user numbers to WoW's launch 4 years ago, there's no doubt that Aion is growing at a comparable rate. Back in 2004 when WoW conducted their OBT, they reached maximum concurrent user numbers of 240k, including the users in queue. Currently Aion's presumed to have 220k users when taking the queued users into account.

WoW has Aion beat in the speed new servers were set up (Aion is currently at 31 servers), but considering that WoW had a lot of server stability issues throughout OBT, the numbers were necessary as a buffer for downtimes.

I'm going to play the skeptic here, Aion won't beat wow; not even a possibility. If what you said is true in the article, the age demographic of people that is switching to aion most likely won't switch to Aion in NA. We are the laziest people on this planet, people hate us for it.

Aion doing well in Korean is no indication of it doing well in NA; simply because WoW has carved such a niche in our MMO economy. Millions of players from NA alone, they'll play it on the side definitely won't be their main source of MMO addiction.

Everyone who has MMO, knows there will be server issues regardless of who makes the game. Since the population of players can't be predicted, OBT/CBT aren't close to the number of players that will actually subscribe. Server stability is to be expected, wotlk is a good example it's release brought back thousands upon thousands of inactive players. Free server transfer is offered to compensate for that.

I think Aion is looking great, but to get people's hope up that it's a wow-killer is an overestimated figure.

[Hellrose]

Originally Posted by omidus

I'm going to play the skeptic here, Aion won't beat wow; not even a possibility. If what you said is true in the article, the age demographic of people that is switching to aion most likely won't switch to Aion in NA. We are the laziest people on this planet, people hate us for it.

Aion doing well in Korean is no indication of it doing well in NA; simply because WoW has carved such a niche in our MMO economy. Millions of players from NA alone, they'll play it on the side definitely won't be their main source of MMO addiction.

Everyone who has MMO, knows there will be server issues regardless of who makes the game. Since the population of players can't be predicted, OBT/CBT aren't close to the number of players that will actually subscribe. Server stability is to be expected, wotlk is a good example it's release brought back thousands upon thousands of inactive players. Free server transfer is offered to compensate for that.

I think Aion is looking great, but to get people's hope up that it's a wow-killer is an overestimated figure.

In Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand I think there's a good chance.
In China, decent chance.

In NA/EU, probably not.

[kebrus]

and here we go again... korean centric MMOs... this is why Aion wont even be remember amongst non-korean MMO players... 50% of their market comes from korea alone, so all this talk about how well the OB is in korea doesn't mean anything for the rest of the world, and comparing it to wow is like shooting your own foot, cause wow just beat a bunch of records in the last expansion...

the only good thing about this news are the age of the players