Aion - Page 19

Abbadon · Feb 25, 2010, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mordakai

are you actually defending this crap?

You realize NCSoft is just taking your money so you can farm, right?

No I'm not defending them but at the end of the day people aren't being held at gun point to play the game. So I guess since people are still playing, there's something they find appealing about it.

*Racthoh* · Feb 25, 2010, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Lethys

Whoops, I again forgot to add these NPC's don't have a 100% chance to spawn.

Oh right forgot about that too. Quests that you sometimes flat out can't complete. There are various quests that require your side to be failing in order to complete them, including a campaign quest that leads to the Miragents/Fenris quest chain (the super grind one). Also if your side owns more than 70% (or is it 75?) of the abyss fortresses the opposing side receives a 15% damage buff. To put that in perspective, the strongest level 50 PvP weapons only have a 10% bonus, and they require an absurd amount of abyss points (which you lose when killed by a member of the opposing faction, more depending on your rank) and gold medals.

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Originally Posted by Abbadon

So I guess since people are still playing, there's something they find appealing about it.

If you're playing Aion with a group of friends it's fine, but the same could be said for just about anything. You can tolerate a lot of when you're playing with people who's company you genuinely enjoy. It would just be nice if more games would take the Guild Wars or Runes of Magic approach to games and give me some content that's enjoyable when people aren't around, unlike Aion or World of Warcraft.

PwnyRide · Feb 26, 2010, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Abbadon

So I guess since people are still playing, there's something they find appealing about it.

That's all well and good, but when essentially the exact same product (being a typical Asian grind-fest) is being advertised and sold to western markets under the guise of being 'westernized', when no changes in game-play have even been made to make it more western-friendly, you have a lot of us who...wait for it...don't like Aion.

Thus it will be criticized, and it will be bashed.

I'm actually embarrassed I found it enjoyable in the first place, it just took me a while to see past the eye-candy.

Daniel · Feb 26, 2010, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by PwnyRide

That's all well and good, but when essentially the exact same product (being a typical Asian grind-fest) is being advertised and sold to western markets under the guise of being 'westernized', when no changes in game-play have even been made to make it more western-friendly, you have a lot of us who...wait for it...don't like Aion.

Thus it will be criticized, and it will be bashed.

I'm actually embarrassed I found it enjoyable in the first place, it just took me a while to see past the eye-candy.

Same here. Guess why they capped the max level at 30 in the betas.

Mordakai · Feb 26, 2010, 07:36 AM

And now people are going to fall for it all over again with Tera....

Daniel · Feb 26, 2010, 11:34 AM

God damn NCSoft is so frickin lame...

http://www.aionmagazine.com

Ryuzaki · Feb 26, 2010, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Daniel

God damn NCSoft is so frickin lame...

http://www.aionmagazine.com

Indeed. At least it's only like 3€, but yea, it's lame.

Malchior Devenholm · Feb 26, 2010, 11:56 AM

More damn milking.

People won't buy for the mag, they'll buy for the items.

@ Abaddon: I don't play Aion, but all this grinding shit is just going to further influence the Western market which will turn people off of innovative games like Guild Wars.

Juanele · Feb 26, 2010, 12:00 PM

Do you really think so Malchior? I think with the dropoff in subs in the western market that Aion has shown that grindy games are not really the way to go in the western market.

Arduin · Feb 27, 2010, 05:36 AM

Exclusive ingame items with every issue, damn. It even costs 3-4$ every month, added to the subscription from the game itself.

Daniel · Feb 27, 2010, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Arduin

Exclusive ingame items with every issue, damn. It even costs 3-4$ every month, added to the subscription from the game itself.

Guess how many players are buying it for the actual magazine.

Gigashadow · Feb 27, 2010, 05:14 PM

So there's a minor reference to Divinity's Reach in the latest Aion community update.

( it's not actually confidential; original article points to this image at http://na.aiononline.com/board/notic...leID=223&page= )

Whisper · Feb 27, 2010, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Gigashadow

So there's a minor reference to Divinity's Reach in the latest Aion community update.

( it's not actually confidential; original article points to this image at http://na.aiononline.com/board/notic...leID=223&page= )

Be prepared on a-net useing this in their next community gag.... I can already see the headlines....

"Exclusive preview of divinity's reach" *showing off their meeting room* :P

*Racthoh* · Mar 04, 2010, 08:44 PM

http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/a...9+Announcement

Too much reading. Also, WTB 2 Elyos on Siel (chanter, ranger, sorc, or spiritmaster <3) as Faer is bad with technology. Yeah that's right Faer, you're being replaced if you don't shape up.

Faer · Mar 05, 2010, 12:39 AM

Oh good that means you'll stop bugging me to play.

Arkantos · Mar 05, 2010, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Racthoh

http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/a...9+Announcement

Too much reading. Also, WTB 2 Elyos on Siel (chanter, ranger, sorc, or spiritmaster <3) as Faer is bad with technology. Yeah that's right Faer, you're being replaced if you don't shape up.

If you want to pay for my sub and level my sm to like 35, I'll gladly play with you. <3

*Racthoh* · Mar 05, 2010, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Faer

Oh good that means you'll stop bugging me to play.

Never.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arkantos

If you want to pay for my sub and level my sm to like 35, I'll gladly play with you. <3

Yes because I want to deal with all of those twinks running around for a 3rd time.

pumpkin pie · Mar 12, 2010, 06:40 AM

following the recent couple let baby dies incident. NCSoft has new a anti-addiction measure

says in the article apply to all game by NCSoft

raspberry jam · Mar 12, 2010, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by That article

The new anti-addiction system will be applied in all games operated by NCsoft because the previous Fatigue System didn't achieve expected prevention effects.

People will be annoyed at this and then they'll grind even harder.

Zhaitan · Mar 16, 2010, 07:00 PM

AION is a bad game by design. It's a Beautiful Disaster. Funny thing is that servers are still online even when they are pretty much dead all across. I have played on 6 servers on the East and most have zero to no activities except for people idling at Sanctum or Pandemonium broker area and occasional ganking.

Quite pathetic is the endgame, if you actually can call anything endgame after hitting 50. Blood stain farming is essentially AION endgame. You do that for your armor and after getting armor you still do it anyway to sell them. <lol>

I won't comment about AION PvP. Its basically bunch of lowlifes in Miragents/Fenrirs ganking/harassing/killing the ones trying to get the same. Air combat is not only buggy for melee classes, its just stupid as "target is always far away".

I am happy that this $3%&ed up company is not getting my penny anymore for this poor excuse of an MMO.

Mar 04, 2010, 08:44 PM	#374
Racthoh Tracer Bullet Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Oakville	http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/a...9+Announcement Too much reading. Also, WTB 2 Elyos on Siel (chanter, ranger, sorc, or spiritmaster <3) as Faer is bad with technology. Yeah that's right Faer, you're being replaced if you don't shape up. __________________

Mar 05, 2010, 12:39 AM	#375
Faer Implying Implications Join Date: Aug 2009	Oh good that means you'll stop bugging me to play. __________________ "Play a norn in GW2 if you want to change into a Nornbear. ^_^" -Linsey NORNBEARS CONFIRMED FOR BRAWL

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