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Why should I play Aion?
I am really over the fence whether I should preorder Aion. I am quite bored, but all I see in the vids looks quite "been there, done that" to me. Ok, there are wings... nice. But that alone does not really convince me. Landscapes don't look so overwhelmingly good, just 2 races, and all I hear is standard fare. Sorta WOW 1.5 or what. I am not trolling, I am just curious. It is really worth trying?
Please only serious answers from ppl who actually tried it out. ^^
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The problem as i see it is the Korean guilds they will domanate pvp, or at least i think they will for awhile till some well organized western guilds get there shit together. Time will tell.
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Based on your post, my suggestion would be to wait until a few months after release and then decide. As many posts over the past four or five months on all the aion-related forums across the internet including this one have said, it's not doing anything radical or innovative - it goes the route of WOW in that it improves and changes a lot of little things in order to make a game that many find entertaining or fun.
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Oh sorry the reason you should is nothing else is out there right now and for cost of the box sale you get 30 days to play i think it is worth that at least.
MAGA
Koreans have their own servers. And to the OP:
If you're looking for a revolutionary solo experience, dont play Aion, if you have a group of people to play with and if you want to enjoy a good pvp game with some decent pve thrown in, surrounded by a polished enviroment, then play it.
Huh? Koreans have their own servers and won't be on ours. That did make me laugh though.
OP - Try out Aion and see if you like it. I absolutely love the game, and will be playing it for a long time. I was very suspicious of it at first, until I tried it. I would at least get to level 20 before dismissing the game, because that's when the fun parts start to happen. Pvp in this game is extremely fun and addicting for some reason. There's enough of a death penalty that you don't want to die (you have to pay off a Soul Healer to recover lost exp, when you die) and it gets quite costly at higher levels.
Bottom line: If it appeals to you then that's why you should play it. If you're not that interested, don't look for others to convince you. If you're on the fence.. do nothing until you decide to do something. *shrug*
But why *I* will play Aion is because it seems to be a little more group oriented. Plus I like the look and feel of the game and enjoy the combat. So that's WHY I'm going to play it... I'm more excited for FFXIV and GW2 though.
I don't want to hijack the thread, but is the game world mostly seamless like WoW or is it mostly zoned like EQ2?
zoned, but the the zones are larger than that of EQ2 from what I can tell. At least most of the starting areas and stuff in EQ2.
When someone said another game is "Been there, done that" when they didn't play it, I automatically do not consider them gamers.
Now that my opinion is biased, I cannot tell you whether it is worth trying. All games are worth trying, but each person has to determine whether they are fun enough to keep playing.
I played all the beta and have been gathering information on the game, all I can say is I like it. You been looking at things from very pessimistic perspective. If people want to keep believe it is just an updated WoW, then seriously go away, we don't need gamers that doesn't even go into details about each system when a new game come out. Any game would look the same if someone refuse to analyze the difference instead of focusing on similarity. I rather have 2 races I can customize to great degree than 20 races that look almost the same, and the landscape is fine the way it is, and the standard fare means that the game is not hyped, so what are promised are actually delivered.
WoW is hardly seamless.... it's painfully obvious where the zone boundaries are, espcially if you cross one away from the roads. WoW uses the same technique Shadowbane used, caching the boundary stripes so you don't have a loading screen or a discernable pause.
Vanguard tried to be seamless, but didn't get the cross-node communication working right, so NPC's would walk along the edges of grid squares, and there was some hitching as well (the famous death by falling as your flying mount disappeared back at launch).
AFAIK, nobody has fully accomplished this in an MMO yet.... although several single players games have done it.
zoned, but the the zones are larger than that of EQ2 from what I can tell. At least most of the starting areas and stuff in EQ2.
I think he's asking if it is all instanced or not. It isn't. There are no loading screens between zones.
At the very beginning of the game they have several "channels" with population limits to keep traffic down, but you can switch, and once you're out of the newbie area, everyone is in the same zone again.
There is no reason to play aion. It is same Ole same Ole. It has one halfway interesting mechanic and even it doesn't live up to its expectations. If your bored with whats already out then Aion will bore you. A better deal would get a job work the hours you would normally play an MMO save up your dough and by the time a good one comes out you will have the cash for a top of the line computer to play it on.
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I'm afraid that's not true. I was bored to death of everything out on the market, tried Aion, and liked it quite a bit. I'm not in a small minority either. A great deal of the current community came from WoW, WAR, AoC, L2, etc. All of them mention how they find Aion refreshingly new after playing those games so long.
When people talk about a seemlees world they mean you can move from zone to another without a load screen, not what you are talking about here.
Aion has great graphics, a lot of subscribers and updates, and a lot of endgame PvP, but that's about it.
I'm not playing any mmo without talent specs of some sort.
sorry Aion - Not until i can have some custimization of my class
If you would like to pvp unlike wow and do some pve then give it a shot. (try to wait until there is an OB so you can deside for yourself)
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If you are asking if you should play Aion, I think the correct answer is yes. You see Years ago, (and I do not know how old you are OP) They came out with a new and improved maxi pad, where they added wings. They had commercials witha bunch of yentas yelling. "It has wings!" Well, evidently these maxi pads were a big hit and sold big time.
Well, then there was Lineage 2. Now they added wings to it, and called it Aion. "It has wings!" If history is any indication, then Aion will be sucessfull, and most likley be a game you should pre order at once! It will obviously be the WoW killer . If you do not buy it there is obviously something wrong with you....it has wings.
what if i dont want to work 115 hours a week, im fine with working 40 hours k thx
Having only one viable spec that everyone uses isn't customization. Also having every race look exactly the same isn't customization as well ... you failed
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from watching Aion vids and reading the forums you can not really get a feel for the game. I got into beta thinking it would just be another boring mmo but something about it left me SUPER addicted. I actually refuse to play any of the other Aion beta's because of that. I dont need to get addicted to a game that wont be out for another month or two, lol.
Bottom line is its just fun, you dont have to re invent the wheel to turn a model T into a Ferrari.
who says im a star wars fan or a troll???? Im just having fun is all
That say's it all.
The OP asked for input from people that played aion. You sir have not, but posted here just to have some fun. lol
I would call that a troll post.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
Yunbei: many people say that aion is just a wow clone (hell they say that for any new game now day's). To tell you the truth when you first play the game it's boring as hell. same crap you have seen in every game to date (pve grind). But when you hit lvl20 and again lvl25, the true game will show itself.
IF you don't like open word pvp then you should pass on aion (your gonna die alot in aion "everyone does").
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Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
Having only one viable spec that everyone uses isn't customization. Also having every race look exactly the same isn't customization as well ... you failed
what? name this mmo you speak of?
I don't like giving my money to publishers that close their game servers then refuse to let players host their own games. But my hands are already bloody from DDO and LotRO, and I'm a little curious about this one.
Does the death penalty apply to deaths by PK?
Is there any reason not to attack someone you don't know? Any kind of standings they can set or the game sets? A permanent kill log, perhaps - or is it all RVR?
Are there any kind of level restrictions on PVP?
Was quixadhal dropped on his head as an infant? Dude we should totally pretend to be his friends then steal his retainer at lunch.
Are there limits to flight that come with any sort of hazard? I'm thinking Tribes or Giants: Citizen Kabuto. Are the maps ever set up in a vertical way so that flight amounts to something more than mere convenience and spectacle, as it did in Burning Crusade? Are there places you can't fly? How do flying and non-flying players interact?
How deep are the dungeons, and are they chopped up into layers or do you physically descend them? Roughly what percentages of dungeons and boss encounters are instanced?
Is control over your character as quick and precise as it looks in some of the newer movies?
Is the game full of stock sound effects, or are they mostly original? Is there a nice music system, or does the game just trigger certain songs to play at particular times? I apologize if this comes across as pedantic, but new and quality sound effects along with an interesting music system are what sells me a game these days. If you can convince me those two answers are enthusiastically yes, I will preorder the game immediately and even pretend to like it for a month. God the music is awful, though. The flute, the seventh chords, the porn vocals - like something out of a Michael Ninn or Andrew Blake movie. Romance and fantasy indeed. Have they changed any of this sentimental pastorale shit for Western audiences? Please?
Lastly I would like to know about the guild and contacts system. Can you send items in the mail? Can you send messages to people who are offline? Can you add people to contacts while they are offline or at least not in direct sight? Can you pick names off the chat or do you need to type them out? What sort of permissions can be set in a guild? Is there any sort of no-confidence or impeachment system for disappearing leadership? Can you see what area of the world people your level are playing in? Can you search guild names? Most importantly, is it any fun to use? Scratch that, the most important thing is can I resize the chat box, put it where I want on the screen, and set the opacity levels I prefer?
Sooner or later I'm going to have to sell my soul for Guild Wars 2, so maybe an early start isn't such a terrible idea.
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