AION - New NCSoft Title

[Bo Jackson]

I was reading the FAQ on one of the main fan sites that popped up on google (i forget which one, maybe AION source) and they mentioned that they will have an entire gm team dedicated to combating farmers and bots. Course they probably did for L2 as well and we all know how that went, but it seems like they are at least keeping that in mind this time around, realizing how that affected the economy so much in that game.

[Tred]

God damn this game looks so good but the fact that it's a korean MMO has me very hesitant to get excited about it.

[Draegan]

Videos - Interviews - aion.gamona.de - Aion: Tower of Eternity

Watch some of these interviews from earlier this year. He talks about WOW and int turn of time to max level in one of them. I think they're gonna take out the grind. I forget the numbers, but I heard 3 months to max maybe?

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I havn't heard sound from this game yet until today. Pretty nice work.

[Rathi04]

Has anyone seen a server list at all? I've looked around but nothing comes up. My friends are the ones that got me interested in this game and if at all possible I'd like to plan where we go before the game comes out.

Nothing worse than planing a server on the day of launch.

[Draegan]

It's way to early for that. The US website isn't up and running fully yet.

[Rathi04]

I didn't even think of that, hearing that makes me sad.

[kyo]

Classes Video Closed Beta 2 HD quality | Aion @ Curse.com

HQ version of the previously posted class vid.

[Rathi04]

Jesus, I watched that video like five times yesterday. Looks like my day is shot again.

Took me a good 5min to figure out that you can't use Firefox to download this video.

[kyo]

Since you guys like videos so much... Or just go to CBT 2 - Post all videos here - AionSource.com where they have all the videos plus some. Warning, it loads slow.

(From CB2, char running around in a forest and collecting quest items. That's gotta be the coolest popup minimap ever.)
YouTube - Aion - CBT2 Forest Adventure

(From CB2 that I haven't seen. Crab Battle. Party style.)
YouTube - Aion - CBT2 - Fighting with crab

(Asmodian assassin gameplay from CB2. Koreans know how to rock out. Something about this video makes me really want to play this game. I'm not sure if they are changing the leveling curve after CB2 or not, but notice her exp bar(bottom bar) as she kills mobs. Def. no huge grind there.)
YouTube - Aion - Asmodian assassin (PvE gameplay)

(From CB2. NPC farmer bashing mobs with a rake on his farm. Maybe part of a quest?)
YouTube - Aion - Farmer Satu's Spring Cleaning

(Female elyos character customization closeup from CB2. I love being able to choose colors from a palette.)
YouTube - Aion - CBT2 Elyos Character Customization (closeup)

(CB2 short distance bird travel. Nice and smooth.)
YouTube - Aion - Short Distance Bird Travel

(CB2 asmodian emotes.)
YouTube - Aion - New Asmodian Emotes (female&male)

(CB2 running around in the desert. Music + environment = me in awe.)
YouTube - AION - CBT2 - Desert Scenery

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[Draegan]

I've seen those already. You can see a ton if you search YouTube.

[Bo Jackson]

Let me start by saying that I am really looking forward to this game. But after watching those videos does anyone think this looks almost too much like WoW? The bird flight looked exactly like a gryphon, and the assasin gameplay looked exactly like a rogue in wow, the map looked exactly like the WoW minimap, and when that girl was running around the desert even the controls and camera angle and UI looked like WoW. That looked exactly like someone running thru the barrens or something. I don't play WoW anymore for a reason and I think this would be a shame if this game became a wow clone. I enjoyed playing wow but in the end I really didnt like how the end game unfolded, but leveling up it was an amazing game. Maybe the leveling up will be similar and the end game will be much better perhaps.

[Hatorade]

^^

[Rathi04]

Every game for a while will be inspired by wow. There isn't really anything to improve upon unless they do something drastic like AoC. You have hotkeys and a minimap.

A lot of people are very use to the wow gui now and I have to say i don't mind it. And the flying thing, how different can you make a flying animation?

[Grumpy Old Fart]

Originally Posted by Bo Jackson

I was reading the FAQ on one of the main fan sites that popped up on google (i forget which one, maybe AION source) and they mentioned that they will have an entire gm team dedicated to combating farmers and bots. Course they probably did for L2 as well and we all know how that went, but it seems like they are at least keeping that in mind this time around, realizing how that affected the economy so much in that game.

I wouldn't get your hopes up at all about any bot/farmer control. Although I'm very much looking forward to this game, I'm extremely concerned if it ends up being run by the same crew that ran/runs NA Lineage 2. Those people are the most monumental retards in the history of MMORPGs, possibly even eclipsing the Vanguard newb crew. In fact, I was very proudly banned after politely informing their Community Rep what a fucking idiot he was (he'd never played an MMORPG before - not to mention his sub-80 IQ).

There was exactly *ZERO* bot/farmer control in Lineage 2, and when I bailed out every server seemed to have more Chinese than North Americans on it. Huge areas of the world, including entire dungeons, were "owned" by the Chinese farmers and 100% off-limits to any NA players. NC-Soft did nothing at all about any of this crap, of course (hey, those Chinese were the majority of their paying customers). This leaves aside that well over 80% of the "normal" players openly bought in-game currency with RL cash.

Other things to worry about if their NA L2 morons get to "English-ize" Aion include them having nobody that actually understands English beyond about First Grade level (sort of like most U.S. High School kids these days), so the translation will be horrible. They also have exactly zero programmers with any talent/skill at all, so any special work that the NA version needs just plain won't happen unless they get a huge amount of subs.

I'm afraid that although Aion might be an awesome game in its original - Korean - state, we English-speaking types are going to be very disappointed with what NC-Soft's NA crew comes up with for our version.

I managed to get in the Taiwanese beta of Lineage 2 with a few tips and tricks (as I recall, this involved translating some Chinese-language sites, using proxies, etc.), so hopefully we'll get a look at this thing soon during some Asian beta a few months before any NA beta starts up.

[Zindan]

Originally Posted by Bo Jackson

Let me start by saying that I am really looking forward to this game. But after watching those videos does anyone think this looks almost too much like WoW? The bird flight looked exactly like a gryphon, and the assasin gameplay looked exactly like a rogue in wow, the map looked exactly like the WoW minimap, and when that girl was running around the desert even the controls and camera angle and UI looked like WoW. That looked exactly like someone running thru the barrens or something. I don't play WoW anymore for a reason and I think this would be a shame if this game became a wow clone. I enjoyed playing wow but in the end I really didnt like how the end game unfolded, but leveling up it was an amazing game. Maybe the leveling up will be similar and the end game will be much better perhaps.

I only notice that the color palette that Aion uses is similar to WoW, everything else is all its own style. The Assassin looks like a WoW rogue because, well, rogues will be rogues in any game....stealth + stabby stabby. ;p