Aion - The Tower of Eternity

[Tonic]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Fuck you guys, no really fuck you guys. Many of us that have kept up with this game are now forced to read your ignorant shit. What I meant is exactly that some skills have different effects. Example is templar gets a skill that blocks certain amount of damage while the other faction gets a skill that blocks a certain amount of hits. Read the fucking thread to know what I meant or better yet check out aionarmory and look at all the skills that say Asmodian or Elyos only.

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Cockfags

This.

[Brikker]

SO MUCH ANGER.

Ps. Any asmodian release guilds need a chanter who will have a lot of free time when the game launches?

[kedwyn]

Originally Posted by Mippo

In fact, this game will likely take a lot of Warhammer's remaining playerbase. If you check out the Warhammer forums, there is a large growing interest there in Aion. Not good for Warhammer at all. I wouldn't be surprised to see a minimum 25% drop in their subscriptions within a few months of Aion's release and they are already below what, 300k?

Aion is a fun game but I don't think it is going to appeal to the general US MMO base and get huge sub numbers. Regardless of how good the PVP and classes may be many US consumers are not going to sit and grind out from 30-45/50 just to be competitive. Nor are they going to enjoy the insane drop rates on coin quests for the better to good loots. This is not WoW or Warhammer where you can quest level to max, something the US base is accustomed to and expects.

I know AION is upping rewards from quests but its not even close to being close to enough for players to level mostly off quests, especially in the later levels. Even with XP for PVP kills it will still be slow leveling by US standards and will require a fair bit of level grinding.

Aion is a great game, I'll be playing it, but its not going to attract huge numbers for long mostly because of the grindish middle to late levels. I fully expect lots of /ragequit "OMG the Grind" posts once the masses reach the mid to late twenties.

Sure Warhammer will feel the sting a bit, especially when it first releases but I don't think Aion will attract enough subs to drastically alter any current games active player base for long.

I think this baby will be lucky to see 250k NA subs 6 months after release.

One good thing about the leveling curve is FOTM classes will be harder to level to max unless you are a basement dweller.

[Aphextwin]

I downloaded from Games On Net File Library :: Aion - Tower of Eternity Online NCSoft Compressed Files - Aion_Main_0.0.0.0To1.0.2.10.ncpatch not super fast but more than twice as fast as the NC launcher. Once I got that all uncompressed and in the location I want the game installed I am downloading another 458 meg file to patch to 1.0.2.14 via the NC soft launcher but bloody hell its so slow and will take an hour and a half. I assume this is the last patch I need to be ready to play?

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by kedwyn

I think this baby will be lucky to see 250k NA subs 6 months after release.

Perhaps, but WoW is like a chick you've been with for 4 years, and recently she started beating you and fucking your friends. At this point, we're ready for strange & new pussy.

[Jabberwhacky]

Originally Posted by Aphextwin

I downloaded from Games On Net File Library :: Aion - Tower of Eternity Online NCSoft Compressed Files - Aion_Main_0.0.0.0To1.0.2.10.ncpatch not super fast but more than twice as fast as the NC launcher. Once I got that all uncompressed and in the location I want the game installed I am downloading another 458 meg file to patch to 1.0.2.14 via the NC soft launcher but bloody hell its so slow and will take an hour and a half. I assume this is the last patch I need to be ready to play?

Yes. I forget where I saw it but somewhere in the launcher or a web page it said the server verson was 2.14. Course that could always change right before beta opens, but my patcher finished over night and I woke up to find myself in game at the login screen.

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by kedwyn

Aion is a fun game but I don't think it is going to appeal to the general US MMO base and get huge sub numbers. Regardless of how good the PVP and classes may be many US consumers are not going to sit and grind out from 30-45/50 just to be competitive. Nor are they going to enjoy the insane drop rates on coin quests for the better to good loots. This is not WoW or Warhammer where you can quest level to max, something the US base is accustomed to and expects.

I know AION is upping rewards from quests but its not even close to being close to enough for players to level mostly off quests, especially in the later levels. Even with XP for PVP kills it will still be slow leveling by US standards and will require a fair bit of level grinding.

Aion is a great game, I'll be playing it, but its not going to attract huge numbers for long mostly because of the grindish middle to late levels. I fully expect lots of /ragequit "OMG the Grind" posts once the masses reach the mid to late twenties.

Sure Warhammer will feel the sting a bit, especially when it first releases but I don't think Aion will attract enough subs to drastically alter any current games active player base for long.

I think this baby will be lucky to see 250k NA subs 6 months after release.

One good thing about the leveling curve is FOTM classes will be harder to level to max unless you are a basement dweller.

Would you like to put money on sub numbers for NA/EU after 6 months?

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As for Asmo/Elyos skills. Aionarmory is out of date. They've balanced a lot of those. I think some may be out of wack though.

[Araxen]

Aion will maintain at least 1 million+ sub numbers for at least a year if not longer in NA.

[Senen]

I wonder why people always think since WoW any game from that point won't be succesfull if it has any grinding. Yet almost everyone on this forum once played EQ, where we ground lvls that took a hell of alot longer then anything Aion has. Theres no real physical diffrence in grinding vs questing its just how they disquise gaining exp. Not to mention Kedywn is pretty misinformed considering the changes from 1.3 to 1.5 that add more quest and PVe content. The games success will not be effected by the grind but how the content plays out and if people enjoy the endgame PVP. Just look at WaR you could quest all the way to cap very easily and yet the end game was a total mess and now look at there subs.

[farlin]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Fuck you guys, no really fuck you guys. Many of us that have kept up with this game are now forced to read your ignorant shit. What I meant is exactly that some skills have different effects. Example is templar gets a skill that blocks certain amount of damage while the other faction gets a skill that blocks a certain amount of hits. Read the fucking thread to know what I meant or better yet check out aionarmory and look at all the skills that say Asmodian or Elyos only.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Cockfags

What? WHAT WAS THAT? Sorry I must have misheard, I thought I heard a giant faggot mouthing off at me with something he sure as fuck could never back up, but it must have just been my imagination. Because after I imagined hearing that, I proceeded to imagine how good it would feel to break that persons fucking spinal cord over my knee. I imagined how my next step is usually to rip out one of the persons fucking ribs and jab it straight through their nose into their brain cavity. I imagined pulling that rib back out, and then brainfucking that dead faggot through the new massive hole in his face I created.

But I didn't really hear anything, right? no one would be fucking dumb enough to talk to me like that on here

You think this is a joke? If you want to talk like that to me why dont you come here and say it to my face so that I can answer your insults with a swift fist to your nose. Yea you have a lot to say from 432 miles away from me but I bet if my fists were in reach of your face you would be like a tv stuck on mute with no volume button. So do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut unless you want to die. Next time you think about saying something like that to me I want you to remember one thing I know the guy that created google maps and I can locate you in the time it took me to type all of this up. Dont want anymore problems? I didnt think so......

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by farlin

What? WHAT WAS THAT? Sorry I must have misheard, I thought I heard a giant faggot mouthing off at me with something he sure as fuck could never back up, but it must have just been my imagination. Because after I imagined hearing that, I proceeded to imagine how good it would feel to break that persons fucking spinal cord over my knee. I imagined how my next step is usually to rip out one of the persons fucking ribs and jab it straight through their nose into their brain cavity. I imagined pulling that rib back out, and then brainfucking that dead faggot through the new massive hole in his face I created.

But I didn't really hear anything, right? no one would be fucking dumb enough to talk to me like that on here

You think this is a joke? If you want to talk like that to me why dont you come here and say it to my face so that I can answer your insults with a swift fist to your nose. Yea you have a lot to say from 432 miles away from me but I bet if my fists were in reach of your face you would be like a tv stuck on mute with no volume button. So do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut unless you want to die. Next time you think about saying something like that to me I want you to remember one thing I know the guy that created google maps and I can locate you in the time it took me to type all of this up. Dont want anymore problems? I didnt think so......

LOL cockfag indeed. Internet tough guy is so old. To add to the fun please locate me on google maps, post a link for everyone to see exactly where I am. Bring a video camera so you can show everyone my rib up my nose.

[farlin]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

LOL cockfag indeed. Internet tough guy is so old.

cockfag is new and fresh

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by farlin

cockfag is new and fresh

Oh yeah well I know Bill Gates and I will have him invent something that will kill you over the internet. Thats right mother fucker I will kill you with something that hasn't even been invented yet.

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Well I know I guy who knows a guy that is bill gates best friends neighbors cousin, but still do not doubt my power this is the internet.

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by farlin

What? WHAT WAS THAT? Sorry I must have misheard, I thought I heard a giant faggot mouthing off at me with something he sure as fuck could never back up, but it must have just been my imagination. Because after I imagined hearing that, I proceeded to imagine how good it would feel to break that persons fucking spinal cord over my knee. I imagined how my next step is usually to rip out one of the persons fucking ribs and jab it straight through their nose into their brain cavity. I imagined pulling that rib back out, and then brainfucking that dead faggot through the new massive hole in his face I created.

But I didn't really hear anything, right? no one would be fucking dumb enough to talk to me like that on here

You think this is a joke? If you want to talk like that to me why dont you come here and say it to my face so that I can answer your insults with a swift fist to your nose. Yea you have a lot to say from 432 miles away from me but I bet if my fists were in reach of your face you would be like a tv stuck on mute with no volume button. So do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut unless you want to die. Next time you think about saying something like that to me I want you to remember one thing I know the guy that created google maps and I can locate you in the time it took me to type all of this up. Dont want anymore problems? I didnt think so......

Hatorades IP is 192.168.1.100. Go find him! Make sure you take pics!

[matmanx2]

I dont know about Aion's retention rate. People expecting WoW like progression are going to get a taste of a very different and far more demanding leveling curve in Aion. The unknown "X" factor is if Aion has enough "fun" in it's gameplay to keep the average Joe and Sally playing even when they've discovered the grind.

That and the non consensual PVP in the best zones are definitely going to drive some people away. Not everyone is going to be ok with getting ganked while leveling or raiding. Choosing to go do a BG in WoW for a change of pace is far different than having your ass handed to you by the opposing faction while you were grinding for exp.