I've been actively reading about this game for a while now, and there's only one thing keeping me from preordering this one : past experience... I've been playing WAR from beta to about 5 months after release. I really loved this game : the scenarios, public quests, ORVR.. but after a couple of months the world felt empty and couldn't find groups, so the game went boring kinda fast.. I got AoC at launch. Played this one for 2-3 months before realizing the instances were kinda lame, same for the PvP... Everything felt buggy and laggy.. And when my guildmates left, I did the same... The more I read about Aion, the more it looks great, but so did the other two as well ... And since there's a lot of great games coming out on the X360 in the next couple of months, the gaming budget is kinda thin. So anyone want to help me get a clear idea about Aion ? What part of what we read here belongs to the hype ? Do you guys think this game will still be interesting in 3-6 months.. a year ? Kinda bored of switching games, I'd like to find a new home... Thanks !
Why don't you just get into the open beta when it comes around and see for yourself? it's just that easy. other than asking some pointed questions keeping in mind what you like and keeping in mind what the devs intended AND keeping in mind that the game will launch with the 1.5 build which adds a lot more content, I think you should just decide for yourself.
That's what I had done with Lineage 2. I wanted to try an online game, read all the reviews, knew it wasn't for me but really couldn't get myself to buy EQ so I just bought it with the idea that I would experience and online game for a week, maybe less. I ended up staying for years.
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Hard to say, since NA beta has only gone to lvl 25 and is lacking many quests due to tranlsation stuff.
It is a pretty solid mix of WoW and some old-school MMO mechanics (mob training, open-noninstanced grouping), with what looks like a pretty cool RvR place in the Abyss.
The flying is pretty cool and actually more significant than I thought it wouldbe since you may glide anywhere.
Things like class balance, progression, and hwo the RvR works out are kind of hard to tell and I have seen very little in the way of good info in that regard.
I enjoyed the previous CB weekend was a solid experience with interesting things. The glide mechanics are new-ish and cool. I enjoyed running the razors edge agaisnt certain bosses knowing I could jump off a cliff or ledge and save my ass. But the game itself not anything new really. In fact somethings are clearly purposely old-school.
If balance and grind are well managed and favoritisim to playstyles is kept in check it will very successful and fun game. But I have no idea if the RvR is solid enough and it won't be getting huge respect for being revolutionary.
But respect for being revolutionary does not really happen anyway. People are lying when they complain about that. They piss all over games with innovative features all the time.
Its a solid game as far as I can tell. WAR was a fairly solid game too though, but its RvR was in reality complete crap. So I would say we need more and better info on that part.
Once they reach max level and the novalty of flight wears off, the players will go back to what they was doing before. Atleast here in NA/EU I think they will. It is a good game but for the long term I'm not sold yet that players in the NA/EU will stay. 1.You also have to keep in mind that Guild Wars 2 is creeping closer to revealing itself and once that happen fans from Aion here in NA/EU will be playing Guild Wars 2 instead because of the no monthly fee and Arenanet > NCsoft when making games. 2. The Diablo and Starcraft effect. Every mmo will hurt once Blizzard releases them. 3. The Old Republic, FFXIV and the fans wating to see what Blizzard's new mmo is. I think Aion will have short term success here in NA/EU. It's a good game and people should give it a try. I liked it but I found nothing majorly new at all and well for me, Champions Online just brings a whole new mmo experience for me since I never played a superhero mmo before. A big hype for short term but for the long term I will have to give it a big nay.
A couple problems with your logic. Firstly, you're exlcuding the trend of change in the way western MMO gamers approach games. By and large people continue to play the MMO they enjoy in addition to whatever non-MMO games they might pick up. Starcraft isn't an RPG and Diablo is a different beast, plus the chances are they're going to copy what Hellgate tried to do with Diablo and it'll probably fail just as badly.
Most of what you're saying is based on preference. There is a huge portion of western MMO gamers who want a more traditional vanilla WoW/pre-TOA DAOC/oldschool EQ game. Aion offers that in a big way. I don't recall -NCSOFT- actually saying Aion was going to be anything new. They still don't say anything like that on their website. They, in fact, use the word TRADITIONAL often when describing Aion.
As for GW 2? Uhhhhhh, Ncsoft owns Arenanet. When you look at a GW box you'll see the Arenanet dev logo and the NCsoft publisher logo. NCsoft isn't EA and is smart enough as a company to realize when a studio does a good job and to just let them be. However, NCsoft is still pumping money into GW 2, it's still being influenced by the same company. Lot of people seem to not realize that Guildwars basically came from NCsoft.
Games are game no matter what type of game. You are ultmiately competing for gamers free time. So it does not matter if a game is or is not a mmo. If you has to ask people if they had to choose to play Diablo 3, Starcrat 2 or Aion, it is almost guaranteed that Aion would be last on that list.
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Why don't you just get into the open beta when it comes around and see for yourself? it's just that easy. other than asking some pointed questions keeping in mind what you like and keeping in mind what the devs intended AND keeping in mind that the game will launch with the 1.5 build which adds a lot more content, I think you should just decide for yourself.
That's what I had done with Lineage 2. I wanted to try an online game, read all the reviews, knew it wasn't for me but really couldn't get myself to buy EQ so I just bought it with the idea that I would experience and online game for a week, maybe less. I ended up staying for years.
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Hard to say, since NA beta has only gone to lvl 25 and is lacking many quests due to tranlsation stuff.
It is a pretty solid mix of WoW and some old-school MMO mechanics (mob training, open-noninstanced grouping), with what looks like a pretty cool RvR place in the Abyss.
The flying is pretty cool and actually more significant than I thought it wouldbe since you may glide anywhere.
Things like class balance, progression, and hwo the RvR works out are kind of hard to tell and I have seen very little in the way of good info in that regard.
I enjoyed the previous CB weekend was a solid experience with interesting things. The glide mechanics are new-ish and cool. I enjoyed running the razors edge agaisnt certain bosses knowing I could jump off a cliff or ledge and save my ass. But the game itself not anything new really. In fact somethings are clearly purposely old-school.
If balance and grind are well managed and favoritisim to playstyles is kept in check it will very successful and fun game. But I have no idea if the RvR is solid enough and it won't be getting huge respect for being revolutionary.
But respect for being revolutionary does not really happen anyway. People are lying when they complain about that. They piss all over games with innovative features all the time.
Its a solid game as far as I can tell. WAR was a fairly solid game too though, but its RvR was in reality complete crap. So I would say we need more and better info on that part.
A couple problems with your logic. Firstly, you're exlcuding the trend of change in the way western MMO gamers approach games. By and large people continue to play the MMO they enjoy in addition to whatever non-MMO games they might pick up. Starcraft isn't an RPG and Diablo is a different beast, plus the chances are they're going to copy what Hellgate tried to do with Diablo and it'll probably fail just as badly.
Most of what you're saying is based on preference. There is a huge portion of western MMO gamers who want a more traditional vanilla WoW/pre-TOA DAOC/oldschool EQ game. Aion offers that in a big way. I don't recall -NCSOFT- actually saying Aion was going to be anything new. They still don't say anything like that on their website. They, in fact, use the word TRADITIONAL often when describing Aion.
As for GW 2? Uhhhhhh, Ncsoft owns Arenanet. When you look at a GW box you'll see the Arenanet dev logo and the NCsoft publisher logo. NCsoft isn't EA and is smart enough as a company to realize when a studio does a good job and to just let them be. However, NCsoft is still pumping money into GW 2, it's still being influenced by the same company. Lot of people seem to not realize that Guildwars basically came from NCsoft.
Games are game no matter what type of game. You are ultmiately competing for gamers free time. So it does not matter if a game is or is not a mmo. If you has to ask people if they had to choose to play Diablo 3, Starcrat 2 or Aion, it is almost guaranteed that Aion would be last on that list.