And how unpolished and buggy will all those new quests that are being added be? What is Aion's end game anyway? Have you personally played it? How is it?
Don't throw out words like "unpoloshed and buggy" in Aion forum. As I saw you are coming from WAR and maybe those words are "perfect" over there, but not here.
Is this your own personal forum? Do you have moderation power here? Perhaps you need to rephrase that proclamation.
Is that all you can say? Yes, maybe I didn't say it right, but you know what I was trying to say. Now tell me, did you ever tried Aion? ( I am not gonna read all of your posts to figure it out if you did ).
EDIT to : So, what's end game in Aion like?
Is like the second time when you asked this. Did you read my last posts? I explained you there , so if you want to know how Aion end game is, FGI
All I saw from you was 'I saw some videos and read some articles'. I'm guessing that you haven't played end game, which means you don't know what it's like. Why not just admit it?
Talk is cheap. I had an Elder tester tell me at WAR's release not to worry about end game. That it was just fine and working properly.
Why do people make their games a religion?
"FGI"?
SupBro has answered for me , but I quoted you for..
FGI= Fucking Google it !
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Aion's endgame is being played by 4 million people in asia at moment, a year after being released and sub numbers are increasing. I dont think WAR ever had that luxury .... comparing apples and oranges is fun isn't it?
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
The online gaming market in South Korea grew more than 20 per cent in 2008 with top game operators reporting year-on-year revenue increases of up to 51 per cent, according to a report published by Pearl Research.
Furthermore, the sector has been left relatively unaffected by the worldwide economic downturn since its games are free-to-play and monetised through small-scale item transactions.
The top five game operators in the region throughout the year were NHN, Nexon, NCsoft, Neowiz and CJ Internet. Of this top five, leading operator NHN reported revenues up 51 per cent year-over-year while Neowiz sees increases of 21 per cent and NCsoft five per cent.
NCsoft's Aion and Lineage series were among the most played online titles, while Sudden Attack, FIFA Online 2 and World of Warcraft attracted similarly large numbers of users.
The popularity of online gaming in South Korea is fuelled by the high numbers of its households that own a PC. The country's install base represents one of the highest in the world.
Still, the market continues to face a number of threats, with intense domestic competition threatening publishers and smaller companies lacking support in the wake of rising development costs.
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Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd shares traded in the U.S. slid 11 percent to $50.76 on Monday after Citigroup cut its rating on the stock as part of a broader downgrade of the Chinese online games sector.
The firm lowered its rating on the maker of online games in China to "sell" from "buy," based on weaker-than-expected traction from its Aion game, potential earnings dilution from the Shanda Games spin-off and increased margin pressure from the consolidation of lower-margin business from Hurray Holding Co Ltd.
Shanda said it would acquire a 51 percent stake in Hurray in early June.
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This April, AION officially made a challenge against WoW in China. Before its open beta, AION had already gained feverish popularity among Chinese players. A large number of players, some of whom are WoWers, had very high expectations on Aion. During the second closed beta this April, everyday there would be thousands of players waiting on the server.
This kind of phenomenon continued until it went into open beta. Now, two months have passed, and we began to feel that the popularity of AION has remarkably cooled off. There are many reasons for the change, but one of them is probably because Shanda started to charge money for Aion.
Shanda's promotions for Aion were so successful that many players were attracted to try AION out. However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
People are allowed to bitch about the poor design of the 1-20 game. They bitch because its true. WHen you compare it to other games, you can't help but see how its lacking. Standard quests we've seen 500 times and VERY linear, with no/little PvP. The flight mechanic comes off as gimicky. No swimming. Artificial environments that don't give a sense of an actual living breathing world. Not a great combination. Anyone defending it is being fanboyish. For most people if the start isn't fun, the end isn't going to be any better. Sure the Abyss might be cool. But why shouldn't the starter zones be cool too? Games with lousy beginings don't have a history of taking off in the west. Asking players to suffer through the begining in the hopes of it all getting better, is a recipe for failure. The western audience expects A LOT more than the east. They're perfectly content mindlessly grinding away. That won't fly over here. The patches better fix it t make it more appealing.
Many people find the low levels cool, cutscenes is something most of the games lack and that helps with the progression, then at 16 you get group quests and some people are actually looking forward grouping (i know, what a shocker), and Aion's group dynamics are pretty good.
Then all of the sudden, around 1 day later of /played, they find themselves being level 20, taking a rift and falling in love with the game.
If you're looking for the perfect solo RPG with an auction house, aion is not for you. If you're looking for a MMO to group in and play with people, then Aion might be for you, as it has a lot of polished activities for groups and guilds.
All this talk about overhype...really? People tried the game, and the vocal ones with blogs use to be into guilds and dont fall into the casual soloer kind, if we enjoy it and we claim to do so is because it has what we like, if you don't like what it offers then dont even bother, unless you're using previous games stereotypes (know of a few guys who hated PvP before playing Aion and who love rifting and the abyss nowadays).
Aion's endgame is being played by 4 million people in asia at moment, a year after being released and sub numbers are increasing. I dont think WAR ever had that luxury .... comparing apples and oranges is fun isn't it?
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
Wow, folks. Seriously. I got 3 pages into this thread and realized it's just like 99.9% of the threads on this site. (people bitching and arguing over a topic that cannot be won: another person's opinion.)
Having said that, however, I might as well throw my two cents in:
I am so tired of people with the attitude of "I am so leet that I am bored of this beta already. Now go manufacture another MMO for me this minute!...and bring me something sweet and salty". Get a life. 'Nuff said.
It's an MMO, folks. Here are some cold, hard facts about MMO's: There IS grinding. There IS questing. Many actions are repeated countless times. Not every moment will be shear, bubbly excitement. If these things don't appeal to you, stop playing MMO's!
You DO have to "pay your dues" in a game. It's called "the grind". It's a fact of an MMO (see above). God forbid you have to do a little work to get what you want. Yeah you payed your money...so did everyone else. So sorry that you can't "pwn" at level 1, you lazy, narcissistic, douchebag.
O and btw, You can't compare entertainment from a movie to entertainment from a game. It's comparing apples to oranges.
I am sure that this has been covered to some degree, in the 17 other pages of this thread. But I had to say something
Aion's endgame is being played by 4 million people in asia at moment, a year after being released and sub numbers are increasing. I dont think WAR ever had that luxury .... comparing apples and oranges is fun isn't it?
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
Did you even THINK to read my post before you spewed that load of cockamamie speculation? If not I'll summarize it for ya:
No company in their right mind would release sub numbers that do not reflect what they anticipated they would be. It's bad for the company, the image you're trying to promote in soon-to-be released markets and it's bad for stockholders......of which are already been shown to be jumping ship with the U.S. stock report I posted on Shanda(Chinese publisher) shares that dropped 11 percent.
Holding out on releasing sub numbers up into this point means one thing and one thing only:
Aion is NOT performing the way they anticipated it would......end of story.
The sooner you overzealous promo-bots get over this hallucination that Aion is quietly breaking records in each territory it's release, the sooner we can get back to just appreciating the game for what it truly is:
A pretty good effort in the right direction for a korean mmo trying to cater to a global market.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Aion's endgame is being played by 4 million people in asia at moment, a year after being released and sub numbers are increasing. I dont think WAR ever had that luxury .... comparing apples and oranges is fun isn't it?
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
Did you even THINK to read my post before you spewed that load of cockamamie speculation? If not I'll summarize it for ya:
No company in their right mind would release sub numbers that do not reflect what they anticipated they would be. It's bad for the company, the image you're trying to promote in soon-to-be released markets and it's bad for stockholders......of which are already been shown to be jumping ship with the U.S. stock report I posted on Shanda(Chinese publisher) shares that dropped 11 percent.
Holding out on releasing sub numbers up into this point means one thing and one thing only:
Aion is NOT performing the way they anticipated it would......end of story.
The sooner you overzealous promo-bots get over this hallucination that Aion is quietly breaking records in each territory it's release, the sooner we can get back to just appreciating the game for what it truly is:
A pretty good effort in the right direction for a korean mmo trying to cater to a global market.
Now you start quoting stock figures, that have 0 correlation to sub numbers for aion.. clutching at straws are we?
No company in their right mind would INCREASE their servers from 40 to 120 without ADDITIONAL subscribers to meet that demand. Did you fail simple supply and demand logic at school?
Sounds like you have a huge issue about a Korean MMO being successful, i suggest stop trying to dig up useless information on the internet and find something productive to do.
Aion's endgame is being played by 4 million people in asia at moment, a year after being released and sub numbers are increasing. I dont think WAR ever had that luxury .... comparing apples and oranges is fun isn't it?
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
Did you even THINK to read my post before you spewed that load of cockamamie speculation? If not I'll summarize it for ya:
No company in their right mind would release sub numbers that do not reflect what they anticipated they would be. It's bad for the company, the image you're trying to promote in soon-to-be released markets and it's bad for stockholders......of which are already been shown to be jumping ship with the U.S. stock report I posted on Shanda(Chinese publisher) shares that dropped 11 percent.
Holding out on releasing sub numbers up into this point means one thing and one thing only:
Aion is NOT performing the way they anticipated it would......end of story.
The sooner you overzealous promo-bots get over this hallucination that Aion is quietly breaking records in each territory it's release, the sooner we can get back to just appreciating the game for what it truly is:
A pretty good effort in the right direction for a korean mmo trying to cater to a global market.
Now you start quoting stock figures, that have 0 correlation to sub numbers for aion.. clutching at straws are we?
No company in their right mind would INCREASE their servers from 40 to 120 without ADDITIONAL subscribers to meet that demand. Did you fail simple supply and demand logic at school?
Sounds like you have a huge issue about a Korean MMO being successful, i suggest stop trying to dig up useless information on the internet and find something productive to do.
So the guy you're bitching at posts a very intelligent post with links and you choose to respond with a good old fashioned feces throwing?
The top five game operators in the region throughout the year were NHN, Nexon, NCsoft, Neowiz and CJ Internet. Of this top five, leading operator NHN reported revenues up 51 per cent year-over-year while Neowiz sees increases of 21 per cent and NCsoft five per cent. NCsoft's Aion and Lineage series were among the most played online titles, while Sudden Attack, FIFA Online 2 and World of Warcraft attracted similarly large numbers of users. So... Aion is similar in numbers in Korea to WoW. Ok. I couldn't find any numbers on WoW subscriptions in Korea, but If they are about the same as Aion it seems like Aion is doing ok to me. Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd shares traded in the U.S. slid 11 percent to $50.76 on Monday after Citigroup cut its rating on the stock as part of a broader downgrade of the Chinese online games sector. The firm lowered its rating on the maker of online games in China to "sell" from "buy," based on weaker-than-expected traction from its Aion game, potential earnings dilution from the Shanda Games spin-off and increased margin pressure from the consolidation of lower-margin business from Hurray Holding Co Ltd. I don't see what proof this is that Aion subscription numbers are bad without knowing what Shanda's expected "traction" for Aion was going to be. The only thing I could find was that Shanda was expecting Aion-China to take on WoW-China. This in no way reflects NCSoft's expectations or what the actual numbers are.
I'd also like to point out a few things here. Shanda's stock did not go down just because of Aion. If you read your own quote you would see that it was "part of a broader downgrade of the Chinese online gaming sector", "potential earnings dilution from the Shanda Games spin-off", and "increased margin pressure..." I'd also like to point out that Shanda's stock price is currently about $20 higher than it was a year ago. Now, two months have passed, and we began to feel that the popularity of AION has remarkably cooled off. There are many reasons for the change, but one of them is probably because Shanda started to charge money for Aion.
Um. This article was written by a staff writer of mmosite.com. There is no factual information in this article except the opinions of some ex-Aion players on a Chinese forum. We have no official subscription numbers from NCSoft yet for China or Korea. Using this quote to back up your hypothesis is pretty funny though.
The 3.5 million subscribers number came from an IGN article about Aion. No one knows where they got that number (their ass?) but it would be ignorant to think the game is not doing well simply based on the number of available servers. Once they start merging servers, then these quotes/comments will have some validity.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Originally posted by supbroNow you start quoting stock figures, that have 0 correlation to sub numbers for aion.. clutching at straws are we? No company in their right mind would INCREASE their servers from 40 to 120 without ADDITIONAL subscribers to meet that demand. Did you fail simple supply and demand logic at school? Sounds like you have a huge issue about a Korean MMO being successful, i suggest stop trying to dig up useless information on the internet and find something productive to do.
LOl are you serious? You can give your opinion about what's happening in China with servers but I can't quote how the stock is doing for the Chinese company that's running the show over there? Please stop drinking the Kool-Aid before you keel over. Look.....I'm not trying to lead a one man crusade to bring down NCSoft or Aion, I have my pre-order.....I'm just trying to keep things in perspective.
Try to understand that company stock is a good indicator of how well a company is doing. And when you see a quote directly from the Chinese publisher that states that the game is not doing as well as they anticipated and the stock is losing value...well then it's safe to say that those over blown reports about sub numbers and servers raise a few questions. Take from it what you will but very rarely will a company be straight up with customers, but investors get their info straight from the top.
Either way who's to say they didn't open those servers during that whole Shanda (play Aion for free) promotion. Because if you're talking abou the same quarterly report that's been made available on this very website, then we both know those were months BEFORE Shanda started charging.......
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
The top five game operators in the region throughout the year were NHN, Nexon, NCsoft, Neowiz and CJ Internet. Of this top five, leading operator NHN reported revenues up 51 per cent year-over-year while Neowiz sees increases of 21 per cent and NCsoft five per cent. NCsoft's Aion and Lineage series were among the most played online titles, while Sudden Attack, FIFA Online 2 and World of Warcraft attracted similarly large numbers of users. So... Aion is similar in numbers in Korea to WoW. Ok. I couldn't find any numbers on WoW subscriptions in Korea, but If they are about the same as Aion it seems like Aion is doing ok to me. [Ok check it...this above article was given to show that in Korea, Aion is not crushing anyone. Doing well yes.....but crushing....no. Being in 3rd place is not bad, but it ain't number 1 either.] Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd shares traded in the U.S. slid 11 percent to $50.76 on Monday after Citigroup cut its rating on the stock as part of a broader downgrade of the Chinese online games sector. The firm lowered its rating on the maker of online games in China to "sell" from "buy," based on weaker-than-expected traction from its Aion game, potential earnings dilution from the Shanda Games spin-off and increased margin pressure from the consolidation of lower-margin business from Hurray Holding Co Ltd. I don't see what proof this is that Aion subscription numbers are bad without knowing what Shanda's expected "traction" for Aion was going to be. The only thing I could find was that Shanda was expecting Aion-China to take on WoW-China. This in no way reflects NCSoft's expectations or what the actual numbers are.
I'd also like to point out a few things here. Shanda's stock did not go down just because of Aion. If you read your own quote you would see that it was "part of a broader downgrade of the Chinese online gaming sector", "potential earnings dilution from the Shanda Games spin-off", and "increased margin pressure..." I'd also like to point out that Shanda's stock price is currently about $20 higher than it was a year ago. [Ok please reread the above fact before you comment on things you know nothing about.....FACT: Citigroup is a banking group, they are the one's that cut back on the Chinese online gaming sector not Shanda. Shanda is a MMO publisher...why in the world would they cut back on something they are trying to promote....
FACT: Whatever you feel like traction means is irrelevant, the point is Citigroup flagged Shanda's stock from BUY to SELL based on Aion's lack of performance, period. Now whether you want to place all the blame on Aion or not, I will leave up to you to dream of a reason since you like to do that so much. Bottom line is Aion was a major factor in the drop in Shanda's stock.
Your last point is moot as we all know that soon as Shanda announced that they were getting Aion, the stock started to rise. But to turn a profit you have to know when to sell and when to buy....and U'S' investors for the most part, ain't buyin anymore....] Now, two months have passed, and we began to feel that the popularity of AION has remarkably cooled off. There are many reasons for the change, but one of them is probably because Shanda started to charge money for Aion.
Um. This article was written by a staff writer of mmosite.com. There is no factual information in this article except the opinions of some ex-Aion players on a Chinese forum. We have no official subscription numbers from NCSoft yet for China or Korea. Using this quote to back up your hypothesis is pretty funny though.
[Same goes for that 3.5 mil that's been quoted time and time again by a majority of people here by a staff writer from a Aussie source but hell I guess it's ok to run with bogus info as long as it makes your feel good.]
The 3.5 million subscribers number came from an IGN article about Aion. No one knows where they got that number (their ass?) but it would be ignorant to think the game is not doing well simply based on the number of available servers. Once they start merging servers, then these quotes/comments will have some validity.
And now we have more of these made up numbers with server releases that have had no official backing....just numbers pulled from data collected from NCSoft's quarterly report last year and speculation on the amount of players a server can hold from more Aion promo-bots.....seriously....if you're gonna attack facts with speculation, find another hobby.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
You both are sort of hanging your arguments over speculation to be honest. Just wait until the official numbers for something solid. However, I do think that if a game has 120 servers that it is doing pretty well.
[Ok check it...this above article was given to show that in Korea, Aion is not crushing anyone. Doing well yes.....but crushing....no. Being in 3rd place is not bad, but it ain't number 1 either.] Maybe I'm missing something, I never said they were crushing anyone either. I said they were on par with WoW, which is what your quote stated.
[Ok please reread the above fact before you comment on things you know nothing about.....FACT: Citigroup is a banking group, they are the one's that cut back on the Chinese online gaming sector not Shanda. Shanda is a MMO publisher...why in the world would they cut back on something they are trying to promote....
Um... I was citing Citigroup's downgrade to the Chinese online gaming sector as one of the reasons the stock price went down. In your original post it reads like you are trying to place the blame solely on Aion. So... thanks for backing up what I just said in my last post, I guess? FACT: Whatever you feel like traction means is irrelevant, the point is Citigroup flagged Shanda's stock from BUY to SELL based on Aion's lack of performance, period. Errr... what? You just said yourself that Citigroup cut back on the Chinese online gaming sector, now you are saying it's all Aion's fault the stock went down? I'm a little confused by your contradictory statements. The reason Aion had less than expected performance I mentioned in my last post. It was because Shanda had higher than realistic expectations for how Aion would do in China. They were targeting WoW numbers for release, which is highly unrealistic. I'm sure you already know that stock prices are based on projected goals for a given company. When a company says they are going to sell X number of Y product the stock price will shoot up to an artifically inflated level if that number is stupidly high. But when it doesn't get to X number then the stock price falls back down to a reasonable level, that's the stock market. This type of market analasys is how day traders make their money. But you're right, I don't know anything about any of this. Now whether you want to place all the blame on Aion or not, I will leave up to you to dream of a reason since you like to do that so much. Bottom line is Aion was a major factor in the drop in Shanda's stock.
It was A factor... I agree with that. Where is there any proof it was a major factor? Watch, I can do that too. According to your quote, it appears that Aion was a minimal factor in Shanda's stock price going down based on all of the other reasons stated in the quote. See how easy that is? Doesn't make it any more correct. Your last point is moot as we all know that soon as Shanda announced that they were getting Aion, the stock started to rise. But to turn a profit you have to know when to sell and when to buy....and U'S' investors for the most part, ain't buyin anymore....] You were trying to use their stock going down to signify that Aion failed, but the stock is still higher than last year. If Aion had failed, wouldn't the stock be lower? But you're right, facts that don't support your opinion are moot. Sorry about that. [Same goes for that 3.5 mil that's been quoted time and time again by a majority of people here by a staff writer from a Aussie source but hell I guess it's ok to run with bogus info as long as it makes your feel good.]
Did you even read my post before commenting? It doens't seem like it, because right below this I said that the 3.5 million subscription number is bogus.
The 3.5 million subscribers number came from an IGN article about Aion. No one knows where they got that number (their ass?) but it would be ignorant to think the game is not doing well simply based on the number of available servers. Once they start merging servers, then these quotes/comments will have some validity.
And now we have more of these made up numbers with server releases that have had no official backing....just numbers pulled from data collected from NCSoft's quarterly report last year and speculation on the amount of players a server can hold from more Aion promo-bots.....seriously....if you're gonna attack facts with speculation, find another hobby.
Err... the amount of servers Aion has is, in fact, a fact. I'm not speculating that they have a lot of servers. No where did I say how many players they had, or speculated on how many were currently playing? Like I said previously, if they start merging servers then obviously the player base is declining, but until that happens or NCSoft releases official numbers; the amount of current Aion players is ALL SPECULATION.
The only thing that I was trying to say by responding to your quotes was that you seem to be doing a lot of twisting of the facts from the links you posted to fit your own agenda.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
You both are sort of hanging your arguments over speculation to be honest. Just wait until the official numbers for something solid. However, I do think that if a game has 120 servers that it is doing pretty well.
Thank you, this was my whole point.
Maybe I should have just said that in the first place.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
You both are sort of hanging your arguments over speculation to be honest. Just wait until the official numbers for something solid. However, I do think that if a game has 120 servers that it is doing pretty well.
Thank you, this was my whole point.
Maybe I should have just said that in the first place.
LOl wow you guys really are dense......none of those statements in red were ANY of my own words.......they were ALL links to reports on the web...this is why I said fact vs. speculation....the only thing I speculated on what that 120 servers was another number people pulled out of their asses....
See post #187 in this very thread for a reference.... kids today...
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Ramonish, as Dame already pointed out the "facts" you had were all financial figures. That in its self involved a bit of twisting for it to fit what you wanted it to say. They mentioned that it didn't perform as well as it hoped, and that it had not topped WoW China. Not only do we not know what they were hoping for numbers wise, but WoW China is at something like 5 to 6 million subscribers. So even if they were half of WoW China it still would be doing quite well, and be close to the perceived 3.5 million players.
And yes, that on my part was speculation. That's all you're going to get though when you only have some financial figures and opinion pieces though.
Ramonish, as Dame already pointed out the "facts" you had were all financial figures. That in its self involved a bit of twisting for it to fit what you wanted it to say. They mentioned that it didn't perform as well as it hoped, and that it had not topped WoW China. Not only do we not know what they were hoping for numbers wise, but WoW China is at something like 5 to 6 million subscribers. So even if they were half of WoW China it still would be doing quite well, and be close to the perceived 3.5 million players. And yes, that on my part was speculation. That's all you're going to get though when you only have some financial figures and opinion pieces though.
Interesting...so now financial facts are being twisted by me to prove my point? And exactly what is my point? Come on...I'm waiting.....My entire point was that Aion is not the behemoth that people here are trying to make it out to be...I twisted nothing....I made up nothing....the only thing I'm guilty of is providing links to the articles I posted and sinking that retarded post that someone made that now Aion has 4 million players....up from the foolish belief that it has 3.5 million to begin with that so many players like to throw around from the speculated 120+ servers they have up and running in China.
When all along I've stated that NCSoft has never release any info on servers or sub counts because they are NOT running Aion in China....Shanda is. And Shanda has NOT released any info on how it's doing in China neither. The only real info we have are the 2 out of 3 links I provided for people to base their assumptions off of.
If they truly had 3.5 millions subs in China, those would be very impressive numbers to put out by ANY mmo company, but those are not the numbers backed by either one....so people here need to either get their facts together to support their stand or go with what has already proven to be out there.......
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
People are allowed to bitch about the poor design of the 1-20 game. They bitch because its true. WHen you compare it to other games, you can't help but see how its lacking. Standard quests we've seen 500 times and VERY linear, with no/little PvP. The flight mechanic comes off as gimicky. No swimming. Artificial environments that don't give a sense of an actual living breathing world. Not a great combination. Anyone defending it is being fanboyish. For most people if the start isn't fun, the end isn't going to be any better. Sure the Abyss might be cool. But why shouldn't the starter zones be cool too? Games with lousy beginings don't have a history of taking off in the west. Asking players to suffer through the begining in the hopes of it all getting better, is a recipe for failure. The western audience expects A LOT more than the east. They're perfectly content mindlessly grinding away. That won't fly over here. The patches better fix it t make it more appealing.
qft
May I add, the Abyss might be cool, but it is going to get old after a month, because that is it. It'll be like playing Strike at Karkand over and over again, or fighting for the bridge on Cyssor between Itan and Gunuku. That will get old. No thanks. You can all ready see the game will not be all that big in the states when people are saying the game is boring and it is only in the 3rd beta weekend. I played the game finally and I just don't feel it. Game to me felt like I had played it before. Like I was playing a rehashed version of L2 but this time we get wings. Oh that is cool. Not. You are limited where and when you can use them? Forget it. I'll not waste my money on yet another poorly designed Korean grinder. My opinion. Sorry if it goes against the flow of the mob.
People are allowed to bitch about the poor design of the 1-20 game. They bitch because its true. WHen you compare it to other games, you can't help but see how its lacking. Standard quests we've seen 500 times and VERY linear, with no/little PvP. The flight mechanic comes off as gimicky. No swimming. Artificial environments that don't give a sense of an actual living breathing world. Not a great combination. Anyone defending it is being fanboyish. For most people if the start isn't fun, the end isn't going to be any better. Sure the Abyss might be cool. But why shouldn't the starter zones be cool too? Games with lousy beginings don't have a history of taking off in the west. Asking players to suffer through the begining in the hopes of it all getting better, is a recipe for failure. The western audience expects A LOT more than the east. They're perfectly content mindlessly grinding away. That won't fly over here. The patches better fix it t make it more appealing.
qft May I add, the Abyss might be cool, but it is going to get old after a month, because that is it. It'll be like playing Strike at Karkand over and over again, or fighting for the bridge on Cyssor between Itan and Gunuku. That will get old. No thanks. You can all ready see the game will not be all that big in the states when people are saying the game is boring and it is only in the 3rd beta weekend. I played the game finally and I just don't feel it. Game to me felt like I had played it before. Like I was playing a rehashed version of L2 but this time we get wings. Oh that is cool. Not. You are limited where and when you can use them? Forget it. I'll not waste my money on yet another poorly designed Korean grinder. My opinion. Sorry if it goes against the flow of the mob.
Am I really the only person who understands both the reasoning and the logic behind not being able to use your wings at all time? Believe it or not it isn't because NCSoft hates you, it's because it would allow players to bypass a lot of content. You can fly everywhere in the abyss anyways. And gliding is awesome too.
You forgot to mention that the abyss is a huge place though, Teala. It's not the size of one map or something. People still play DAoC even today and it doesn't have the biggest world or anything either. Also you could always try and explain why people still play CS1.6 on the same stock set of maps that they were playing on 6 or 7 years ago.
If the PvP is good, the rewards are balanced and the fights are varied than players will stay. This is common sense. NCSoft will certainly add content over time as well, so it's not like the game is going to stay exactly like it is either.
And you don't like the game, ok, but it is anything but a Korean grinder.
Lighten up a bit ~ thats all i can say and this goes for the fans and the haters. First off this game is in a CBeta, it was stressed from Community managers before it started and since, dont over do it, do most of us listen ... Nope . The first problem ppl have is coming into the events as if though its the OPEN beta or live launch, which it is not. Your not doing wat you can to perfect the game if your only whining about it, just as much as the fans arent by defending the games faults [yes its in an earlier client version] but it still has bugs and flaws. This is exactly what the event was suppose to be used for.
@ Op: if your bored, slow down, i mean who were u trying to catch, wat were u trying to prove. Did you do your feedback, and im not talking bout the whining type. or this is boring lvl 20 ur saying on here .... was it constructive feedback, start up a thread on beta forums or other official places they look for info and feedback and give some ideas on how to make it better. I mean if ur ideas are genuine or liked by a mass, the ppl will respond. Kinda like the old saying if you build it they will come .... Remember Aion is being localized in a few different ways ot approach the audience in the western world. Be part of the solution to the problem they already knew was gonna happen.
Aion will enjoy a success in the west, and will hold us over until our beloved ANET gives us what we really want GW2 which i think in all honesty is NCsofts plan all along. Never really expecting it to break records but if it does, they would be very pleased while we wait on the game that is already westernized and made for our audience while already enjoying a success of its own from its previous game. Infact i think this is NCsofts answer to beating WoW out cos one game COULD NOT DO IT but a few of the best would certainly do so and w/ the other upcoming AA A titles i have no doubt the WoW haters will start to smile, think about it, one thing Jeff strain said he knows is u cant ask a person to divorce their game, and most ppl dont pay out a lot in sub fees. When ur married to a game , ur usually married to it. W/ Aion being sub based and GW2 being same model as Gw1, NC knows players wouldnt actually have to make that decision of which game to sub too and this is also their way of makin sure two TOP AAA MMO titles wont have to compete against one another... just some food for thought.
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Don't throw out words like "unpoloshed and buggy" in Aion forum. As I saw you are coming from WAR and maybe those words are "perfect" over there, but not here.
Is this your own personal forum? Do you have moderation power here? Perhaps you need to rephrase that proclamation.
Is that all you can say? Yes, maybe I didn't say it right, but you know what I was trying to say. Now tell me, did you ever tried Aion? ( I am not gonna read all of your posts to figure it out if you did ).
EDIT to : So, what's end game in Aion like?
Is like the second time when you asked this. Did you read my last posts? I explained you there , so if you want to know how Aion end game is, FGI
All I saw from you was 'I saw some videos and read some articles'. I'm guessing that you haven't played end game, which means you don't know what it's like. Why not just admit it?
Talk is cheap. I had an Elder tester tell me at WAR's release not to worry about end game. That it was just fine and working properly.
Why do people make their games a religion?
"FGI"?
SupBro has answered for me , but I quoted you for..
FGI= Fucking Google it !
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Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
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Korean online games market grew 20% in 2008
The online gaming market in South Korea grew more than 20 per cent in 2008 with top game operators reporting year-on-year revenue increases of up to 51 per cent, according to a report published by Pearl Research.
Furthermore, the sector has been left relatively unaffected by the worldwide economic downturn since its games are free-to-play and monetised through small-scale item transactions.
The top five game operators in the region throughout the year were NHN, Nexon, NCsoft, Neowiz and CJ Internet. Of this top five, leading operator NHN reported revenues up 51 per cent year-over-year while Neowiz sees increases of 21 per cent and NCsoft five per cent.
NCsoft's Aion and Lineage series were among the most played online titles, while Sudden Attack, FIFA Online 2 and World of Warcraft attracted similarly large numbers of users.
The popularity of online gaming in South Korea is fuelled by the high numbers of its households that own a PC. The country's install base represents one of the highest in the world.
Still, the market continues to face a number of threats, with intense domestic competition threatening publishers and smaller companies lacking support in the wake of rising development costs.
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The firm lowered its rating on the maker of online games in China to "sell" from "buy," based on weaker-than-expected traction from its Aion game, potential earnings dilution from the Shanda Games spin-off and increased margin pressure from the consolidation of lower-margin business from Hurray Holding Co Ltd.
Shanda said it would acquire a 51 percent stake in Hurray in early June.
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This April, AION officially made a challenge against WoW in China. Before its open beta, AION had already gained feverish popularity among Chinese players. A large number of players, some of whom are WoWers, had very high expectations on Aion. During the second closed beta this April, everyday there would be thousands of players waiting on the server.
This kind of phenomenon continued until it went into open beta. Now, two months have passed, and we began to feel that the popularity of AION has remarkably cooled off. There are many reasons for the change, but one of them is probably because Shanda started to charge money for Aion.
Shanda's promotions for Aion were so successful that many players were attracted to try AION out. However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Many people find the low levels cool, cutscenes is something most of the games lack and that helps with the progression, then at 16 you get group quests and some people are actually looking forward grouping (i know, what a shocker), and Aion's group dynamics are pretty good.
Then all of the sudden, around 1 day later of /played, they find themselves being level 20, taking a rift and falling in love with the game.
If you're looking for the perfect solo RPG with an auction house, aion is not for you. If you're looking for a MMO to group in and play with people, then Aion might be for you, as it has a lot of polished activities for groups and guilds.
All this talk about overhype...really? People tried the game, and the vocal ones with blogs use to be into guilds and dont fall into the casual soloer kind, if we enjoy it and we claim to do so is because it has what we like, if you don't like what it offers then dont even bother, unless you're using previous games stereotypes (know of a few guys who hated PvP before playing Aion and who love rifting and the abyss nowadays).
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Quote from: http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-07-02/20090702054523101,1.shtml
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
I feel for the OP, I really do. Thats why I played one beta weekend and decided to wait for release to play (and level) again.
Wow, folks. Seriously. I got 3 pages into this thread and realized it's just like 99.9% of the threads on this site. (people bitching and arguing over a topic that cannot be won: another person's opinion.)
Having said that, however, I might as well throw my two cents in:
I am so tired of people with the attitude of "I am so leet that I am bored of this beta already. Now go manufacture another MMO for me this minute!...and bring me something sweet and salty". Get a life. 'Nuff said.
It's an MMO, folks. Here are some cold, hard facts about MMO's: There IS grinding. There IS questing. Many actions are repeated countless times. Not every moment will be shear, bubbly excitement. If these things don't appeal to you, stop playing MMO's!
You DO have to "pay your dues" in a game. It's called "the grind". It's a fact of an MMO (see above). God forbid you have to do a little work to get what you want. Yeah you payed your money...so did everyone else. So sorry that you can't "pwn" at level 1, you lazy, narcissistic, douchebag.
O and btw, You can't compare entertainment from a movie to entertainment from a game. It's comparing apples to oranges.
I am sure that this has been covered to some degree, in the 17 other pages of this thread. But I had to say something
/end rant
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Quote from: http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-07-02/20090702054523101,1.shtml
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
Did you even THINK to read my post before you spewed that load of cockamamie speculation? If not I'll summarize it for ya:
No company in their right mind would release sub numbers that do not reflect what they anticipated they would be. It's bad for the company, the image you're trying to promote in soon-to-be released markets and it's bad for stockholders......of which are already been shown to be jumping ship with the U.S. stock report I posted on Shanda(Chinese publisher) shares that dropped 11 percent.
Holding out on releasing sub numbers up into this point means one thing and one thing only:
Aion is NOT performing the way they anticipated it would......end of story.
The sooner you overzealous promo-bots get over this hallucination that Aion is quietly breaking records in each territory it's release, the sooner we can get back to just appreciating the game for what it truly is:
A pretty good effort in the right direction for a korean mmo trying to cater to a global market.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Quote from: http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-07-02/20090702054523101,1.shtml
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
Did you even THINK to read my post before you spewed that load of cockamamie speculation? If not I'll summarize it for ya:
No company in their right mind would release sub numbers that do not reflect what they anticipated they would be. It's bad for the company, the image you're trying to promote in soon-to-be released markets and it's bad for stockholders......of which are already been shown to be jumping ship with the U.S. stock report I posted on Shanda(Chinese publisher) shares that dropped 11 percent.
Holding out on releasing sub numbers up into this point means one thing and one thing only:
Aion is NOT performing the way they anticipated it would......end of story.
The sooner you overzealous promo-bots get over this hallucination that Aion is quietly breaking records in each territory it's release, the sooner we can get back to just appreciating the game for what it truly is:
A pretty good effort in the right direction for a korean mmo trying to cater to a global market.
Now you start quoting stock figures, that have 0 correlation to sub numbers for aion.. clutching at straws are we?
No company in their right mind would INCREASE their servers from 40 to 120 without ADDITIONAL subscribers to meet that demand. Did you fail simple supply and demand logic at school?
Sounds like you have a huge issue about a Korean MMO being successful, i suggest stop trying to dig up useless information on the internet and find something productive to do.
GW2 the future of MMO gaming
Please where are these people pulling these sub numbers from? NCSoft has not released ANY numbers for subs from Aion and trust me it's not as rosey as fans are trying to make it seem. Want proof?
...
I mean don't get me wrong I believe that Aion is a well made game that warrants healthy sub numbers to support it for years to come, but what it doesn't warrant is fans over hyping it to be something it is clearly not. Like I always say:
Come correct or don't come at all.......
Yeah where are those numbers coming from Supbro? Seriously, got the official link? Got the quote from NCSoft? Got the financial documents?
And here is another question: IF Aion was growing and setting records, don't you think that NCSoft would be releasing document after document and press release after press release to let everyone know? Seriously, if they were beating WOW so badly and the game was growing so fast and setting all kinds of records, wouldn't we see data to support it? It would be a marketer's dream to be able to talk about it.
They would be the first to brag about it and let the world know. Especially with the US launch coming soon......what a better way to hype the US launch than to talk about how well Aion is doing China/Korea right now.....funny, though, not an official word at all.
Very interesting links Ramonski. Thank you for that. I find the one that talks about the publisher (I guess?) Shanda starting to charge ("However, most of them came for its fame only and a majority of players chose to leave after it began to charge money, which, to some extent at least, indicates that this game is not attractive enough.") I am very curious what that means and would love some more details on that.
Quote from: http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-07-02/20090702054523101,1.shtml
Maybe they want to release everywhere before publishing sub numbers? Maybe publishing those numbers after releasing everywhere might have a bigger impact than what it would now?
And, are you trying to state numbers havent grown? Look at the order servers released in China and how they went from 40 servers in the OB to 120 within the first 2 months, after charging.
Did you even THINK to read my post before you spewed that load of cockamamie speculation? If not I'll summarize it for ya:
No company in their right mind would release sub numbers that do not reflect what they anticipated they would be. It's bad for the company, the image you're trying to promote in soon-to-be released markets and it's bad for stockholders......of which are already been shown to be jumping ship with the U.S. stock report I posted on Shanda(Chinese publisher) shares that dropped 11 percent.
Holding out on releasing sub numbers up into this point means one thing and one thing only:
Aion is NOT performing the way they anticipated it would......end of story.
The sooner you overzealous promo-bots get over this hallucination that Aion is quietly breaking records in each territory it's release, the sooner we can get back to just appreciating the game for what it truly is:
A pretty good effort in the right direction for a korean mmo trying to cater to a global market.
Now you start quoting stock figures, that have 0 correlation to sub numbers for aion.. clutching at straws are we?
No company in their right mind would INCREASE their servers from 40 to 120 without ADDITIONAL subscribers to meet that demand. Did you fail simple supply and demand logic at school?
Sounds like you have a huge issue about a Korean MMO being successful, i suggest stop trying to dig up useless information on the internet and find something productive to do.
So the guy you're bitching at posts a very intelligent post with links and you choose to respond with a good old fashioned feces throwing?
He touch a nerve tiger?
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The 3.5 million subscribers number came from an IGN article about Aion. No one knows where they got that number (their ass?) but it would be ignorant to think the game is not doing well simply based on the number of available servers. Once they start merging servers, then these quotes/comments will have some validity.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
LOl are you serious? You can give your opinion about what's happening in China with servers but I can't quote how the stock is doing for the Chinese company that's running the show over there? Please stop drinking the Kool-Aid before you keel over. Look.....I'm not trying to lead a one man crusade to bring down NCSoft or Aion, I have my pre-order.....I'm just trying to keep things in perspective.
Try to understand that company stock is a good indicator of how well a company is doing. And when you see a quote directly from the Chinese publisher that states that the game is not doing as well as they anticipated and the stock is losing value...well then it's safe to say that those over blown reports about sub numbers and servers raise a few questions. Take from it what you will but very rarely will a company be straight up with customers, but investors get their info straight from the top.
Either way who's to say they didn't open those servers during that whole Shanda (play Aion for free) promotion. Because if you're talking abou the same quarterly report that's been made available on this very website, then we both know those were months BEFORE Shanda started charging.......
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
The 3.5 million subscribers number came from an IGN article about Aion. No one knows where they got that number (their ass?) but it would be ignorant to think the game is not doing well simply based on the number of available servers. Once they start merging servers, then these quotes/comments will have some validity.
And now we have more of these made up numbers with server releases that have had no official backing....just numbers pulled from data collected from NCSoft's quarterly report last year and speculation on the amount of players a server can hold from more Aion promo-bots.....seriously....if you're gonna attack facts with speculation, find another hobby.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
You both are sort of hanging your arguments over speculation to be honest. Just wait until the official numbers for something solid. However, I do think that if a game has 120 servers that it is doing pretty well.
The 3.5 million subscribers number came from an IGN article about Aion. No one knows where they got that number (their ass?) but it would be ignorant to think the game is not doing well simply based on the number of available servers. Once they start merging servers, then these quotes/comments will have some validity.
And now we have more of these made up numbers with server releases that have had no official backing....just numbers pulled from data collected from NCSoft's quarterly report last year and speculation on the amount of players a server can hold from more Aion promo-bots.....seriously....if you're gonna attack facts with speculation, find another hobby.
Err... the amount of servers Aion has is, in fact, a fact. I'm not speculating that they have a lot of servers. No where did I say how many players they had, or speculated on how many were currently playing? Like I said previously, if they start merging servers then obviously the player base is declining, but until that happens or NCSoft releases official numbers; the amount of current Aion players is ALL SPECULATION.
The only thing that I was trying to say by responding to your quotes was that you seem to be doing a lot of twisting of the facts from the links you posted to fit your own agenda.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Thank you, this was my whole point.
Maybe I should have just said that in the first place.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Thank you, this was my whole point.
Maybe I should have just said that in the first place.
LOl wow you guys really are dense......none of those statements in red were ANY of my own words.......they were ALL links to reports on the web...this is why I said fact vs. speculation....the only thing I speculated on what that 120 servers was another number people pulled out of their asses....
See post #187 in this very thread for a reference.... kids today...
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Ramonish, as Dame already pointed out the "facts" you had were all financial figures. That in its self involved a bit of twisting for it to fit what you wanted it to say. They mentioned that it didn't perform as well as it hoped, and that it had not topped WoW China. Not only do we not know what they were hoping for numbers wise, but WoW China is at something like 5 to 6 million subscribers. So even if they were half of WoW China it still would be doing quite well, and be close to the perceived 3.5 million players.
And yes, that on my part was speculation. That's all you're going to get though when you only have some financial figures and opinion pieces though.
Interesting...so now financial facts are being twisted by me to prove my point? And exactly what is my point? Come on...I'm waiting.....My entire point was that Aion is not the behemoth that people here are trying to make it out to be...I twisted nothing....I made up nothing....the only thing I'm guilty of is providing links to the articles I posted and sinking that retarded post that someone made that now Aion has 4 million players....up from the foolish belief that it has 3.5 million to begin with that so many players like to throw around from the speculated 120+ servers they have up and running in China.
When all along I've stated that NCSoft has never release any info on servers or sub counts because they are NOT running Aion in China....Shanda is. And Shanda has NOT released any info on how it's doing in China neither. The only real info we have are the 2 out of 3 links I provided for people to base their assumptions off of.
If they truly had 3.5 millions subs in China, those would be very impressive numbers to put out by ANY mmo company, but those are not the numbers backed by either one....so people here need to either get their facts together to support their stand or go with what has already proven to be out there.......
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
I feel like this entire argument is just going to go in circles. No one knows what the subs are, it's pointless to try and conjecture and guess it.
I have already paid my dues - by paying my money. I'm paying NOW, I expect to be entertained NOW.
Lol, he wants to be entertained, he wants to be entertained NOW! Go play some Counterstrike.
Your lack in attention span might be obliged by a simple game like that
qft
May I add, the Abyss might be cool, but it is going to get old after a month, because that is it. It'll be like playing Strike at Karkand over and over again, or fighting for the bridge on Cyssor between Itan and Gunuku. That will get old. No thanks. You can all ready see the game will not be all that big in the states when people are saying the game is boring and it is only in the 3rd beta weekend. I played the game finally and I just don't feel it. Game to me felt like I had played it before. Like I was playing a rehashed version of L2 but this time we get wings. Oh that is cool. Not. You are limited where and when you can use them? Forget it. I'll not waste my money on yet another poorly designed Korean grinder. My opinion. Sorry if it goes against the flow of the mob.
Am I really the only person who understands both the reasoning and the logic behind not being able to use your wings at all time? Believe it or not it isn't because NCSoft hates you, it's because it would allow players to bypass a lot of content. You can fly everywhere in the abyss anyways. And gliding is awesome too.
You forgot to mention that the abyss is a huge place though, Teala. It's not the size of one map or something. People still play DAoC even today and it doesn't have the biggest world or anything either. Also you could always try and explain why people still play CS1.6 on the same stock set of maps that they were playing on 6 or 7 years ago.
If the PvP is good, the rewards are balanced and the fights are varied than players will stay. This is common sense. NCSoft will certainly add content over time as well, so it's not like the game is going to stay exactly like it is either.
And you don't like the game, ok, but it is anything but a Korean grinder.
Lighten up a bit ~ thats all i can say and this goes for the fans and the haters. First off this game is in a CBeta, it was stressed from Community managers before it started and since, dont over do it, do most of us listen ... Nope . The first problem ppl have is coming into the events as if though its the OPEN beta or live launch, which it is not. Your not doing wat you can to perfect the game if your only whining about it, just as much as the fans arent by defending the games faults [yes its in an earlier client version] but it still has bugs and flaws. This is exactly what the event was suppose to be used for.
@ Op: if your bored, slow down, i mean who were u trying to catch, wat were u trying to prove. Did you do your feedback, and im not talking bout the whining type. or this is boring lvl 20 ur saying on here .... was it constructive feedback, start up a thread on beta forums or other official places they look for info and feedback and give some ideas on how to make it better. I mean if ur ideas are genuine or liked by a mass, the ppl will respond. Kinda like the old saying if you build it they will come .... Remember Aion is being localized in a few different ways ot approach the audience in the western world. Be part of the solution to the problem they already knew was gonna happen.
Aion will enjoy a success in the west, and will hold us over until our beloved ANET gives us what we really want GW2 which i think in all honesty is NCsofts plan all along. Never really expecting it to break records but if it does, they would be very pleased while we wait on the game that is already westernized and made for our audience while already enjoying a success of its own from its previous game. Infact i think this is NCsofts answer to beating WoW out cos one game COULD NOT DO IT but a few of the best would certainly do so and w/ the other upcoming AA A titles i have no doubt the WoW haters will start to smile, think about it, one thing Jeff strain said he knows is u cant ask a person to divorce their game, and most ppl dont pay out a lot in sub fees. When ur married to a game , ur usually married to it. W/ Aion being sub based and GW2 being same model as Gw1, NC knows players wouldnt actually have to make that decision of which game to sub too and this is also their way of makin sure two TOP AAA MMO titles wont have to compete against one another... just some food for thought.
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
Lol.. And the battle rages on...
Everyone throwing "millions of players" around like people actually care.. Ah, but that's where the fun is here because people here actually DO CARE.
ROFLPOTATOCHIPS..
Please do continue..