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Hi all
Do you think aion will take players from LoTRO?
I am trying aion beta, and i dont see nothing to make me stay in that game other than 1.5 trailer that is realy good.
I am a Pve guy, and PvE in Aion is boring, in my personal opinion, maybe it changes at the later leves, but i liked pve since the start in LotRO.
My question is, Will your Kin change game, wen Aion arives, or some of your friends?
Thx for your time
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Well my kin of 30+ people only 3 of them are interested in Aion the rest doesn't seem to care since its really not a game that caters to the PvE crowd.
As a longtime LoTRO player, let me be the first to say, What's Aion?
As far as I know, no one in my Kinship is interested in Aion, nor has it ever been mentioned. Reading the previews of it, I'm not interested in it.
No one I know of in the kin I'm in is interested. I've read a bit about it and from everything I've seen it doesn't grab me. I may eventually give it a try (course I do most mmos), but I'm certainly not hyped about it nor do I have any plans on leaving Rings anytime soon-least not for that game.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
My wife and I are both LotRO lifers and we'll be playing AION.
As far as my kin goes I'd say it breaks down to something like eight of us playing now, four waiting for release and another four sitting on the fence. There is also a few posts on the lotro forums in off topic with a good amount of people saying that they are, or will be, playing AION.
Overall, I don't think AION will pull in a huge amount of players from LotRO, but those that are burning out on rad runs, rep grinds and half baked pvmp I could see at least checking it out.
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My Kin has only slightly mentioned AION but all of them are going to try SWTOR. I know this was an AION question but in my Kin it's not being hyped at all where as SWTOR totally. Just thought I would share my Kins thoughts.
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Not @ all, Aion is weak. I don't think ppl will care much for it once they've played it for a month or two.
Out of my kin of 20, I'm the only one who even bothered getting into the preview beta. After I told them that the amount of pve content in Lotro absolutely dwarfs that in Aion (by a factor of about 100), they have even less interest.
Aion's got two starting areas, one for each side, and each time you roll a new character you'll be doing the exact same quests and seeing the exact same restrictive zones until you get into your mid 20s. Crafting and itemization also lags behind Lotro in terms of the number of options.
It may make a small dent in Lotro's player base while the free month is going on at release, but long term I doubt it will be of much consequence.
Taking players from Lotro. I hate it when people say that about new MMOs being releasesd.
Aion is Aion and Lotro is Lotrol. You can't forceably take players from one game to play another. Geesh!
Aion is good but it is an MMO. Having played the beta and can tell you, it is AN Mmo. It is a good one yes, but to take away players...hmmm...just doesn't make sense. Try Aion if you get the chance. It is good!
You know any one person being able to play more than five MMOs at one time I have to give some credit to. But if you financially look at it, time vs money, you are wasting alot of both doing that. Find value vs. time. Characters are saved you know and you can always come back to them.
You want Aion in your collection. It is that good.
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I can't really see a migration happening, Lotro has a much higher degree of PvE-focused quality.
Also a higher community quality, if a thread like this was started on other game areas, there would be lava-heat flames around already, or at least some sarcasm, because this isn't a "nice" thread to make.
To complete it, I don't remember Turbine giving any major disappointments on Lotro, there shouldn't really be any reason for the player base to check any other game if they are already having fun with Lotro, there really isn't such thing as fun "greed", as in I already have fun, I'm gonna check if I find another game with "more" fun, in the end that's what games are supposed to be about and why MMOs have their loyal player bases (even Darkfall has it).
Leaving a PvE based game for a PvPvE game? I Doubt that much. A game like AoC/WoW/etc where pvp is almost or more important than pve.
aion is new , and it doesnt have orcs, wargs,bears,boars and spiders fom 1-60
i defently see many burned out Lotros trying aion and then going back.
The funny thing there is Lotro placed some many item,raputation and deed grinds in their game that
aion grinds are joke for ltoro players.
but sure the starwars title will pull more, if bioware delivers a bioware quality product.
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Aion is a pretty hard core PvP game. I'm thinking many LoTRo people won't really like it much. It has great graphics which is probably it's best feature. Other then that it is extremely linear, only two starting area/race choices. So it has weak replayability. Customization is also rather poor overall. It has flying which is pretty cool.
But from around lvl 20 on plan on dealing with force PvP. The PvPvE nomenclature has nothing to do with PvP and PvE but rather refers to the fact that in the abyss (think the frontier in DaoC or the open PvP area in warhammer), anyway in that area you have 3 factions. 2 of them are player factions and one is an NPC faction. Aion uses an NPC faction dynamically to compensate for imbalances in the two player factions. Kinda a cool idea. So if one player faction becomes dominent then the npc faction will help out the PC faction that is weaker.
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I don't think you're going to see a massive migration of LOTRO players to Aion. They're two completely different games. LOTRO caters to a playerbase that is mostly story-driven, where pitting the player against computer controlled npcs is the primary focus. In LOTRO the players are one, big family, all working towards the same goal. That goal isn't to reach the highest level; it's to see as much of the story unfold as you can.
Aion is more of an RvR-driven game, where the focus is on PvPvE. With three "factions" (one being controlled by the AI) there is ongoing conflict. While the game has a background story which fleshes out your reason for being, the story isn't what compels the players to advance. Players move through the game with one goal in mind... to reach the abyss and conquer their enemies.
The two games were developed for different audiences. There will definitely be some players who will check out Aion to appease their curiosity, but the core playerbase of LOTRO won't care one way or the other.
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Yeah, I think that title is going to be the one that causes some issues for other mmos, deserved or not, once it goes live. It may not keep players based on the qulaity of the game and how well the launch goes but initially I get the feeling that game is gonna put a strain on a lot of other mmos with the amount of people that seem interested in checking it out.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
I try most mmos, and I pre-ordered Aion this weekend and got my beta key (mainly because I'm bored with LotRO right now, and the direction their game is taking...but that's a different topic.)
For players that like a good story and good questing, Aion isn't for you. I found the quests (at least around the starting area) to be pretty generic and boring. The game IS beautiful...in a different way from LotRO.
No, I don't see this game stealing many LotRO players unless they are heavily in to PVP...which they aren't, otherwise they'd be playing something other than LotRO to begin with.
I'll fiddle around with Aion for 30 days after launch, but I can't see subscribing to it.
I see Aion going much the way AoC and WAR went (at least in the NA market). Lots of people trying it out, huge decline after 2-6 months.
So I've played LotRO off and on over the passed 2 years. I have to wonder after looking through this thread... is there some form of elitism in the LotRO "hardcore" PvE community that has been playing this LotRO game consistently? Or is this a pattern amongst MMO gamers in general?
I can't believe that people are still playing lotr
I can't believe that people are still playing lotr
I played LOTRO for a few months and enjoyed it a lot. Im also having fun in Aion beta and plan to have more fun with it at release. LOTRO and Aion are two different games which will appeal to two different types of gamers. Aion for the more PVP people and LOTRO for PVE.
I can't believe that people are still playing lotr
I played LOTRO for a few months and enjoyed it a lot. Im also having fun in Aion beta and plan to have more fun with it at release. LOTRO and Aion are two different games which will appeal to two different types of gamers. Aion for the more PVP people and LOTRO for PVE.
I love both pve and pvp but I just found lotr boring. I think the biggest reason was the graphics of the armor it just seemed so plain to me, I want my toons to look cool. I am sure that the story is good in lotr but I have never been one to ever care about the story in my mmos I just want to get cool looking gear and kill things.I also have already order AIon I love everything I have seen so far.
Why, because a lot of people think Aion has a very weak PVE game? That's hardly LotRO elitism.
You think these guys suffer from elitism? Lol...these tend to be some of the more tame and reasonable posters there are generally speaking so I guess if you think it exists here than by your standard its a pattern in general.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
Aion = PvP focused game with shit ass PvE. Hmmm... sounds like Warhammer all over again.
I have zero interest in Aion because I fucking can't stand silly Asian games.
Spoken by someone who has probably never played anything but the first 10 levels of the beta.
I hate to be the one to say it but Aion is in beta...lotro has had many updates since it was released. Do your remeber lotro when it first launched? I sure do I was there, and the pve content was half what it is now or less even. How can you even consider comparing the pve in Aion to the pve lotro at this point? Anyways, rather then troll the forum I thought I'd mention it.
My guess it that once Aion has been out and updated or has available expansions the world will be much larger and there will be many more areas to quest in available to us along with opportunity to pvp in the same zones. I for one left LOTRO in a heartbeat for Aion. The character models, armor, and animations alone put lotro to shame.
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Thank you for sharing, we all were concerned about your opinion of Asian games not being heard.