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I know its only 3 hours old.....
Anything that was touting itself as a potential WoW Killer probably should be getting better reviews here in the forums..
Maybe a lesson in advertising. Do not build yourself up so high you can not meet the expectations you have created in others.
Looks like I made the right choice in the "other" MMO on the horizon. See ya all in FE soon !!
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While I am not very impressed with Aion beta - the two hours I tried tonight, I don't they EVER advertised it as a WoW-killer. Neither did they hype much in the West as I see it. I think players and the fact it was already out and got good reviews by players and media alike, was the main reason for its succes so far..
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explain FE
what happened .more specific please we cant read between the lne(exept in eq1)lol
Actually, I don't recall seeing as single advertisement for AIon anywhere, not on TV, radio or in a magazine. (or web site even).
Aion's 'hype' has purely been through expectant players and not based on any outlandish claims by NCSoft that they are a WOW killer.
It should be a fun game...and heck, it hasn't even launched yet.
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hyped or not hyped I cant bring myself to kill this and bring that quest line of the game
I dont feel immersed
Fallen Earth.
I have to say, while some ideas behind it looks good, the graphics and engine looks like something from 1991. It looks REALLY bad. Not for me. 10 times rather play Aion.
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Like Liv presenting WoW-guilds going to Aion during GamesCon?
Fail more.
Aion can't even keep their servers from crashing atm, fail.
fallen earth ..
Great game. small indy company. released 9-22
Fallen Earth? Haha, more like Failed Earth. And yes, I was in close beta for few weeks.
Like Liv presenting WoW-guilds going to Aion during GamesCon?
Fail more.
Aion can't even keep their servers from crashing atm, fail.
The complexity of persistent worlds makes it acceptable for some server problems at launch of open beta. It is a stress test after all too. Nothing new or surprising here.
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Its that or Chumps Online !!
As we see., there will always be those that look for a challenge in the gaming rather than mindless quik grinds and pretty FX ..
Ohhhhh Looky at it .. its Sparkly !!!!
i really enjoy sparklies. Half the fun I had in EQ2 was collecting things randomly laying around =P
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Aion is totally an expectant player created hype snowball.
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Fallen Earth on the other hand is off the radar for a reason.
Heh, everyone just want to be entertained the moment they log into the game. It's their right, but seriously 3 hours doesn't even get you to level 10.
WoW killer? mmorpg cannot be killed by another game, only by time, developer, and players. Either way, back to the game, my friend keep trying to tell me to let him play cuz we are taking turns atm. He is getting annoying since it is my account....
Aions combat is pure fail
Make fun of FE all you want the guys that created FE are not a huge AAA dev like NCsoft.
FE atleast is trying something new being a sandbox Fps game with a unique setting.
Yeah the graphics are so five years ago but the game is pretty cool in certain aspects like crafting and skill system.
Aion is trying to one up WoW with a fail combat system? auto follow is so 5 years ago with guildwars.
Ryzom has a combat system like that but its fine since the game was released near 5 years ago.
I don't know how any real themepark pvper could take Aion seriously.
WoW sucks for me but the combat system blizzard has is near flawless.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
Hah! You're trying to say that Fallen Earth is better than Aion? Wow, what crack are you smoking. I beta tested both. In fact I was in the earliest closed beta there was for Fallen Earth. That game is a piece of crap. Everything about that game has got old written all over it. Ok sure it's free aim and not a bunch of button mashing, but the interface sucks, graphics suck, combat is choppy. Think of it this way, it's got some of the old devs from SWG I hear. Now as much as that might sound like a plus to a lot of you, it's not. It's just not. I can't even begin to explain that without starting a flame war.
If this game is anything, it's an AION killer.
F&*%ing lag fest, and my computer is a monster, so I can just imagine what most people have to deal with. I can't even escape it changing servers, let alone channels.
The thing that sucks the most, I even waited and watched the servers as they opened, filled, and overflowed, to get into the last to open, because it'd have the least people getting into it. But no, same crap, different server.
Aion is not meant to be an MMOG.
What game were you playing? I experienced little to none of those problems. I had like two lag spikes that I got overly pissed about for no reason. Because yeah the game is not even a day old yet. I love how people make ridiculous claims like this. Especially during a Beta test. It's almost like they're hoping the game will fail.
What game were you playing? I experienced little to none of those problems. I had like two lag spikes that I got overly pissed about for no reason. Because yeah the game is not even a day old yet. I love how people make ridiculous claims like this. Especially during a Beta test. It's almost like they're hoping the game will fail.
Responded to wrong thread.It still amazes me how people expect BETA's to be the final game. Even an Open beta is still a BETA meaning a work in progress. All beta's work for the same reason. Trying to see the limits of the game and what needs to be fixed. And yet most n00bi gamers and even some older ones tend to use Betas as "free trial" accounts to test a game then blast forms when something doesn't work right in the beta. (omg something failing in a beta? Unheard of. lets flame the shit out of the game on the forums.)
Now i'm not a Aion fanboi. But I am interested in the game. I'm more sick of looking at this site and every 5 seconds someone else makes a damn thread about another stupid problem. So now all you see is Beta fail = bad game when thats not really the case at all.
As for Fallen Earth. Fallen Earth is a completely failed game. I was in the beta for weeks and if you think the lag in Aion is bad. (which btw I've yet to experience) than you shouldn't be talking about FE. FE lag is so bad that I couldn't even stay in game for more than 60 seconds before I was FORCED to leave.
Now for all the WoW fanboi's I'm an Ex- wow player. I've raided for many hardcore raiding guilds and was even in one of the first guilds to finish Sunwell. But to say that game is still fun is just beyond insulting. That game started dying when they removed needing to kill Vashj and Kael to enter MH and BT. And every patch after that just made the game to the point where my 5 year old baby cousin gets more done bashing his hands on the keyboard then I did my first 2 years playing it. So please. If you love WoW still that much. Go back to the blizz forums and talk with your other fellow WoW loonies. It is so frustrating when a new MMO gets announced and 3 seconds later WoW fanatics rush to forums ranting about how much its like WoW.
Just Remember something. WoW didn't create the MMO Wheel. EQ did. WoW was just the first to improve and share that wheel with 11 million people.
-edit: yeah I kinda went on with this post but I'm just so frustrated with all this crap of "it's not WoW"
-Edit 2: if you haven't figured out that you can turn off the click to move option in the game's options that yes... you shouldn't play Aion.
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I'd just like to point out that the "Aion is in beta" excuse is bunk. It's been released in Asia for a while now.
""It still amazes me how people expect BETA's to be the final game. Even an Open beta is still a BETA meaning a work in progress. All beta's work for the same reason. Trying to see the limits of the game and what needs to be fixed.""
Aion has been out since oct. 2008 in korea how the hell this is not the final game but a test??? This is an old game allready and tested for over a year.
Too bad FE's beta was crap and the combat was horrible.
Why would I compare a themepark to a sandbox?
FE is a innovative game, the crafting is really well done, world is massive, the game has good pve and pvp and is one of the only sandbox games besides maybe Ryzom that isnt forced pvp.
It's innovative something Aion certainly isn't.
Sure the graphics are oldish looking but what it offers is what many of the mmo players that didnt start with WoW are looking for.
Sandbox games aren't fortunate like themeparks we don't get AAA devs making our games so they take a bit to get better (bug squishing, feature additions).
Look at Eve is sucked the first 1-2 years. Darkfall is just starting to be playable and im sure FE, Earthrise and MO will be rough around the edges for the first 6-12 months.
Yet Aion is supposed to be a WoW killer? lets put aion against WoW? it's not even a contest.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
Like Liv presenting WoW-guilds going to Aion during GamesCon?
Fail more.
Aion can't even keep their servers from crashing atm, fail.
Did you play WoW in open beta? Blizzards open beta for WoW was 10 times worst then this. Try waiting in a hour que to play and once you started playing the servers crashed. So far I think it's been a good start to open beta for Aion.
Aion has been out since 2008 in Korea yes. But When they bring the game over from east to west its not the same game we are playing right? Is our game in Korean? No. A lot of things had to be fixed/adjusted to make the game work in NA/EU. You people fail to see just how much work actually goes into it. You think that its just "oh copy all the text and put it into a English translator and then ship it to the US". If it was really that simple we would have gotten the game long ago.
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