oh and wow is way too cartoonish good for kids in the preteens:) and easy to learn.. Aion has more crisp graphics and skills are movment to it, like one person throws a person in the air with weapon and another player in the party can be part of the combo. You cant do that in wow. In wow you just swing your sword and skill lights it up to look pritty.
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular.
If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike Loved: Star Wars Galaxies Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular. If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
Even if Aion doesnt beat wow in sub, Aion got my sub. pvp is so much better as well. in wow eith alliance or horde dominates... in Aion with npc ai ballar. Its ment to balance the the pvp. They tend to attack the strongest faction
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular. If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular. If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
Because people are bringing constructive criticism, they are little kids.
Although I don't mind that, I wish I was young again
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular. If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
Case in point. Thank you.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike Loved: Star Wars Galaxies Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular. If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
Because people are bringing constructive criticism, they are little kids.
Although I don't mind that, I wish I was young again
lol I am almost to my 30s and some may think its still young, but you know its fine first 2 months... But it gets annoying after awhile! Specially when you asking honest question and they answer with dumb ass question every time someone asks it. and your question never is answered... Almost happens every time to me on wow.
well i been keeping up to date with how many ppl are playing Aion in china, Korea and Japan, the numbers are around 3.5 and the game has been out about a year when US and Europe start playing it on this 20th, so i really think it's going to be a succesful mmorpg i mean look at the ppl just playing Open Beta isn't that plenty?, i log in on wow everynow and then just to see what is going on and i have never seen severs with the small ammount of ppl that there has been on this week that Aion has launch their Open Beta will that stay like that? will ppl choose Aion Vs WoW, all i know is that i will tired of WoW and it's simplenes from when wrath launch'd and i been playing pre-BC
Your comparing Systems vs 2 game comparisons which is completly different, on those platforms when there is every a 3 console multi-realease how do the numbers fair? Xbox 360 always 1st then Ps3 in 2nd and always last Wii. wii is a console full of bloatware from dev jumping on the bandwagon.
You know guys, as much as you hate WoW you cant deny facts
It's like the old saying:
Everyone hates you when you're on top.
I know an old saying too....Figures lie and liars figure. I do not doubt WOW has the most subs but at the same time i do not believe the numbers they release as accurate any more than i believe the numbers released by any other game company or any government for that matter.
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular. If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
wow this post just oozes fail. sorry to tell you dude, but with the release of patch 1.5 and higher, the leveling curve for aion has been significantly reduced to the point where it is overly easy to max a toon in under a month. what does this mean, you gonna have overpowered wise talking immature players on the servers. having played chinese, closed and open beta, i've seen more then enough of these players already. Nowhere near the capacity WoW has, but on the same note, there arent the same capacity of players on Aion that there is on WoW. The other side of it is, this is a very highly PvP oriented game that doesnt cater as much to raiders, there are a shitload of raiders around that play WoW for it's end game content, aion provides end game content, but non instanced raids etc... will be alot of problem for alot of players who do not enjoy PvP. At the end of the day it's just another MMO, nothing particularly new, nothing particularly exciting. but i've bought it i've planned on playing it and i'll continue to play WoW aswell, because it's a solid well developed game that continues to be improved and worked on. As aion will be, i mean we have gone from 1.2 to another solid 600mb patch that was just released 1.5.0.5 and they are making huge improvements / content with each patch and it's awesome to see... overall, wether the game is or isnt bigger then WoW shouldnt matter, as long as the people who do play it are happy with it, and NC continues to develop on it and make it a better game as time goes on.
3.5 M is nothing and also you can't count people in China since they don't pay by the month, they pay by the hours. They could just pay once then stop playing. I know that because I was playing on Chinese server.
Nearly half of wow numbers come from china ,if blizz can add these numbers why not NCsoft
Your comparing Systems vs 2 game comparisons which is completly different, on those platforms when there is every a 3 console multi-realease how do the numbers fair? Xbox 360 always 1st then Ps3 in 2nd and always last Wii. wii is a console full of bloatware from dev jumping on the bandwagon.
$box sold more so it must be best. I wonder if people buying two and three consoles due to red ring failures adds to those numbers?
Your comparing Systems vs 2 game comparisons which is completly different, on those platforms when there is every a 3 console multi-realease how do the numbers fair? Xbox 360 always 1st then Ps3 in 2nd and always last Wii. wii is a console full of bloatware from dev jumping on the bandwagon.
$box sold more so it must be best. I wonder if people buying two and three consoles due to red ring failures adds to those numbers?
yeah.. i bought a premium on launch night all those years ago.. lasted 3 years before red rings, and the very first ones were meant to be the most unstable. bought a new one, that lasted a year after my first one died, that was one of the new gen ones where even the core consoles had hdmi. i've had my red elite console now for about 7 months.. should be interesting to see how long that lasts, but what can i say i love my 360
Just when I think the WoW peeps decided to go chill out and drink some Chai Tea, someone had to go and pee in their cheerios.
I know someone else has already said this, but numbers don't make the game. With that being said, I wish success to AION but if it doesn't become mainstream popular, that wont bother me one bit.
i havent really seen anything irrational about what people have been saying about WoW or Aion really, feel free 2 troll some WoW fans more? i dont see why everyone has to obsess about games "beating" Wow, who cares.. games and players should hope that the game they decide to playe will be as successful as WoW, or even not, as i said in a previous post, as long as the game caters to your needs, who the hell cares about if it beats WoW or not the publishers / devs themselves usually say things like "i only hope we can be as sucessful as blizzard has been" so why the hell do we need to make a big deal about the game killing WoW, honestly no game is going to kill WoW, the only thing that will kill WoW is blizzard. People need to accept facts.
ohhhhh and before anyone jumps down my throat calling me a WoW fanboy, yes i subscribe to it, i've also played Aion chinese, N/A CBT / OBT and plan on playing Aion retail, having prepurchased the game the day they announced pre orders. and plan on having active WoW and Aion subs. so i'm impartial to both games, i can just face facts.
I wouldn't brag too much about Aion subsriptions at the moment.
The western launch is set to launch at around 300K players NCSoft admitted.
That is btw confirmed by the number of servers: 12US/12EU and confirmed by the numbers of current Beta.
see Xfire to view the upcoming trends.
What is bothering is that play in Beta is less than expected. The are only at around 50% ot the original Bate launches of AoC and WAR, which stood at 500 K a few days before launch.
Also the famous 3.5 M Aion eastern players were never confrimed by NCsoft either. The number of present day Aion servers shows it is more around 1.8/1.9 M. They don't have the number of servers to host that not confirmed 3.5.
I wouldn't brag too much about Aion subsriptions at the moment. The western launch is set to launch at around 300K players NCSoft admitted. That is btw confirmed by the number of servers: 12US/12EU and confirmed by the numbers of current Beta.
see Xfire to view the upcoming trends. What is bothering is that play in Beta is less than expected. The are only at around 50% ot the original Bate launches of AoC and WAR, which stood at 500 K a few days before launch. Also the famous 3.5 M Aion eastern players were never confrimed by NCsoft either. The number of present day Aion servers shows it is more around 1.8/1.9 M. They don't have the number of servers to host that not confirmed 3.5.
careful before you get flamed for presenting people with logic.
Originally posted by mbrodie9 Originally posted by logangregor Why oh WHY was this thread made?
Just when I think the WoW peeps decided to go chill out and drink some Chai Tea, someone had to go and pee in their cheerios.I know someone else has already said this, but numbers don't make the game. With that being said, I wish success to AION but if it doesn't become mainstream popular, that wont bother me one bit.
i havent really seen anything irrational about what people have been saying about WoW or Aion really, feel free 2 troll some WoW fans more? i dont see why everyone has to obsess about games "beating" Wow, who cares.. games and players should hope to be as successful as WoW, the publishers / devs themselves usually say things like "i only hope we can be as sucessful as blizzard has been" so why the hell do we need to make a big deal about the game killing WoW, honestly no game is going to kill WoW, the only thing that will kill WoW is blizzard. People need to accept facts.
I cant quite make sense of that post. Are you calling me a troll? I am a AION fan in the AION forums and I didnt make any derogatory remarks about WoW or its fans.
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and the point of this thread: how stupid is to look at size of numbers.
yeah WOW had a big dick, but come on. wow is old now. and its only matter of time, how much time you will enjoy it.
oh and wow is way too cartoonish good for kids in the preteens:) and easy to learn.. Aion has more crisp graphics and skills are movment to it, like one person throws a person in the air with weapon and another player in the party can be part of the combo. You cant do that in wow. In wow you just swing your sword and skill lights it up to look pritty.
playing:Aion, shot online.
waiting for: Terra
Used to play:wow,EQ,EQ2,Rf Online, lineage II,Raganoke online.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Nice to see the WoW fanbots out in force to try and discredit any threatening numbers and ensure "their" game stays the most popular.
If Aion did take over WoW in subs, I think the most interesting thing of all would be Zorndorf's reaction. He's been spouting "Number == Quality!" for so long, I wonder if he would jump on board the Aion ship because it has more numbers, or switch up his game plan. Either way, it would be very entertaining.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW
Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike
Loved: Star Wars Galaxies
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
Even if Aion doesnt beat wow in sub, Aion got my sub. pvp is so much better as well. in wow eith alliance or horde dominates... in Aion with npc ai ballar. Its ment to balance the the pvp. They tend to attack the strongest faction
playing:Aion, shot online.
waiting for: Terra
Used to play:wow,EQ,EQ2,Rf Online, lineage II,Raganoke online.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
playing:Aion, shot online.
waiting for: Terra
Used to play:wow,EQ,EQ2,Rf Online, lineage II,Raganoke online.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
Because people are bringing constructive criticism, they are little kids.
Although I don't mind that, I wish I was young again
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
Case in point. Thank you.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW
Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike
Loved: Star Wars Galaxies
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
Because people are bringing constructive criticism, they are little kids.
Although I don't mind that, I wish I was young again
lol I am almost to my 30s and some may think its still young, but you know its fine first 2 months... But it gets annoying after awhile! Specially when you asking honest question and they answer with dumb ass question every time someone asks it. and your question never is answered... Almost happens every time to me on wow.
playing:Aion, shot online.
waiting for: Terra
Used to play:wow,EQ,EQ2,Rf Online, lineage II,Raganoke online.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
You know guys, as much as you hate WoW you cant deny facts
March on! - Lets Invade Pekopon
It's like the old saying:
Everyone hates you when you're on top.
I dont get why people care about sub numbers its like saying a Wii is better then a PS3/360 just because of its sales figures.
MMOS are there to entertain if they dont then they arent worth the subscription cost everyone has their own tastes they choose what they like.
well i been keeping up to date with how many ppl are playing Aion in china, Korea and Japan, the numbers are around 3.5 and the game has been out about a year when US and Europe start playing it on this 20th, so i really think it's going to be a succesful mmorpg i mean look at the ppl just playing Open Beta isn't that plenty?, i log in on wow everynow and then just to see what is going on and i have never seen severs with the small ammount of ppl that there has been on this week that Aion has launch their Open Beta will that stay like that? will ppl choose Aion Vs WoW, all i know is that i will tired of WoW and it's simplenes from when wrath launch'd and i been playing pre-BC
Your comparing Systems vs 2 game comparisons which is completly different, on those platforms when there is every a 3 console multi-realease how do the numbers fair? Xbox 360 always 1st then Ps3 in 2nd and always last Wii. wii is a console full of bloatware from dev jumping on the bandwagon.
It's like the old saying:
Everyone hates you when you're on top.
I know an old saying too....Figures lie and liars figure. I do not doubt WOW has the most subs but at the same time i do not believe the numbers they release as accurate any more than i believe the numbers released by any other game company or any government for that matter.
Discredit what? the 3.5million Aion accounts.. I mean subs some one plucked out of the air? vs 2.8million copies of Wotlk sold in 24hours and 4million in its first month ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081121.html ) the FACT wow and it expansions have occupied at-least 1 of the top 3 sales spots every month for the last 5 years ( go look up the NDP data ) and Official press releases from Blizzard with a full explanation of how they count their subscribers.
Until we get some official, concrete multi-source data for Aion.. its all nonsense.
ahh but you got to remember blizzard has been out longer then NCsoft, So more people been plaing warcraft games longer... same with wow, it has been out longer then Aion... just give aion some time. Now that its coming over to europe and america, It will boom... wow will still go strong, because there little kids will go there to act like adults and know everything and talk shit... Sure Aion will have that, but not many. that because kids will find the game harder and not play it. Oh I can't get to lvl 50 in a month and be bad ass and show off like a dumb ass like in wow. Take Final Fantasy 11 harder and longer to lvl and tends to attract more mature players. And I do believe Aion hype is higher then wow on game list on here.. Even lower then guild wars and FF 11
wow this post just oozes fail. sorry to tell you dude, but with the release of patch 1.5 and higher, the leveling curve for aion has been significantly reduced to the point where it is overly easy to max a toon in under a month. what does this mean, you gonna have overpowered wise talking immature players on the servers. having played chinese, closed and open beta, i've seen more then enough of these players already. Nowhere near the capacity WoW has, but on the same note, there arent the same capacity of players on Aion that there is on WoW. The other side of it is, this is a very highly PvP oriented game that doesnt cater as much to raiders, there are a shitload of raiders around that play WoW for it's end game content, aion provides end game content, but non instanced raids etc... will be alot of problem for alot of players who do not enjoy PvP. At the end of the day it's just another MMO, nothing particularly new, nothing particularly exciting. but i've bought it i've planned on playing it and i'll continue to play WoW aswell, because it's a solid well developed game that continues to be improved and worked on. As aion will be, i mean we have gone from 1.2 to another solid 600mb patch that was just released 1.5.0.5 and they are making huge improvements / content with each patch and it's awesome to see... overall, wether the game is or isnt bigger then WoW shouldnt matter, as long as the people who do play it are happy with it, and NC continues to develop on it and make it a better game as time goes on.
Nearly half of wow numbers come from china ,if blizz can add these numbers why not NCsoft
$box sold more so it must be best. I wonder if people buying two and three consoles due to red ring failures adds to those numbers?
$box sold more so it must be best. I wonder if people buying two and three consoles due to red ring failures adds to those numbers?
yeah.. i bought a premium on launch night all those years ago.. lasted 3 years before red rings, and the very first ones were meant to be the most unstable. bought a new one, that lasted a year after my first one died, that was one of the new gen ones where even the core consoles had hdmi. i've had my red elite console now for about 7 months.. should be interesting to see how long that lasts, but what can i say i love my 360
Why oh WHY was this thread made?
Just when I think the WoW peeps decided to go chill out and drink some Chai Tea, someone had to go and pee in their cheerios.
I know someone else has already said this, but numbers don't make the game.
With that being said, I wish success to AION but if it doesn't become mainstream popular, that wont bother me one bit.
i havent really seen anything irrational about what people have been saying about WoW or Aion really, feel free 2 troll some WoW fans more? i dont see why everyone has to obsess about games "beating" Wow, who cares.. games and players should hope that the game they decide to playe will be as successful as WoW, or even not, as i said in a previous post, as long as the game caters to your needs, who the hell cares about if it beats WoW or not the publishers / devs themselves usually say things like "i only hope we can be as sucessful as blizzard has been" so why the hell do we need to make a big deal about the game killing WoW, honestly no game is going to kill WoW, the only thing that will kill WoW is blizzard. People need to accept facts.
ohhhhh and before anyone jumps down my throat calling me a WoW fanboy, yes i subscribe to it, i've also played Aion chinese, N/A CBT / OBT and plan on playing Aion retail, having prepurchased the game the day they announced pre orders. and plan on having active WoW and Aion subs. so i'm impartial to both games, i can just face facts.
I wouldn't brag too much about Aion subsriptions at the moment.
The western launch is set to launch at around 300K players NCSoft admitted.
That is btw confirmed by the number of servers: 12US/12EU and confirmed by the numbers of current Beta.
see Xfire to view the upcoming trends.
What is bothering is that play in Beta is less than expected. The are only at around 50% ot the original Bate launches of AoC and WAR, which stood at 500 K a few days before launch.
Also the famous 3.5 M Aion eastern players were never confrimed by NCsoft either. The number of present day Aion servers shows it is more around 1.8/1.9 M. They don't have the number of servers to host that not confirmed 3.5.
careful before you get flamed for presenting people with logic.
i havent really seen anything irrational about what people have been saying about WoW or Aion really, feel free 2 troll some WoW fans more? i dont see why everyone has to obsess about games "beating" Wow, who cares.. games and players should hope to be as successful as WoW, the publishers / devs themselves usually say things like "i only hope we can be as sucessful as blizzard has been" so why the hell do we need to make a big deal about the game killing WoW, honestly no game is going to kill WoW, the only thing that will kill WoW is blizzard. People need to accept facts.
I cant quite make sense of that post. Are you calling me a troll? I am a AION fan in the AION forums and I didnt make any derogatory remarks about WoW or its fans.