Signed on right at the start, played 11 hours with out one d/c, never experienced any lag, and quit at lvl 14.
Massive amounts of people. There are several rather serious bottlenecks where only one mob or piece of paper spawn and even if you are in a group, each person needs a separate drop. I hope they look into these few problems because it really slows down leveling when every channel is waiting on the 'Treasure Map' to spawn.
Other than that, incredible launch, especially considering the massive amount of players all starting together in one big bunch.
Well not like I did not see this coming. Everyone wanted to be on the most crowded servers. I picked a low pop one because I knew I would not get the que's like the rest of you.
Queing lines were in Korea & China for about a week, I expect that NA/EU will not be as long because everyone is not going to play 24/7 for 7 days straight.
I have only had one que line and that was for 15 min's, and so far zero crashes and no lag on the server.
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Some people just want to play with their long time guilds, and no where else, so they are gonna complain, just don't read it if it bugs you that much lol
And they let you but with a cost, long waiting times.
The most popular servers been known on most fansites since NCSoft announced the servers.
If your guild took the most populated server blame them but not NC.
You cant expect them to just add servers for the sake of it.
when everything goes to the 15% userbase online per server in a couple days/weeks everyone would be complaining about ghost towns.
What the hell. I dont care. I pay they provide. I dont care why there having troubles or reason for not giving me what I pay for. Part of the deal with pre-ordering was the 2 day start.
I cant get away with this 5h1t at my job. And neither could you unless you work at the dmv, post office..... or somethn. I can understand if its a technical problem but all they have to do is open more servers they will have to at release.
They will add more at launch why not do it now.
Not so much mad about not getting in (still think its BS) Just tired of everyone supplying excusess and believing PR BS in this industry. A game not being fun, more than understandable. But buissness practice and standards, no , no reason for them to feel its okay for customers not to get there service.
But you had your early acces, you just choose the wrong server/side. They filled their end of the deal and that was to provide you with a 2 days headstart. You could have played eylos but decided to jump on the asmodian bandwagon and that is not their fault imo.
Originally posted by Regnevanz That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
You mean game which has already ben out for 3 years and had all the time in the world to get rid of the bugs? ofcourse.
Aion's lauch hands down put every other MMO's lauch/patches/expansions to shame. It also raised the bar for other MMO's to bring that quality of lauch to the next MMO I get.
The first 20 mins of the lauch were a tad chaotic, I'll admit, but me and my friends still logged in with no problems and ther was a TAD rubberbanding. But like I said after 20 mins. The servers lvl'ed out and there was no lag. None what so ever, no matter how populated the area was. No lag. No crashes. No problems.
My server went down at one point around 8 pm for about 15 mins for a quick maintance I assume and I was back on for the rest of the night.
It was as smooth as butter, I loved every minute of it, I was even more excited than I was playing it in the CB. By far the greatest MMO I've played too date, and I don't see myself going anywhere anytime soon.
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Is everyone forgetting that the game has already been out for a while? Of course it's ready for launch now, it's just localization of a game that was already up and running in another language.
Is everyone forgetting that the game has already been out for a while? Of course it's ready for launch now, it's just localization of a game that was already up and running in another language.
Have you forgotten that WoW has been out for 5 years and no patch or expansion has ever been this smooth?
Or the fact that no WoW server Q went as fast as 10 mins for a 300 person Q? (friend got stuck after 11 pm in a 674 person Q and said it took him 25 minutes Tops. Unheard of in WoW.
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I am really happy we have long queues on servers at the moment.
Yes it sucks to be stuck in the queue but MMOs are a long term thing and not a 2 day thing.
When a new MMO comes out everyone plays it loads. That means the servers are packed. I play double my normal hours at launch. After a week or two I cut my playtime back to normal. If everyone does that then the number of people online at any one time would half. On top of that you have the WOW tourists who will quit at the end of the month anyway.
If they add enough servers to cope with the current number of players online we will end up with ghost servers in a months time as people go back to normal playtimes and the tourists leave.
I would prefer queues for the first few weeks and then active busy servers for the months and years after that rather thn ghost servers.
We all saw the disaster that WAR and AOC servers became, lets not have that here.
That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
I don't understand what you said, but I have had no problems with the head start launch so far. I was able to get into the game within 5 minutes of server launch, and didn't disconnect once. There was a sea of players when I got on, so there was latency issues of course, but these issues died down as people started spreading apart.
I heard of other people disconnecting, everyone had lag at the beginning, and I heard the que's were measured in hours.
Is everyone forgetting that the game has already been out for a while? Of course it's ready for launch now, it's just localization of a game that was already up and running in another language.
Have you forgotten that WoW has been out for 5 years and no patch or expansion has ever been this smooth? Or the fact that no WoW server Q went as fast as 10 mins for a 300 person Q? (friend got stuck after 11 pm in a 674 person Q and said it took him 25 minutes Tops. Unheard of in WoW.
You still don't get it. AIon has been our for more then 3 years as a live game. People had time to give feedback regarding bugs and company had plenty of time to polish it. You can not make comparison with other MMO which did not have this luxury. You are making it sound as if Aion just came out of one month beta for first time and suddenly set up some standards. Give 3 years to any MMO out there and they will be as good as Aion in terms of playability.
Hell even AOC is such a playable game after one year. Moreover if you think you won't hit into any bugs all the way upto max lvl then you are just feeding your own delusions. What level are you right? have you seen all the content that AION has to offer?
I am really happy we have long queues on servers at the moment. Yes it sucks to be stuck in the queue but MMOs are a long term thing and not a 2 day thing. When a new MMO comes out everyone plays it loads. That means the servers are packed. I play double my normal hours at launch. After a week or two I cut my playtime back to normal. If everyone does that then the number of people online at any one time would half. On top of that you have the WOW tourists who will quit at the end of the month anyway. If they add enough servers to cope with the current number of players online we will end up with ghost servers in a months time as people go back to normal playtimes and the tourists leave. I would prefer queues for the first few weeks and then active busy servers for the months and years after that rather thn ghost servers. We all saw the disaster that WAR and AOC servers became, lets not have that here.
IDK man....as much as the WoW fanboi's like to continue bitching in the general area chat....I don't see them alt f4'ing out of the gaming and going back to WoW. I still see them lvling and enjoying it. They just like to front that Aion is not better than WoW.
We know the real answer though. :]
This is nothing like those 2 failures. (AoC and WAR)
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Is everyone forgetting that the game has already been out for a while? Of course it's ready for launch now, it's just localization of a game that was already up and running in another language.
Have you forgotten that WoW has been out for 5 years and no patch or expansion has ever been this smooth?
Or the fact that no WoW server Q went as fast as 10 mins for a 300 person Q? (friend got stuck after 11 pm in a 674 person Q and said it took him 25 minutes Tops. Unheard of in WoW.
You still don't get it. AIon has been our for more then 3 years as a live game. People had time to give feedback regarding bugs and company had plenty of time to polish it. You can not make comparison with other MMO which did not have this luxury. You are making it sound as if Aion just came out of one month beta for first time and suddenly set up some standards. Give 3 years to any MMO out there and they will be as good as Aion in terms of playability.
Hell even AOC is such a playable game after one year.
3 years?? You best check those facts Sir.
South Korea
Aion was released in South Korea on November 28, 2008. Making this the first country to get a final release of the game. Given the success of NCsoft's previous games, Lineage and Lineage II, Aion had been a highly anticipated game in South Korea ever since its announcement. At the end of 2008 Aion won the award "Best Korean Game of the Year" for its "epic scale, immersive story, and stunning graphics and sound design".
It hasn't been even a year yet...
And again, WoW has been out for 5 years. (Legit 5 years....) and still can't have this kind of lauch with expansions.... OR patches.
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This game just might cut down that 400 lb. gorilla in the room that is WOW. I predict that Aion will be big. I just hope NC Soft is ready for the masses that are sure to come!
That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
I make spreadsheets at work - I don't want to make them for the games I play.
That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
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Pretty damn smooth. Really impressive honestly. The game is extremely polished, and feels like a finished AAA game which MMO's almost never do out of the gate.
That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
I highly doubt it was hours. I don't know about the EU servers but the NA servers didn't have any problems. Like I said before my friend had a 670 something Q and I had a ~300 Q and we both were in in ~ 30 mins.
Also. Q Lines aren't something Ncsoft really cares about right now. If anything they love it because they know how many more people want to play. They will soon lvl everything out and all will be well. Day one of the headstart is hardly the time to worry about server Q's.... 400,000 people logging into (what was it?) ~10 servers, yeah there will be a Q. But you know what? While all you poor souls were stuck in Q. There was no overload lag in the servers you guys were trying to get into. We played perfect, Undisturbed games.
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That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
I highly doubt it was hours. I don't know about the EU servers but the NA servers didn't have any problems. Like I said before my friend had a 670 something Q and I had a ~300 Q and we both were in in ~ 30 mins.
Also. Q Lines aren't something Ncsoft really cares about right now. If anything they love it because they know how many more people want to play. They will soon lvl everything out and all will be well. Day one of the headstart is hardly the time to worry about server Q's.... 400,000 people logging into (what was it?) ~10 servers, yeah there will be a Q. But you know what? While all you poor souls were stuck in Q. There was no overload lag in the servers you guys were trying to get into. We played perfect, Undisturbed games.
Just to let you know, not every server is like yours. My guilds server had over 3k Q and it was taking atleast 1-2 hours...so yea
That new website - A game with bugger all bugs? I can't think of any other game this polished with such good community functions at launch?
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
I highly doubt it was hours. I don't know about the EU servers but the NA servers didn't have any problems. Like I said before my friend had a 670 something Q and I had a ~300 Q and we both were in in ~ 30 mins.
Also. Q Lines aren't something Ncsoft really cares about right now. If anything they love it because they know how many more people want to play. They will soon lvl everything out and all will be well. Day one of the headstart is hardly the time to worry about server Q's.... 400,000 people logging into (what was it?) ~10 servers, yeah there will be a Q. But you know what? While all you poor souls were stuck in Q. There was no overload lag in the servers you guys were trying to get into. We played perfect, Undisturbed games.
You doubt it was hours? I personally waited 5 hours. Your friend got lucky and you are "doubting" events you did not witness.
This is going to be Aions 3rd launch now? Korea, China (am i missing one?), Now EU/NA. How many closed then open betas did they do? It better go pretty damn smooth. I still expect some lag issues for some people however.
Besides lag issues and quee's I would be surprised IF they suddenly see a lot of issues with the launch. As you wrote they have launched the game twice so far so the typical launch bugs should not be a issue now.
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The queue and the wait time you see right now is actually NCSoft model for the launch day. The short answer is NO, THEY WILL NOT FIX IT. It's their intention in the first place. They intentionally make you wait. Will they add more servers? May be later, but not now. Let me make it more clear. This is their model for launch day. It will not change. You will have to wait until the rush is over. It will probably be several weeks.
This exact same thing happened twice before at Korean and Chinese launch. You will see queue for a while and then after the rush is over, then they will evaluate the server load and added more server if needed.
Originally posted by Hepisodic Originally posted by Shastra
Originally posted by Hepisodic
Originally posted by Salvatoris
Is everyone forgetting that the game has already been out for a while? Of course it's ready for launch now, it's just localization of a game that was already up and running in another language.
Have you forgotten that WoW has been out for 5 years and no patch or expansion has ever been this smooth? Or the fact that no WoW server Q went as fast as 10 mins for a 300 person Q? (friend got stuck after 11 pm in a 674 person Q and said it took him 25 minutes Tops. Unheard of in WoW.
You still don't get it. AIon has been our for more then 3 years as a live game. People had time to give feedback regarding bugs and company had plenty of time to polish it. You can not make comparison with other MMO which did not have this luxury. You are making it sound as if Aion just came out of one month beta for first time and suddenly set up some standards. Give 3 years to any MMO out there and they will be as good as Aion in terms of playability. Hell even AOC is such a playable game after one year. 3 years?? You best check those facts Sir.
South Korea Aion was released in South Korea on November 28, 2008. Making this the first country to get a final release of the game. Given the success of NCsoft's previous games, Lineage and Lineage II, Aion had been a highly anticipated game in South Korea ever since its announcement. At the end of 2008 Aion won the award "Best Korean Game of the Year" for its "epic scale, immersive story, and stunning graphics and sound design".
It hasn't been even a year yet...
And again, WoW has been out for 5 years. (Legit 5 years....) and still can't have this kind of lauch with expansions.... OR patches.
Aion Closed beta testing in Korea began in late 2007, so its not just one year. You didn't answer my previous question. How many lvls have you played? have you seen entire content of Aion that you know this game has no bugs at all? its unfair to compare Aion which went through beta twice and had one year of live game experience with other MMO who never had this luxury.
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Signed on right at the start, played 11 hours with out one d/c, never experienced any lag, and quit at lvl 14.
Massive amounts of people. There are several rather serious bottlenecks where only one mob or piece of paper spawn and even if you are in a group, each person needs a separate drop. I hope they look into these few problems because it really slows down leveling when every channel is waiting on the 'Treasure Map' to spawn.
Other than that, incredible launch, especially considering the massive amount of players all starting together in one big bunch.
Congrats to NcSoft and their team.
Well not like I did not see this coming. Everyone wanted to be on the most crowded servers. I picked a low pop one because I knew I would not get the que's like the rest of you.
Queing lines were in Korea & China for about a week, I expect that NA/EU will not be as long because everyone is not going to play 24/7 for 7 days straight.
I have only had one que line and that was for 15 min's, and so far zero crashes and no lag on the server.
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And they let you but with a cost, long waiting times.
The most popular servers been known on most fansites since NCSoft announced the servers.
If your guild took the most populated server blame them but not NC.
You cant expect them to just add servers for the sake of it.
when everything goes to the 15% userbase online per server in a couple days/weeks everyone would be complaining about ghost towns.
What the hell. I dont care. I pay they provide. I dont care why there having troubles or reason for not giving me what I pay for. Part of the deal with pre-ordering was the 2 day start.
I cant get away with this 5h1t at my job. And neither could you unless you work at the dmv, post office..... or somethn. I can understand if its a technical problem but all they have to do is open more servers they will have to at release.
They will add more at launch why not do it now.
Not so much mad about not getting in (still think its BS) Just tired of everyone supplying excusess and believing PR BS in this industry. A game not being fun, more than understandable. But buissness practice and standards, no , no reason for them to feel its okay for customers not to get there service.
But you had your early acces, you just choose the wrong server/side. They filled their end of the deal and that was to provide you with a 2 days headstart. You could have played eylos but decided to jump on the asmodian bandwagon and that is not their fault imo.
You mean game which has already ben out for 3 years and had all the time in the world to get rid of the bugs? ofcourse.
Aion's lauch hands down put every other MMO's lauch/patches/expansions to shame. It also raised the bar for other MMO's to bring that quality of lauch to the next MMO I get.
The first 20 mins of the lauch were a tad chaotic, I'll admit, but me and my friends still logged in with no problems and ther was a TAD rubberbanding. But like I said after 20 mins. The servers lvl'ed out and there was no lag. None what so ever, no matter how populated the area was. No lag. No crashes. No problems.
My server went down at one point around 8 pm for about 15 mins for a quick maintance I assume and I was back on for the rest of the night.
It was as smooth as butter, I loved every minute of it, I was even more excited than I was playing it in the CB. By far the greatest MMO I've played too date, and I don't see myself going anywhere anytime soon.
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Is everyone forgetting that the game has already been out for a while? Of course it's ready for launch now, it's just localization of a game that was already up and running in another language.
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Have you forgotten that WoW has been out for 5 years and no patch or expansion has ever been this smooth?
Or the fact that no WoW server Q went as fast as 10 mins for a 300 person Q? (friend got stuck after 11 pm in a 674 person Q and said it took him 25 minutes Tops. Unheard of in WoW.
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Even if it was out in asia those were different servers with different expectations they still had to make some testings to make it a smooth launch.
I am really happy we have long queues on servers at the moment.
Yes it sucks to be stuck in the queue but MMOs are a long term thing and not a 2 day thing.
When a new MMO comes out everyone plays it loads. That means the servers are packed. I play double my normal hours at launch. After a week or two I cut my playtime back to normal. If everyone does that then the number of people online at any one time would half. On top of that you have the WOW tourists who will quit at the end of the month anyway.
If they add enough servers to cope with the current number of players online we will end up with ghost servers in a months time as people go back to normal playtimes and the tourists leave.
I would prefer queues for the first few weeks and then active busy servers for the months and years after that rather thn ghost servers.
We all saw the disaster that WAR and AOC servers became, lets not have that here.
I don't understand what you said, but I have had no problems with the head start launch so far. I was able to get into the game within 5 minutes of server launch, and didn't disconnect once. There was a sea of players when I got on, so there was latency issues of course, but these issues died down as people started spreading apart.
I heard of other people disconnecting, everyone had lag at the beginning, and I heard the que's were measured in hours.
You still don't get it. AIon has been our for more then 3 years as a live game. People had time to give feedback regarding bugs and company had plenty of time to polish it. You can not make comparison with other MMO which did not have this luxury. You are making it sound as if Aion just came out of one month beta for first time and suddenly set up some standards. Give 3 years to any MMO out there and they will be as good as Aion in terms of playability.
Hell even AOC is such a playable game after one year. Moreover if you think you won't hit into any bugs all the way upto max lvl then you are just feeding your own delusions. What level are you right? have you seen all the content that AION has to offer?
IDK man....as much as the WoW fanboi's like to continue bitching in the general area chat....I don't see them alt f4'ing out of the gaming and going back to WoW. I still see them lvling and enjoying it. They just like to front that Aion is not better than WoW.
We know the real answer though. :]
This is nothing like those 2 failures. (AoC and WAR)
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Have you forgotten that WoW has been out for 5 years and no patch or expansion has ever been this smooth?
Or the fact that no WoW server Q went as fast as 10 mins for a 300 person Q? (friend got stuck after 11 pm in a 674 person Q and said it took him 25 minutes Tops. Unheard of in WoW.
You still don't get it. AIon has been our for more then 3 years as a live game. People had time to give feedback regarding bugs and company had plenty of time to polish it. You can not make comparison with other MMO which did not have this luxury. You are making it sound as if Aion just came out of one month beta for first time and suddenly set up some standards. Give 3 years to any MMO out there and they will be as good as Aion in terms of playability.
Hell even AOC is such a playable game after one year.
3 years?? You best check those facts Sir.
South Korea
Aion was released in South Korea on November 28, 2008. Making this the first country to get a final release of the game. Given the success of NCsoft's previous games, Lineage and Lineage II, Aion had been a highly anticipated game in South Korea ever since its announcement. At the end of 2008 Aion won the award "Best Korean Game of the Year" for its "epic scale, immersive story, and stunning graphics and sound design".
It hasn't been even a year yet...
And again, WoW has been out for 5 years. (Legit 5 years....) and still can't have this kind of lauch with expansions.... OR patches.
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This game just might cut down that 400 lb. gorilla in the room that is WOW. I predict that Aion will be big. I just hope NC Soft is ready for the masses that are sure to come!
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
I make spreadsheets at work - I don't want to make them for the games I play.
I guess you think only a WoW clone can be the WoW killer....
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What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
Veritas Vos Liberabit- The truth will set you free.
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
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What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
I highly doubt it was hours. I don't know about the EU servers but the NA servers didn't have any problems. Like I said before my friend had a 670 something Q and I had a ~300 Q and we both were in in ~ 30 mins.
Also. Q Lines aren't something Ncsoft really cares about right now. If anything they love it because they know how many more people want to play. They will soon lvl everything out and all will be well. Day one of the headstart is hardly the time to worry about server Q's.... 400,000 people logging into (what was it?) ~10 servers, yeah there will be a Q. But you know what? While all you poor souls were stuck in Q. There was no overload lag in the servers you guys were trying to get into. We played perfect, Undisturbed games.
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What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
I highly doubt it was hours. I don't know about the EU servers but the NA servers didn't have any problems. Like I said before my friend had a 670 something Q and I had a ~300 Q and we both were in in ~ 30 mins.
Also. Q Lines aren't something Ncsoft really cares about right now. If anything they love it because they know how many more people want to play. They will soon lvl everything out and all will be well. Day one of the headstart is hardly the time to worry about server Q's.... 400,000 people logging into (what was it?) ~10 servers, yeah there will be a Q. But you know what? While all you poor souls were stuck in Q. There was no overload lag in the servers you guys were trying to get into. We played perfect, Undisturbed games.
Just to let you know, not every server is like yours. My guilds server had over 3k Q and it was taking atleast 1-2 hours...so yea
What are you smoking and would you please share? The game hasn't officially launched, for one, and two - the 5 hour queues and server crashes hardly constitute a smooth sudo-launch. CoH had a much better launch by far, and so did LotRO. I like Aion, but this headstart launch (which is what it actually is) was pretty much handled incredibly poorly.
define poorly? Cause I don't think anyone who was online in the servers thinks the game was handled Poorly at all.
There is nothing to complain about. What are YOU smoking?
So the people playing had no complaints... what about the people waiting in the queue for hours at a time? I guess their complaints don't count.
I highly doubt it was hours. I don't know about the EU servers but the NA servers didn't have any problems. Like I said before my friend had a 670 something Q and I had a ~300 Q and we both were in in ~ 30 mins.
Also. Q Lines aren't something Ncsoft really cares about right now. If anything they love it because they know how many more people want to play. They will soon lvl everything out and all will be well. Day one of the headstart is hardly the time to worry about server Q's.... 400,000 people logging into (what was it?) ~10 servers, yeah there will be a Q. But you know what? While all you poor souls were stuck in Q. There was no overload lag in the servers you guys were trying to get into. We played perfect, Undisturbed games.
You doubt it was hours? I personally waited 5 hours. Your friend got lucky and you are "doubting" events you did not witness.
Besides lag issues and quee's I would be surprised IF they suddenly see a lot of issues with the launch. As you wrote they have launched the game twice so far so the typical launch bugs should not be a issue now.
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The queue and the wait time you see right now is actually NCSoft model for the launch day. The short answer is NO, THEY WILL NOT FIX IT. It's their intention in the first place. They intentionally make you wait. Will they add more servers? May be later, but not now. Let me make it more clear. This is their model for launch day. It will not change. You will have to wait until the rush is over. It will probably be several weeks.
This exact same thing happened twice before at Korean and Chinese launch. You will see queue for a while and then after the rush is over, then they will evaluate the server load and added more server if needed.
Have you forgotten that WoW has been out for 5 years and no patch or expansion has ever been this smooth?
Or the fact that no WoW server Q went as fast as 10 mins for a 300 person Q? (friend got stuck after 11 pm in a 674 person Q and said it took him 25 minutes Tops. Unheard of in WoW.
You still don't get it. AIon has been our for more then 3 years as a live game. People had time to give feedback regarding bugs and company had plenty of time to polish it. You can not make comparison with other MMO which did not have this luxury. You are making it sound as if Aion just came out of one month beta for first time and suddenly set up some standards. Give 3 years to any MMO out there and they will be as good as Aion in terms of playability.
Hell even AOC is such a playable game after one year.
3 years?? You best check those facts Sir.
South Korea
Aion was released in South Korea on November 28, 2008. Making this the first country to get a final release of the game. Given the success of NCsoft's previous games, Lineage and Lineage II, Aion had been a highly anticipated game in South Korea ever since its announcement. At the end of 2008 Aion won the award "Best Korean Game of the Year" for its "epic scale, immersive story, and stunning graphics and sound design".
It hasn't been even a year yet...
And again, WoW has been out for 5 years. (Legit 5 years....) and still can't have this kind of lauch with expansions.... OR patches.
Aion Closed beta testing in Korea began in late 2007, so its not just one year. You didn't answer my previous question. How many lvls have you played? have you seen entire content of Aion that you know this game has no bugs at all? its unfair to compare Aion which went through beta twice and had one year of live game experience with other MMO who never had this luxury.