sounds like what they did with Guild Wars. They did preview weekends the first weekend of every month up until release
It was like crack! you would get to play for 3 days a month and then cut off and would jones the entire month. It really made you want the game, especially considering how accessible Guild Wars is and how the storyline captured you.
Aions withdrawals will be far worse I think
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
I'd like to thank you for your patience while I collected feedback, comments and suggestions from various Aion communities' across Europe and North America. I used this information to create a list of questions that I felt needed to be addressed right away by our development team. This list does not cover all of your questions, I realize this, but I wanted to provide what information is available at present. The rest I am still working on.
I have spent the last week discussing the current state of morale within the community and the general excitement for the game with our production team and after reviewing the community report, one member in particular wanted to address you all directly. I would like to introduce you to Lance Stites, Executive Producer of NCsoft West's Game Production Studio.
Greetings to all, As Executive Producer, my responsibilities include preparing and supporting the launch and ongoing operations of product for the "Western" marketincluding North America and Europe. I've worked with NCsoft since 2001, including 5 years in the Austin office and after a brief time away from the company I returned to spend almost a year in the European office. I've worked to launch or support multiple products or expansions, including the Lineage and City of Heroes franchises.
As you've probably seen, NCsoft West is undergoing restructuring which involves the relocation of certain key staff. We're building a dedicated production studio to support titles like Aion and the Lineage franchise. We've added Lani "Liv" Blazier as our Aion Community Manager recently and she is already taking an extremely active role within the community. Within the MMO community, this role is of vital importance and great to have someone who understands the importance of the player base and will be a tireless advocate of the community needs. Liv has spent the past several days gathering information and answers that are important to the community. We want to continue this open dialogue with the players and look forward to more as we move toward and past our Aion launch.
We really have an exciting time ahead of us in regards to ongoing updates to existing products, new releases on the horizon, and closer cooperation and coordination between the European and North American territories.
Cordially yours,
Lance Stites Executive Producer, Game Production Studio NCsoft West
The Community Team is committed to listening and responding to your needs. Please find below the answers to 5 questions that I wanted to make you had answers to sooner, rather than later.
1) When will Aion be released in North America/Europe? We expect to ship Aion in NCsoft West territories in the fall of 2009.
2) Why is localization taking so long? The localization effort is enormous, with a vast amount of content. Aion is not simply being translated, a team of dedicated content writers are re-creating the written dialogue and content to provide AAA quality and to ensure that it is culturally relevant for our audience. We are going to do this launch "right" rather than fast.
3) Has a date been set for our Preview Event? While we are not ready to release specific details regarding the Preview Event, we can tell you that participants will include those who signed up at last year at FJV, PAX and Leipzig. We will also be extending invites to long time NCsoft customers and dedicated legions. As we get closer, we will be offering more opportunities for fans to get signed up for this exclusive event.
4) Will there be community support for Europe? Absolutely. We realize that many in the community were surprised with our announcement regarding the consolidation of the North American and European operations. We are deeply committed to our European community and will have native speaking Community Coordinators for our supported languages (English, German & French).
5) Will there be servers for each region? We will have servers physically located both in Europe and North America for launch. We know you have more questions and they are being addressed. My goal is to have another update for your within the next few weeks.
That's why NCSoft continues to be indifferent towards us. It's people who think that a "letter to the fans" is enough and is all NCSoft needs to do. That "letter to the fans" was probably written in 10 minutes and, get this, contains zero, zip, nada new information. What's more astonishing is that there are people out there who suddenly think NCSoft cares with the release of that letter. To you, I say, gafaw!
That's why NCSoft continues to be indifferent towards us. It's people who think that a "letter to the fans" is enough and is all NCSoft needs to do. That "letter to the fans" was probably written in 10 minutes and, get this, contains zero, zip, nada new information. What's more astonishing is that there are people out there who suddenly think NCSoft cares with the release of that letter. To you, I say, gafaw!
No QQing allowed here at the Aion forum site please. Take it some where else.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
I heard from someone at another site the western preview for friends & family is to commence in a few days ( in USA at least, but that means probably in Europe too ) .
This could mean we'll see Liv giving us an update real soon as well....
Hey Everyone,
A lot has been happening internally. Like knite said, I've been in a plethora of meetings trying to get the ball rolling on a bunch of projects (all related to community). I'm hoping to make an announcement this week regarding our EU CM, the website, newsletter and upcoming contests.
Regarding Livvy's question - yes, I can confirm that we are planning to have an internal test limited to friends & family of NCsoft employees commencing very shortly.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
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last time i checked there isnt gonna be an OB, instead they are doing things called preview events.
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Final Fantasy 7
sounds like what they did with Guild Wars. They did preview weekends the first weekend of every month up until release
It was like crack! you would get to play for 3 days a month and then cut off and would jones the entire month. It really made you want the game, especially considering how accessible Guild Wars is and how the storyline captured you.
Aions withdrawals will be far worse I think
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
Last time I checked they weren't releasing the game at all.
You might want to check again.
(,,,)=^__^=(,,,)
NCsoft pretty much forgot about it's us/eu players
World of Warcraft is a proof that MMORPG quality should affect schedule/budget and not the other way around.
Heum, NcSoft say ( http://www.aiononline.com/us/news/general_news/a_letter_to_our_fans.html ):
Originally Posted by Liv
Hello everyone,
I'd like to thank you for your patience while I collected feedback, comments and suggestions from various Aion communities' across Europe and North America. I used this information to create a list of questions that I felt needed to be addressed right away by our development team. This list does not cover all of your questions, I realize this, but I wanted to provide what information is available at present. The rest I am still working on.
I have spent the last week discussing the current state of morale within the community and the general excitement for the game with our production team and after reviewing the community report, one member in particular wanted to address you all directly. I would like to introduce you to Lance Stites, Executive Producer of NCsoft West's Game Production Studio.
Greetings to all, As Executive Producer, my responsibilities include preparing and supporting the launch and ongoing operations of product for the "Western" marketincluding North America and Europe. I've worked with NCsoft since 2001, including 5 years in the Austin office and after a brief time away from the company I returned to spend almost a year in the European office. I've worked to launch or support multiple products or expansions, including the Lineage and City of Heroes franchises.
As you've probably seen, NCsoft West is undergoing restructuring which involves the relocation of certain key staff. We're building a dedicated production studio to support titles like Aion and the Lineage franchise. We've added Lani "Liv" Blazier as our Aion Community Manager recently and she is already taking an extremely active role within the community. Within the MMO community, this role is of vital importance and great to have someone who understands the importance of the player base and will be a tireless advocate of the community needs. Liv has spent the past several days gathering information and answers that are important to the community. We want to continue this open dialogue with the players and look forward to more as we move toward and past our Aion launch.
We really have an exciting time ahead of us in regards to ongoing updates to existing products, new releases on the horizon, and closer cooperation and coordination between the European and North American territories.
Cordially yours,
Lance Stites
Executive Producer, Game Production Studio
NCsoft West
The Community Team is committed to listening and responding to your needs. Please find below the answers to 5 questions that I wanted to make you had answers to sooner, rather than later.
1) When will Aion be released in North America/Europe?
We expect to ship Aion in NCsoft West territories in the fall of 2009.
2) Why is localization taking so long?
The localization effort is enormous, with a vast amount of content. Aion is not simply being translated, a team of dedicated content writers are re-creating the written dialogue and content to provide AAA quality and to ensure that it is culturally relevant for our audience. We are going to do this launch "right" rather than fast.
3) Has a date been set for our Preview Event?
While we are not ready to release specific details regarding the Preview Event, we can tell you that participants will include those who signed up at last year at FJV, PAX and Leipzig. We will also be extending invites to long time NCsoft customers and dedicated legions. As we get closer, we will be offering more opportunities for fans to get signed up for this exclusive event.
4) Will there be community support for Europe?
Absolutely. We realize that many in the community were surprised with our announcement regarding the consolidation of the North American and European operations. We are deeply committed to our European community and will have native speaking Community Coordinators for our supported languages (English, German & French).
5) Will there be servers for each region?
We will have servers physically located both in Europe and North America for launch.
We know you have more questions and they are being addressed. My goal is to have another update for your within the next few weeks.
Thank you,
Liv
Community Manager, Aion
hey who gave you permission to pwn the naysayers?
Watching Fanbois drop their soap in a prison full of desperate men.
That's why NCSoft continues to be indifferent towards us. It's people who think that a "letter to the fans" is enough and is all NCSoft needs to do. That "letter to the fans" was probably written in 10 minutes and, get this, contains zero, zip, nada new information. What's more astonishing is that there are people out there who suddenly think NCSoft cares with the release of that letter. To you, I say, gafaw!
No QQing allowed here at the Aion forum site please. Take it some where else.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
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I heard from someone at another site the western preview for friends & family is to commence in a few days ( in USA at least, but that means probably in Europe too ) .
This could mean we'll see Liv giving us an update real soon as well....
Hey Everyone,
A lot has been happening internally. Like knite said, I've been in a plethora of meetings trying to get the ball rolling on a bunch of projects (all related to community). I'm hoping to make an announcement this week regarding our EU CM, the website, newsletter and upcoming contests.
Regarding Livvy's question - yes, I can confirm that we are planning to have an internal test limited to friends & family of NCsoft employees commencing very shortly.
Link to thread: www.aionsource.com/forum/general-discussion/11827-friends-family-preview.html
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
Don't quote Leonidus!! I have him on block don't want to see the eventual pointless rant!!
lol I'm kidding
(,,,)=^__^=(,,,)