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Benjen
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after the NA release of Aion will AoC close its doors?
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Not sure if this is a serious post or not. But as of late, there have been more and more players joining AoC as a result of them trying out the "New and Improved AoC." Everyday there are more people resubbing and as a result the numbers in AoC have grown. And with the exp pack content to be revealed next month, the hype train might just pick up for AoC. The game that it is today is polished, although it does have its faults still, but it is nothing like it was at launch. So, if you're attempting to be rude, I wouldn't count on too many of the players leaving AoC for Aion, because they are completely different games. AoC is gritty and gorey, with a very mature aspect, whereas Aion is more like WoW (not calling it a WoW clone) in the fact that it is more fantasy based.
Aion? lol humk ... strange poste op
Trust me, in AoC global chat conversations, nearly NOBODY plans to leave for Aion.
Aion and AoC are so different I doubt FC will feel much of a hit. I don't see how a uber-high fantasy, flashy, bright, shiny MMO will pull from a low fantasy, dark, gritty, violent MMO.
Confused, what the heck has Aion have to do with AOC?
Strange topic
Guess Ill spend just as much time in Aion as I did in guildwars.
...less than a day.
Originally posted by BishopB:
Are a lot of the trolls just angry kids with old gaming hardware?
Aion will of course hurt AoC, there is a very significant percentage of mmo players who play a game for a few months and move on when something new appeals, not to mention many of the people brought in with free trials and win backs are here because of filling a gap till later in the year.
This of course isn't at all restricted to AoC though, WAR, AOC, LOTR, WOW etc are all likely to lose a noticeable percentage of people to AION at least for a couple of months.
AoC currently stands at the top graphically but aion removes that crown (although it's a different style) and this will tempt those gamers who see this as very important across to at least give it a try.
Of course aion isn't going to force aoc to shut down and really the thread is troll bait and I don't see it lasting very long,
I was excited about Aion, so I got in to first closed beta. It was one of the most boring unimaginative 7 hours of game-play I ever had.
Seriously, for someone who is used with all the fun AOE / directional / combo system like we have in AoC, to go to a game where all you do is attack a single mob by target - F1 - F1 - F1.... , is like going back in time.
AION = Lineage 2 in mushroom land.
I have played both games, its been about a month but i did the free trial for AoC, and I have been in the CB for aion since CB3. I actually enjoy both games but Aion wins for me, not because either to me is a better game, really they seem a little hard to compare, but because my girlfriend also enjoys Aion. So that settles it I can buy Aion and pay the sub and between my girl and I there will plenty of play time to be had for 14.99 a month and we both enjoy the game. I would buy both but I really dont have enough time to play both and then i would be waisting one of the 14.99 a month subs if I had both games. That being said, if that where not my situation and I was already subbed and had a time investment in AoC, I would not be fleeing to aion from it.
have not been following Aion myself much but went over and checked out some of the videos and if the game play and PvP is as good as the graphics that game will put AoC down to Anarchy Online population levels. By the way for those in this tthred slamming the combat, looked like the higher lvl toons had 30 or 40 skills and abilities to pick from on the UI. Hardly a spamming of F1-F1-F1 in my opinion. Can't be any worse than AoC's paint by the numbers combat at any rate
Anyway we will find out in a month or two won't we. I might even or make that probably drop 50 bucks on a box since this thread inspired me to check it out.
I miss DAoC
Aion is in direct competition with WoW and LotRO rather than AoC and Eve online.
i play both AoC and EvE, i also try other mmos as im open for anything new. i will eventually try Aion, it looks prety nice from the screen shots, however, having NCSoft behind it will make me double my "carfulness", NCSoft and other Koren/Chineese companies are notorious in the organised scam world, most of their games are designed in a way to draw people/kids in frst then hit them with a reality in which they will have to pay for in games items, yes of course they claim that the items are all non necessary for gameplay, but in reality they actually are, and playes will HAVE to pay for items in order to get a descent gameplay.
i dont mind cash shops, but only for items which are not related to XP and thus to gameplay like social clothing and decorative stuff. but when companies start selling mounts, XP multiplier scrolls/stones... that rings a bell of scam.
I play both EVE and AOC and I dont plan on leaving either anytime soon. I will however give Aion a try when it comes out. No..... Aion will not shut down AOC.
Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR.
Playing EVE Online and AOC.
Wtg for SW:TOR and WOD
Lawlz
So Benjen, what color of fairy do you plan on playing?
You are playing a video game. By definition that means you are not hardcore.
how do you figure. Aion seems to be more of a PvP RvR game with PvE tacked like AoC and WAR while LoTRO is just the opposite. I am sure LoTRO may lose a few players but to me it looks as if WaR and AoC will be hit the hardest of any games. WoW can afford to lose a million or so with no financial worries but if AoC or WAR lose a 50 or 100 K it is a huge deal from my point of view. LoTRO if it lost 100 K would be hurt but not like WAR and AoC would be and I predict LoTRO will not even lose 1/4 of that . AoC and WAR are already struggling for population it seems. Eve is Eve, nothing in the foreseeable future is going to affect it.
I tend to think the only way AoC and WAR will survive or survive with with more than a a Anarchy Online / Horizons population is if Aion is a huge flop.
I miss DAoC
I don't agree with that. Eve sure is a very different type of game and is probably not in direct competition but AoC is very much in the same mould as WoW. Perhaps at concept when the devs were putting down on paper what they wanted the game to be it wasn't like wow but it certainly ended up like it except with a different style and a slightly different (but no more deep) combat system.
how do you figure. Aion seems to be more of a PvP RvR game with PvE tacked like AoC and WAR while LoTRO is just the opposite. I am sure LoTRO may lose a few players but to me it looks as if WaR and AoC will be hit the hardest of any games. WoW can afford to lose a million or so with no financial worries but if AoC or WAR lose a 50 or 100 K it is a huge deal from my point of view. LoTRO while losing 100K and I predict it will not even lose 1/4 of that would be hurt. But even in a worst case scenario for LoTRO it would be the virtual deathblow that it would be to AoC and WAR which are already struggling it seems. Eve is Eve, nothing in the foreseeable future is going to affect it.
very simple, Aion is more directed towards a younger population, same as WoW and LotRO and that alone puts it in a diffrent league than AoC and EvE which have a more adult player base. game play features doesnt matter.
how do you figure. Aion seems to be more of a PvP RvR game with PvE tacked like AoC and WAR while LoTRO is just the opposite. I am sure LoTRO may lose a few players but to me it looks as if WaR and AoC will be hit the hardest of any games. WoW can afford to lose a million or so with no financial worries but if AoC or WAR lose a 50 or 100 K it is a huge deal from my point of view. LoTRO while losing 100K and I predict it will not even lose 1/4 of that would be hurt. But even in a worst case scenario for LoTRO it would be the virtual deathblow that it would be to AoC and WAR which are already struggling it seems. Eve is Eve, nothing in the foreseeable future is going to affect it.
very simple, Aion is more directed towards a younger population, same as WoW and LotRO and that alone puts it in a diffrent league than AoC and EvE which have a more adult player base. game play features doesnt matter.
eve probably has an older player base who enjoy a more slow paced and cerebral game, aoc does not. Nudity, fatalities attracted a young immature audience. I've never seen any chat channel worse than aoc's, even worse than the early days of barrens chat in wow. I'm sure its alot better now but early on when the servers were packed ever other word was fag. Made me sad for the future of our world if those were the teenagers of america.
how do you figure. Aion seems to be more of a PvP RvR game with PvE tacked like AoC and WAR while LoTRO is just the opposite. I am sure LoTRO may lose a few players but to me it looks as if WaR and AoC will be hit the hardest of any games. WoW can afford to lose a million or so with no financial worries but if AoC or WAR lose a 50 or 100 K it is a huge deal from my point of view. LoTRO while losing 100K and I predict it will not even lose 1/4 of that would be hurt. But even in a worst case scenario for LoTRO it would be the virtual deathblow that it would be to AoC and WAR which are already struggling it seems. Eve is Eve, nothing in the foreseeable future is going to affect it.
very simple, Aion is more directed towards a younger population, same as WoW and LotRO and that alone puts it in a diffrent league than AoC and EvE which have a more adult player base. game play features doesnt matter.
you have got to be kidding me, AoC has absolutly the least mature community I have ever played in. a brief visit to the official forums is all it takes to prove that. Like the poster above me pointed out , AoCs general chat cahnnel make WoW's barrens chat look like National Public Radio
I miss DAoC
how do you figure. Aion seems to be more of a PvP RvR game with PvE tacked like AoC and WAR while LoTRO is just the opposite. I am sure LoTRO may lose a few players but to me it looks as if WaR and AoC will be hit the hardest of any games. WoW can afford to lose a million or so with no financial worries but if AoC or WAR lose a 50 or 100 K it is a huge deal from my point of view. LoTRO while losing 100K and I predict it will not even lose 1/4 of that would be hurt. But even in a worst case scenario for LoTRO it would be the virtual deathblow that it would be to AoC and WAR which are already struggling it seems. Eve is Eve, nothing in the foreseeable future is going to affect it.
very simple, Aion is more directed towards a younger population, same as WoW and LotRO and that alone puts it in a diffrent league than AoC and EvE which have a more adult player base. game play features doesnt matter.
you have got to be kidding me, AoC has absolutly the least mature community I have ever played in. a brief visit to the official forums is all it takes to prove that. Like the poster above me pointed out , AoCs general chat cahnnel make WoW's barrens chat look like National Public Radio
nop, not the AoC i play.
im one of those you are calling immature, i am mature and absolutely not kidding you.
It's funny how some people seem to think AoC and WoW are totally different games. Actually they are almost identical. If you look past graphics, AoC is just like WoW. Same quests, same leveling, same basic format. Think about it.
To say that the release of Aion does not effect AoC subscription numbers is just silly. Of course it will affect, but how much, it's difficult to say. AoC could lose 5% of population or they could lose 50% of population. Time will tell.
indeed, while I enjoy wow I was hoping aoc was going to be different, a pvp game based on empire building and guild warfare, a sort of shadowbane without the bugs, with great graphics and good pve thrown in. Instead what we got was very similar to wow, just buggier and with a huge ammount less to do.
A shame if they had stuck to one idea instead of trying to be all things to all people by including a raid endgame maybe aoc would have been able to carve out a niche as the best pvp mmo, instead they are prettier but otherwise lesser wow with boobies.
It's funny how some people seem to think AoC and WoW are totally different games. Actually they are almost identical. If you look past graphics, AoC is just like WoW. Same quests, same leveling, same basic format. Think about it.
To say that the release of Aion does not effect AoC subscription numbers is just silly. Of course it will affect, but how much, it's difficult to say. AoC could lose 5% of population or they could lose 50% of population. Time will tell.
yes, if you look past graphics, lore, music, quest themes, combat system and player base, then yes, they are pretty much the same. after all, mmos are the same...
so i really dont see how funny is that, but what is even funnier is some people trying to compare a game with color faries to a game with bloody fatalities.
maybe I am, it depends. Were you one of the ones discussing the size of his big sisters boobs in general chat on Wiccana last week?
I miss DAoC
maybe I am, it depends. Were you one of the ones discussing the size of his big sisters boobs in general chat on Wiccana last week?
no, last week i was leveling up an alt demo, and helping on building a T3 battlekeep etc...
i use global usually for LFG and for random questions. i keep such discutions limited to my friends list or guild chat, we talk about pretty much everything from politics to pusssy *arts all with an open mind and sense of humour, we even talk about subjects that younger population would find shoking or disturbing.
on a general chat channel with no censorship, i expect to see anything. using a quote from global as evidence is immature itself, the mean is stupid and the objective is ridiculous.
I play AoC now, and I will play Aion at launch, but will definitely be back to AoC as more content comes available. AoC is one of those games I will keep going back to.
It just isn't the deepest experience ever so I don't ever see playing more than 3-4 months at a time and mixing in other games, but the last game that was a deep experience was FFXI. I look foward to bouncing between Aion and AoC until FFXIV / TOR and then when the dust settles i'll bounce around some more.
The only MMO's that are worth playing to me right now though are EVE, AoC, and Aion. All three of them will be fun until something else comes along (World of Darkness, FFXIV, TOR, Secret World).
I'm sure AoC will lose a few people to Aion but will be in no danger of shutting down. It sounds as though WAR will be much more heavily impacted by the release of Aion.