Aion

So I am thinking let me check out Aion, heard it might be good. So I read the offical ultimate Faq thread in this forum, and there it is in black and white.

RAIDING AND INSTANCED DUNGEONS.

Enough of this crap already, raiding sucks and real gamers want a seamless non instanced game world.

I'm a real gamer, and I couldn't care less about seamlessness.  I'm also perfectly fine with a certain amount of instancing.

I will agree, however, that raids suck.

the world does no revole around you honey

There is no such thing as a "real" player, everyone that pays for the game and play the game is a player.

Instanced dungeons work very well with quests and storylines, and it seems Aion is doing both things in a good way.

You want no instances, go play Vanguard ( only APW is instanced sometimes ), but I bet you think this game isnt "good enough" for you.

Originally posted by Hexxeity

I'm a real gamer, and I couldn't care less about seamlessness.  I'm also perfectly fine with a certain amount of instancing.

I will agree, however, that raids suck.

I'm with you. I even don't mind raids as I don't do them all the time... just every now and then.

Aion has been in development for quite some time so it makes sense that it is coming out of a period where using more instances to further quest based storylines is the norm.

Aion is the only game I am looking forward to at all.

Originally posted by Hexxeity

I'm a real gamer, and I couldn't care less about seamlessness.  I'm also perfectly fine with a certain amount of instancing.

I will agree, however, that raids suck.

I agree with you except I enjoy raiding.  PvP sucks and can ruin a good game in a flash if not done correctly.

edited, other posters beat me to it

still most of the world isnt instances more as 90% aint

and pvp will hopefully be balanced, but we will see when it goes live

Originally posted by Locklain

Originally posted by Hexxeity

I'm a real gamer, and I couldn't care less about seamlessness.  I'm also perfectly fine with a certain amount of instancing.

I will agree, however, that raids suck.

I agree with you except I enjoy raiding.  PvP sucks and can ruin a good game in a flash if not done correctly.

What ruin a game is not exacly how PvP is done, but the way the PvP crowd act in MMOs, it doesnt matter how the game presents PvP, the community around PvP is always bad.

Most players enjoy raids, most forum users dont.

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Originally posted by Sovrath

 

Originally posted by Hexxeity

I'm a real gamer, and I couldn't care less about seamlessness.  I'm also perfectly fine with a certain amount of instancing.

I will agree, however, that raids suck.

 

I'm with you. I even don't mind raids as I don't do them all the time... just every now and then.

Aion has been in development for quite some time so it makes sense that it is coming out of a period where using more instances to further quest based storylines is the norm.

Aion is the only game I am looking forward to at all.

same. iv lost all intrest in WAR and TCOS

I'm fairly certain instancing is a result of technology currently not being available to support a fully seamless world. Most games at the moment seem to need to find ways to trick the user into thinking it is a seamless world, rather than actually making a seamless world.

I really wouldn't blame the MMO makers for this, they are merely doing the best with the current technology available.

While I agree Aion could do better to help the user to feel like they are in a seamless world, the stability and performance increase instancing gives can not be ignored.

Particularly when the company makes an exceptional game that helps offset the annoyances instancing causes.

Instancing is here to stay until some new levels of technology are achieved. Not sure when it will be, but I will scrutinize every game that attempts to claim "no instancing" in order to see what their trick is... because tricking the user is all a game company can do achieve a "seamless" world.