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5/29/09 4:42:11 AM#101
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WoW did good in Asia Aion won't in NA/EU |
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5/29/09 3:15:35 PM#102
Originally posted by FGTry
I can see the writing on the wall. Grind fest, this game is not meant to shine in the North American and EU world. It is mainly Asian for a reason. |
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5/29/09 3:45:11 PM#103
Aion will do fine. They just need to put in more quests and up the xp reward to make the leveling easier for the casual westerners |
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5/29/09 5:05:53 PM#104
Yes, it shouldnt be hard for a game with as many pros as Aion has to do well in NA/EU if NC Soft wants it to. WOOT |
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5/29/09 7:18:46 PM#105
Looking forward to the grind tbh! Can be good at times.. though Taxing but still, im sure they will come up with alot of stuff to keep us addicted. |
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5/29/09 8:19:28 PM#106
if the combat system is fun, and the graphics are as beautiful as we all have seen. battling wont be as much of a grind mayhaps it will actually be fun WOOT |
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ronan32
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Joined: 8/19/05
I will never play an mmorpg with Microtransactions |
5/30/09 4:00:04 PM#107
Originally posted by joufes
i dont doubt they are making alot of money. i only doubt the number of real subscribers. but u believe when blizzard tell you they have 11 million? |
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ronan32
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Joined: 8/19/05
I will never play an mmorpg with Microtransactions |
5/30/09 4:04:32 PM#108
we all know asian companies make better video games, final fantasy, street fighter , metal gear solid and zelda to name a few. Asian game development companies just make better video games, and that will translate into the mmo genre in the next few years. |
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5/30/09 4:45:33 PM#109
When you start your post with "we all know" , the post is already false. |
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5/30/09 4:50:28 PM#110
That depends on the context, we all know the earth rotates arounds the sun, but very soon, the world will realize that Asian developers make the best mmorpgs : ) |
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stayontarget
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Joined: 10/04/08
Girlfriends come and go but Epic battles are Soulbound |
5/30/09 4:51:59 PM#111
Originally posted by Hammertime1 Thank you for pointing that out Sherlock Holmes.... All sub numbers posted by game publishers are bloated but by doing a little research you can find a plausible number. 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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5/30/09 4:53:51 PM#112
No asian developers don't make the best mmorpgs they do however know how to put together some of the finest consol rpg's. Also 3.5 subs in asia is probably around 2mil real if you take into account the gold farmers and multi boxers. However, That is still a great start. |
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5/30/09 4:57:34 PM#113
Originally posted by JGMIII
while i like warcraft i must admit its rested on it laurels for far too long now . its strange to think with all the big name mmos that failed to deliver that an outsider could really become the fabled wowkiller . personally i dont think anything will kill wow as such but there is a feeling in warcraft that the majority of players are awaiting the next big thing . plenty of people are more than ready to jump ship to another game . if aion delivers i think we could see quite an exodus . |
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5/30/09 5:00:32 PM#114
Well the least we can say about this is that WoW is getting some really heavy competition in Asia, and it is very likely to become bigger than WoW in Asia, I mean 3,5 million subs in 6 months? Asian mmorpg's do have higher numbers generally, but 3,5 million is ALOT, Lineage 1 and 2 topped at 2 million each I believe, and they were the biggest before WoW. The question is, are the subs comming from games like Lineage and Final Fantasy or are they comming from WoW or is the mmorpg market in asia expanding bigtime? Either way, Aion is already a fenomenon like WoW, and I didn't see it comming :p
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5/30/09 5:06:40 PM#115
About the legitimacy of the subscription numbers, well they are at least as legitimate as the WoW numbers. WoW has around 6 million subs in Asia, so 6 mill in what, 2 years? vs 3,5 mill in 6 months ... It is clear that this will become tha battle of the titans !
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5/30/09 5:16:21 PM#116
Originally posted by CyberWiz
That's awsome to hear. WoW was never my MMO, I played it and liked it, but I had only first heard of it during it's televised beta on G4, then my friends pushed me into it. With aion, atleast i've kept tabs on it since it's first 2006 video was released. So in a way I think I chose the right one to follow (=
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Originally posted by CyberWiz
most definitely !
It's a much deeper game than WoW is too, once the Western gamers realise this, they will make the switch |
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5/31/09 3:30:18 AM#118
-wonders how many million of those subs are gold farmers- |
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5/31/09 7:05:14 AM#119
Originally posted by ronan32
i dont doubt they are making alot of money. i only doubt the number of real subscribers. but u believe when blizzard tell you they have 11 million?
i dont believe any subscriber numbers any company dishes out. i see it as an estimate. I can't understand why its so hard for people to READ and UNDERSTAND what they read. |
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5/31/09 3:58:11 PM#120
I do not think it will surpass World of Warcraft, though I hope it does since WOW has become rather stagnate when it comes to solo players. I would assume at least 1 million to 1.5 million subscriptions in the United States. Problem that most games do not get enough subscriptions to overtake World of Warcraft is most of them really do not advertise on tv and online which is where most people who would play these games would learn about them. Every time you turn around you see another World of Warcraft commercial, so the other companies need to follow suit. |
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