Originally posted by Abrahmm

I noticed the same thing with WAR to be honest. My entire guild left around that time to try AoC and WAR. Both games sucked, and while I never went back to WoW, most of my old guild did.

The question isn't whether Aion will draw WoW players, but whether it can keep them?

Kinda reminds me of when WoW was only weeks from launch and how everyone from SWG was all talkin about how they are going to play WoW and leave SWG when it releases.  Those where sad times =(

Lmao now that I think about it, SWG was when I first heard of WoW. When pll where all like, "im going to quit and play WoW", I was like, WTF is WoW?

Honestly this falls into the 2 word category of "Who Cares"

Now when Ozzy and William Shatner announce the move to Aion I will be impressed.

I am sure they will "move" to Aion. And than get bored and leave quickly.  Unless they play on a server with no other large guilds, they will most likely beat the content quick, and play wow or something else.

They will not stay for long. They are mostly very good pvers but they pvp about as well as goons so take it for what you will. When they dont own a fortress and cannot do half the pve they will leave.

Originally posted by grandpagamer

Now when Ozzy and William Shatner announce the move to Aion I will be impressed.

I wonder if Shatner types with 4 second pauses.

"Snape killed                 Dumbledore!"

Or if Ozzy can figure out how to turn off the profanity filter.

"****ing ***** *** ******* ****ing wankers!"

I don't play WoW so I don't really understand. How do you get labeled as number 1 in an MMO? Is there somekind of point system in the game or something? Is it just something that people/players agree on? Does Blizzard say something about it? Do they give out some kind of stat numbers? If it doesn't have anything to do with Blizzard how can you accurately say someone is number 1?

Is this all they do? I mean they don't have jobs or anything? Are they students? Was the comment that they are paid to play a joke?

The fact they were put on a stage and interviewed about it reminds of those articles you read about celebrity Starcraft gamers in Korea I think it was.

Seems kind of out there to me and it also seemed odd to me that they looked normal. I guess I was expecting pale white skin and unkempt hair. However it is a game so I guess there is always someway you can"win" it.

On a side note...didn't the interviewer keep pronouncing"Aion" wrong? She said "Ion" but I thought it was "A-on".

#1? In their own mind? I applaud this guild coming to Aion, but I really don't get why the announcement.

Originally posted by FomarThain

On a side note...didn't the interviewer keep pronouncing"Aion" wrong? She said "Ion" but I thought it was "A-on".

eye-on

 they'll be quitting Aion in 10days. 

Originally posted by drel

#1? In their own mind? I applaud this guild coming to Aion, but I really don't get why the announcement.

Self-proclaimed "#1" guilds tend to be conceited, and we all know the real #1 guild in a big MMO is usually full of unemployed pale guys who play 12+ hours a day.

Originally posted by SaetiaBelle

I will have to find out which server they will roll on - and then avoid that server like the plague!!!!!

Playing on Magtheridon Horde was a nightmare, I'll not experience that again....

LMAO ,i feel sorry for you players that actually like AION,the WOW kiddies infest every game out there now.It is funny how the OP says #1 guild.Of course another chapter in confirming what i say about kids and their needed egos.Let me guess they are number 1 l33tist Raiding guild right?nothing to do with the quality of people in it,it's all about ta l33tness.

I love it,you just have to have a "BEST" in there, no me me there at all...

/ËËT RãÌÐÊ® every guild in WOW should be called this.

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by SaetiaBelle

I will have to find out which server they will roll on - and then avoid that server like the plague!!!!!

Playing on Magtheridon Horde was a nightmare, I'll not experience that again....

LMAO ,i feel sorry for you players that actually like AION,the WOW kiddies infest every game out there now.It is funny how the OP says #1 guild.Of course another chapter in confirming what i say about kids and their needed egos.Let me guess they are number 1 l33tist Raiding guild right?nothing to do with the quality of people in it,it's all about ta l33tness.

I love it,you just have to have a "BEST" in there, no me me there at all...

/ËËT RãÌÐÊ® every guild in WOW should be called this.

 

Why would anybody even remotely consider naming a guild #1 because it has "good people" who don't actually succeed at beating PvE/PvP content? Should a casual guild instead be praised as #1 for its unrivaled crafting raids?

Originally posted by LooseBowels

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by SaetiaBelle

I will have to find out which server they will roll on - and then avoid that server like the plague!!!!!

Playing on Magtheridon Horde was a nightmare, I'll not experience that again....

LMAO ,i feel sorry for you players that actually like AION,the WOW kiddies infest every game out there now.It is funny how the OP says #1 guild.Of course another chapter in confirming what i say about kids and their needed egos.Let me guess they are number 1 l33tist Raiding guild right?nothing to do with the quality of people in it,it's all about ta l33tness.

I love it,you just have to have a "BEST" in there, no me me there at all...

/ËËT RãÌÐÊ® every guild in WOW should be called this.

 

 

Why would anybody even remotely consider naming a guild #1 because it has "good people" who don't actually succeed at beating PvE/PvP content? Should a casual guild instead be praised as #1 for its unrivaled crafting raids?

SWG fails so hard that it actually has crafting raids... Deathwatch Bunker go go go!

They're #1 because they have significantly more success than any other guild in the game. These two players might not be "the best", but they're among them. PVE-wise, anyway. I have respect for their past success, but with WoW in the state it's been in since TBC instances got nerfed, everyone who can pay for an account can clear the instances.

Originally posted by ichimarunico

SWG fails so hard that it actually has crafting raids

lol

Originally posted by ichimarunico

Originally posted by DeserttFoxx

Who the fuck passes out htese number 1 titles. Ive never heard of these guys, and why should i care if they move to aion. geez.

 

Probably the number of world firsts they have, and the fact that they've been in the #1 guild in WoW since... well I don't remember pre-Naxxramas (Tier 3 version). So at least since then, when they killed that before any other guild in the world.

If you say it, it must be true.

Sorry you cant just claim to be the number 1 guild without some sort of official ranking. Its like running a race and winning without the other participants even knowing they are running in that race.

Doing it first doesnt automatically make you better.

How about who did it the fastest?

How about who did it with the least amount of people in their raid?

How about who did it while not losing any raid members?

There are no gauges in place, its totally arbitrairy, making these guys a bunch of random hardcore gamers whos game choice means absolutly nothing to anyone else besides their members.

Originally posted by DeserttFoxx

 

 

How about who did it the fastest?

How about who did it with the least amount of people in their raid?

How about who did it while not losing any raid members?

 

There are no gauges in place, its totally arbitrairy, making these guys a bunch of random hardcore gamers whos game choice means absolutly nothing to anyone else besides their members.

actually, there are.  world firsts are a gauge that most WoW players accept because it means figuring things out.  when Ensidia (the old version) cleared naxx right before DnT it was a big deal, because both guilds had spent i think months sitting at a single boss encounter, that no one in the world could beat.  no one had figured out the best way, and worked as hard.

then these 2 guilds figured it out, and beat them, getting the world first and second, and then cleared the hardest instance in Vanilla WoW (which got first at the time was a big debate, due to kel'thuzad bugging out at 2% for one of the guilds)

and now WoW has added the achievements.  An achivement that can only be achieved if you clear (new/easy) naxx without anyone dying all in 1 raid period.  and the first people to get that achievement get points.

And while I agree with you, "best" is hard to justify.  in WoW there has almost been 1-2 guilds that are just SO far ahead of everyone else, that you really can't argue.  these people beat the Wrath expansion in 3 days.  they are the only ones who have completed all the "hard mode" fights in the new content.

So sadly, they do have some claim to the title #1 guild.  I personally think they would lose that title in an instant if Asia was getting WoW content at the same time the western world was getting it, but they aren't.  These people don't just kill bosses, the solve them, the rest of the WoW community uses their solution to kill.

that said, meh, screw raiding, its just who can figure out gimmicks.  and Arena ratings are just who can abuse the currently most overpowered teams.

oh come on people.... they are obviously paid by the company to play their game. They were obviously paid to make that appearance.

It's a cute attempt to draw players in although I'm not sure saying "look the super hardcore are playing our game" is the smartest way of advertising.

I'm genuinely interested as to how this news would change anyone's decisions or behaviours, because for the life of me I can't think of anyone who might.

Well never heard of them.. but then my time in wow was not that extensive since the game weirdness with cows fighting skeletons didnt fit my taste much.

If it is indeed a big guild, they will probably keep playing Aion and whatever games they were playing before providing them a good loot income.

One of them mentioned they will be playing on the washmachine server, Ariel, so that might be a server to look or avoid aqcording to your taste,,

From my vast experience in several mmos, servers with big organized guilds are usually not much fun to play at.. but then its just my opinion, for each his/her own.

 Death an Taxes was the original #1 WoW Guild. I've never even heard of these guys. Oh how I lament the loss of Vanilla WoW.

Originally posted by Perfection66

Originally posted by grandpagamer

I guess this could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it..... Aion is good enough to pull in some big guns from WOW....or..... Oh shit the WOW crowd is coming to Aion!!  Depends on your prospective.

 

Yes hopefully the more "positive" side of the WoW community comes over. I've never encountered more asshats in one game when i played WoW, it's really concerning the type of players i encountered.

 

That is the prime reason I ditched the game shortly after TBC.

Really, WoW is a nice an fun game and I had a blast. But at a given point and having moved to several new servers, I just couldn't stand the amount of asshats and idiots anymore.

The WoW community is by far the worst I have encountered! Well.... next to EVE Online and Darkfall that is hehe.

When you look at the community in LOTRO or EverQuest 2. It's just a shocking difference really.

Originally posted by Guillermo197

When you look at the community in LOTRO or EverQuest 2. It's just a shocking difference really.

Indeed.. maybe because those games more pve centered? That would explain part of it.

I do have a feeling that they got paid for doing this. And yeah, Nihilum/Ensidia was the top guild in WoW (not sure if they still are) for a long time...when the game was actually hard and making those world firsts ment something. 

However, we do know that quite a few good PvPers are moving to Aion from WoW. And many due to similar reasons. One being that they like open world PvP more than instanced and e-sports type.

First off, they aren't switching from WoW to Aion, they are going to have guilds in both games. But guess that doesn't sound as appealing as a title than the one you posted OP.