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General Discussion  » Must be gaining a ton of subs....

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windsoul44

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9/23/09 10:47:03 AM#26
Originally posted by sa1yaman

Boxes sold != subscriptions. Expect similar drop after first month as we have seen with AOC, Warhammer etc..

Thats why they refuse to add more servers -  NCsoft expects this as well.

 

Hmmm....

 

www.aionsource.com/forum/news-announcements/64217-server-queues-course-action.html

 

In fact, we are happy to confirm we have increased our server caps and are adding an additional server in both North America and Europe by this weekend, and we will continue to evaluate adding additional servers.

 

Get some facts before posting. :-)

chesiremorph

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9/23/09 10:49:20 AM#27

Sell it on playerauctions or something. Not sure if you can sell it on EBAY... if so the hellz Yeah... i would... if you don't want to play it that is.... it's an awesome game.

AION will gain more subs. blah blah blah ..... wow die ... yadda yadda

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tanoril

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9/23/09 11:12:11 AM#28

OP is delusional.  Go to any WoW server right now and ask 100 players if they even heard of Aion and I guarantee you that at least 70% will say no. 

googajoob7

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9/23/09 11:38:52 AM#29
Originally posted by tanoril

OP is delusional.  Go to any WoW server right now and ask 100 players if they even heard of Aion and I guarantee you that at least 70% will say no. 


 

Thank god for that . Let the children have thier Warcraft let anyone over 16 have AION . After all it was the influx of very young children that really destroyed the WoW community . I hope they stay there in thier virtual school yeard , squabbling amongst themselves .

gizbug

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9/23/09 12:01:57 PM#30
Originally posted by Hepisodic
Originally posted by Justin83x
Originally posted by Letsinod

I went to try to find Aion last night at a few places.  Everywhere I went they were sold out and everyone told me the same thing.  They haven't seen a crush on a PC game like this for years.  Not that I put too much emphasis on Xfire but Aion this morning is almost at 50% of WoW numbers and I bet it climbs much higher.  I wonder how many millions of worldwide subs Aion took from WoW.  Those people didn't just magically appear to play Aion.  Someone lost subs and I bet its mostly WoW.


 

No they just appeared, lol at least that's what the Wow fanboi's will say. No way Aion stole their numbers, it's just not possible.

 

You know all the WoW fanboi's are screaming "blasphemy!"


  No, they are screaming "My god, not this sh|t again. It took me 3 years of grinding, doing non-sense quests to get my 8 characters to 80............now I need to do this same stuff with a different game title?"

 

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9/23/09 12:02:04 PM#31
Originally posted by Letsinod

I went to try to find Aion last night at a few places.  Everywhere I went they were sold out and everyone told me the same thing.  They haven't seen a crush on a PC game like this for years.  Not that I put too much emphasis on Xfire but Aion this morning is almost at 50% of WoW numbers and I bet it climbs much higher.  I wonder how many millions of worldwide subs Aion took from WoW.  Those people didn't just magically appear to play Aion.  Someone lost subs and I bet its mostly WoW.

 

This is why I camped best buy early yesterday morning.  (if you call 2 mins before it opens - camping!) lol

I was the first one in the store and when I got the the video game section they only had 2 Collector's Edition and like 6 regular copies.  I grabbed the CE, and took off knowing the rest of those boxes would be gone before closing time.

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Eben

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9/23/09 12:19:55 PM#32
Originally posted by Hepisodic
Originally posted by dreamer05

In my opinion, who cares???  I'm getting really tired of people in game in general chat comparing WoW and talking about Wow... If I wanted to talk about WoW I'd go to a forum.  I'm not a WoW hater I just think this is our game, it has nothing to do with WoW, so why spam general talk about it.  I have no interest in WoW whatsoever and don't care if it fails or overturns the world.  It would just be nice for once to log into a new MMO and not have it compared to WoW.  Rant over!

 

The rants are never over! lol

 

yeah most of us don't give 2 s**ts about WoW anymore but you have those religious zealots constantly comparing everything to their god. WoW to them is god, Blizzard is the church and their religion is more fucked up than radical Islam. (no offence to those who are islamic, only the "radicals") But hell in all honesty you can even use the Roman Catholic church, I'm Catholic (although I care little about religion) and yet we know how F'ed up the Roman church is...ok enough of that crap.... anyway >>

 

It's just sad tthat these people, who give up their social lives, family's, jobs, and w/e else we normal gamers and People enjoy to play this game 24/7. God forbid any of us enjoy another game before the zealots come out from their holy monastery (their parents basement) to try to convert us back to WoW, or to WoW.

 

Really, its just too funny how they can't leave us be. 

 

Ok my rant is over... who's up next? lolzzz

 

 

Because I could have sworn that most of the conversation I've seen in Aion chat channels for the past two days was nothing but bullshit and people yammering on about WoW.   So from what I can see, there are a ton of Aion players that care very much about WoW...or they just aren't able to stfu about it.  Sorta like...this thread.

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Eben

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9/23/09 12:23:00 PM#33
Originally posted by googajoob7
Originally posted by tanoril

OP is delusional.  Go to any WoW server right now and ask 100 players if they even heard of Aion and I guarantee you that at least 70% will say no. 


 

Thank god for that . Let the children have thier Warcraft let anyone over 16 have AION . After all it was the influx of very young children that really destroyed the WoW community . I hope they stay there in thier virtual school yeard , squabbling amongst themselves .

Yeah, not like Aion is gonna draw away a ton of anime-obsessed Narutards, or kids that want to make a toon that looks like their favorite 'Twilight' character...

 

Oh, wait...

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9/23/09 12:32:10 PM#34

 

Aion,  sssssshhh

We don't want the kids from WoW feeling all this hype.

Please post in the WoW forums stating how crap this game is, and theres no need for them to buy Aion.

UOvet

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9/23/09 2:34:03 PM#35
Originally posted by sa1yaman

Boxes sold != subscriptions. Expect similar drop after first month as we have seen with AOC, Warhammer etc..

Thats why they refuse to add more servers -  NCsoft expects this as well.


 

You'll see a drop but not like AOC/WAR. Why? This game isn't broken, plain and simple. AoC had stability issues and WAR was just broken from the get go. This game has actually done most of it's advertising via word of mouth. They really haven't done much out of that, maybe more within past months but nothing like AoC and especially WAR.

Vulnero87

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9/23/09 2:42:32 PM#36
Originally posted by Eben
Originally posted by googajoob7
Originally posted by tanoril

OP is delusional.  Go to any WoW server right now and ask 100 players if they even heard of Aion and I guarantee you that at least 70% will say no. 


 

Thank god for that . Let the children have thier Warcraft let anyone over 16 have AION . After all it was the influx of very young children that really destroyed the WoW community . I hope they stay there in thier virtual school yeard , squabbling amongst themselves .

Yeah, not like Aion is gonna draw away a ton of anime-obsessed Narutards, or kids that want to make a toon that looks like their favorite 'Twilight' character...

 

Oh, wait...

How you relate people that like anime to immaturity is retarded.........O wait this is coming from a guy who hates anime, so he must relate anything negative with anime.

 

Everyone has opinions, but does that make them the universal truth??? NO!

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9/23/09 3:13:22 PM#37
Originally posted by jimmy123

 

Aion,  sssssshhh

We don't want the kids from WoW feeling all this hype.

Please post in the WoW forums stating how crap this game is, and theres no need for them to buy Aion.

 

  It's actually the vogue to disparage WoW right now, since most "people" have played it and are tired of it.

  I remember back in the day on these forums BEFORE WoW's massive success how people hated on it, because their beloved EQ successor was failing. There would be arguments like "EQ2 HAS MOAR DEPTH ", which would then seem ridiculous, because EQ2 converged to WoW...

 

 

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SgtFrog

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9/23/09 3:21:41 PM#38

I can’t wait for the first month to end when all the QQ retards leave

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ray12k

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9/23/09 4:08:20 PM#39
Originally posted by smellysocks
Originally posted by sa1yaman

Boxes sold != subscriptions. Expect similar drop after first month as we have seen with AOC, Warhammer etc..

Thats why they refuse to add more servers -  NCsoft expects this as well.

 

Aye exactly, just wait a month after the one month of free time expires, and see how many stays and how many resubb. Then they can start looking to add aditional servers if needed.


 

prob. 80% will resub... they should add more servers, whats the harm in adding atleast 5?

Voltlives

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9/23/09 4:56:48 PM#40
Originally posted by chesiremorph

The best basketball players are compared to Jordan. The best Golfers to Jack Nocholas. The best tennis players to Sampras. The best Sitcoms to Seinfeld. The best ............ blah Blah Blah ..... 

WOW is the Beatles of the MMO world. So it will always be used as a measuring stick. ......

 If you dont want to hear about WOW... then don't feed the trolls.... =)    

AION will cotinue to gain subs I think .... as long as NC Soft straitens up and flies right. The game is polished and good. the issues are mostly non game issues. Installing, wait time, downloading, information bases, and so on


 

Ok, yes WoW has been very very successful, but the fact that you put Beatles and WoW in the same sentence is assinine.  MMO games like UO would be the Beatles, something that others formed and molded concepts from.  WoW, at best would be Green Day, nothing against Green Day by the way.  They took concepts from other games and created a very outreaching game that is accessable and easy for most gamers to play.  WoW has accomplished great things but in no way did they help father the gaming world, they just set a new level to achieve.

 

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stayontarget

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9/23/09 5:07:20 PM#41
Originally posted by tanoril

OP is delusional.  Go to any WoW server right now and ask 100 players if they even heard of Aion and I guarantee you that at least 70% will say no. 

That is good news


ab29x

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9/23/09 5:49:05 PM#42

 

 

Letsinod

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9/23/09 6:01:23 PM#43

Sorry, but I just don't buy that.  Wtih +/- 4 million subs in Asia and it being hugely popular here already I doubt it 70% of people never heard of it.  Best Buy just had a 1/4 page spread of Aion this Sunday in its insert in my newspaper.  These subs have to come from somewhere was my point.  They don't just materialize.  SOME GAME lost these subs and I was pointing out that WoW was the largest culprit I am sure.  So anyone who throws around 11 million subs from WoW is just flat out lying. 

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9/23/09 6:04:47 PM#44
Originally posted by Letsinod

Sorry, but I just don't buy that.  Wtih +/- 4 million subs in Asia and it being hugely popular here already I doubt it 70% of people never heard of it.  Best Buy just had a 1/4 page spread of Aion this Sunday in its insert in my newspaper.  These subs have to come from somewhere was my point.  They don't just materialize.  SOME GAME lost these subs and I was pointing out that WoW was the largest culprit I am sure.  So anyone who throws around 11 million subs from WoW is just flat out lying. 

 

Most come from WAR, AoC, Lineage and those that played UO and Daoc in my opinion.

Preta

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9/23/09 6:36:25 PM#45
Originally posted by sa1yaman

Boxes sold != subscriptions. Expect similar drop after first month as we have seen with AOC, Warhammer etc..

Thats why they refuse to add more servers -  NCsoft expects this as well.

 

AOC and WAR didn't lose subs for no reason - they had major problems.  If Aion loses subs like that, it'll probably because they refused to add enough servers.

 

 

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9/23/09 6:48:07 PM#46
Originally posted by Hepisodic
Originally posted by dreamer05

In my opinion, who cares???  I'm getting really tired of people in game in general chat comparing WoW and talking about Wow... If I wanted to talk about WoW I'd go to a forum.  I'm not a WoW hater I just think this is our game, it has nothing to do with WoW, so why spam general talk about it.  I have no interest in WoW whatsoever and don't care if it fails or overturns the world.  It would just be nice for once to log into a new MMO and not have it compared to WoW.  Rant over!

 

The rants are never over! lol

 

yeah most of us don't give 2 s**ts about WoW anymore but you have those religious zealots constantly comparing everything to their god. WoW to them is god, Blizzard is the church and their religion is more fucked up than radical Islam. (no offence to those who are islamic, only the "radicals") But hell in all honesty you can even use the Roman Catholic church, I'm Catholic (although I care little about religion) and yet we know how F'ed up the Roman church is...ok enough of that crap.... anyway >>

 

It's just sad tthat these people, who give up their social lives, family's, jobs, and w/e else we normal gamers and People enjoy to play this game 24/7. God forbid any of us enjoy another game before the zealots come out from their holy monastery (their parents basement) to try to convert us back to WoW, or to WoW.

 

Really, its just too funny how they can't leave us be. 

 

Ok my rant is over... who's up next? lolzzz

 

This is a funny rant seeing as how, i constantly see Aion fanboi's (such as yourself) constantly throwing out cheap shots at WoW, its pretty pathetic you and others would need to keep attacking another game.  

I've been reading these forums for awhile now and i constantly see people talking smack about Warcraft, even before some WoW fanboi runs in to defend it.  Perhaps people should stop being hypocrites?

We are all ignorant until truth is revealed to us.. However.. How do we know the truth is not in fact a lie..

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Scalebane

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9/23/09 6:49:56 PM#47
Originally posted by Letsinod

Sorry, but I just don't buy that.  Wtih +/- 4 million subs in Asia and it being hugely popular here already I doubt it 70% of people never heard of it.  Best Buy just had a 1/4 page spread of Aion this Sunday in its insert in my newspaper.  These subs have to come from somewhere was my point.  They don't just materialize.  SOME GAME lost these subs and I was pointing out that WoW was the largest culprit I am sure.  So anyone who throws around 11 million subs from WoW is just flat out lying. 

 

While i'm sure WoW lost subs to this game, Aion is still more focused on PVP, and a lot of WoW players are so called carebears.  That being said i think more subs came from WAR,AOC, and other MMO's. imo.

We are all ignorant until truth is revealed to us.. However.. How do we know the truth is not in fact a lie..

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Wrender

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9/23/09 6:56:59 PM#48
Originally posted by sa1yaman

Boxes sold != subscriptions. Expect similar drop after first month as we have seen with AOC, Warhammer etc..

Thats why they refuse to add more servers -  NCsoft expects this as well.


 

Oh there will be more servers. They are about to realize what they have on thier hand just might be a 1000# gorilla instead of the little 400# gorilla that is World of Warcraft. And its about damn time too. WoW was good back in the day but has been turned into garbage by a company that by selling thier souls to the devil has become flacid,fat , lazy money grubbing , worthless piles of goooooo. bye bye WOW!

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9/23/09 6:57:33 PM#49
Originally posted by ray12k
Originally posted by smellysocks
Originally posted by sa1yaman

Boxes sold != subscriptions. Expect similar drop after first month as we have seen with AOC, Warhammer etc..

Thats why they refuse to add more servers -  NCsoft expects this as well.

 

Aye exactly, just wait a month after the one month of free time expires, and see how many stays and how many resubb. Then they can start looking to add aditional servers if needed.


 

prob. 80% will resub... they should add more servers, whats the harm in adding atleast 5?

LOL, 80% resubbing, that made my day.
 

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9/23/09 6:58:40 PM#50
Originally posted by stayontarget
Originally posted by tanoril

OP is delusional.  Go to any WoW server right now and ask 100 players if they even heard of Aion and I guarantee you that at least 70% will say no. 

That is good news



 

Well you have to consider the kind of people we are talking about here. This is WOW after all...a lot of em probably never heard of toilet paper....

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