Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Teala

Now that he honeymoon is over,  do you still believe Aion will be a big game in the US and EU?   Also, what do you feel NCSoft needs to do to make it better in the future so that Aion will be a good game worth playing?

 

I always believed that Aion would garner about 300k to 500k subs. No more.

So I'll just wait to see how that pans out. Unless they make an announcement, I'll just have to wait until the next quarterly report.

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This pretty much.

NCsoft said they want to be number two in NA/EU which is probably about 300k-500k.

Originally posted by Teala

Now that he honeymoon is over,  do you still believe Aion will be a big game in the US and EU?   Also, what do you feel NCSoft needs to do to make it better in the future so that Aion will be a good game worth playing?

LOL at one of Aion's biggest haters making an obvious troll bait poll... This whole site is pure garbage when it comes to dictating whether a game will be popular. 

 Just look at xfire.com and stick those REAL facts up your ...

I think Aion will be a big game, the size of other big MMOGs (or similar) in the west; Guild Wars, EVE, LotRO. It  could possibly drop to the next layer, with AoC and WAR are, but I doubt it'll be lower than that in 6 months. I've been wrong before though. :-)

(WoW doesn't count as "big" - it's a behemoth.)

How much do u get paid to troll in here all the time , cause if u do it just for fun , u need professional help ASAP.

What an obvious troll poll.

And yes AION will do fine .

 I keep wondering why the WoW forum section is moderated and trolling threads gets closed. Yet you see all sort of atrocities in the Aion section.

There needs to be some moderation in here.

Why is it that anyone can compare the size of any game to WOW when they are much younger than each other.

WoW has been around for years therefore it has more content, that factor is obvious. When WoW first opened it was a massive grind, far worse than any other game. I recall having to repeat certain areas 10s if not 100s of times to be able to obtain those pieces of armour.  When I left the game after 2 years I still didn't have 1 full set with 2 level 60 toons.

All of the quests in WOW are grinds, none are repeatable therefore a good portion of XP was  to run around and kill things over and over and over and over again.  The game mesmerised people into thinking they were on a course to profit and greatness. With those obscene armour sets and glamourous weapons they make you feel intense guilt for thinking you want to leave; after you put so many months into the obtaining of them.

Every process in that game is a psychological trap designed to keep every player going back for more and more torture. If you stop and look without those WOW coloured glasses maybe you'll see what they have done to you.

Now these new games are only months or a year or so old.  How on earth can you compare WOW to Aion when one game is 5 years and the other is 20 or so days old? Yes Aion has teething problems. When WoW first started they didn't fix many things for months if not over a year or two. That game had so many faults it was tiresome.

Even after years there were hours long waits on most servers. Blizzard always took forever to fix things. When they did you had a down time for hours and a massive download afterwards. The classes were so out of whack, there were no quests and the whole game was forever being updated for raiders.

Now let's wait a year or so and see what NC Soft can do to fix their problems.  I can see they are putting in a huge effort in the first month, fixing problems WOW had for years.

Will the "new game" factor wear off: yes

Will this game be big: yes

Will it kill wow: no

I bought and played this game, at first it was fun a there was a lot of stuff to do to keep you busy. But once you hit 28 you hit the quest wall/install wall. All that is really left is to grind and grind and grind. I don't mind some grind, just that with this game you either grind in abyss or grind in heavily BOTTED area.

To be honest, in my mind this game is worse for content then AOC was once you hit the level 50 area. At least in AOC the grind wasn't as bad as this game.

As for fotress and crap really, you've done a couple raid on it and really you are. WTH is that it? Luckily for me i got a couple non MMO game to keep me busy right now so i don't feel the grind in this game too bad.

So in short, this game was fun at start then when you get to mid game it's pretty much blah.