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Originally posted by Reion1
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WSIMike
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Joined: 3/09/04
Playing: Lineage 2, Dissidia FF |
Originally posted by DevilXaphan
Yeah and on one of the servers in question (Lumiel) he is stating that the same gold spammers are up for several days as you so noted in orange which is not true on the server i play on. After i have blocked them i don't get any whispers or see their gold spam in trade or LFG chat.
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A week review in my opinion, but it seems many reviewing sites have been posting inacurate reviews of this game. The quest content takes a sharp turn down while the amount of exp to level takes a sharp turn up post level 30 . Most of the reviews I have read seem to be written up at or before they reach this benchmark which leads to some very missinforming reviews. A game that focuses so much on grinding is something that needs to be noted and this review completely misses that fact. Get to 50 next time and then write your review. |
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I'm having fun with Aion. Then again, I had fun with Final Fantasy XI. It seems that FFXI players like this game more than anyone. Playing: Aion, EVE Online, Vanguard |
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Originally posted by DevilXaphan Have to disagree with the statement about GM's they are actively monitoring the servers and killing the gold spam when they see it, as far as bots they have to go thru an investigation which can take a month but includes several other bots and bank toons when banned. So far the bot problem is not out of control but do agree that some in house security does need to be made to lessen the problem. Yes general chat has it's problems but what MMO does not have that problem.So tell me what other MMO does not have a grind in it at a certain level huh? You must be kidding, are you? As original poster said one can see for a week SAME gold spammer. I personally have reported SAME (with name like "alidjfshdld" classic for gold spammer and can not be coincidence somebody recreated it) player ***FOUR*** times in 2 days with my 4 alts.... yet he was happily spamming at least week after. Spamming includes whispers as public chat. Then I left so is enterely possible he is still spamming. I do not have any impression there is any support in game. I did not got any feedback on any of my at least 15 petitions. Yestday have returned (and stayed only about 5 mins) on Castor server after about 2 weeks .... wow ... I have not seen in all other games put together (wow included) in one year so much gold spamming like here in few minutes! It is completely impossible to read anything usefull on chat because of massive (but really MASSIVE!!! like watching dir command from old dos for thousands of files!) gold spamming. Gold spamming messages are running so fast that it is impossible to read even them. Like 95% of people on aion are gold sellers and boots. Have expanded chat window to entire screen .... in maybe 5 max 10 secs screen was full of gold spamming scroolling up. And this worsening happned only in last two weeks ... before was bad .... but not near 10% of this what was yesterday. Despite how I really hate gold sellers as they ruin any game ... I must admit was impressive looking on chat window. So in summary, despite I loved playing aion with 6 alts all to between lv. 17 and 18, I will remember Aion most as being gold spamming world. |
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The review doesn't even come near to what other sites on the web give to Aion. It is now an average 8.1 on http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html?search=aion&numrev=3&site= And this in mind that the industry wants desperatly a NEW shiny kid. -------- In the long run these kind of reviews turn its back to the core evolution of gaming itself. But helas the staff editors of mmorg.com are blind. They think the MORE players the better the industry, the more their families will get paid by writing stuff about mmorpg's.
In the meantime everyone pushes it on Xfire, a game with hardly 400K players at launch is being played 3 times more than EVE on Xfire. How much JOKE is behind this Korean anyway.
If I were Blizzard I would stop making good games. You can come up with an Aion game every 3 months. No problem. MMORPG just assured we'll get the next two dozen Korean turds on our plate the next 2 years. But hey, they think that's the way to go. So fools can only fool themselves...
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The difference between gamerankings i 0.6, stop pretending as if mmorpg.com is way of course here. You know what really puts off the core of evolution Zorndorf? People who bash other games and don't play other MMORPGs simply because they do not have Warcraft in their name or Blizzard as their developer.
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Still waiting for the retraction... "Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin |
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This sight has officially lost all crediblity. "Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin |
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Also good buddy Sean live right in the same city where NcSoft studio is located and our old buddy from Tabula Rasa Lives. Really let get even more blantant about how mmorpg.com has just said fuck it and giive us the money. "Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin |
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Originally posted by solareus
That made me laugh.... and the above post of course. So this guy is writing 20+ reviews on the web as a fan boy. .... And it is excepted as such by mmorpg.com.
WOW. And now compare the following on Xfire: Aion has 3X times the number of EVE Xfire with ... 400K players (even less these last few days). What a joke this site and the complete mmorpg.com has become !!! What's your reaction editors of mmorpg.com ??? :))))))
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wow, that's just pathetic, you guys should just pull this review. I'm going to plaster this all over the net regardless, douchebags. |
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The review score seems as over hyped as the game has been but you need to take into account that the score of any MMO is higher before launch then lower as the years go by. Still has any MMO achieved a 8.7 here at launch, from all accounts this is way too high? I think this is a fault of the individual reviewer, I don’t see how you can lay this at MMORPG.com’s door. Yes they seem to have chosen a fanboy to do the articles, would people have thought it fair if they had chosen someone who hates Asian themed fantasy MMO’s? Also, being in the same city does not warrent a conspiracy theory. :) |
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Originally posted by Zorndorf
That made me laugh.... and the above post of course. So this guy is writing 20+ reviews on the web as a fan boy. .... And it is excepted as such by mmorpg.com.
WOW. And now compare the following on Xfire: Aion has 3X times the number of EVE Xfire with ... 400K players (even less these last few days). What a joke this site and the complete mmorpg.com has become !!! What's your reaction editors of mmorpg.com ??? :))))))
400k players? you do realise that these were pre - order numbers and the game has been avaible for a month now, right?
EVE's subscriber base is about 200k subscribers. if Aion sold only 200k copies this last month, that would mean it has 3 times as many active accounts. It really isn't rocket science. I absolutely love all the people going apeshit over this. MMORPG's score is pretty much the average review score Aion is getting. It's a good game people, get over it. |
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you got be kidding? Who's website is this ? Sean Imancsoftfanby or mmorpg.coms website ? He wrote this turd to get into the good graces of the Austin studio, and I think it is ignorant for a website to even post reviews without even reading them and actually weighing the scale of what the website deems fit for publishing. Is Sean Balgar wanted fame, he has got it with being one of the most unknowledgable writers to have ever had Anything published on this website in the last 3 years I've posted here. You have no idea how angry I am that mmorpg..com doesn't ccare anymore to proof shit and actually say, "you know what, this reviewer is full of fucking shit" "Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin |
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Pharoin
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Joined: 11/20/04
Everyone wants to go to Heaven but no one wants to die! |
I appreciate the review and it was very informative in my opinion. Thx i was looking forward to a review from an optimistic point of view. |
Originally posted by Gameloading
EVE has a confirmed sub base of 300K players (a week ago even 320K). The ratio between WOW-EVE-LOTRO on Xfire was always in the 5M-300k-180K count. In no way this game has more then 3 times the number of EVE players (see the down trend of Aion already below). With these references Aion would have now far over 1 M players in the west ... on 32 servers. A laugh if you defend this. In Chine at launch they had 113 servers to serve thsoe 1M players in Korea it was 41 servers for around 400K. BTW after 2 weeks even the wrongly sampled Xfire numers are DOWN with at least 20% for Aion. So I even think the active number of players is LESS now than the dual launching week of NA/EU. It is clearly less then the first launching weekend. http://www.xfire.com/games/aion/Aion/ Now comes the "above" review of a guy plastering all over the internet. Remember the NEVER (by NCSoft) confirmed 3.5 million so called Asian players too and I think we ALL get the picture. Only fools can be fooled into believing in this game. |
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This review needs a disclaimer: "brought to you by the
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin |
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1niceone1
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Joined: 8/30/09
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, but because I hate plants. |
Originally posted by tanoril Not meaning to be flippant here but what you're asking is really irrelevant to the discussion about the validity of the rating as pertaining to the content of the MMORPG review and then comparing it to other MMO reviews on this site. You may feel these are exceptional points to make but apparently the MMORPG reviewer did not feel the same way. I can only assume that if he personally felt these were worthy of mention, he would have. Yet, he does go out of his way to point out that, in general, Aion does nothing really new or spectacular ...
The point is completely relevant considering the fact that people keep mentioning innovation as a sticking point. So if there's no contest to the questions of what Aion brings to the table then obviously it is innovative and therefore should contribute to the rating regardless if the reviewer that is being critiqued did so or not. In otherwords if someone is going to use that against the reviewer then they better be able to answer to the things that are indeed innovative.
It's not innovative. Rifting actually is limiting since it's not true open world PvP. I'm not sure what you mean by a layered gameworld but you can make the argument that the abyss is just one huge Battleground. Wings are nice, but again innovative? Hell, we can say WWIIOnline has aerial combat because it has planes. The reviewer himself says that Aion doesn't do anything new. What it does do it does well. I think that makes it a very straightfoward, vanilla game. There's nothing wrong with that, but the review score doesn't indicate that.
In the end a dildo with wings is innovative, that does not however mean it is a good idea, or good in practice.
I am actually not a little disgusted in this review of Aion, sure it's polished and clean but ultimately it is far from deserving of a score of 8.7! I smell something fishy going on here...smells like...tuna. I suppose, in the end, the review is entirely subjective and should be treated as such but I expected more from mmorpg.com... |
Originally posted by bastii
Indeed. This guy is writing 25+ Aion only reviews on the net and by this very nature is nothing but a die hard fan. TY for the info above. He lives in the same city as the makers and ... he gives the highest score ever on mmorpg.com for a Korean copycat. And feature by feature it looses on all counts -feature wise - against the industry leader that gets 8.1.
Now count in the lied up (never confirmed) 3.5M Asian players. Completely out of whack with their REAL number of servers. Now count in the 400K launching figure which - by surprise - beats out the 300K EVE players times 3(!) on Xfire. Impossible. Now count in the complete LACK of sales on amazon.com (not even in the top 100 of overall video games - today at ... position 129 actually down from 114 yesterday). http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=&x=22&y=23 Any more "dollar" wind for this Korean game ?????? Or should we say "Gold" wind ?
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hmmm... 'plays just like any other mmo'. thats right! but how the hell does it get 8.7 rating then? lol........ generic mmos should not get more than 5. |
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"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin |
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Bigdavo
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Joined: 1/21/06
''Life is what you make of it, not what others make of yours.'' |
I woulda probably gone for a 8.0-8.5. Great polish and solid gameplay but ultimately and imo generic and somewhat boring. I quit before the first month was up, it's a pretty good game for what it is but can't hold my interest. O_o o_O |
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i can't believe people can be so ignorant to be upset by a review.... it's quite laughable really. some of you are irate that it has 0.6 to 0.9 to high..... are you serious??? your upset at less then a point??? feel free to disagree with the review, but come on, calm down about, mmorpg isn't owned by ncsoft, it's just a review, by someone who liked the damn game, why is that so hard to believe? all reviews are based on opinion, and no review can be neutral, because you will always be biased towards something. if i'd reviewed WoW, it'd be much lower then an 8, a lot to do with the my extreme dislike of the graphic art style. then of course Zorndorf has to come in and make sure everyone knows it has less subscribers then WoW..... like the rating of the game contributes to the subscription numbers, or that for any reason, one could logically try to compare sub numbers between a game out less then one month in north america, to a game thats been out for five years, and has the only true mmo advertising campaign in history. who seems to think the only people playing it, are the pre-orders... even though it is selling on amazon, as he points out... so please, stop complaining about mmorpg losing cred, if you want to threaten to leave, just leave, find a site that you feel isn't biased. |
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If a mod reads this thread wow how many pages will go back lol. So many emotional people it's just a review /sigh
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