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MadnessRealm

Elite Member

Joined: 1/02/09
Posts: 268

 
10/19/09 6:04:22 AM#1

I came across an article by Syncaine yesterday and found it rather interesting. What the article says is that if you bought Aion (he uses Aion as it is the most recent exemple) and didn't like it, then you have no rights to complain. Why? Because NCSoft never mentionned they were going to make a game any different from the classic cookie cuter. Since we have a lot of love/hate threads about Aion recently, I thought it was something that should be posted here:

Full blog here: Syncaine's "What buying Aion says about you"

Your thoughts?

(Oh and please avoid flaming or trolling, this is only a blogger amongst many others so take it with a grain of salt)

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Chealar

Advanced Member

Joined: 9/11/09
Posts: 164

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10/19/09 11:15:35 AM#2

This is in sync with several columns on this site, about pre-launch hype getting dangerous and Betas becoming less and less of a testing ground, so that any flaw is harped about and makes a lot of people quit a game that's not even a few days old...

darwa

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Joined: 7/04/04
Posts: 1526

10/19/09 11:22:03 AM#3

I preordered Aion directly from NCSoft, then when I discovered the game was almost idential to Lineage 2, and full of bots and goldsellers, I complained and was offered a full and immediate refund, which I accepted.

Assuming your TL;DR is accurate, then the blog isn't.

Czzarre

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Joined: 9/10/07
Posts: 3435

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10/19/09 12:51:06 PM#4

I will admit that NCSoft and AION had a lot more opportunity to try out the game than other mainstream MMOs. This is a game that you could play the chinese version withhout too much issue, and you could get into beta without paying anything. IN the end its always consumer beware, but NCSoft did its part to allow people to try before buy