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I guess the server I am on, Ariel is a fluke then? At 2 AM, I log in and get placed in channel 3 because #1 & #2 are full. At primetime, I often get put in channel 4 or five. There are tons of folks running around, and the gold spam has all but stopped. I am seeing less farm bots too. 50% loss could be because the bots are being reigned in and banned. As late as a few days ago, I would have to take about 3 minutes after logging on to black the spammers. Today, I blocked one. Just one. To be sure, the newness is wearing off and there will be a loss of players as the billing cycle comes around. That is normal. However, the sky is not falling in Aion. |
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I'm following one of these common "will you subscribe?"-polls in another Aion community-forum. The longer the poll runs, the more the option "i will give it 1 month" climbs. As of now, it went up from about 20% to 40%+.That 1 month is almost done and i can imagine very well that this 40% may somehow show up in retention, now that these days more and more players reach the 30s and hit the grindwall. Of course one has to keep in mind that the users of any forums are only a small part of the overall playerbase and may not represent the majority. NCSoft didn't do enough to adjust the game to the western market...but i also think that they didn't aim for more than about 300k-350k over here and planned to keep the heavy focus on the asian market anyway. "Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men." — St. Augustine. |
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It's amazing how on these boards you can post the most ridiculous made-up crap and instead of questioning the veracity of the information people will instantly argue against it. What are the ranges for low,.recommended and full? Is 'recommended' good or bad?
7AM EST - Oceanic server (it's primetime for them) is full, all others recommended. We can post these all day, but without knowing what range recommended is, there's no way to form any realistic assessment of concurrent users. Is Low under 100? Under 500? Under 1000? Is Full at 1000? 2000? 3000? Of course this will prompt troll math so expect a post soon where someone picks their favorite fictional number and formulates their server pop figures from it.
But, seriously, people really need to consider the source or at least question the veracity of a statement before arguing for or against it.
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DuraheLL
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Joined: 12/14/05
** Ooh theeres aaa monkey in my pocket and hes stealing all my change ** |
nice. then I dont have to sit in queues and maby there wont be so much BS in the chats
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Doesn't surprise me. This is why I didn't buy Aion. You guys should try Chronicles of Spellborn, it went F2P because of bad advertising and the zones are beautiful! I won the AoC Competition |
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Originally posted by Zorndorf
The game came now under 10K coming from 12K at the first full weekend ... (substracting the 5K fixed oversampling) that would mean a loss of 2 K Xfire players on 7 K real samples.
The only person fixing numbers is you Zorny. |
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Doesnt really suprise me if the game does drop. The game is good, but its a bit to slow on to get to the pvp side of things. For all that WAR failed on, being able to pvp from lvl 1 was one of my favorite features. I unsubbed because i just cant do a game with a heavier leveling curve anymore, and I ended up not liking the class I picked and the prospect of rerolling and getting back to where I was is depressing. |
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Damn... MMOs are serious business!
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Originally posted by Cognoman
TR was a good game it just lacked a Endgame something that should have been developed more before it ever released. Yeah TR>Aion but thats not saying much. Why would I play a pathetic themepark MMO when I could enjoy a masterpiece like Mass Effect, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Dragon Age? |
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10:30 am CST
I'm assuming the ranking is High>Low>Recommended. I have no idea what numbers they represent and never did say what numbers they represent. |
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Originally posted by scodavis
There is no high>low>recommended There is simply high, because their goal is to have all servers full, so, when a server goes a bit down from high, it immediatly appears recommended, theres no mid term Playing: Aion, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age Origins |
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On Europe 11 servers are full, so it can't be that bad, considering it is not yet "rush hour". |
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Originally posted by Comnitus
This is one of the funniest things I think I've ever read. |
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This wasn't worth the effort the OP took to type it. It's basically FAIL. Really? A 12:30am shot of servers showing 'recommended'? Please...
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Originally posted by mmaize
That would be 10:30PM PST.
One would think that at 10:30pm at least one of the West Coast servers would be high.
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Originally posted by scodavis
That would be 10:30PM PST.
One would think that at 10:30pm at least one of the West Coast servers would be high.
So yeah..no..sorry not any sort of accurate assesment of the success or lack thereof in the game....failed argument.
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18:12 in Europe. Not even prime time since it will be alot more ppl at 19:30 and beyond Far from dieing or abandonement i would say. I would love for a picture of the American servers around the same time of day =)
Playing: Aion, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age Origins |
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Remember also they are upgrading servers to hold more people per server so wouldn't be surprised if it dropped to "recommended" or "low" due to increase in capacity. |
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Hrica
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Joined: 3/31/05
"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow a mystery, and today is a gift" |
Originally posted by Furor
Nice troll |
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Xfire numbers showed a general decline for everyone over the last few days to a week and I haven't seen an update from MMOdata for the end of this month yet but the bottom line is until I see a significant decrease in subs or activity, I'm sure as hell not going to take the word from someone who is disgruntled for whatever reason and my guess is still playing, and decided to post on the boards after seeing "recommended" as opposed to "full" on the servers 1) at 12:30am CST, 2) After the servers have been upgraded to stop queue times. 3) After additional servers have been added. 4) When "recommended" is only a generalization telling us it's not "high" and not some sort of serious measurement of capacity. Seriously....
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If you guys hate the gameand iam gagging too play it, so mybe i can have your account then!! thanks in advance :-] |
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Originally posted by JonMichael
Have to agree on every word,. I can most often feel a part of the community happily wait for a game to realse so they can begin to bash it. And for what? Make some random user upset or to create a name for themself on a forum? Or becuse they have waited so long for the game to fix their mmo fix :) ?
It happend to TR, AOC, WAR, LOTRO, DFO and now Aion. I guess it will happen to Fallen Earth as well when the mob will learn that there is quite many players that truly enjoy the game. Sad indeed, but quite funny to see as well.
Explosions in the sky mofo! |
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Originally posted by Furor I know 4 people personally who have effectively binned the game, as did I. Pitifully shallow, simplistic game, same old quests, same old levelling system, no replayability whatsoever, yet they expect people to pay for it! It's everything people have complained about when they grumble that game designers just warm up a rehash of existing game mechanics, then serve it up as groundbreaking and interesting. I'm not surprised the server populations are plummeting either, as modern gamers are far less inclined to be happy with a "copy/paste" game that has been tarted up with some eye candy. |
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I am quite sure in the long run Aion will loose a big chunk of their players. Aion is just too much still of an Asian grinder.
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Originally posted by Dibdabs I know 4 people personally who have effectively binned the game, as did I. Pitifully shallow, simplistic game, same old quests, same old levelling system, no replayability whatsoever, yet they expect people to pay for it! It's everything people have complained about when they grumble that game designers just warm up a rehash of existing game mechanics, then serve it up as groundbreaking and interesting. I'm not surprised the server populations are plummeting either, as modern gamers are far less inclined to be happy with a "copy/paste" game that has been tarted up with some eye candy.
I believe you are mistaken or simply cant read. We've already come to the conclusion that the empty servers is a lie. The fact is the servers are still full and bustling with happy players =) Nothing you can say will change that Playing: Aion, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age Origins |
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