Here is what the servers look like at 8pm EST.

I tend to find that around about 9pm - 10pm EST is when the game and server information peaks. So get the information at those times instead of posting information taken midday or early afternoon. Also don't forget to take server information from the weekends too because most people do work and do have jobs.

If I read one more person saying that this game is "too hard" that you have to run around to find quests, I'm going to smack someone.  This game is trash. There is literally no element of this game that is worth paying for.  The quests are hard to find because there nearly isn't enough of them out there.  The game has four zones to each race.  The party aspect of this game is inadequate when it comes to any sort of PVE.  This is why the numbers are dropping so fast, and yes we did see this coming.  There are games out there that aren't rated 8.7 and put up on the table more than just "mass PVP."  There plenty of games out there that offer mass PVP and they are all f2p and offer the same rareity of quests and grind. 

In closing, this game is complete trash and not worth any one subscription.  Unless, howver you just feel like sitting there grinding and occasioanly grinding into quests so you can advance that extra level to be more formiable in PVP combat. 

As far as I know this game doesn't offer anything that rivals games already on the market. I.E. LOTRO, AOC, WAR, WOW.  The population will indeed conitnue to drop, and I fear that the only reason why the MMO genre is dying like most people state is because of the players themselves.  Riding the band wagon on any new release and then  jump ship quickly and the cry about it for months to come if there are any issues slight or major.  And no, I am not going to give AION time to completely revamp itself.  What they could do and this would please most of the aion fan boys is rip apart the combat system and stick the models and textures on a completely new product.

I would say pretty much all mmorpg's look like that at off times, except for WoW of course.  You will find at least 10+ servers at high/full no matter what time of the day in WoW but that's a different beast.  However looking at the other MMOs there's really no difference to what you're seeing with Aion's off hours.

I hate this message board, im really not sure why i come here anymore.  Too much drama.

Anyways, if you like the game play it... if you dont, thats great, go do something else other than sit on the message forum for it bashing it.

Your free to voice your opinion, and everyone else is free not to care.  I will continue to pay for this game every month until i dont like it anymore.  Once i dont like it anymore i will stop paying for it and continue living my life, not yelling about the worst trash ever blah blah blah.

omg u all are retards...they increased server cap .....lol

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I pretty much quit Aion for a MMORPG thats like 15 years old, but I find it more fun than Aion has ever been for me. Anyway it seems my prediction was right in the fact that less than half the people playing their free month would actually stay once billing came around.

Originally posted by Scyris

I pretty much quit Aion for a MMORPG thats like 15 years old, but I find it more fun than Aion has ever been for me. Anyway it seems my prediction was right in the fact that less than half the people playing their free month would actually stay once billing came around.

i played the beta and saw that Aion sucked and picked up eve again 

I just checked the server list at 8:15 cst time. All the east coast servers are full except the new one they released to help with ques. The west coast server have zero that are full at this time but it's only 6:15pm pst and will check again in a hour or so.

Originally posted by Zeppelin4

I just checked the server list at 8:15 cst time. All the east coast servers are full except the new one they released to help with ques. The west coast server have zero that are full at this time but it's only 6:15pm pst and will check again in a hour or so.

LOL I was going to say the same thing.  Several full atm.

Originally posted by Qazz

Originally posted by Zeppelin4

I just checked the server list at 8:15 cst time. All the east coast servers are full except the new one they released to help with ques. The west coast server have zero that are full at this time but it's only 6:15pm pst and will check again in a hour or so.

 

LOL I was going to say the same thing.  Several full atm.

Ofc every server is full. I wonder how some of this ppl still come here to say such idiocys when its so easy to prove their trolling.

Guess what guys, you are gonna have to "swallow" Aion's success, nothing you can say will change that

Originally posted by teco221

I am not surprised to see most of people leave the game.  Because it's way too hard for average players i.e. from WoW or Warhammer.   Those players pretty much can't stand any form of grinding either questing or grinding on the same mobs.  Most of them can't find quests (too many of them in the guild and they are from WOW...just keep whining "Where can i find quests?"  After I explain to them, they relized that  they didn't even bother to just walk down the path just a little bit further or just follow the main quest line to next town.

 

And some from Warhammer players left very soon, because they couldn't PvP to level up and they couldn't take the death penalty.  They feel that they die too fast and they can't be lvl 50 in 3 days.

 

So, yeah this is going to happen sooner or later.

 

 

lol fail

Just a follow up. At 9:15 cst 9 of the 15 servers are full and if the pattern holds up in another hour 12 of the 15 servers will be full minus the three new servers they put up to help with the ques. I guess the sky is not falling. :)

 (This is the USA servers)

Yep 50% quit. 

there mostly all full during prime playing hours .

A lot of players will quit in any MMO when the month is out. Any MMO will lose some subs then, usually at least 25%.

That is only natural, the question is if it will continue to get new players instead of the ones that just played the game for a month.

Yeah I'm going to have to agree with others in saying this game won't have a good retention rate.  I think we seen the peak of its population and its only going to keep falling.

 Ello there gentelmen, its been awhile. Did i hear someone say empty servers ?

Ofcourse not...

My apologies.

Originally posted by Aleste

 Ello there gentelmen, its been awhile. Did i hear someone say empty servers ?

 

Ofcourse not...

 

My apologies.

 

 

Well, that just means a lot of people purchased the game when it came out.

We'll see what the retention rate is. My guess is that the game will have about 250k to 300k players. About the same amount as any good mmo exclusing wow which is an anomaly in the mmo space.

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Aleste

 Ello there gentelmen, its been awhile. Did i hear someone say empty servers ?

 

Ofcourse not...

 

My apologies.

 

 

 

Well, that just means a lot of people purchased the game when it came out.

We'll see what the retention rate is. My guess is that the game will have about 250k to 300k players. About the same amount as any good mmo exclusing wow which is an anomaly in the mmo space.

yeah, I agree about 200-300k players will keep playing until next wave of new game coming out.

there is a quest chain without grinding that gets you through the levels, you just have to travel. Just because i said it isn't much of a grind at the moment doesn't mean i'm some TC thinking i'm all good, but i guess that gives you enough credit to act like one yourself.

The most ammusing thing about this thread is how many of you folks that claim to hate Aion are spending your time on the Aion forum...

well, just logged out and heading to bed now... ohh wait... maybe that means Aion is failing because there are less folks on the server after midnight now... ohhh noooooooo what willl ncsoft do now.... aaaarrrggghhhh!!!!!

wait a minute, maybe all will be ok when we all wake up and get home from work and log on again and the servers shoot back up to full again. Well, I am glad that how much money NCSoft makes off the game will determine its success and not how much the FEW detractors complain.

night...

Originally posted by Aleste

 Ello there gentelmen, its been awhile. Did i hear someone say empty servers ?

 

Ofcourse not...

 

My apologies.

 

 

Of course Aion is still No. 1

These trolls have no ammo, Aion has taken the west by storm and they cant handle the popularity of a Korean game in the West. I guess its rather flattering that so many people are taking the time to post as it shows their insecurity in that very fact.

Even this very distinguished site rated Aion as the best game ever released :))) So what would a couple of forum trolls know?

Populations are still full and everyone is having a blast in the best Open world PvP game on the market.

It's so entertaining watching people troll eachother over such dumb things :) That's why I love this site!

Originally posted by supbro

Originally posted by Aleste

 Ello there gentelmen, its been awhile. Did i hear someone say empty servers ?

 

Ofcourse not...

 

My apologies.

 

 

 

Of course Aion is still No. 1

These trolls have no ammo, Aion has taken the west by storm and they cant handle the popularity of a Korean game in the West. I guess its rather flattering that so many people are taking the time to post as it shows their insecurity in that very fact.

Even this very distinguished site rated Aion as the best game ever released :))) So what would a couple of forum trolls know?

Populations are still full and everyone is having a blast in the best Open world PvP game on the market.

 

 

Maybe you should more precisely talk about NA players, because in EU it doesn't matter that much if the game is from Korea or Mars as long as it's working and entertaining.