Well the complaints about his post are more about the biased presentation rather than the point about Aion pvp.

I've not posted much on Aion because frankly I wasn't interested at first anyway (im still on the fence).  But from what I've been reading and hearing on the pvp it's alot better than WoW.  Sure it has some of the same offerings like gear and stats but buying those things actually DeRank you.  You'll have to constantly regain your rank but that being said it makes for a learning curve of when's a good time to buy or not.   Also there are other things besides gear and stats you can pick up.    If you reach the absolute maximum rank in PVP you have the option of spending your rank points (or whatever you want to call them) to become a massive Raid Mob.    I believe its not obviously in the US beta since it requires you to be rather high level but it is of course in the currently released version of Aion from Korea. 

Also capturing keeps is pretty important if you want access to specific content.  Your realm (not your guild) can only have access to these specific dungeons if you have hold of the Keep nearby or above them.    There is also a 3rd rather smart NPC faction that if I remember correctly plays like a DAoC faction where its either everyone's enemy or just a particular group's enemy at will. 

1.5 also introduces airships which players can fight to take over and then fight each other for control.   Since its not alot of instant battling crap hola i'd liken it more to DAoC with a mix of what we thought Warhammer would have over WoW anyday.  The only similiarity to wow is the Gear factor and to be honest..who really cares at this point..Every game is going to have Gear or something worth grinding to get ahold of.  Its the nature of the MMO beast.

While guilds will be important it'll be the over all Realm as a whole that I think will be far more important atleast I hope.  It all comes down to how the community behaves.

btw i think the overly biased videos make the article not worth reading.

Well then I apologize folks for not reading the linked post more carefully.  I was so taken with the AION PvP info. and video, I really didn't pay any attention to comments on the other games.

-CC

Originally posted by ChinaCat

www.aionsource.com/forum/general-discussion/22342-aion-pvp-revolutionary-oh-boy-fun-time.html

 

Enjoy.     Very informative and encouraging for those of us who love PvP and haven't been able to really experience it yet.

-CC

I love the part where the guy lists a year old video as reference to AoC's pvp. Someone should inform him that AoC's pvp has since recieved a giant overhall, and fights dont end that quickly anymore.

My problem with this PvP post isn't that it bashes other games, it's that it overlooks how the sorceror can 2-3 shot other classes.

The post made good points about how other mmos pvp is oversimplified, or clearly imbalanced.

Overlooking the sorceror isn't a matter of bias, it's simply a hole in his argument that he didn't/couldn't refute.

Otherwise an interesting read.

I played aion beta, and now I have pre-ordered it, the game does not have any "new and groundbreaking" features or gameplay that I can tell, but if thats all that made a good game almost every other genre of games would have been long gone by now, just for example, look at the similarities in gameplay in most fps games, does that mean they are not good because they didnt revolutionize the fps genre?

There have been many games that influenced the way aion is as a whole, warcraft is just the most widely known and not even the "new and groundbreaking" game everyone seems to always be looking for but more or less a borrow anything from another game that players like and makes thier experience fun game, which is what aion seems to be imo as well. 

I'll be playing Aion at release, I am a former subscriber from wow for about 3 years, and although I enjoyed the comedy of the post especially the kids running around the wall =), I agree with the other posters that there is no need to bash to get people to look at this game, it seems good enough to stand on its own.

I actually skimed through that thread (yes I have too much time on my hands today) and they should have just renamed it Aion PvP vs WoW PvP. I was hoping to see some comparisons and pros/cons vs most other games, especially on pvp oriented games. Going through that forum as a whole I was quite disappointed, it's a huge flamefest pit, even worse than this site if that can be possible.

The person who write that review intention  was clearly  to annoy the wow fanboy on aionsource ,he admited later in the thread that if he was to do a proper comparsion he would approach the review in a different way (Less bias toward aion) .Because there were saying wow pvp is the best  and arena is  equal skill, so Aion should copy wow.

It was a pretty bad post, I would have liked to know more about Aion PvP to be honest.

And yeah, granted WoW fights do sometime last longer in the arena depending on your comp, but there can be a lot of times where you will get gayed in a matter of seconds without much you can do.

Ok ok damn it, I'm preordering.

 if you want to know more about the pvp, stare at youtube for a couple hours clicking random pvp videos .. youll get the idea xD .