I agree with the OP. If I'd pay a good chunk for a game, then I'd want to be able to play it as well, and not wait for hours. What do I care for the reasons why I can't play it? It's not my job to gather information about what's going on or not. My job was to pay the money, which I did. And then I expect to be able to get something for that. The excuses people make up are just words, changing nothing that I paid and can't use it. Also I agree with the guy said they probably do it on purpose for a while, to fuel the hype. I mean the company knew what was coming. They had the experience to see it and to deal with it. But they didn't deal with it.

I wouldn't quit the game that quickly though, trying every now and then to see if something changed.

Originally posted by Justin83x

Originally posted by Albos

 This is the e-mail i got after canceling aion: 

NCsoft Support to me
show details 10:16 PM (1 hour ago)
Account ******* successfully cancelled. This account will no longer auto-renew, and you will not be able to log in after your current subscription expires.

Enough is enough...they want my money I want to play when and where I like. Big FU to ncsoft by the way never ever will deal with them mofos again, on the other side you aion fanbois will be happy to get 3999 waiting line instead of 4000 lol.

 

You and everyone else like you are idiots if you would have researched the game a little bit then you would have known that today they are fixing the private shop afkers by adding a 30 min time limit so those people taking up space, and adding to the login times will decrease. Second if your having such long waits to login in try the elyos side they are not as populated as the asmo side which in turn lets you right into the game without a wait AT ALL. You and all others complaining about wait times should have known that once they (NCsoft) said they're gonna keep a balance of population on the serers to keep it fair in the abyss should have expected this sorta thing. Plus the fact that it is within the first week of release you should also know that wait times might happen while players rush to see the new toy on the market. So for you and all the little whiners who blame NCsoft for there own stupid decision not a) try another server b) wait till the game calms down a little c) just try the elyos side, it's your own fault.

there is always room lol but the idiot like the one you replied to wont go to asny server but the one they chose

me i got 8 toon so when a server is full i go play on another thats it 

but not them oh no they would rater leave the game then try another server or race lol

it makes me laugh i never saw all server all race full 

best bet use the server recommend in aion site and you will always play fastest lol

Originally posted by Justin83x

Originally posted by Albos

 This is the e-mail i got after canceling aion: 

NCsoft Support to me
show details 10:16 PM (1 hour ago)
Account ******* successfully cancelled. This account will no longer auto-renew, and you will not be able to log in after your current subscription expires.

Enough is enough...they want my money I want to play when and where I like. Big FU to ncsoft by the way never ever will deal with them mofos again, on the other side you aion fanbois will be happy to get 3999 waiting line instead of 4000 lol.

 

You and everyone else like you are idiots if you would have researched the game a little bit then you would have known that today they are fixing the private shop afkers by adding a 30 min time limit so those people taking up space, and adding to the login times will decrease. Second if your having such long waits to login in try the elyos side they are not as populated as the asmo side which in turn lets you right into the game without a wait AT ALL. You and all others complaining about wait times should have known that once they (NCsoft) said they're gonna keep a balance of population on the serers to keep it fair in the abyss should have expected this sorta thing. Plus the fact that it is within the first week of release you should also know that wait times might happen while players rush to see the new toy on the market. So for you and all the little whiners who blame NCsoft for there own stupid decision not a) try another server b) wait till the game calms down a little c) just try the elyos side, it's your own fault.

The above is so true it is funny. I have Asmo characters on Az that I can never get to, but I can log into my Elyos toons without issue. There is no need to ragequit.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Bottom line is that people bought the game they expect to play. The sad this is that they was touting how many pre-orders they had so they knew it was going to be packed day 1 and yet they did nothing to help the situation. This is because they feel they will not get as many NA/EU  customers as they do over in Asia so they think it will calm down after the first month or so. They may be right because if people get annoyed enough they will go elsewhere unless they are that desperate for their mmo fix.

If you think these queues could've been prevented, you're dreaming.

There's no way to adequately prepare for the mass of people coming in at launch. No way. Blizzard's WoW queues were horrendous when it first launched and it took some time to clear up.  The connection and lag issues when an MMO launches are usually so severe that it's just not time- or cost-effective to do what might be necessary to eliminate it. Especially because once the mass of players spread out, the problem mostly dissipates.

It's almost like when a new iPhone or something goes on sale and it sells out -- and people scream at Apple like, "WHY CAN'T YOU KEEP THEM IN STOCK?! YOU KNEW THE DEMAND WAS HIGH!" Uh, yeah, sure, but to say they should've just put out 5x the product to prevent shortages is short-sighted thinking.

Bottom line, if you're an MMO Early Adopter, these are the growing pains you willingly took upon yourself.

Originally posted by mmaize

Originally posted by Little11

Thats why I wait a few months before activating my pre ordered aion.. well always wait like 3months with all new games after my misstake with activating wow on its release day.. was like 1h queue the first month and some annoying small bugs...

 

Exactly.  While I haven't had any issues in Aion so far, you have to keep in mind that any popular game is going to have server issues at the start.  I remember WoW 1 hour + queue times after launch and lag like you wouldn't believe.  It will be solved with time.

I can remember WoW queues of over an hour when we were in BWL.  That was quite a while after release.  This game has been out how long and people are complaining about queues?

Waiting in queues sucks.  MMORPG's in general are probably always going to have a problem with queues if they are successful.  It's that old between a rock and a hard place thing.  Too many servers, too many of one faction, too many of a certain class will make a pvp game fail.  If you try and do something proactive about the problem people are going to justifiably complain about queues or lock outs.

I'm glad to see they are limiting private stores and adding servers.  It's only been a few days since launch and it looks like NcSoft is listening to their customers and changing things as quickly as possible.  It will never be quick enough for some people.  Hell, it's not quick enough for ME when I'm stuck in a queue!

I am encouraged that NcSoft is listening.  That's a very good start.

Hey, I've got this novel idea: Roll on a server without a queue!

That's right: When WoW launched I had NEVER waited in a queue, because I made my toons on low population servers.

I really don't understand how people can only play games with their friends; it's not like you can't roll a toon on another server and have fun with people you don't know.

Originally posted by //\\//\\oo

Hey, I've got this novel idea: Roll on a server without a queue!

That's right: When WoW launched I had NEVER waited in a queue, because I made my toons on low population servers.

I really don't understand how people can only play games with their friends; it's not like you can't roll a toon on another server and have fun with people you don't know.

 

I think you have to have friends to know why people like to play with them.  For me, it's about keeping the friends I have.  I spend a lot of time in game, so if I'm not playing with my RL friends I tend to lose touch with them.

When you lose touch with friends, the friendship suffers.  I kind of like to have my RL friends, I like to keep in touch with them and I like to play games with them.  If I did not want to play with my friends, then by definition they are not my friends.

Originally posted by scodavis

 

I think you have to have friends to know why people like to play with them.  For me, it's about keeping the friends I have.  I spend a lot of time in game, so if I'm not playing with my RL friends I tend to lose touch with them.

 

When you lose touch with friends, the friendship suffers.  I kind of like to have my RL friends, I like to keep in touch with them and I like to play games with them.  If I did not want to play with my friends, then by definition they are not my friends.

 

   Most of my friends don't even like MMO's, so that leaves me to play with people I don't know most of the time. The time I spend with my friends involves going out more often than not instead of sitting in front of a computer and killing pixel dragons.

  If you live online, then I could see how having your friends play as well is necessary.

  For me it's a good thing that my friends don't play, since I'm somewhat compulsive and could see myself sitting and staring at a screen all day.

Or drag your friends *gasp* to the low pop server :O

Hold on a second. Are some people here actually DEFENDING a 4 hour queue to play a video game? Take a step back and think about what you're saying, then maybe you can empathize with those that don't have the time/patience to put up with it.

I was considering giving this game a go, but if the queues are like that...I think I'll wait.

why didn't you just roll on a different server? there are 2 low pop servers that almost never have any que at all at any time of the day. me and my guild logged in at 3 sunday and the server we orginially picked was just slammed, and one guildie that made his character elyos before he found out we went asmo and no one could make anymore asmo on that server. we got in with no que but you couldn't do any quests there was so many people. so i logged out and saw the one server said low so we all went there and rerolled, we're asmo and no one in my guild has ever had a que. and yesterday there was a big raid on Altguard by elyos probably atleast 40 elyos all in the same 2 guilds looked like a joint effort was ALOT of fun.

honestly i think the shops caused 90% of the ques, and they fixed that today by logging out the shops after 30 min.

Originally posted by //\\//\\oo

Originally posted by scodavis

 

I think you have to have friends to know why people like to play with them.  For me, it's about keeping the friends I have.  I spend a lot of time in game, so if I'm not playing with my RL friends I tend to lose touch with them.

 

When you lose touch with friends, the friendship suffers.  I kind of like to have my RL friends, I like to keep in touch with them and I like to play games with them.  If I did not want to play with my friends, then by definition they are not my friends.

 

 

   Most of my friends don't even like MMO's, so that leaves me to play with people I don't know most of the time. The time I spend with my friends involves going out more often than not instead of sitting in front of a computer and killing pixel dragons.

  If you live online, then I could see how having your friends play as well is necessary.

  For me it's a good thing that my friends don't play, since I'm somewhat compulsive and could see myself sitting and staring at a screen all day.

 

Point taken.  And I agree with you 100%.  I am getting an odd feeling lately about Aion.  It took me so long to break my addiction to WoW that I am having some real issues about getting back into any game at that level.

Living online kind of sucks.  I prefer your plan actually.

I guess no one heard their is a fix incoming for the server queues and the afk stores.

But oh well, bye OP

Originally posted by Albos

 This is the e-mail i got after canceling aion: 

NCsoft Support to me
show details 10:16 PM (1 hour ago)
Account ******* successfully cancelled. This account will no longer auto-renew, and you will not be able to log in after your current subscription expires.

Enough is enough...they want my money I want to play when and where I like. Big FU to ncsoft by the way never ever will deal with them mofos again, on the other side you aion fanbois will be happy to get 3999 waiting line instead of 4000 lol.

I understand that queues suck but at some point you have to know that this is life? If you go to an amusement park, especially a very popular one, you are going to get lines.

Heck, if you were inclined to go to Disney world during peak times you would be spending a lot of time in lines. Do you really think that because you paid your admission you should be able to just walk up to the roller coaster and get on without waiting your turn?

Or some popular bars and night clubs have lines because there are too many people inside so you have to wait until some clear out. Or just plain waiting for a table in a restaurant.

Do what you want it's your money and time but I think you are making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Originally posted by mmofan2112

 You are about to get tons of the traditional 'qq' replies but I for one cant blame you. Think about a typical player, they get home from school/work, log in, see 3-4 hour (or longer) queue so waiting is not even an option. I decided to give them about a week so if say, middle of next week they still have the 3-4 hour wait and tons of afk private stores, I may just stick to another MMO. Aion is good, but there is hardly a shortage of good games out there. 

So I understand they patched today such taht private stores onyl last 30min then boot.

Whats funny is the game has been runnign how long in other countries with private stores? and in less than a week we managed to explote the feature to such an extent that they baicly chop it off. . . good job guys!

I understand beeing pissed about he que, not a fan either of course I expect with any new MMO a line, WoW was down more than it was up when it whent live. Was the first time I ever saw a MMO actualy give time back to the players lol Blizz extended our free play time by like a week and some change was very nice of them. Now Aion hasn't crashed yet that I know of but we cant say much there after all it has been live for awhile but I would think any MMOer that plays a MMO from launch is familuer with and expects either or both ques or crashes/log-in failuers. Its not a matter of to few servers its a matter of its a new game and massive numbers of people are trying to play all the time. I do suggest that if you dont like it cancel the sub (not being mean) generaly a game is much better abotu 3 - 6 M out any wayso if you have another game to play and dont need to be in Aion right now then cancel and come back later see if its better.

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Originally posted by LodenDSG
Whats funny is the game has been runnign how long in other countries with private stores? and in less than a week we managed to explote the feature to such an extent that they baicly chop it off. . . good job guys!

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QFT!

Originally posted by remyburke

Hold on a second. Are some people here actually DEFENDING a 4 hour queue to play a video game? Take a step back and think about what you're saying, then maybe you can empathize with those that don't have the time/patience to put up with it.

I was considering giving this game a go, but if the queues are like that...I think I'll wait.

Yes that is exactly what they are doing.  Sitting for hours in a Q is not my idea of a fun time and sure is hell isnt what people pay for. As ive mentioned before, what good is a 2 day head start if your burning up hours sitting in a Q?  Same with the extra free week." Hey i get a 2 day head start so i can sit in a Q hang out on the message boards and tell people what a great game this is".  Awesome.

Once again, there are NO EAST COAST SERVERS WITH NO QUEUE.  and  I am not moving or changing my waking hours just to play.  

I can haz your kinah ?