I don't get why, if the game is capable of higher settings, they don't allow us to use them. This is one of the reasons I left WAR, the forced slowed animations at distance drove me nuts.

Sorry to say, but more I play the worse this game gets and the more I it seems like a Korean Grinder with a little lip service slapped on for the west.  Finally, nearing level 19 I get to an area where I can fly and fight, go figure that in a game where so much was made about flight.  What happens?  MOBs bug out and reset if you fly - but they keep aggro many times so they just go to full health why you are now weakened and mostly screwed as the fight continues with them reset and you as you where.  It is getting bad fast, I still maintain it could be a good game but it is more and more seeming that this is a game made for a different player base and MODed, roughly, to work here.

Hehe-the gold spammers have found Aion! I can't tell you how many "whispers" I'm now getting from the gold spammers! They just need to go away! They are nothing but annoying! Aion is not hard to make money in-or-to level

Here is another major annoyance, and one of those things that is so hard to believe it got live like it is.  First, the game client will not remember even your account name so you must type that and your password in each time you login.  Also, you auto join the server you last played on and there is no way to change that behavior.  The fun part of this stupid setting is that if your server is down you get to sit and wait like 5 to 10 minutes for that last server you joined to time out so the client can, now you would think I would say let you choose another server but no, so you can watch the game quit to the desktop.  So rinse and repeat and again you are screwed.  No way to join another server if the server you last played on is down???  It is kind of comical really.

Originally posted by dominia

Honestly, out of that whole list - the textures thing bothers me the most.

You can tweak the graphics through Nvidia control panel.

Originally posted by AgtSmith

Here is another major annoyance, and one of those things that is so hard to believe it got live like it is.  First, the game client will not remember even your account name so you must type that and your password in each time you login.  Also, you auto join the server you last played on and there is no way to change that behavior.  The fun part of this stupid setting is that if your server is down you get to sit and wait like 5 to 10 minutes for that last server you joined to time out so the client can, now you would think I would say let you choose another server but no, so you can watch the game quit to the desktop.  So rinse and repeat and again you are screwed.  No way to join another server if the server you last played on is down???  It is kind of comical really.

Found a work around for this.  Start the game but when asked, do not accept the terms of agreement.  The game will exit.  Next time accept the terms and it will start you at the server select screen.

What have these games come to when a workaround is needed for something so basic and obvious.  To me it just shows the true nature of Aion, a game that could be really good but ultimately is just a Korean grinder (hate to use that dismissive label but it does sum it up).  Over a year live with hundreds of thousands of players and these kind of small, stupid things are pervasive.  Moreover, the PvE is just a gate to the PvP and little more than a big timesink to slow you getting to the meat of the game, which so far as I can tell is really not much more than gank or be ganked.  Aion has a lot of potential but the problem is its roots are in a genre/market that is antithetical to NA/Euro success and the fact that it has been out so long and has these issues tells me pretty clearly they are as intended and unlikely to ever change at all.

Originally posted by AgtSmith

What have these games come to when a workaround is needed for something so basic and obvious.  To me it just shows the true nature of Aion, a game that could be really good but ultimately is just a Korean grinder (hate to use that dismissive label but it does sum it up).  Over a year live with hundreds of thousands of players and these kind of small, stupid things are pervasive.  Moreover, the PvE is just a gate to the PvP and little more than a big timesink to slow you getting to the meat of the game, which so far as I can tell is really not much more than gank or be ganked.  Aion has a lot of potential but the problem is its roots are in a genre/market that is antithetical to NA/Euro success and the fact that it has been out so long and has these issues tells me pretty clearly they are as intended and unlikely to ever change at all.

Or maybe you don't want to learn new ways? not every game uses same stuff ever thought about that?

Originally posted by AgtSmith

Here is another major annoyance, and one of those things that is so hard to believe it got live like it is.  First, the game client will not remember even your account name so you must type that and your password in each time you login.  Also, you auto join the server you last played on and there is no way to change that behavior.  The fun part of this stupid setting is that if your server is down you get to sit and wait like 5 to 10 minutes for that last server you joined to time out so the client can, now you would think I would say let you choose another server but no, so you can watch the game quit to the desktop.  So rinse and repeat and again you are screwed.  No way to join another server if the server you last played on is down???  It is kind of comical really.

When you go in queue there is a select server button you can click on to go to the server select screen.

Originally posted by bloodaxes

Or maybe you don't want to learn new ways? not every game uses same stuff ever thought about that?

Yeah, I don't want to 'learn' how to make something that works assbackwards work slightly less assbackwards.  Go figure.

Originally posted by DevilXaphan 

When you go in queue there is a select server button you can click on to go to the server select screen.

I was not talking about when you hit a queue, I was talking about when you either get kicked from a server crash or start the game and your last server is down.  In those scenarios there is no means to simply go to the server select screen and choose another server/character to play on or even to just view the server status and wait for it to come back up and the locked in delay waiting for it to time out and close takes well over 5 minutes sometimes making it even more annoying.

Originally posted by dominia

Honestly, out of that whole list - the textures thing bothers me the most.

No it's the Rampant gold spamming. It is almost to the point of making me quit the game!!!

Gold spamming, and more bag space. Other than that, I'm having a blast.

Originally posted by AgtSmith

Yeah, yeah, a big shiny gold +2 Armor of Uberness and all those sorts of things matter in games but I have always thought that it is really the little things that make a game something you play for a either a few weeks, months, or years.  So far Aion is a good game with an fun and interesting world.  Yeah, to world could be a bit more wide open but such is MMOs these days and it is not Conan type linear so good enough.  Combat is interesting enough and balance seems good enough to get up adn going and see how it shakes out.  But for all the core goodness of Aion there are those peripheral issues that are often clunky, incomplete, or just sub par.  I compiled a wish list of ten small things I would want to see addressed soon to take the game from good port of Korean grinder as we know its roots to be to possibly great NA/Euro in its own rights.  Now, before you flame by little things and say they matter not compared to class balance and blah, blah, blah I am not suggesting the following are the keys to millions of subs, rather, I am saying the following are the things that great games will have along with those other things.  It is just hard to spend months playing a game and all that time if you are always fighting small little UI issues or other such clumsiness.  So it is in that vein I offer these 10 things.

 

(paste from Aion boards):

1) Window position remember between play sessions and a way to copy keybinds, game settings, and window/UI layout to another character.

 Agreed

2) Mostly the UI is good as far as default UIs and even though there is a nice upper and lower option on the layout both pretty much suck position wise.  We need the target and player vitals to be movable like the group vitals are so we can choose out own layout.  This is a small thing but I wouldn't even consider PvP with the two mucked up layouts offered now both of which put vitals, skills/actions, and the gameplay in the screen center as far apart as possible making taking them all in at once very difficult.

 er, sure why not

3) Chat kind of sucks.  Why reinvent the wheel here - /t, /r to reply to tell, and other such common shortcuts are missing or otherwise slightly different enough from the norm to be a pain and for no reason.  Include all common ways so chat is something you can do without thinking.  Also, private channels, they disappear when you log out - they need to remain persistent to have any use whatsoever - this is a major social element needed especially for those of us not inclined to join big guilds who want to join several smaller guilds in a common channel of our creation.

 you can do /t but what I don't like is that I can't freeze a chat tab to be only one thing. I keep having to /group or /legion to type on a particular window.

4) Queues, they seem to be improving so keep on it.  Other than 5 - 10 minutes here or there queues are not really acceptable these days I don't think.

 Where you have a popular game with popular servers you will have queues.

5) Combat doesn't end when combat ends, this is very annoying and needs to be fixed.  Also, auto attack doesn't auto attack - it seems it breaks when you use a magic skill instead of a melee skill.  Either way it should work without fail.

 sometimes auto attack does break true. I haven't noticed it not ending though.

6) Downtime between fights, OK if you want normal non combat recharge to be slow I can live with that.  but if you are sitting and resting then it should charge back up decently fast (mana too, no reason mana should take 5 times HP to recharge).

 You are attacking mobs too high. There doesn't need to be a lot of downtime. Heck, I have minimalized my downtime by attacking mobs that don't take a chunk out of me. And I bring odelia powder to help with mana. There is very little downtime if you play it correctly.

7) Attackable structures in game are only attackable with melee - fine for the non Sorcs but annoying anyways.  Anything that attacks should be able to attack these things and if you must do 1 HP dmg per hit no matter what then go ahead I suppose.

I think you can attack doors with magic?

8) Gold spammers, fix this now no matter what it takes.  Not sure if it is the game's Korean roots but it is already to most spamtastic MMO ever and I have seen some spamtastic MMOs.  Sorry to burden you guys with this but that is what you get the subs for, fix it.  At a minimum we need a report spam and a block user on right click (and not a limited block ten and it is full I mean block one name so I never have to hear from it again period.

 true it must be fixed.

9) Right click.  Maybe NCsoft folks are all MAC users where you are not allowed two buttons on your mice because Steve Jobs has a bug up his arse that someone else stole that idea before he could steal it but in the Windows world, you know the 98% of the world that matters, we have this second button called right click.  HaHa, sarcasm off - you get my point already I am sure but right click avatar or name or item or whatever should ALWAYS give me all relevant options I could want for that right clicked thing (i.e. whisper to friend, add to friends list, block, report, invite, etc, etc, etc).  Right click is good, mmmkay.

sure why not.

 

10)  Remember me?  How about a remember me option on the web site / forums and on the game login.  Why type in my username each and every time I open the game or visit the site - annoying.  And speaking of the website, good work on the new site overall but it really is bugged up in many ways.  Firefox compatibility is pretty lame and a myriad of other issues I won't bother to specify other than one, forum subscriptions (you know the page you have in most forum user profiles that lists threads you have started or replied in - really necessary on a high volume board).

 agreed.

11)  And a bonus small thing?  HIGH QUALITY TEXTURES.  Aion looks pretty good and all but the textures are terrible even jacked all the way up.  I can understand you wanting the game to scale and all but for those of us who can handle it we need high quality textures as waht is in game really makes it look like a WoW landscape with modern MMO elements added on top.

 

They hvae mentioned that this is a possibility

an they also need to add more quest from lvls 10 an above