MMORPG.com's Jon Wood had the opportunity to ask a few questions of Aion's Producer Brian Knox as we approach the game's one-month anniversary.

MMORPG.com:

Can you explain what led to the decision to allow what many considered to be outrageous queue times directly after launch rather than to add more servers or take some other measure to be sure that all who paid for the game could play when they wanted to?

Brian Knox:

We tried to walk a very fine line and we strayed a bit in the beginning. Our goal was to always ensure there was a playable server for that language or region. Most players didn't use this option and continued to stay with their original server, but the option was there. That said, today we're seeing much more reasonable queue times today and continue to monitor this closely.

Read the One Month in Q&A.

Well at least you asked the hard question about bots and spammers.  Hopefully we will see some better help for this in the future as it currently is still very much a major issue in the game.

 Something says me that Aion is fail. Dang, just now that i bought the game to know... me and my  sotne head!

 The real question to ask would have been what are they doing about the Aion.bin and crysystem.dll crash that happens when you get into hig populated areas...i cancelled my account until that bug is fixed. Im sure many have done the same. The game is great but that bug is killing it for alot of people.

Originally posted by saitoh183

 The real question to ask would have been what are they doing about the Aion.bin and crysystem.dll crash that happens when you get into hig populated areas...i cancelled my account until that bug is fixed. Im sure many have done the same. The game is great but that bug is killing it for alot of people.

Go to this <link> and help NCWest find your crash report.

1. PVE is very boring, repetitive, and mob XP is a joke
2. Grouping seems to be penalized Pre level 40
3. Quest rewards for exp and loot are out of whack
4. Itemization is horribad!
5. RVR/Forts have poor performance, rewards are poor
6. The PVE death penalty is ridiculous

If they don't fix those things in short order, then I see AION USA taking a similar path that Warhammer and AOC had with a good initial launch while bleeding subs over the first six months. All three games basically cater to the same population, and that population has twice said that RVR/Siege games can't have a bad grind to level, RVR/Sieges need to have good performance, and the PVP end game needs to feel rewarding.

Was forced to move to a new server 4 days in a row, average log-in wait 2-3 hours, cancelled the acount when the login on day 5 was no better. Last pre-order for a while, not even going to look at GW II because it's an NCSoft game.

Originally posted by Boreth11

Was forced to move to a new server 4 days in a row, average log-in wait 2-3 hours, cancelled the acount when the login on day 5 was no better. Last pre-order for a while, not even going to look at GW II because it's an NCSoft game.

GW2 is an Arenanet game. Don't confuse craptactic NCsoft with Arenanet. NCsoft is just the publisher, they have nothing to do with how the game plays whatsoever.

Originally posted by DevilXaphan

Originally posted by saitoh183

 The real question to ask would have been what are they doing about the Aion.bin and crysystem.dll crash that happens when you get into hig populated areas...i cancelled my account until that bug is fixed. Im sure many have done the same. The game is great but that bug is killing it for alot of people.

 

Go to this <link> and help NCWest find your crash report.

Thx, But i have done that already. I just hope its fixed soon so i can continue to play. I stopped just to not get annoyed with the game.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Originally posted by Boreth11

Was forced to move to a new server 4 days in a row, average log-in wait 2-3 hours, cancelled the acount when the login on day 5 was no better. Last pre-order for a while, not even going to look at GW II because it's an NCSoft game.

 

GW2 is an Arenanet game. Don't confuse craptactic NCsoft with Arenanet. NCsoft is just the publisher, they have nothing to do with how the game plays whatsoever.

Yeah he is right, Ncsoft has nothing to do with the gameplay. So GW2 cant be in the same boat. I was there for the release of GW and it was very smood transition from beta to live so i dont see why Arenanet cant pull it off again.

I so LOL wheni read this,

They are not doing anything about bots, hell there 4x more bots now then there was 2 weeks ago. And i still see some i have reported 2 weeks ago playing.

Stability: ah sure, the game keeps crashing on me with the crysis.dll thing, and my server has crashed 23times in first two weeks while i was on. This is more then WoW did in first month.

This game, really for me right now is BLAH. the grind is so boring because really what the point. The PVP is mediocre ata best, better then WOW but not as good as DAOC.

 Well, patience now, i just bought it and download has done, now all that i cand do is enjoy my free month and  see what happen. Anyway Warhammer is very diferent now after the last patch, is a good idea to back and give a second chance for this game. I was thinking about  stop to play War but, after ti, I will give a chance for FAION and then, chose the game that i will stay playing.

The next patch is suppose to greatly increase the xp given by quest for you babies that want to be spoon feed. We are talking about quest that once gave 17k giving 700k.  That way when you get to 50 in 2 weeks youll have something new to cry about...no end game content....cause most new games put end game stuff later.....the cry baby generation of mmos will never be happy...they are worst than spammers in game...you just dont stop ....you go wha wha wha all day long for every game released. 

Too bad I couldn't ask him quesions because there are three I would like to ask:

1. Are you guys aware you have a forum and do you ever plan on using it for informative purposes, communicating with players, and using stickies so people don't post the same issues/questions over and over?

2. Is someone looking into the issues a lot seem to be having in fortress battles such as constant crashing or serious lag even though they are using a pc at the recommended settings the company said was neeeded or better?

3. Followup to the bot quesion: So if you do have these tools in place to catch botters is there some serious work being done to improve these functions or hiring additional staff seeing how some have gone on botting for weeks now even though they are being reported?

I'm really enjoying this game but the level of support I'm seeing it get from NCSoft is very dissappointing and there are some areas that need looking into sooner rather than later.  It's a good game, but it could be a lot better even in it's current condition if more of an effort was made by NCSoft from a customer service/support angle.

Originally posted by felore

The next patch is suppose to greatly increase the xp given by quest for you babies that want to be spoon feed. We are talking about quest that once gave 17k giving 700k.  That way when you get to 50 in 2 weeks youll have something new to cry about...no end game content....cause most new games put end game stuff later.....the cry baby generation of mmos will never be happy...they are worst than spammers in game...you just dont stop ....you go wha wha wha all day long for every game released. 

Indeed, the babies are crying once again. if they cant have it right now they cry until they get their way.

Im sure the babies will cry about not being given the number one pvp title. "Its so unfair that billy can have that title and i cant, i know what i'll do i will whine and cry until someone listens"

i really wish they would split the genre so i dont have to play with these morons anymore..

actually, considering that NCsoft doesn't listen to the western audience, any XP increase is from the Eastern front QQing, not the Western. All content patches come from them and are localized for our version.

So you can't put all the blame on the Elmo generation this time.

Originally posted by lizinverse

actually, considering that NCsoft doesn't listen to the western audience, any XP increase is from the Eastern front QQing, not the Western. All content patches come from them and are localized for our version.

So you can't put all the blame on the Elmo generation this time.

This has been quoted for truth.  NCSoft will not hear your cries.  They never have, and they never will.  You and your subscription do not matter to NCSoft.  They know their game is by and large engaging and fun, and just like Lineage II, it will continue to make money for the company despite whatever percent of the population thinks the game is crap.

Well, I logged in and the chat spam was gone (at least).

My 24 cleric was still instant killed by assassins the second he tried to go out and do anything.

Still a S*&t game.  Still would not advise anyone to waste their money on it.

So it's a shit game because you died?

I thought he answered the questions fairly well and he admitted NCSoft made a mistake with not enough servers. They've also added an updating spam filter and have had a major wave of bans. There still is the flaw where people crash in populated areas and that is being worked on. I myself don't have that problem and understand for people who do it is a game breaker. However I'm not about to unsubscribe because others are having those problems and I'm not.