Downloading now. I think Aion as a P4F is going to be an enjoyable experience. At least long enough to get me to Neverwinter :)

Originally posted by MMO_REVIEWER

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Have not played the game for quite a while so the only way to update it was to download the entire 18GB of code, then you add in Pando Media Booster and sorry no thanks, I don't put viruses on my computer.  Like to see the changes in 3.0, but not that bad.

Suffice to say pando media booster is not a virus. It's just a delivery system used by several games. If youve ever played League of Legends it also uses Pando Media Booster. Star wars the old republic used a modified version of it. Several games are adopting it. In essence you dont need it after you download the game... you can download it and then get rid of it once the download/install is completed. Definitely not a virus. If your anitivirus is picking it up as such its because it functions similar to bittorrent. It fetches a file from ncsofts server, unpacks it and then downloads it. No harm no foul.

It always baffles me how people will believe anything that their Norton or Kaspersky tells them. "Hey system32 folder is a virus!" ..."realy?? thanks Norton!" Lets say you go walking down a street with a gun. Sure you have it registered and are well within your rights to carry it, but people will almost always be afraid of you and the police will always see you as a threat despite your intentions to only safeguard your persons. Dont be so hasty to brand every piece of software youve neer heard of as a virus.

 

It's not a virus, however it is a p2p client that eats up your bandwith.  It used to not be configurable but it appears that they have been forced to add some options to it such as not starting when you computer starts up etc.  Personally I consider it malware as it will eat up some bandwith and it's completely unnecessary.

Anyways...back to Aion!

Originally posted by MMO_REVIEWER

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Have not played the game for quite a while so the only way to update it was to download the entire 18GB of code, then you add in Pando Media Booster and sorry no thanks, I don't put viruses on my computer.  Like to see the changes in 3.0, but not that bad.

Suffice to say pando media booster is not a virus. It's just a delivery system used by several games. If youve ever played League of Legends it also uses Pando Media Booster. Star wars the old republic used a modified version of it. Several games are adopting it. In essence you dont need it after you download the game... you can download it and then get rid of it once the download/install is completed. Definitely not a virus. If your anitivirus is picking it up as such its because it functions similar to bittorrent. It fetches a file from ncsofts server, unpacks it and then downloads it. No harm no foul.

It always baffles me how people will believe anything that their Norton or Kaspersky tells them. "Hey system32 folder is a virus!" ..."realy?? thanks Norton!" Lets say you go walking down a street with a gun. Sure you have it registered and are well within your rights to carry it, but people will almost always be afraid of you and the police will always see you as a threat despite your intentions to only safeguard your persons. Dont be so hasty to brand every piece of software youve neer heard of as a virus.

 

Thats exactly what I do when I HAVE to use pando..use it then immediatly delete it.Future updates come in without it.

Did you ever get a box of chocolate candy....and start eating and keep on eating,when you know you should stop ? My wife and I pretty much did that with AION FRIDAY, SATURDAY, and SUNDAY.Yes it's been a bit much. And i must step away.But when I do..the meters not running.

My wife and I are playing Rangers atm.i want to give a Sorc a try...but will take it slow.

I do like the crafting.Yes you can make things that are better than most items awarded by quests ...so far. Dungeon drops may out class crafted but..we'll have to see.

My only wish.....that there was low level rvr in the game.DAOC like battle grounds where us lowbies can have some serious fun.

The housing...I've never seen better

Originally posted by Adamantine

I'm sorry, but as long as a commercial company is running this game and needs to make money from running it, there will be no gameshop that somehow magically isnt pay to win.

F2P games are always like that: 90% or more pay nothing, a small group of people pay insane sums.

In many cases thats entirely correct.  But it all depends on what items are in the cash shop.  Not to mention their price (look at Allords major mistake in that regard...<face palm>). 

I started playing this yesterday to take a look at the new stuff.

Had a problem getting disconnected from server quite regularly. Maybe 5 times over 4 hours.

Anyone else had that problem?

Originally posted by jacklo

I started playing this yesterday to take a look at the new stuff.

Had a problem getting disconnected from server quite regularly. Maybe 5 times over 4 hours.

Anyone else had that problem?

nope.often I played for 5-8 hours at a stretch...never loosing connection(I've got cable...fyi)

Originally posted by Djildjamesh

could you maybe do a small write up on the housing system :) ?

I am one of the players who played for 3 months and then bailed out back to WoW. I quiet liked the game myself but all my friends left one by one. Since it's F2p now i've been thinking about comming 'back'

The housing system seems pretty neat.

There is one whole region that seems devoted to housing.

Every plaeyr gets a studio apartment and there are various "quests" that act as tutorials to show you how to use it. You get a skill so you can port to your house and it's on a cooldown. Or you can travel to the island, run to your neighborhood and use the front gate.

Each area is nice but each area gets progressively more posh.

the studio is free and you dno't have to pay for it other than furnishings, wall coverings, etc.

I suspect the other areas have larger and fancier houses.

It's not quite open world where each person has their own house. It seems that each area has some sort of structure where people can go in and get to their own space.

There is a butler and youc an program him to do things when you enter or interact with him. You can place furniture anywhere you want by registering it, clicking on the icon in the window where it resides (after registration) and then it appears in the room to be moved.

Youc can rotate items. you can lie in a bed or sit in a chair.

You can have music on. You can port to the house of anyone in your friend's list. youc an also open your house to everyone or no one.

The studio has a nice view of a lake.

Originally posted by Shadanwolf

Originally posted by jacklo

I started playing this yesterday to take a look at the new stuff.

Had a problem getting disconnected from server quite regularly. Maybe 5 times over 4 hours.

Anyone else had that problem?

nope.often I played for 5-8 hours at a stretch...never loosing connection(I've got cable...fyi)

I couldn't find anything recent on official forums so maybe my ISP was playing up. I'm playing from UK.

Will give it another go later this evening. Thanks for your response.

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Djildjamesh

could you maybe do a small write up on the housing system :) ?

I am one of the players who played for 3 months and then bailed out back to WoW. I quiet liked the game myself but all my friends left one by one. Since it's F2p now i've been thinking about comming 'back'

The housing system seems pretty neat.

There is one whole region that seems devoted to housing.

Every plaeyr gets a studio apartment and there are various "quests" that act as tutorials to show you how to use it. You get a skill so you can port to your house and it's on a cooldown. Or you can travel to the island, run to your neighborhood and use the front gate.

Each area is nice but each area gets progressively more posh.

the studio is free and you dno't have to pay for it other than furnishings, wall coverings, etc.

I suspect the other areas have larger and fancier houses.

It's not quite open world where each person has their own house. It seems that each area has some sort of structure where people can go in and get to their own space.

There is a butler and youc an program him to do things when you enter or interact with him. You can place furniture anywhere you want by registering it, clicking on the icon in the window where it resides (after registration) and then it appears in the room to be moved.

Youc can rotate items. you can lie in a bed or sit in a chair.

You can have music on. You can port to the house of anyone in your friend's list. youc an also open your house to everyone or no one.

The studio has a nice view of a lake.

In addition you can place item in the house that add some extra storage

Just finished downloading, created acc and logged in. (Gameforge verion..EU btw).

Really nice character creation system that has tons of variety and the ability to create some really disturbing freaks.

Hit start.

Spent 5 minutes trying to get a reply to the question "how do I block these f£$*@ng gold spammers?"

Tried /block...hooray worked. 

Replied to several other newbies such as myself who were asking the same question.  Spent 15 minutes typing /block.

Started playing my warrior witha bad taste in my mouth.

Logged out for something to eat, rejoined spent another 15 mins typing /block as other spammers had joined the party.

All the while reading rage posts about above and the fact there were no G.M's kicking these asshats out.

Regardles of updates, patches and groovy stuff, these spamming bastards do the game no favours for first timers.

Started first quest...targeted mob....clicked sword.....sat back and watched my toon turn into a bot and autopath/fight for me.  Got bored so changed animation by hitting a skill button whilst drinking a mug of coffe and chatting to other people in the room.

People subbed this  0.o?????????

Will carry on in the hope that it gets better but I aint holdin me breath.

Originally posted by B1mble

Just finished downloading, created acc and logged in. (Gameforge verion..EU btw).

Really nice character creation system that has tons of variety and the ability to create some really disturbing freaks.

Hit start.

Spent 5 minutes trying to get a reply to the question "how do I block these f£$*@ng gold spammers?"

Tried /block...hooray worked. 

Replied to several other newbies such as myself who were asking the same question.  Spent 15 minutes typing /block.

Started playing my warrior witha bad taste in my mouth.

Logged out for something to eat, rejoined spent another 15 mins typing /block as other spammers had joined the party.

All the while reading rage posts about above and the fact there were no G.M's kicking these asshats out.

Regardles of updates, patches and groovy stuff, these spamming bastards do the game no favours for first timers.

Started first quest...targeted mob....clicked sword.....sat back and watched my toon turn into a bot and autopath/fight for me.  Got bored so changed animation by hitting a skill button whilst drinking a mug of coffe and chatting to other people in the room.

People subbed this  0.o?????????

Will carry on in the hope that it gets better but I aint holdin me breath.

Hope you have a better day in RW.

Originally posted by B1mble

Will carry on in the hope that it gets better but I aint holdin me breath.

Well, it does, And certinaly for a warrior and espeically if you are using a two handed weapon. The problem with Aion and perhaps many games, is that they need to be able to speak to the noob as well as the veteran.

And I'm not speaking to a "noob" in a particular game, I'm talking about someone who has never played a video game such as an mmo. So the first combat is just easy and dul.

I can't promise that the combat is like Tera but it's fun and I enjoy my sorcerer. I also have a warrior and use a two handed weapon and find that a blast.

I haven't played since the first few months after it released but is PvP mandatory or can you PvE from 1 to level cap now that there are supposed to be alot more quests with the introduction of 3.0?

Thanks so much for your write up!!

Originally posted by sharpshade

I haven't played since the first few months after it released but is PvP mandatory or can you PvE from 1 to level cap now that there are supposed to be alot more quests with the introduction of 3.0?

Thanks so much for your write up!!

Rifting is pretty much dead now days with the huge debuffs you get when you enter enemy territory in regular qusting zones.

so yea it's pretty much a pve game with pvp restricted to the Abyss and the new high level pvp zone.

Nice! So you're not forced to quest through the Abyss and PvP? There's enough PvE quests to get you from 1 to level cap? If this is the case I'll be downloading and playing!  =)

I got bored with Aion a couple of months after launch but thought I would give it another try last weekend since its now F2P.

Got as far as downloading and running the patcher (Eu version) before it started spewing out errors which meant I couldnt install it.

Im pretty computer savvy(work in tech support) so I spent about an hour arsing around trying to get it to work and finally after moving and renaming files, downloading files using the torrent in the install folder through utorrent rather than the patcher and other fun and games got it to start patching.

I have a fast internet connection - 50Mb/sec so I can get throughput of around 5MB/sec. The patcher was downloading at less than 50k/sec.

Left it running overnight and when I checked in the morning it was still downloading at a stupidly slow speed and was at 3%.

At this point I gave up. First impressions: not good. 

Originally posted by sharpshade

Nice! So you're not forced to quest through the Abyss and PvP? There's enough PvE quests to get you from 1 to level cap? If this is the case I'll be downloading and playing!  =)

yes definately enough quests to reach level cap without getting into pvp. however end level content is still heavely pvp oriented.

Awesome thanks so much for replying so quickly! Downloading now, at 50% and going slooow haha! I've been looking to get into something until the release of GW2 and I think Aion will do nicely! Thanks again OP for the great write up and thanks Jak for answering my questions!  =)

Originally posted by GeezerGamer

I Downloaded this game. Like it or leave it, the graphics are 100% Asian style. They don't bother me, but I know some don't care for it. The game installed and loaded easily. I looged in and did the 1st few quests. After about 30 minutes into the game, I was left unimpressed to be honest. It was nothing fresh, it was just like every other fantasy themed MMO i've played in recent years. I didn't see anything that was awful either, just nothing that made me say. "Oh, Hey! this is cool!"

Some people say, you have to play a game in order to speak on it, I disagree. A game has minutes to grab you and if it's F2P and it fails to grab you, it sits. and That's what this game did. I may get around to try it again someday, but I'm in no hurry.

   yea same thing here,  grab your sword press 1 and than 2 mob dead , rinse repeat over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Vanguard F2P coming soon and Tera right around the corner for some interesting combat at least