That sucks man. As much as I am absolutely loving this game, I'd be pissed off and disappointed if I had that issue as well, especially 10 minutes into a new purchase.

With that said, I've now run 4 characters through the tutorial and never had a single issue with it. It's been flawless for me. The most recent was 2 days ago. So I am curious if this is a random issue, something that broke in the past 2 days, maybe I just lucky? I know you wouldn't know those answers and I know that none of them are excusable, but I am still curious now.

Anyway, I find the game to be an amazing amount of fun and I hope that things get better for you in the game and that you end up having a long, fun filled experience in FE too :)

Performance for me has increased dramatically since beta.

In beta, I had massive issues with lag and falling through the world constantly, textures not loading properly, etc...
I've been playing the last 2 weeks with none of those issues at all.

I can't believe nobody did this either ;)

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/255715/So-since-were-all-on-the-same-server-here.html

I bought 2 weeks ago, direct through the devs and it was definitely a secure connection then.

Jak Mako here. My friends call me Mako, or Mako Jak.

I'm part of the... well... uh... family. Yeah, that's the ticket.

I tend to hang around places with lots of shadows, don't ask why.

If you need something done, look me up. Don't sneak up on me though, I have a nervous twitch in my trigger finger! :p

I completely agree with the OP.
I'll be here in FE a week tomorrow, and I am completely addicted. They have done, and are doing, a fantastic job here.

I played for hours and hours last night. I got completely lost exploring. Wandered into a pvp zone and bit it but had a great time :)

I'm only level 4 but I was able to craft my first horse bridle and then upgrade it by using it to craft a riding horse bridle. So i can now get around a lot easier without my ATV eating up gas for now :)

The game just keeps growing and growing on me.

I played FE in beta and although I tested and submitted bugs, I was never happy with the game. I knew it was beta, so I never posted my negative thoughts publicly or anything, I just tested and then decided it wasn't for me and moved on when that beta phase ended.

I've always enjoyed Aion through it's beta events and so that became my obvious choice when they both launched.

Fast forward to yesterday. Decided to take a peek in here and saw a few positive threads, including the top 10 realisms, etc...  All good stuff and reminded me of UO a bit, so I hit a few sites and read some more. I saw that some of my aggravations from beta seemed to be winding down and vanishing, and also that a lot of great ideas had made their way into the game.

I was reading a lot of things that i consider pros in a game, and really miss from the UO days. For one, a living world feel to the game.

And so last night I bought the game, wondering if things could have really come as far as I was reading. I just logged out after playing far too many hours to mention. I am completely blown away by this game. I almost passed it up. Absolutely amazing job that Icarus has done here in my opinion. I'm already missing it and I just logged out!

Are you talking about the $10 CE upgrade from the official store?

If so, I think it can only be applied after you apply your normal game key.

And I think that only happens on the day of public launch, Tuesday.

The exception might be if you bought the normal game from NC as well, then the normal key might have already been applied and the CE upgrade might work before Tuesday, not sure on that though.

Originally posted by vixen2

...I don't get it...

You are absolutely correct.

fun stuff :)

Yes, I'm loving the game so far. Have played in the last 2 beta events now and made it to level 27 this go around. Having a complete blast!

Will be upgrading my preorder to CE now (for the wings) and will be there as soon as the servers wake up on the 20th for head start.

I'm not the biggest fan of GG, but if the game simply kicks much ass, I'll endure.

Aion, for me, kicks much ass.

If I could have Aion without GG, I'd take it. But I won't give up an amazing game due to it.

Unfortunately, I know that goes nowhere towards correcting the issue... but I love great games :)

For those who care and don't know, NC hit some massive networking issues yesterday.

The first few hours of OB were smooth sailing for most, then there was a server reboot to fix an issue that carried over in patch 1.5 and after that reboot a ton of people began having massive connectivity/lag/rubberbanding issues.

If you hop on Aionsource and look at the tracert thread, you'll see where everyone is timing out in their hops.

Since I played 25+ hours of CB6 and the start of OB flawlessly, I know what the game holds for me, I know that buying it was a smart move, I know that this is not another WAR or AoC for me. The fact that they are having some networking issues, during open beta, at a new data center (cb servers were in Tx, OB and launch servers are on Easy Coast) is a minor inconvenience at most.

Anyone throwing a fit over this would have thrown it regardless.

Originally posted by keygan

me either....i have a folder with 9.12gb in it ...so i know i have the game but i cant load it for some reason with out patching the entire game again.

Just a FYI, when all is updated, the Aion folder is 11.2gb with no screenshots in it.

Asmo Spiritmaster for me.

Was going to do an Asmo assassin alt, but have changed my mind. I am now rolling an Asmo Cleric or Chanter alt.

Originally posted by boomerangx

yeah bro i really wish the beta started today :X i have plans for labor day and i will be busy most of the upcoming week

That sucks, but it will make launch that much sweeter :)

I'm very excited myself!

I loved M59 and UO, EQ1 and AC1 and onward.

But my absolute love for pvp/rvr came with Camelot.

From what I got to see in Aion's beta, I really love the game, and the rvr with the third NPC realm looks to be a recipe for success.

I am really stoked for OB and launch!

 edit - because I am excited... not exited... that'd suck

again, just hit shift-F12 and they vanish

Shift-F12 is your friend

hides other players for when you are running into a busy private shop area, providing you wish to not see them.