Originally posted by Shaman4Left

The game it`s self should not be designed for soloing... SNIP... developers should never design game content with soloing in mind.

Aha, this topic is both new and interesting.  It can only be, what... the 8,685th time we've had this very same topic crop up this year?

Grouping and "socializing" is vastly overrated., If I throw a pleading "I Love To Group" type a bone and decide to share my XP and loot (easily obtainable to anyone on their own who can use their brain properly) my reward is I get to wildly socialize with someone to whom personal interaction is usually limited to pre-programmed /emotes and the odd "lol" or "ok" or "np" every fifteen seconds.  Boy, how I treasure that quality social interaction - good times, eh!!   I can see why people love to group... not.

What cracks me up every time in threads like this, is that you never EVER see soloers whining for more solo-orientated content.  We're happy, we're quiet, we're doing what floats our boat while happily letting other people do whatever floats THEIR boat.  But no, the Herd Mentality players just never quit whining.  Developers, with their eye for a buck, will, thank god, cater for any market they can find, and just like in Real Life, many people MUCH prefer to solo.

The only bad thing WoW as "done" is to make every bloody sad-sack game developer want to basically copy the game mechanisms and grab a piece of the action.  Again, and again and again.  Aion is the latest in lazy, copy/paste MMO gaming, except they go one step further down the road to mediocrity by limitng the game to ONE quest chain per race, ONE starting area per race and making the quests so stunningly boring that the only "grind" involved is withstanding the sheer boredom and monotony.

Pandering to the "I'm High Level So I Win" crowd by making a game where level cap was reached in two weeks just ruins the whole genre.

Originally posted by Goatgod76

Although I'd have liked to of found an MMO where PvP was honorable, meaningful, and fun..I came to realize that that is just a fantasy and doesn't exist, nor will  probably ever exist in a PvP setting.

As you say, there will never be honourable, meaningful PvP in MMOs.  Anyone who actually expects honourable PvP is doomed to constant disappointment, because it only takes one griefer who enjoys spoiling the fun of lower-level people - and it's ALWAYS the lower-levels they go for.  If there was any risk involved, it would spoil their fun.

I've downloaded it, to try it out, but I'll have to wait for a key, it appears.

There isn't an MMO on the market that is designed to encourage and reward RP. Not one. Without exception, they are basically shoot-em-ups with a fantasy-inspired, pseudo-medieval front end, whereby you level by killing mob after mob after mob.  What quests there are invariably comprise mostly of - yes, what a surprise - killing mob after mob.  There's no incentive to RP, no point in RP and even if you try, it is meaningless in the context of the game.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

So why am I dedicating my opinion column to a game that's nowhere close to being released? Well, because I think it has potential

Well, you really and truly jinxed the game there.  FAR too many games that are out now "have potential" and the phrase essentially means "well, yes it's a bit poor now, but it might well get better".

I wish people would stop hyping games that have barely made it into existence.

Oh, and this little gem..."This is a bold, yet unsurprising move that shows another focus on graphical quality of the game in order to make sure it appeals to today's gamer."  That REALLY shows that you have no idea what gamers really want, which is an MMO that is both fresh and innovative and which actually has real depth of play and immersion.  Eye-candy is used to paper over the flaws and the lazy, copy/paste content in today's piss-poor games, and it doesn't fool real gamers.  Aion developers take note.

Originally posted by ozmono  

 It frustrates me because I just cannot understand how someone can be happy with a system that you kill monster A x amount of times before you level up and are strong enough to kill monster B x amount of times and level up. Sure there is more to it than that. There are crappy repetitive quest, PVP just for the sake of it, restrictive character development and I'm sure I'm missing something else which contributes to the hundreds of hours of mind numbing self inflicted pain that is poorly invested into non existent characters. 

I see you've tried Aion out as well, then.

Aion.

Ignore her worthless, girly opinion, grow a pair, and get a humungous desktop gaming rig.  Tell her she needn't look at it, especially if she stays in the kitchen and only enters your gaming room to bring you food and a beer.

I wouldn't play a character with 4 abilities.  Maybe one with 4.767388593 abilities, but not 4. That would be just stupid.

Originally posted by pepsibottle

I'm officially disgusted.

Ok, bear with me a second... just a bit more... there.  All done.

Nope, my "Do I Give A Shit" meter didn't even flicker.  Just checking.

OMFG - they're selling a couple of Vanity Pets for money!  The entire MMO business will surely collapse instantly if this buying of in-game items becomes a reality!

Oh, wait...

If an MMO could maintain the the depth of play and immersion of games like "The Witcher" I would be extremely happy.  If it had, in addition, a combat system and skill tree system based on that of "The Witcher", as well, I'd be ecstatic.

Originally posted by Teala

Oh and just like the word grue, some of you have never heard of...

Of course I've heard of 'Grue' but as for Mun, nope, never once in well over two decades of gaming online.

Originally posted by Teala  

Sorry, you're wrong, the term mun may not be used anymore but it was frequently used back in the early days of online role playing.

I've been playing online since LORD hit the BBS scene in 1989, and have never heard of the word either.

Originally posted by FTPMMO

There are a lot of doom and gloom concerning Aion these days

Justifiably.  It's a copy-paste of all the worst features of Korean F2P games, mashed up together with the blandest quests and the most derivative MMO levelling systems known to mankind, where you can hit 50 les than two weeks after launch. Same old same old, made to look pretty by buying some other company's graphic engine. They should market it as a cure for insomnia, it has such a high snore factor.  I played games more inventive than this five years ago.

If Bill "You've been Flagshipped" Roper is involved, I wouldn't touch the game with a very long barge pole.

Originally posted by Scyris

Most wow tards will think its crap since you can't hit cap in a week

Cliche hits for critical boredom - rest of the post obviously worthless fanboi waffle and thus ignored.

Please come back when you have an original thought.  Thank you.  That is all.

I've given up placing any faith whatsoever on "in-game video" because it's meaningless.  Hell, careful editing, "in-game video" even made "Hellgate: London" and "Aion" look as if they were actually worth playing, which was nothing short of a miracle.

I've never cared about lore in the majority of games, because most of it is so similar and because MMOs - for me, anyway - lack any atmosphere at all.  MMOs are a bit like the McDonalds of RPG plots and lore: sort of OK, but ultimately not that sustaining, at least not in the many, many MMOs I have played..

In games as good as "The Witcher" (admittedly not an MMO) I absolutely love the plot and the lore.