I just wanted to make a statement here, or maybe it's a question. Why when someone post something negitive about a game everyone calls them a Troll. It could be something as simple as just stating facts about why they dislike a game and you will also see someone or even a gm say they are trolling. Why even have forums where everyone is so up and positive about everything and every game, it's kind of stupid if you ask me.

Originally posted by drbaltazar

 in my view and i bet most mmo pvper view

i would rater have 20 full server 

then 200 empty server,

remember this when any game lower server number for any reason 

player always think ,oh this game is going down the drain,its gona close soon

so i would rater have ncwest make us wait the whole month in a 2 hour line-up 

then go in a server that looks empty like in lot of game 

in my view ncwest should add 1 server /langage  per month 

till they feel they re still out of space but wil say a 30 minute line up 

i think if ncwest just add 1 more server /langage for those langage that havent received it yet 

the situation should be ok till next month

it look bad in europe ,but if they add 1 server to those langage that havent gotten added yet 

situation should be fair

america is balanced for this month ,true once time card are made avail by ncsoft 

it will get very bad everywhere but i think ncwest delayed those for now till they can add more server to cope with the added gamer 

I have to disagree with you on this and here is why. Any MMO marketing group has a pretty close idea on how many players will be hitting the servers at launch and NCSoft even had open beta plus early access to help them even more with the numbers.

This has happened with a number of MMO's launches. The launch is bad they have X number of servers, clients do not renew at the end of the month and people start falling off servers. This is the primary reason for server mergers, not because they had too many at launch, i can't think of one time that this has been the case.

thanks for all the good responses, agreeing and disagreeing with what i had to say. My primary point is this.

Any MMO today has one chance really and that's launch. setting up over the top amounts of servers on the farm, adding too much bandwidth so you do not have any issues. Is this too much to ask? the gamble to me is not worth it after so much has been invested into a LONG term business plan. Cutting cost up front only to miss out on the much needed satified customer does not and will not make any sense to me. I go to the resturant example.

The new restaurant i stand in line, very nice people and enjoy some chatting as we wait. I make it to my table (login) the waiter comes up and says very nicely, I'm sorry be we are too full to have you here, now i need you to leave and go back outside and wait again. I did not get to have the delicious meal i waited so long for, i did not get to see my waiters nice smile as he came back to serve me my order, and i did not get to have meanful comversations with my friends as i enjoyed my meal. Will i go outside and wait again? most likely not, will i come back when they are less busy? maybe but the food will never be like it could have been that first opening day. how sad

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I know most are having issues with Aion and it was a pretty smooth launch as MMO's go. Before everyone flames about what I'm about to say I have been to a couple, WOW, LOTR, AOC, WAR and now Aion. My issue is why does everyone say this "the game just launched there should be issues" or "it's an MMO and it's new we all knew there would be issues". What is beta for? why do any testing at all? 

Yes if i spend $50 on a game plus $15 a month I want to be able to play it and enjoy it. If i do not get to play and enjoy it I'm going to log onto forums and tell everyone I can that the game has issues, maybe saving some poor douchebag 50 bones. I do not think we should go easy on any business that doesn't give us what we pay for. These companies risk a lot , for what? for us all to be happy? NO, they risk a lot to make millions of dollars off each of us every month. So i see no reason not to EXPECT a company to put out a product that works and have all issues taken care of that they KNOW will come up. Server Ques, Gold Farmers, Lag, Performance. just to name a few that seem to always be the ones they just seem to overlook. whatever.

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Let me add a little, i know you can turn off voices, but it was just one thing that got under my skin. The casting and fighting felt like the game was helping me way to much, no skill at all. Too far from target, well the game just moves you forward and cast the spell for you. Want to hit something, just target it and the game will follow your target for you and attack it. No open world, i want to run around and go into areas and explore. The game doesn't really let you do that, it tells you, go down this road and get these quest, level up and move on. Me and a buddy got on at the same time, i said i'm standing here next to this dude that gives you the quest, the farmer dude, where are you. He says i'm right here too, where are you. WTF is this AOC, omg noooo someone help me, channels, what? channels you arent in my channel? wtf is a channel? what? i'm next to the farmer dude in another channel, o god nooo (yes i know its only for the first 20 levels).  The world is pretty, toons are pretty and everything but really i just don't see aion getting like huge. Yes it will have a following, kids will play this game and flame and general chat will be very bad just like it was during ob the first couple of hours i was on. I hope people that do play will enjoy it and have a blast, god knows we all need another game out here that is at least ok. So now everyone knows its not just the voices that is keeping me from playing Aion, but its a big part of it because i couldn't stop laughing at how stupid it was :)

Peace.

lol, yes i know you can turn it off but you can't go around asking everyone else to turn theirs off :( so sad. And really i didn't want to flame about how bad i disliked other parts of this game so i just used that as an example. I hope everyone has fun in Aion and enjoys their time there, but i will not be, just not for me.

Got in open beta and rolled my healer and started questing. my first question is why everytime i can cast a spell my toon say "despener" or "gevenpek"? I was really disappointed and cancelled my order and deleted the game. This open beta is nothing more than a preview to the game. I didn't mind the lag, I knew we would have some of that but the game I played is the game that it will be, and it's not a very good one. Just hearing despener and gevenpek everywhere i went in the first zones was enough for me, bye bye Aion, thanks for totally disappointing me :(

omg what the hell, they suck so bad. did they not know so many would try to log in at the same time? i mean it only happens like everytime a game comes out. this blows, this game sucks, i hate them so bad. ok i got that out of my system and i'm going to go watch the movie "gamer" see you guys later and to all the kids out there, i know what i wrote above is what you are saying. take a deep breath and maybe go talk to your parents about drugs or something.

Peace

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WOW for 4 years, after they nerfed everything and made it candy land I stopped playing it. During that time i tried LOTR and hated it, AOC a couple of times it blows, Vanguard blaa, EVE pretty cool but couldn't get my rl friends into it, and the one that i thought would grab me, WAR. I'm seeing a lot of people wanting Aion to be like WAR, PQ's and things like that and I dont understand why. PQ's were a cool idea that sucked, standing there with nobody around to help do a PQ so you just move on with the grind, doing quest and Queing for BG's to level. Some open pvp was pretty cool but drug out way too long. I hope and I'm saying this as someone that has never seen Aion other than Youtube and website, that they balanced PVP and PVE. PVP over and over gets old as does PVE, running the same dungeons over and over gets old also. There needs to be a game with balance and i hope Aion has that. I love to PVP, open world and BG's but after i get that out of my system i want to run a dungeon or two with friends. This is what WOW has done right, it keeps everyone playing for long periods of time. Plus adding new content as the month go by and with most of that being endgame. With that said i believe AOC is smart by not adding levels right off the bat with their expansion. Look at what WOW did and now they are going back to the old world like they should have long ago. It just kills what they've done in the past, AQ was a  very cool dungeon raid. Give that to a group of 10 or 25 80's with good loot and WOW will be around for a few more years. Anyway i just hope Aion keeps my attention because i have nothing else to go to if they dont. The new Star Wars game looks so  bubble gum and if Aion doesn't save me i'll have to spend hours listening to my gf talking..Saaaave meeeeeeeee

mmo background

started with wow, played for couple years, tried vanguard at release, hated it, back to wow, tried lotr, hated it, back to wow, tried aoc at release, hated it, back to wow, tried war kinda liked it but got bored fast, back to wow,  at this point i began to hate wow too. So me and some  buddies uninstall wow, we are finished with it, we are going to wait for another mmo or whatever. i start reading and looking around and see they made some changes to vanguard, hmmm 14 day free trial. ok so i set it up, right from the start i could tell this was not the same game it was at release. told my buddies about it, they set it up, they say dude this is pretty cool. anyway we are going to give it another go and see how it works out but i will have to say to everyone, its worth the second look i believe i may be around for awhile.

Peace

This is the breakdown.

WOW 3 years, tried LOTR hated it when back to WOW, AOC comes out, bought it, played it for three weeks and cancelled do to bugs and the game sucked. Went back to WOW, so bored, WOW nerfs everthing for the babys that play the game. WAR comes out, buy it play it for about a month, it sucks, back to WOW. I'm freaking out because i'm beginning to hate WOW and what they are doing to the game, go back to WAR, play for two weeks, it still sucks, back to WOW. Someone shot me please, play for three weeks  back to AOC last month. OMG what happened, it's fun, not that many bugs and the game feels good. AOC though not perfect is really coming along very good and will be my primary MMO from now on. I flamed about AOC for what they did at launch but i must say this game will be great if they keep going in this direction. Doesn't matter how many subs they have currently, if they keep this up they will be at 500K easy in a year. Just about everyon playing WOW, i say just about, are looking for another MMO. Blizzard has made WOW so easy nothing feels epic anymore.

If you are thinking about trying AOC i recommend the 7 days for free and she how it feels now, you may like it or you may not but it's free so its worth seeing how far they have got with this game.

In the last part he talks about what we had in our head that AOC would be. Well Mr. Director, if was not in our heads it was on your box, so stop with the same old AOC bullshit.

I'm enjoying WAR a lot but when I say anything in General Chat i get no answers and no activity there. Am i doing something wrong or is it just that way. I feel like i'm just playing this MMO by myself, can anyone give me some ideas or tell me what i'm doing wrong. This happens also in the PVP instances, not chat, not talking at all.

I just wanted to say thank you soooo much for Warhammer online. I have been a WOW player for 3 years now and I've finally found a game that will take me away from it. Love the RvR, love the game play, perfect no, but good enough for me to never play WOW again, not even going to buy WOTLK. So thanks agan Mystic. Anyone else see this as the best MMO launch in a long time? post please. O and i still hate AOC for not being as good as they said they would be..burn Failcom. :)

I'm not sure but looking at xfire this morning and you can find more people playing Spider Solitaire (Rank 35) than you can on AOC (Rank 36).  So I'd say go play Spider Solitaire for grouping and much fun. : /