Originally posted by Darkholme

Originally posted by shadowfox561

Finally now all they have to do is fix my account they let get hacked...

 

What? Really? You didin't actually just say that with a straight face did you?

It's your fault that you got hacked, not Trions... I wish people would stop acting like they aren't the only ones to blame for their accounts getting hacked. It's not Trion's job to provide your PC with internet security and to provide you with the motivation to learn how to protect yourself. They do what they can from their end, and everything else is your responsibillity...

They told me they had a glitch in their system that had a loop hole these hackers were abusing to gain easy access to accounts. Then they told me they were doing things to fix this. I had internet Security I had a very complex password that was difficult enough for me to remember. I did everything I could to prevent this from happening I have played many many many other games and not one was hacked.

Finally now all they have to do is fix my account they let get hacked(5 days and counting... 2 of which waiting on them to respond to my origional complaints and only then it was because I waited 1h15min on the phone to talk to someone) ...  Not just mine but the majority of the people in my guild... The hackers in this game had my friends all too terrified to log on after so many people they knew got hacked.

Originally posted by oddzor

Would anyone recommend a class, i'm gonna give the trial a whirl. I prefer DPSing warriors, sort of like Fury Warr in WoW (<3 Dual wield or 2h weps). Also don't mind druid or warlock sort of things.

Maybe see you guys in game!

I had allot of fun with bard when I origionally played the game when it came out...

Lol Best Glitch yet...

the servers are work in the "early access" as they are calling it... they are just so over loaded that it is near impossible to get on... I got on west server for maybe 15 min did intro quest and DC got back on had to make new character because of the DC my first one was bugged so bad he was unplayable... naked no equip no quests... then DC again and unable to go back on since...

Fear my BF Doom Broom!

Originally posted by Warmaker

The MMOs that I have left in anger:

...

I wanted to add Funcom with Age of Conan also, but I remembered again that I didn't leave due to anger.  I left due to totall incompetence in part of Funcom.  Despite the tremendous hype AoC had leading up to release, those guys had absolutely NO idea what they were doing when AoC was released and totally lost almost their entire Launch Day crowd, which was huge.

Incompetent - inadequate to or unsuitable for a particular purpose.

"Funcom's handling of Age of Conan's release was totally incompetent"

 Well agreed like with my post I left AoC in  a rage because they banned me... and my whole guild for the actions of 3 people about a month after launch.

I have rage quit Aion after I spent two whole days trying to complete one quest and I kept getting noob teammates and in those two days all I did was lose EXP instead of gaining it and I needed to finish this quest in order to gain a new quest line.

I also had a bad experience with AoC where they banned my whole guild while I was on vacation, I come back and it says I cannot log into my account. because 3 members of our guild were using a minor glitch int he system in order to power level themselves up and defeat a  difficult boss by making him get stuck and then ranging him to death.

I have been exactly the same way recently i have played more MMO's in the last year then most people have played in a life time... I decided no more I will not touch another MMO till FFXIV comes out... so until then to get my internet gaming fix i have been playing LoL online and have been enjoying the I dont care what my level is...

OK this is seriously starting to get sad, Monthly subscription plus item store now a online magazine they want us to pay for... NC Soft i was all for your game at first now it seems you are just squeezing every nickle and dime out of your once loyal customers with very little in return, the other F2P games are giving me more content updates more quests more equipment and i dont have to pay a dime unless i want to.

Originally posted by shadowfox561

well Square enix and sony online entertainment are going to be there side by side in the convention booths 5200 & 5201 i hope they have good news for me >.>

didnt learn anything so sad T_T but at least their website is oming along and they are taunting us with beta sign ups...

Originally posted by SagetheRage

I dunno.  Game looks pretty perverted.  You level up your daughter by being "intimate" with her?

Here are some of the voiceovers the different daughters say:(taken from http://aika-forum.gpotato.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=983&sid=3e350c5af56c32102e1b7fad084e9637)

"Let me get my hands on that!"
"Master, I thought you had more stamina?"
"Should I lie down next to you?"
"Nice moves!"
"You really get rough with it!"
"AMAZING"
"I love the way it melts in my mouth!"
"Tell me if I've got anything on my lips."
"MMM so tasty"
"I really needed to wrap my lips around this"
"Come here and check me out"
"I look too good"
"Take good care of me master"
"Don't you wish your Guildmates were hot like me?"
"Im craving something"
"I want to eat something big and tasty"
"Im definetly growing up, can you tell?"
"I want to show you just how strong I am"
"What do you think of my new curves master?"
"HMMM, what else are you good at?"
"Oh, I thought it was going to be harder than that"
"Im not in the mood"
"Are you gonna keep me close with you today master?"
"Lets see how fast we can move"
"You fill me up with so much warmth"

Don't get me wrong, I find those pretty funny and am not easily offended, so don't really have a problem with it.  It does seem like it'll attract pedos though.  I can only imagine the kinky outfits they'll have on the cash shop to dress up your daughter.

I dont care if they are not your daughter they look like they are ten or so in all the screens i have seen and yah kept laughing my head off while reading all those lines...almost made me feel dirt inside thinking of them...

Originally posted by Tanon

Face it, Aika is great on paper, but the game is FAR from being ready-even for closed beta testing. I played for FIVE minutes. I know that many of you will start criticizing me for only playing for that long, but hey, those that do so are blatantly showing their inability to read everything.

 

Now, I've only played for five minutes and I have already seen way too many fundamental flaws with this game. These are not things like slow leveling, slow killing speeds, typos, or whatnot. These are the things that make or break games.

 

1. Incredibly easy to bug up the WASD controls. In 5 minutes of playing, I've had my character perform a walking animation on the spot on several occasions. Besides that, the rendering of your character's orientation is off-you will start walking in one direction while facing another. Movement in general is very buggy.

2. Cannot jump off a wall. You may laugh at this, but hey, it's pretty basic.

3. Wallhacks. Well, not through the walls, but through other doodads. I'm quite used to running through small fences and such; being able to run through entire rocks is a whole other matter. Some rocks let you walk halfway through them then magically teleport you above them.

4. Textures. The camera seems to close in at a fixed rate, causing many texture render bugs.

5. EZ-mode. This is a two-way topic, but the quests pretty much hold your hand through everything. Where's the adventure?

 

I'll say this now: the only good part about this game is the graphics, and even at that, they're not exactly the best (even compared to only F2Ps). I suppose the lolis are another big plus, but only if you're into that sort of thing, and face it, 99% of the people playing Aika are playing for the lolis.

 

So, to sum up my 5-minute-review: Aika Online has some great concepts behind it, but it really is NOT ready for closed beta testing.

 

EDIT: Before you people post saying it's CBT and bugs are to be expected, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coEG_nrcyZM. After watching, reconsider your standpoint.

these... are things they want you to look for find and tell them about that is why they have people sign up for the closed BETA to help them find bugs flaws and give tips ad ideas...

Originally posted by neonwire

Originally posted by SignusM

Originally posted by Katilla

seriously, i am sick to death of logging in, seeing WoW all over the chat, leaving the channel.....Even in the LFG channel all it is, is a discussion about WoW this and WoW that....stop comparing the 2 games, WoW was not a "pioneer" game. If anything you guys should be comparing this game to L2.... So please leave my LFG chat and go back to your cartoon that pretends to be an MMO.

END OF LINE.

Welcome to the new world of MMOs where millions of noobs who have never touched a real MMORPG sing WoW's praises as the creator of all RPG mechanics that have been used in MMOs since 1998. WoW is the only MMO I can say without any doubt in my mind, that it did absolutely NOTHING new. Not a single game mechanics was innovated or created. All WoW is, is a kid friendly cut down version of EverQuest. But, because they targetted people who don't play MMOs, it was a raving success, and now the rest of the industry suffers under the weight of its fanboys. 
 

 

Whats a real MMO then? No WoW didnt do anything new......but then neither do most MMOs. Most of them seem to follow the same formulae and build on it. WoW just followed that formulae very well......hence its popularity.

WoW is a kid friendly cut-down version of EQ? Hardly. It simply took all the mindless mob grinding and dressed it up with quests and little stories to help disguise the repetitive gameplay. I have fond memories of playing the original EQ but if I went back to it now I'm pretty sure I would find it extremely boring. Even EQ's sequel followed exactly the same path as WoW. Kids were and still are quite capable of playing the original EQ. It wasnt that complicated ya know. I think you probably just have an inflated view of "the good old days".

Oh and the industry isnt "suffering under the weight of its fanboys". Its making shit loads of money out of them.

Every MMO out there has brought something new to the table and HAS NOT BEEN A WoW CLONE...

every mmo has the same elements, listed earlier in this forum and am not going to list them again, WoW just has nothing to make it different or unique the discription of an MMO is WoW if you take everythign WoW has that is the discription of an MMO...

here are examples of things that make MMO's different and unique an new...

AoC(2008)- Pushed MMO Graphics and inovative Battle system.

CoH(2004)- Brought the idea of Super Heroes to the MMO world.

DDO(2006)- the private instance questing system with a central social area.

EQ&EQ2- pushed MMO's to a new Level and Created a new standard in 1999, 5 years before world of warcrafts release in 2004

FFXI(2003)- Sub jobbing and swithcing jobs on the fly.

FLYFF(2005)- F2P Item shop Model inovation.

Guild Wars(2005)- PVP driven game with a F2P Model.

LoTRO(2007)- MMO based off a beloved book.

Vangaurd(2007)- Inovative crafting System and Parley card battle system... and a million different glitches...

WoW(2004)- Huge ad Budget which made millions of Non-gamers(AKA noobs) join the MMO world... other then that not much inovation there...

and finally Aion(2009)- with the new World Style Lore and Fantasy based Weapons and Armour. even the wings has been done before with Perfect world.

i know i didnt list all the MMO's and their key features that set them apart and what made them great but these are examples of things that have made the MMO world what it is today and why WoW did not Set the Bar or do anything other then make MMO's Main stream which is not an easy thing to do when 10 years ago geeks were the minority the ones getting picked on at school, now we rule the world.

GAMERS AND GEEKS UNITE!

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Originally posted by neonwire

 

Yes of course how can you possibly compare them? The only things they have in common are......
 

A game world with its own lore
A character creation system where you can.......
Change your appearance and........
Choose your race and class
Skill trees
NPC's
Quests to complete
Mobs to kill with limited AI and an aggro radius
EXP points to be gained from doing the above which lead to.......
Levels to be gained which lead to......
Areas designated to various level ranges
Crafting system to make stuff
Harvesting skills to gather ingredients
Recipes/blueprints
Loot to be found from killing and crafting things
Grouping options
Solo and group content
Areas designed for raiding and other group activities
Zone, global, group, whisper, say chat systems
Mounts
Pets
Control method using the WASD keys
An action bar containing all of your skills/attacks etc
Auto targeting
Swimming-no swimming in most mmo's out there >.>
You can jump
A map with a radar
Quest journals
PvP features
Minimal death penalty
Auction house run by the players
Multiple servers
Any other little bits and bobs which I have probably missed
 

Apart from those things they are completely different games. Yeah its totally amazing that anyone finds any reason to compare them. What on earth is wrong with people?! They must be mad!

Yes this is true but those are the factors that well describe a MMO period being on this site you can just go click the MMO list and see all the other games out there with these amazing up to date features.... (pss sarcasm incase you cant tell)... but yah what ever... since WoW was a clone of the games that were there before it... people just need to stop bringing WoW into the picture say like Aions crafting system is not as advanced as Vanguards but at least it doesnt have as many glitches, or there is more freedom of movement in this game then guild wars... blah blah blah i am also tired of hearing about WoW when i am playing Aion so much so only chats i have active are party and Exp now. but i think it is these people who think they are MMO experts because they joined in the WoW crowd and all they know and have ever played is WoW and have finally gotten bored and are looking for somethign other then WoW. but little do most of them know that there are many other MMO's out there more allot better then WoW. broaden your horrizon and get to know the market before making compairisons.

ok rant done... i really had to get that out of my system...

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well Square enix and sony online entertainment are going to be there side by side in the convention booths 5200 & 5201 i hope they have good news for me >.>

From what i have heard it is going to be skill based lvling no exp at all, so i wonder if you can be all jobs at once have specialties in certain areas and say have warrior skill maxed out then go to another class and start lvling its skills with the wariror skills still usable. at that having the stat boosts from maxing out warrior like strength boost.

I have had a hard time finding a MMO that has grasped my attention recently but none has done that like IMagine online, easiest way to describe this is pokmon on steriods... the world is post appocalyptic and you are taking part in the war that follows. Demons get released into the world you get to catch(negotiate a contract with them) and have them fight by your side, there are only 3 real "classes" gunner, mellee and magic. the only thing is there is mass amount of customizability for each class where by using certain skills you gain skill points in that skill to gain new skills and by getting high points in a few different skills you gain special skills like if you gain expertise in magic and gun skills you get magic bullets. on top of all this it has a pretty fun storyline to play through if you like RPG's like persona, digital devil saga, and the likes of shin megumi's past you will love this game.

http://megaten.aeriagames.com/