Hi all!

I used to play Aion a while back, but after reaching end-game decided to move on to new pastures. However, after hearing that is going free-to-play in February, I thought that it would make a nice diversion from my main sub-based MMO. I definitely have some fond (and frustrating!) memories of my time there.

Who else is planing on popping in again come February? Also, has anyone worked out how much you would need to spend in the cash shop to outfit your gear? I think I remember hearing that there will be something that you can use so manastones don't break or something like that.

BB, KM.

If NA people can join then I will.

not touching that game, even if they paid me. [Mod Edit]

Originally posted by Sector13

If NA people can join then I will.

I found this on their website, so yeah, I think the US servers will still be there then:

Will there be new servers?

Yes, there will be a new server in Germany, the UK and France. In addition, all of the present servers will remain intact.

If the f2p goes in effect for NA users, then absolutely I will.

It's still a misguided trainwreck.

Grind PvE in a PvP world to get really nice looking PvP armor you can't see because it reduces frame rates and makes you PvP gimp.

Was sub is now F2P but only some places. They need to decide who the hell they are marketing to.

Aion was a wreck, and there's no way I would even bother to play it now.  It's F2P because that reflects its true worth - nothing.

i thought Star Trek Online was a simplistic piece of crap, but Aion was even WORSE, which you can rest assured is really saying something.

No one is going to re-visit the game. It's already a flop and making it free 2 play illustrates this fact. Just because it's free doesn't mean people will like it any better. The game is not enjoyable at any level compared to previous MMO..

The only reason it's still afloat is the newbies playing havn't graduated to anything better.

Psst, just fyi to all people saying the game is terrible or a 'flop', its staying p2p in korea and remains one of the most popular MMOs in Asia.  Its simply put, 'to hardcore' for western gamers. Just because its 'hardcore' doesn't mean its bad. All the little ones here just can't take it, they need their bib and bottle from all the big western games to give them everything rather then having to spend time on getting things.

Trolling aside, its still a extremely popular game. While it wasn't as big with its western audience (damn us for needing things handed to us so much), it is sure to recieve plenty of big content updates. Even as f2p its sure to get tons of big updates. The F2P model doesn't seem too bad, but its something I really would need to see after release for how it goes. I'll likely play  the game against for the skae it was fun to me while I played it.

Oh and Aion is a good example why companies "Westernize" games today.

I think it's staying pay to play in the US as well, no word otherwise.  Sad to say.  I'm going to check it out for the housing when 3.0 hits if GW2 or TSW isn't released by then.  I'm bored.

Well I really enjoyed Aion at least, lol ;)

As something to play along side my main MMO, and pop into every now and then, I think it will be great. Although how the cash shop works would be a bit of a worry. I think I read somewhere that Allods Online costs thousands of dollars to fully gear up a character from the cash shop (don't know if that is true though), and if Aion goes the same way, well I guess I'll be looking for something else to fill in those spare moments! Does anyone have any more info about that?

I wonder if US players could just join an EU server, but perhaps the latency would be too great, I've not tried that before.

Don't some people play on Korean servers from the US?

Originally posted by Purutzil

Psst, just fyi to all people saying the game is terrible or a 'flop', its staying p2p in korea and remains one of the most popular MMOs in Asia.  Its simply put, 'to hardcore' for western gamers. Just because its 'hardcore' doesn't mean its bad. All the little ones here just can't take it, they need their bib and bottle from all the big western games to give them everything rather then having to spend time on getting things.

Trolling aside, its still a extremely popular game. While it wasn't as big with its western audience (damn us for needing things handed to us so much), it is sure to recieve plenty of big content updates. Even as f2p its sure to get tons of big updates. The F2P model doesn't seem too bad, but its something I really would need to see after release for how it goes. I'll likely play  the game against for the skae it was fun to me while I played it.

 

Oh and Aion is a good example why companies "Westernize" games today.

That^^ doesn't matter...

When a game is released it has every oppertunity to show the world what it offers. If it sucks and 2 years later has to drop to FREE.  Then that alone already signales the death of that community. Because since the game is FREE...  all you get are drifters trying the game out.

Drifters who typically just want to greif other players because it is a FREE game.

The business model didn't hold out... it flopped on it's back. (Just because it is on life support doesn't make it a good game.) 

Aion truely is one of the best games currently out in terms of content and fun factor , The only reason its dying is because its simply too challenging for the casual player. 

Since WoW's release gamers have gotten spoiled with ease of leveling and gearing , when coming from a game that practically dumbs everything down to simply being effortless to playing a game that was made  for koreans that like being challenged its hard to get into. 

* Fortunatly for me I didn't like wow so i never got into it , I was never fond of games I didn't have to work at to be good at so naturally I liked Aion being that it was a bit harder and grindy which meant I would be able to feel a sense of achievement when I reached end game and crapped on people that were bad ( in other words ex wow players ) * 

joking aside ..  Free 2 play and some tweaks to exp , pvp grind would revive this game and hopefully bring numbers back up. I would jump back into it in a heartbeat if it went F2P. 

The Only reason I actually quit was due to race imbalances ( everyone I know / played with quit for the same reasons ) and that was largely due to the fact that one race was so much easier to play at launch that it became heavily overpopulated though I would be willing to bet F2P would fix that now that things are equal amongst both races.  But there isn't a day gone by I don't have withdrawls from playing this game and have to force myself not to resub until it goes F2P in US. 

** Oh and As for playing from US on europe's new f2p servers once they open in Febuary I'm sure it will be possible and there are several Proxy services to help with ping issues that are relatively cheap. I used a proxy service to play on Korean test servers every once in a while and avg ping was around 150-250ms . should be less if your connecting to Europe servers. 

I liked the character creator. Spent like an hour in it.

3 minutes into the actual game? I was gones-ville.

Bad bad game.

Originally posted by Purutzil

Psst, just fyi to all people saying the game is terrible or a 'flop', its staying p2p in korea and remains one of the most popular MMOs in Asia.  Its simply put, 'to hardcore' for western gamers. Just because its 'hardcore' doesn't mean its bad. All the little ones here just can't take it, they need their bib and bottle from all the big western games to give them everything rather then having to spend time on getting things.

Trolling aside, its still a extremely popular game. While it wasn't as big with its western audience (damn us for needing things handed to us so much), it is sure to recieve plenty of big content updates. Even as f2p its sure to get tons of big updates. The F2P model doesn't seem too bad, but its something I really would need to see after release for how it goes. I'll likely play  the game against for the skae it was fun to me while I played it.

 

Oh and Aion is a good example why companies "Westernize" games today.

It's not hardcore. Mindless grind and horrible RNG is not hardcore. Grinding the same fucking area from 45-50 is not hardcore.  A 2 faction PVP game just doesn't work regardless if it's FTP or not.

Originally posted by Alders

Originally posted by Purutzil

Psst, just fyi to all people saying the game is terrible or a 'flop', its staying p2p in korea and remains one of the most popular MMOs in Asia.  Its simply put, 'to hardcore' for western gamers. Just because its 'hardcore' doesn't mean its bad. All the little ones here just can't take it, they need their bib and bottle from all the big western games to give them everything rather then having to spend time on getting things.

Trolling aside, its still a extremely popular game. While it wasn't as big with its western audience (damn us for needing things handed to us so much), it is sure to recieve plenty of big content updates. Even as f2p its sure to get tons of big updates. The F2P model doesn't seem too bad, but its something I really would need to see after release for how it goes. I'll likely play  the game against for the skae it was fun to me while I played it.

 

Oh and Aion is a good example why companies "Westernize" games today.

 It's not hardcore. Mindless grind and horrible RNG is not hardcore. Grinding the same fucking area from 45-50 is not hardcore.  A 2 faction PVP game just doesn't work regardless if it's FTP or not.

^ This.  Why would I waste my time with that again, plus deal with the bots.  Free or not, it's just not worth it.

Originally posted by Mysk

Originally posted by Alders

Originally posted by Purutzil

Psst, just fyi to all people saying the game is terrible or a 'flop', its staying p2p in korea and remains one of the most popular MMOs in Asia.  Its simply put, 'to hardcore' for western gamers. Just because its 'hardcore' doesn't mean its bad. All the little ones here just can't take it, they need their bib and bottle from all the big western games to give them everything rather then having to spend time on getting things.

Trolling aside, its still a extremely popular game. While it wasn't as big with its western audience (damn us for needing things handed to us so much), it is sure to recieve plenty of big content updates. Even as f2p its sure to get tons of big updates. The F2P model doesn't seem too bad, but its something I really would need to see after release for how it goes. I'll likely play  the game against for the skae it was fun to me while I played it.

 

Oh and Aion is a good example why companies "Westernize" games today.

 It's not hardcore. Mindless grind and horrible RNG is not hardcore. Grinding the same fucking area from 45-50 is not hardcore.  A 2 faction PVP game just doesn't work regardless if it's FTP or not.

^ This.  Why would I waste my time with that again, plus deal with the bots.  Free or not, it's just not worth it.

thanks for stopping by then.  You can go back to wow in space now and continue to pay a $15 sub fee for a single player game with some multi-player/co-op capabilities.  ttyl.

Originally posted by Phelcher

No one is going to re-visit the game. It's already a flop and making it free 2 play illustrates this fact. Just because it's free doesn't mean people will like it any better. The game is not enjoyable at any level compared to previous MMO..

The only reason it's still afloat is the newbies playing havn't graduated to anything better.

Please tell me what you consider "better."  this should be good for some lawlz..