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Aion Forum » General Discussion raquo; Any point buying this now?

10 posts found
  Senden

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Joined: 6/16/05
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1/01/12 5:14:42 AM#1

With F2P coming next month is there any point in buying the retail version now? 

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  entityx

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Joined: 11/04/09
Posts: 35

1/01/12 2:11:08 PM#2
No.
  Honeymoon69

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1/01/12 2:16:29 PM#3
only EU is F2P.
  ForumTroll

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Joined: 10/20/11
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Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

1/01/12 2:20:29 PM#4

Your from the UK, so probably not. Unless you want to get ahead of the wave of kiddies that will be downloading the game. However alot of new players means easier groups for repeatables. At the same time, this also means there will be alot of people killing the mobs your going after. Not to mention if you want to kill all the elite's/bosses in beginning map you will prob have some competition come F2P. If I were you I would just DL the trial and play that while you wait.

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  Loke666

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Joined: 10/29/07
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1/01/12 2:20:46 PM#5
Originally posted by Honeymoon69
only EU is F2P.

And OP lives in EU....

No point for in this case, no.

  slickbizzle

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Joined: 9/28/11
Posts: 241

1/01/12 2:22:35 PM#6

Yes. It's worth it.

Edit:

Actually I don't know how their f2p vs premium service is set up.  

 

So....... I guess my answer would be: Possibly.

  Loke666

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Joined: 10/29/07
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1/01/12 2:29:53 PM#7
Originally posted by slickbizzle

Yes. It's worth it.

Edit:

Actually I don't know how their f2p vs premium service is set up.  

So....... I guess my answer would be: Possibly.

It is still wiser to start playing the game as F2P and later add a subscription if you enjoy it.

Buying a box right now is most likely just a waste of money, you rarely get any bonuses for owning the bos when a game goes F2P.

Paying a subscription fee in a F2P game might on the other hand be well worth it, but it is usually best to wait a few weeks before doing that.

  ForumTroll

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Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

1/01/12 2:33:46 PM#8
Originally posted by slickbizzle

Yes. It's worth it.

Edit:

Actually I don't know how their f2p vs premium service is set up.  

 

So....... I guess my answer would be: Possibly.

While there are certain benefits to being premium and a subscription paying member, he can easily sign up for Premium when the game gets released if he enjoys it. The only thing i am thinking is if your rewards for being a paying member for a month would sway your decision. I don't believe the 1 month rewards are allt hat great though. However you would be closer to the two month/three month rewards if you picked it up now. Purely your decision, you can check rewards here

http://na.aiononline.com/services/veteran-rewards

P.S. This is from the NA site, and i don't know if they are changing the reward program come F2P.

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  Vesavius

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1/02/12 2:17:28 PM#9

OP, not if your planning on playing on one of the fresh servers they are throwing up at launch.

  pedrostrik

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Joined: 4/07/10
Posts: 232

1/08/12 6:19:22 PM#10

 
to the OP, yes
Its very useful to be vet cause you get much less penalties and right now the game with 30 days included its under 20 euro, and even if you want to start on a fresh server, just made only one or 2 characters to try it and to learn it and then jump to a new server cause you will get not 2 but 8 character slots as vet, as by my self i will renew my account for 30 days then turn it to vet and maybe I'll try to change server with 1 or 2 characters cause spatalos really sucked 5 months ago .