Wasn't aware the game even had genders.  Kinda hard to tell...

Originally posted by Funball

Wasn't aware the game even had genders.  Kinda hard to tell...

lol....

Anyway, I'm glad they will have these implemented soon.

Originally posted by Funball

Wasn't aware the game even had genders.  Kinda hard to tell...

LOL.

"look, I am a man, now"

"ORLY? What you dont tell..."

Originally posted by Funball

Wasn't aware the game even had genders.  Kinda hard to tell...

What....no comment yet on how Aion is "copying WoW?" I'm shocked....

there are more much important things to work on than gender change :(...travesti FTL !

but hey any addition the to game is welcome

Originally posted by girlgeek

What....no comment yet on how Aion is "copying WoW?" I'm shocked....

Its cus they are feeling a little sheepish, all year some AION players (and others) have been trolling the wow forums with "paid services.. will never happen in my game".. eek

But lets be honest it looks like ALL mmo's will be going this way, with more and more mmo's going F2P and having some success it could spell the end of the subscription based MMO in a few years replaced with paid4services and vanity shops.

Just what the community needs...features they have to pay for that the development team spent developing with the cash players were already forking out.

gg, didn't expect them to decide to kill off the game so quickly. I can't say I'm not glad to see Aion gone, eh.

lol this is going to funny to watch. I hate lil cash shops, but I also see that some of these are with warrant; like Server x-fers and such. However, to do so, so early seems a bit off. Then again with that f'ing Richard guy here spewing his madness about his fanboyism with F2P/Item Malls I guess he got someone's attention and started a trend.

GG Richard, ye prick.

Well, that didn't take long.

Finally! For so long players were asking for that "plastic surgery ticket" and at last it is here. Good news.

For those with comments about "cash shop" and so on. It is a common practice to add extra service for small fees. Actually, I cannot remember a game where changes like appearance, name or sex could be done free (unless you simply delete your character and roll a new one). Again – it is more then common for any western game too. Save your hate for real game-braking thing.

Any time I have a desire to try Aion, I just drop by the forums and read the racist, homophobic , and sexist crap that NCsoft not only permits but encourages and that brings me right back to reality.

Originally posted by Simiel

gg, didn't expect them to decide to kill off the game so quickly. I can't say I'm not glad to see Aion gone, eh.

This is an example of what i just done get. Why would anyone be glad to see a game gone?  I would guess you do not play the game and I do not play the game, but there are those that do, what pleasure can you get from those who play losing their game?

Originally posted by Mirandel

Finally! For so long players were asking for that "plastic surgery ticket" and at last it is here. Good news.

For those with comments about "cash shop" and so on. It is a common practice to add extra service for small fees. Actually, I cannot remember a game where changes like appearance, name or sex could be done free (unless you simply delete your character and roll a new one). Again – it is more then common for any western game too. Save your hate for real game-braking thing.

your right and that cost is in game gold or 1 time change.    People like you are half  the problem of todays MMORPG's the other half are the dev's taking advange of the mentally challenged that dont understand how MMORPG were and are supposed to be.

"tight lipped on the exciting features"

You play that positive record, DJ! w00t!

OMG Weee~!

Lol...................we are already at plan B.

Subscriber number are declining, so let's squeeze the shit out of our remaining ones.
Let's see how far do they go with this.........................

 Since alot of players QQ about the xp grind, im not surprise if they add  xp-pots in shop... 

Originally posted by ste2000

Lol...................we are already at plan B.

Subscriber number are declining, so let's squeeze the shit out of our remaining ones.
Let's see how far do they go with this.........................

Declining numbers I think not. My server is growing daily. The game is healthy I can assure you.

Originally posted by arctarus

 Since alot of players QQ about the xp grind, im not surprise if they add  xp-pots in shop... 

 

 

It s paid services, not a shop.

Originally posted by Soki123

Originally posted by arctarus

 Since alot of players QQ about the xp grind, im not surprise if they add  xp-pots in shop... 

 

 

 

It s paid services, not a shop.

It will be.  It is in all their other games.

Originally posted by Soki123

Originally posted by arctarus

 Since alot of players QQ about the xp grind, im not surprise if they add  xp-pots in shop... 

 

 

 

It s paid services, not a shop.

Ok... paid for xp pots or paid $5 and the whole week your xp will increase by 20%...

Originally posted by kasta

Originally posted by Soki123

Originally posted by arctarus

 Since alot of players QQ about the xp grind, im not surprise if they add  xp-pots in shop... 

 

 

 

It s paid services, not a shop.

It will be.  It is in all their other games.

You mean like GW where you can buy skills or earn them? Big deal, pay or play the game for them.
 

Originally posted by Soki123

Originally posted by kasta

Originally posted by Soki123

Originally posted by arctarus

 Since alot of players QQ about the xp grind, im not surprise if they add  xp-pots in shop... 

 

 

 

It s paid services, not a shop.

It will be.  It is in all their other games.

You mean like GW where you can buy skills or earn them? Big deal, pay or play the game for them.
 

In GW you dont earn skills, you go to a skill vendor in game and you buy them with gold. They have only started selling skill packs after factions and nightfall because, honestly, there are just too many of them.

Elite skills are the ones that take some effort, and the effort is only in googling where the boss that has them is in the world.

The challenge of GW is not in the grind but in the gameplay itself.

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Originally posted by Coldrain_13
lol this is going to funny to watch. I hate lil cash shops, but I also see that some of these are with warrant; like Server x-fers and such.

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Were server transfers even mentioned?

Originally posted by coffee

Originally posted by girlgeek

What....no comment yet on how Aion is "copying WoW?" I'm shocked....

 

Its cus they are feeling a little sheepish, all year some AION players (and others) have been trolling the wow forums with "paid services.. will never happen in my game".. eek

But lets be honest it looks like ALL mmo's will be going this way, with more and more mmo's going F2P and having some success it could spell the end of the subscription based MMO in a few years replaced with paid4services and vanity shops.

Um.. You are half right. The end of subscription (only) games is here, because games are now offering multiple tiers of play. They usually consist of : Free (limited or not), Microtransactions, and Monthly Fee. Expect to see every major game to offer all three options, and stack them (so you can do monthly + microtransactions).

So, instead of working on the issues that people are leaving the game over, they're going for a cash grab while the population is big enough to fleece?

GG NCSoft, glad I cancelled your horrible game.

AION IS NOT GONE IT"S JUST TAKING A NAP!

Originally posted by Simiel

gg, didn't expect them to decide to kill off the game so quickly. I can't say I'm not glad to see Aion gone, eh.

Originally posted by HitechLolife

So, instead of working on the issues that people are leaving the game over, they're going for a cash grab while the population is big enough to fleece?

GG NCSoft, glad I cancelled your horrible game.

100% Agree.

bet they would make a ton of money if they made some paid bot removal service, since you obviosly don't get that with a paid sub.

Originally posted by jotull

Any time I have a desire to try Aion, I just drop by the forums and read the racist, homophobic , and sexist crap that NCsoft not only permits but encourages and that brings me right back to reality.

What racist or homophobic actions have NCSoft taken by allowing a cash shop?  I hate the idea of the cash shop, hate hate hate them.  I want to pay a monthly fee and be done with it.

But racist or homophobic?  How?

Originally posted by Soki123

Originally posted by kasta

Originally posted by Soki123

Originally posted by arctarus

 Since alot of players QQ about the xp grind, im not surprise if they add  xp-pots in shop... 

 

 

 

It s paid services, not a shop.

It will be.  It is in all their other games.

You mean like GW where you can buy skills or earn them? Big deal, pay or play the game for them.
 

please go to school. GW is not made nor operated by NCsoft, they are the publisher, Arenanet has all the power and responsibility.

It's pretty funny seeing these NCsoft lovers using Guild Wars as an example of a good game that NCsoft "made", lmfao.

Guild Wars is not even a mmorpg.:p

Originally posted by girlgeek

What....no comment yet on how Aion is "copying WoW?" I'm shocked....

true... but, since when people doesnt copy paste wow???

Originally posted by coffee

Originally posted by girlgeek

What....no comment yet on how Aion is "copying WoW?" I'm shocked....

 

Its cus they are feeling a little sheepish, all year some AION players (and others) have been trolling the wow forums with "paid services.. will never happen in my game".. eek

But lets be honest it looks like ALL mmo's will be going this way, with more and more mmo's going F2P and having some success it could spell the end of the subscription based MMO in a few years replaced with paid4services and vanity shops.

Subscriptions will never go away, simply because the more popular games run by the bigger companies (such as ncsoft and blizzard) know they can get away with having a steady income with subs and double dip with a cash shop. How they do this is by adding cash shop items after the game has a solid player base. They know no sane player would sign up for a new game  blatantly charging them twice for the same content, and they also know that no matter how angry you make a veteran player, they aren't going to pack up and leave if you ninja a cash shop in under them after they have a couple months of their life invested into the game.

If you thought wow messed up the industry bad... just wait til the next generation of mmoers that have grown up in this cash shop environment and doesn't understand that they are being taken for a ride start outnumbering the older generation. This is going to be the standard, and in a year or two, our "cheap" form of entertainment will no longer be so. It can cost an excess of 50 dollars or more a month to get all the basic features in a standard f2p mmo and companies "stuck" in the subscription based system are really motivated to figure out ways to get that kind of money out of their players.  Some ambitious players spend in excess of a thousand dollars a month.

The services being planned will in no way shape or form be justified by the prices they will charge, and we all know damn well they didn't spend any time or money developing them. Things like surgery tickets are already in the client as IN GAME ITEMS. Are we all suppose to forget about the character editor we used to make our characters at level 1 and pretend ncsoft is doing serious work that deserves extra payment when we want to make a cosmetic changes to our character? Uo showed the world that every possible character tweak can be automated in game with in game items if the company really wants it. Indeed, most of the stuff our hard working ncsoft staff is pretending to be working hard on FOR THE NEXT 2 MONTHS are already in the game files.

[quote]For those with comments about "cash shop" and so on. It is a common practice to add extra service for small fees. Actually, I cannot remember a game where changes like appearance, name or sex could be done free (unless you simply delete your character and roll a new one). Again – it is more then common for any western game too. Save your hate for real game-braking thing.[/quote]

Oh look, it's one of those stupid children who think cash shop items are the norm and a good thing. It's a common practice to add poison to milk in china too... I guess that justifies it going by your logic! You can change your sex and appearance for free in atlantica online, a huge cash shop game, given the right conditions. For fucks sakes, the plastic surgey TICKET IS AN IN GAME ITEM. THERE IS NO DEVELOPMENT COST NOR TIME. IT IS AN INGAME ITEM. IN GAME ITEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM. WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID? I bet you also think ncsoft will be adding new content  "soon" as well.

[quote]Declining numbers I think not. My server is growing daily. The game is healthy I can assure you.[/quote]

All servers are light and with most having one side controling the abyss uncontested says differently. Oh right, fanboy talking. If you love the game and ncsoft so much, why don't you actually play the game? Then you would know how things really are.

[quote]It s paid services, not a shop.[/quote]

It's not a penis, it's just a dick! Just suck it! Semantics.

This is such an obvious cash grab. It's sad. Not because it's so pathetic, but sad because ncwest has failed for the final time. They are all going to be laid off and ncsoft is going to pull out of north america. No blade and soul for us all because our market has been mismanaged for 10 years straight.

[quote]please go to school. GW is not made nor operated by NCsoft, they are the publisher, Arenanet has all the power and responsibility.[/quote]

I don't know where you two are going with this. The current heads of ncsoft are the arenanet people. So basically, there is no excuse.

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Originally posted by Vhaln

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Originally posted by Coldrain_13
lol this is going to funny to watch. I hate lil cash shops, but I also see that some of these are with warrant; like Server x-fers and such.

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Were server transfers even mentioned?

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Um, anyone? Because I was kinda looking forward to being able to do this, but haven't seen any official word on it. Yet people talk as if they have..?

Originally posted by girlgeek

What....no comment yet on how Aion is "copying WoW?" I'm shocked....

There is no copying WoW. Nothing is as successful, therefore no copying. ^_^

...but WoW was/is basically an EQ1 copy minus the fustration of a harder MMORPG.

Originally posted by coffee

Originally posted by girlgeek

What....no comment yet on how Aion is "copying WoW?" I'm shocked....

 

Its cus they are feeling a little sheepish, all year some AION players (and others) have been trolling the wow forums with "paid services.. will never happen in my game".. eek

But lets be honest it looks like ALL mmo's will be going this way, with more and more mmo's going F2P and having some success it could spell the end of the subscription based MMO in a few years replaced with paid4services and vanity shops.

Services and Vanity shops will never replace subscriptions. Take the Lil KT and Panderan Monk in WoW. I bought both for ~20 USD. That's roughly a one month subscription fee (ooo, only 5 bucks more; yawn). Now I have them and I won't need to purchase them again...so what about next month?

The only way MTs can work in the long run is when they offer gear...useable gear. Vanity only goes so far..and character changes only happen ever so often. But gearing....that's an on going process; especially if new content (and gear) is release every few months.

Like tier gear in WoW. 5/5 sets are release on average every 3 months. That's $44.85 they could charge for the ability to purchase the entire set; working out to $8.97 a piece. It's a safe bet that most of the players would have bought at least one piece prior to the 'Badges for Tiers' change, which only started with T9 (talking full sets not 2/5, or 4/5 [Hero/Valor]).

So, yes MTs will probably rule the MMO-world....but it won't be the MTs you are seeing now.....

Its important to note the kind of changes offered here with  these microtransactions  dont  effect game play.  All this stuff is cosmetic only even though Aion is very cosmetic in nature it doesnt hurt game balance.

Also those of us who were with Aion for beta and game launch [if people were paying attention] knew about these earlier than December. 

I'm sad anytime an MMO embraces the evil of microtransactions, usually I jump on said games forums, make sure I register my utter disgust at the decision swiftly followed by a cancelation of my account, in this case it would be difficult because I'd already cancelled my Aion account due to the game not being my cup of tea anyway, but I'm sad for those still left playing.

Of course at the moment it seems to be the usual 'out of game' stuff, which I don't mind so much, but it tends to be a slippery slope. I wonder what odds I'd get on them introducing a 'pet store' within the next 12 months ?

it seems every game i play nowadays is trying to rip people off for more money.  from WOW to Sims 3, if you want the extras you have to pay for them.  even faCEBOOK  games are part of the rip offs.

don't game companies understand that we are in a serious recession?  they should consider themselves lucky that we are investing in the game.  I am starting to drop games that want money for basic things.  runes of magic is gone , conan is gone, sims 3 is gone.  so folks want me to play your game?  No frigging hidden charges please.

Originally posted by Justarius1

Originally posted by jotull

Any time I have a desire to try Aion, I just drop by the forums and read the racist, homophobic , and sexist crap that NCsoft not only permits but encourages and that brings me right back to reality.

 

What racist or homophobic actions have NCSoft taken by allowing a cash shop?  I hate the idea of the cash shop, hate hate hate them.  I want to pay a monthly fee and be done with it.

But racist or homophobic?  How?

LoL I will be the first to admit that Jotull is mostly a Troll, but in this case he is right...I mean have you ever actually read the forums? Heck read the in game chat the mods were flooded by complants when that guild was doing open pedo RP, and the Mods basically said it was Ok. It's Okay because the mods are really to lazy to care, this is Koreas game not the rest of the worlds...their audience matters ours don't unless it's to squeeze cash out of via a Item shop.
 

And anyone that says the game is flourishing in the west really needs to stop exaggerating, last few times I was on Ghost town, saved for a few kids seeing how much outrageous profanity they could spam in chat…oh and the bots of course still plenty of them.
 

"The biggest changes coming to Aion in early 2010 will be the addition of paid account services, such as plastic surgery, name changes, Legion name changes, and even gender changes. Pricing for the aforementioned services will be revealed sometime in February."

/sarcasm on

Thats quite a surprise now , isn't it? :)

/sarcasm off

I'm surprised it's taking so long for NCSoft-West. The thing is, these features are already ingame. They just need to give you the tickets for it.

Looks like the winter event will be really shallow, with just some XP weekends, some poor decorations, and a piano at the city.