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Abedeus · Jul 27, 2009, 08:34 AM // 08:34

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Originally Posted by Theocrat

Cool story bro.

Quiet.

Yaaay, am I debating on a high enough level?

Faer · Jul 28, 2009, 04:38 AM // 04:38

Not my fault you are wrong. :3

RedNova88 · Jul 28, 2009, 05:38 AM // 05:38

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Originally Posted by Helix Dreadlock

Am I the only one disappointed you have to pay for Aion?!

I mean, it's the only MMORPG I want to play now, but it's

A). Not released yet and
B). Requiring (spelling?) a monthly fee to pay, and as my current situation stands, I cannot afford to pay for it.

Am I the only one that thinks this is Bullshit?

I don't think it's bad at all. This is NCsoft, king of free expansions. Lineage 2 is on what? It's 11th expansion? You pay 15$ a month for SERVICE, while I hate Lineage 2 with a fiery passion I must admit that they really do care about their players. This isn't Blizzard guys, they aren't going to charge you for everything under the sun and then some. They ask for 15$ a month and in return you get bug fixes and likely will have numerous expansions if the game succeeds. They won't charge you 40$ for an expansion that's half assed and bug ridden.

imnotyourmother · Jul 28, 2009, 03:54 PM // 15:54

what makes anyone think that GW is free to play. If you think that then you are not correct. The finds are raised by selling the games themselves.

My first copy of GW cost me 30 bucks. Then there was 30 more bucks and then 30 more and then 40 more for eye of the north. That's 110 bucks over the course of a year. I realize that there is no new content cause they are developing GW2.

I do believe that if they get their stuff together and since they have a fan base already that they can safely market GW2 for 79.95 or 89.95 a copy. That is nothing to sneeze at nor is that unreasonable.

How so, Rock band is 160 bucks right now on amazon for the special ed. Surely if people will pay 160 bucks for something like playing the drums they will pay good money to kill some flaming 12 year old in pvp.

So if they come out with add-ons that improve game play or add value to the experience people will pay for it.

I am just thinking that maybe GW2 will be P2P I sure hope that I am wrong

Neo Nugget · Jul 28, 2009, 04:10 PM // 16:10

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Originally Posted by imnotyourmother

I am just thinking that maybe GW2 will be P2P I sure hope that I am wrong

They've already said that I wasn't going to be Pay to Play a few years ago if I remember right.

Faer · Jul 28, 2009, 07:13 PM // 19:13

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Originally Posted by Neo Nugget

They've already said that I wasn't going to be Pay to Play a few years ago if I remember right.

They also said GW would be releasing a new chapter every six months, but that never really panned out right before it was canned.

They'll probably stick with the announced PO2P model though, with additional features through microtransactions.

MBTW · Jul 28, 2009, 07:27 PM // 19:27

er.. im fine with a monthly fee, as long as they sell prepaid cards.
on another note does anyone know good aion forums?

Abedeus · Jul 28, 2009, 08:15 PM // 20:15

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Originally Posted by MBTW

er.. im fine with a monthly fee, as long as they sell prepaid cards.
on another note does anyone know good aion forums?

www.aionsource.com is the most popular, that's where devs usually post.

http://www.aionblah.com/forums/index.php?app=portal

Another forum, although I never visit it.

TalanRoarer · Jul 28, 2009, 11:11 PM // 23:11

I'm just annoyed that the pre-release is £34.99 where I've seen it (found it @£24.99 now.) I think it's silly that you have to pay that much, AND around £8 per month.

Then again, PPM has its benefits. The way I see it in a game liek GWs where you only pay the inital fee.. the developer's don't care as much as they would in a PPM game (For the obvious reason that you can stop giving them your money).

therangereminem · Jul 29, 2009, 11:51 PM // 23:51

losed Beta #5 is coming.
July 29, 2009 3:33 PM

We had a blast showing off Aion to the enormous crowds of people and potential robots at Comic-Con in San Diego last week. It was a crazy event that spanned five days - but we are now back in the office, getting ready to launch a brand new beta event that is sure to tickle your curiosity. Read on.

Closed Beta event #5 (CB5) is incoming, ladies and gentlemen, and it's coming with a respectable shipment of fixes, improvements and fine additions which we have worked hard to complete since the previous event. To give you an overview, please find below a pure list of things to expect for this coming weekend:

* New Sound files have been added
o NPCs should now have a greet and farewell voice
o Cutscenes will now have voice
o Race Prologues are now available when you create a new character for Elyos and Asmodian
o Tutorial videos are now available in game via the help menu
o Player voices are now available at character creation
o System voices are now available
* New NPC Dialogue/Quest text for Theobomos and Brusthonin
* Various Localization fixes
o Broken HTMLs have been fixed
o Various grammatical errors have been fixed
o Various Glossary term fixed
* 2 New servers added for each territory

Especially exciting for us is to introduce a first round of English audio, allowing you all to have a small taste of a more completely localized version of Aion. As we have announced before we are committed to releasing Aion with all its content adjusted and culturalized into top-notch English, including character voices and voice-overs. Keep in mind that these are currently implemented as a beta feature and that they will contain minor irregularities and bugs. Bear with us as we work to polish this and extend the volume of content even more in the foreseeable future. You will be able to log in to the game no later than on Friday noon PDT (8 PM BST, 9 PM CEST), marking the exciting dawn for two entirely new game servers for each territory. In order to promote newcomers to join these new servers, character creation will be disabled on all other servers during the beginning of the event.

Meanwhile, the much asked for beta forums will open for responsible posting again on Thursday 30th noon PDT (8 PM BST, 9 PM CEST). Don't miss it, as constructive feedback means a lot to us and allows us to make even more accurate improvements to the game before launch.

Let us thereupon extend a hopefully helpful recommendation as conclusion to this announcement. The audio-rich patch for CB5 is definitely a big one, and it's advisable for you to boot up your patcher as soon as possible in order to get the game ready for the weekend. Waiting until the last minute to download all the new content we're pushing out for this event could mean that you miss out on a good amount of enjoyable playtime!

That's all for now, see you in Atreia!

Smarty · Jul 30, 2009, 12:56 AM // 00:56

Whee voices! Thanks for the link.

RedNova88 · Jul 30, 2009, 02:38 AM // 02:38

The thing to understand Ben is that Lineage 2 did this as well, but a new expansion pack was released for free around every 6 months. This was/is one of the reasons Lineage 2 maintains a large population, and I figure they will do the exact same thing with Aion.

With Aion I'm actually surprised to hear is not a total grind fest, apparently there are a load of interesting quests with multiple pages of dialogue, giving info on lore and whatnot. I've heard that the quests at first are your typical gathering and killing stuff, but that's no different from any other MMO really, and they evolve into more difficult quests later. They had some people at level 45 within a few days so the grind can't be that bad.

Another thing I love as well is that your character doesn't come out looking like a clown thanks to random gear with all sorts of colors. I've read that if you say get an item that's quite a bit better than what you're wearing, but you like the looks of what you are wearing you can draw the stats from said superior item and apply them to your current gear, stacking the stats on top of each other. This helps prevent the economy from becoming bloated by removing items from the game, and makes the game feel like less of a grind because you don't have to spend X amount of money on a totally new set of gear. On top of that, you can even dye your clothing just like in GW.

Bryant Again · Jul 30, 2009, 05:58 AM // 05:58

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Originally Posted by Abedeus

Shamans.

Jack of many trades, master of none.

This is the trade-off for being a hybrid. You *can* perform in many roles, but A. you can only be mostly proficient in one and B. you will never be as good as a pure class.

So while yes, they *can* do a lot of things, they're going to be limitied - as all hybrids should be. When they're not limited is when they get the nerf stick.

Ps: brb tanking with mah shammie cus mail's better than plate.

Evasion Twenty · Jul 30, 2009, 04:11 PM // 16:11

So, in Aion....do you have the time-card service, or is it like WoW?

Abedeus · Jul 30, 2009, 04:46 PM // 16:46

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Originally Posted by Evasion Twenty

So, in Aion....do you have the time-card service, or is it like WoW?

Uhm. Doesn't WoW have pre-paid cards AND subscriptions?

Aion has time cards like every other NCSoft MMORPG but you can subscribe with monthly renewals.