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therangereminem · May 20, 2009, 10:43 AM // 10:43

Reserve Aion and receive exclusive in-game items as well as early access to Aion. The preorder bonus comes with:
*Access to all Aion Beta events, and early head-start access to Aion live game.
*Access to Aion server and character preselection.
*Exclusive in-game items including the Dark Cloud Helmet (stat boost), Talisman of Lodas (XP boost), and the GameStop Exclusive Ancient Ring of Fire.

A pre-order card giving you early access and exclusive in-game items will be available at time of reservation starting in late May.

The Aion Collector's Limited Edition comes with:
*6.5” hand-painted figurine of a winged Asmodian warrior-goddess
*Exclusive in-game items including an exclusive wing set with stat boost, exclusive color dye, two (2) emotes, and exclusive collector’s edition title with stat boost.
*The official Aion soundtrack CD
*Full color poster and map of the world of Atreia

also not gamestop always states on page if a monthy fee will be needed it use to be ther enow it has been removed so maybe it will be free to play sence all news points to that
**if you look at the reg edtion it does say fee to play so i dont know hopeing for the best either way i will play!!!

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/Prod...oduct_id=74885

Abedeus · May 20, 2009, 11:37 AM // 11:37

Dear God.

I want it. If NCSoft can make such a great collector's edition, I wonder what Diablo 3 will look like.

And damn you Chinese beta, now I can't decide what to get - pre-ordered Collector's Aion or Collector's Diablo 3.

Pleikki · May 20, 2009, 02:08 PM // 14:08

Diablo 3 ofcourse abedeus.. .. dont be silly

Abedeus · May 20, 2009, 03:25 PM // 15:25

Yeah, no matter how much I like Aion at the moment, 10 years of Diablo 2 is probably more important.

Mr. G · May 20, 2009, 03:29 PM // 15:29

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*Exclusive in-game items including an exclusive wing set with stat boost, exclusive color dye, two (2) emotes, and exclusive collector’s edition title with stat boost.

That is very very very worrying imho. Obviously I don't have all the fact, but it just doesnt look good to me.

Abedeus · May 20, 2009, 03:50 PM // 15:50

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Originally Posted by Mr. G

That is very very very worrying imho. Obviously I don't have all the fact, but it just doesnt look good to me.

Didn't GW's special editions give infinite amount of weapons for characters? Warhammer also had stat boosting ring and a special camp for fast HP regeneration.

I bet those "bonus stats" are pitifully weak at higher levels.

Ariena Najea · May 20, 2009, 04:47 PM // 16:47

So... after checking the official Aion website again, I still don't see any information on whether it does indeed have no monthly fee. It says nothing either way, which is a good sign that they're on the fence, or were at least when the website was created. They would definitely highlight no monthly fee if that was their final decision.

Mr. G · May 20, 2009, 04:52 PM // 16:52

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I bet those "bonus stats" are pitifully weak at higher levels.

Thats what I'm hoping, sort of an "Igneous Summoning Stone" type deal. Oh well we can only wait to so. I have high hopes for Aion.

Winterclaw · May 20, 2009, 06:04 PM // 18:04

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Originally Posted by Ariena Najea

So... after checking the official Aion website again, I still don't see any information on whether it does indeed have no monthly fee. It says nothing either way, which is a good sign that they're on the fence, or were at least when the website was created. They would definitely highlight no monthly fee if that was their final decision.

This is from Aion's faq

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How much will Aion cost?
We anticipate Aion will be similar to our other subscription-based games, featuring a boxed product and associated subscription fees.

Abedeus · May 20, 2009, 06:09 PM // 18:09

The game does have fees - Chinese one has time cards, 10 hours, 20 hours, 30 hours and up to 600~ hours. That's good for the casual players, as this mean they can play for example 2 hours every day for 5 days and pay only $2. Those more demanding people always can get 94 hours for $12.

But I guess the US and EU will have more sane, that is NORMAL system $15/12 euro for a month.

therangereminem · May 20, 2009, 10:25 PM // 22:25

ok

Don't preorder (yet)!

Is this what Ayase twittered about yesterday (and I retweeted)? Perhaps NCsoft has something more important to share with us than the contents of Aion's Collector's Edition next week? Perhaps they will tell us which retailers get which special items (for instance, GameStop gets the Ancient Ring of Fire while BestBuy gets...the Ancient Earring of Flying Simians)? Perhaps they'll also give us a release date and overhaul the official website's entire look and feel? Wait, no, that's impossible. It couldn't be that easy.

In other news...NCsoft's Korea's CEO is sitting pretty again and Shanda is giving even more free time away to noobs (their words) in an attempt to get even more people hooked. Is it working? Probably. The population of 100+ servers can't be wrong, can they? We'll find out soon enough.

taken from aionsource btw.

so i might wait til next week and see what best buy has to offer. i did pay for some time on qion along with 10 or so friends .

its about 18 bucks 10 play 8 hours a day 7 days a week lol for a month. so it really isnt that bad.

as far as d3 goes no beta planned n o new info really just old things they never showed and decided to show us d3 is more vaporware then guildwars2 is lol.
example of nlizzard startcraft 2 was soppose to come out last year then they decided to split the game up into 3 parts and frist part coming out late this year.. and now they pushed it til sometime in 2010. dont except d3 til after sc2 is out. then yo might get abeta then have another 2 year put off on the game. one reason i hate wow and everything blizzard comes out with

Ariena Najea · May 21, 2009, 02:26 AM // 02:26

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Originally Posted by Winterclaw

This is from Aion's faq

Thanks, I don't know how I missed that...

In any case... anticipate? Perhaps I'm being overly hopeful, but from what I gather of their revenue from the new add-ons from Guild Wars, they made quite a bit of money, even for the industry. Perhaps they will try a similar system (with better implementation right from the start) so that they won't turn away customers from the game and NCSoft. Perhaps in addition to or in lieu of traditional expansion packs, they'll release smaller packs for Elite Areas, special Gear, etc, and charge more $ per amount of content than a $50-60 expansion. It's a proven fact that gamers have brand loyalty, and the more NCSoft games we have, the more we're likely to buy. I suppose this decision will depend on how their finances are looking for the next couple years, since while it has the potential to attract many more customers with the transactions payment method, it could easily backfire and take its toll on NCSoft's profit margins.

Abedeus · May 21, 2009, 06:00 AM // 06:00

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Originally Posted by therangereminem

as far as d3 goes no beta planned n o new info really just old things they never showed and decided to show us d3 is more vaporware then guildwars2 is lol.
example of nlizzard startcraft 2 was soppose to come out last year then they decided to split the game up into 3 parts and frist part coming out late this year.. and now they pushed it til sometime in 2010. dont except d3 til after sc2 is out. then yo might get abeta then have another 2 year put off on the game. one reason i hate wow and everything blizzard comes out with

I don't even know where to being correcting this junk.

So instead, I laugh. But okay...

a) It's Blizzard - they never give unfinished games that can still be improved.
b) I don't remember any Guild Wars 2 in-game screenshots, informations about professions, GAMEPLAY VIDEOS or anything except for concept art (few, very few) and some hints in GWEN.
c) Diablo 3 not only has screenshots, tons of concept art, lore, 3 professions, but also... three or four gameplay videos. One barbarian, one witch doctor, one wizard and one.... archivist.
d) even Duke Nukem Forever is less of a vaporware. At least they have shown some recent gameplay videos xD

...Which is more proof than GW2's silence.

pumpkin pie · May 29, 2009, 06:05 PM // 18:05

pictures of what you will get in the collector's box, an action figures with removable wings and axe. 2 special emotes and titles.

Empress Amarox · May 29, 2009, 11:31 PM // 23:31

Awww, that screenshot of Aion looks so pretty!

Mr. G · May 30, 2009, 12:27 AM // 00:27

Aions got eye candy comming out of the wazoo, so if thats your kind of style you'll love it. No love for the Eylos in this CE it seems though

EDIT: Actually those screenshots are a little meh really

Empress Amarox · May 30, 2009, 01:08 AM // 01:08

What's an Eylos?

Post some good screenshots!

Edit: awwwww... Eylos are the pretty ones!

edit: o.o nevermind.. they're both pretty.

bhavv · May 31, 2009, 08:10 PM // 20:10

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Originally Posted by Abedeus

The game does have fees - Chinese one has time cards, 10 hours, 20 hours, 30 hours and up to 600~ hours. That's good for the casual players, as this mean they can play for example 2 hours every day for 5 days and pay only $2. Those more demanding people always can get 94 hours for $12.

But I guess the US and EU will have more sane, that is NORMAL system $15/12 euro for a month.

I would rather pay for hourly time cards like these.

I like the CE goodies for this game and will end order it if the price is ok.

Empress Amarox · Jun 01, 2009, 05:59 AM // 05:59

I found some screenshots: http://ve3d.ign.com/images/game/8225...r-of-Eternity/

They kinda make me want to actually bother dling the client just to look at the character creation for 6 hours... lol.

Look how pretty this is: http://ve3d.ign.com/images/fullsize/...8th-Screenshot

And then we also can't forget the guy using a flaming carrot as a weapon: http://ve3d.ign.com/images/fullsize/...6th-Screenshot

lol wtf?

Nomme Moon · Jun 01, 2009, 06:37 AM // 06:37

Arenanet is definitely running out of time to convince me to *not* buy this instead of GW2.

I absolutely loved the beta. It looks SIGNIFICANTLY better than GW and ran a lot better, too. The controls were amazing and there was little to no lag, even though I was playing on Chinese servers. This is the first MMO sans GW when it first came out that has my strong interest....I'm waiting a few weeks to see other retailers special deals, but I think I'm pretty solidly locked into to buy the C.E.....can't wait.