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Aion: The Tower Of Eternity

me Jojo said:
Queue was on 1:25 before I went to shower. 2:57 now. Fucking fuck. D:

How many had pre-ordered Aion? 400k, right? A server can't support more than 5k players, right? There's what, 20 servers?

Damnit, I need to calm down. :P
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There are 24 servers in total. 12 for US, 12 for EU. There are 24 servers for 400k+ people not counting anyone that didn't pre-order. With an average of 16k players per server, and a cap of somewhere under 5k (wow starts a queue at 1.5~2k) I'd say there's no need to calm down.. things are indeed pretty well fucked :D
 
Broadbandito said:
wow. position in line was 3000/3000. 5 hrs and 30 mins.....
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You might as well not even bother. You'lll just get booted within a few minutes anyway, then be at the back of that 5 hour 30 minute queue again. If you can even get in a queue again, that is.
 
Nobiru said:
This game is PvP based, so unless your a casual WoW player that liked getting ganked and ganking in places like STV, then no this isnt for you.
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I always played PVP, it was fun.

When my shaman earth bind totem could slow people down without causing guards to attack me, I kept getting allies to attack me from earth binding them in neutral cities and then get the guards to attack them and kill them:D

And they got durability loss while I didn't since they were getting killed by NPCs:D

Are the technical requirements similar to WoW?

I have an AMD Athlon 64 processor, 2Ghz, 1gb of Ram, with a Radeon X700
 
I've been in queue for almost 3 hours, but still actually hope they don't go crazy and add a buncha servers, I much rather deal with 3 weeks of bullshit than months or years on empty ass servers. I mean sure drop like 4 to 6 new ones on launch but don't go crazy and triple the servers to create ghost towns when the free month is over.
 
vesp said:
I've been in queue for almost 3 hours, but still actually hope they don't go crazy and add a buncha servers, I much rather deal with 3 weeks of bullshit than months or years on empty ass servers. I mean sure drop like 4 to 6 new ones on launch but don't go crazy and triple the servers to create ghost towns when the free month is over.
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So, you would deal with 3 weeks of shit out of your free month for a future that's uncertain anyway? That's...weird.
 
Kintaro said:
So, you would deal with 3 weeks of shit out of your free month for a future that's uncertain anyway? That's...weird.
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It sucks, but I agree with him, WAR added loads of new servers, and in the end it actually probably did more damage than good, since a few weeks after the game was out, many people quit because of low pop servers. Now they are going through the process of merging all of them. Its a big pain in the ass, I would probably still be playing it if I had stuck to the main server we were on, since its still one of the highest pop servers.
 
I bought today and was expecting to reg my key to play early... bad idea :lol

from the official site:

We’re a victim of our own popularity. So many people are excited about the Head Start Program beginning for our upcoming release, Aion, that we're having the website equivalent of a traffic jam. Please preorder or buy Aion at one the websites of our retail partners
 
General channel's fucking unbearable. Then again...
Anyway, if you guys get the chance to, disable it for a while.
 
I'm afraid this game will be all about people wanting to make big-titted female avatars.

Is it actually fun for a casual ex-WoW PVP player? What's so good about it?
 
Ether_Snake said:
I'm afraid this game will be all about people wanting to make big-titted female avatars.

Is it actually fun for a casual ex-WoW PVP player? What's so good about it?
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Dude, what is with your casual ex-wow obsession?

There was a closed beta which was actually extremely easy to get into for like 2 months during some weekends, then an open beta for a full week and you didn't even get to try it out and now are just trying to find out if this is wow-lite or some shit?

If you don't want to spend the money don't even bother, but stop with the wow-lite shit please.







Trying to complete some quests was rather hard due to the amount of people camping mobs, but managed to get Lv 7 tonight.
 
wtf are you talking about with your wow-lite?

I'm not a hard core WoW player, and I am wondering how it is for someone who isn't.

Whatever, burn your panties all you want.
 
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Don't lie to me NCsoft : (

Auth server is down or something, stuck at server select.
 
it will be interesting to see if a pvp focused mmo can be successful in a post WoW World.

mebbe ill join the Goon guild, if there is any group focused on pissing people off its them :lol
 
Level 11, time to sleep, 6am!

BTW. German Baldr Server the General is quite good - everyone helping each other out with quests etc. :D. Glad to be on an inofficial RP Server, less kiddos.
 
Game is a ton of fun, and launch has been smooth as hell for me. Got in at maybe 3:05PM, and there hasn't been a spit of lag at all. 10 hours in and no problems whatsoever.

I'm going Chanter (and currently leveling up Cooking).
 
The first time I tried to log in around 1pm I was met with a queue. I was number 1157 and it took close to two hours to enter the game. Once inside I had no problem getting to lvl 10 and finishing the initial area. It was crowded but friendly, I healed and buffed a lot of random people.

It was nice seeing regular names without numbers or Xx or 0o variations. The ultra midget characters running around are a laugh riot.

I logged in 30 mins ago expecting a queue and was met with none, really surprised.
 
I swear the only chat that was going on in the general chat was "WOW's better!" "OMG NO GO PLAY WOW IF ITS SO MUCH BETTER" .., "Yo Aion I'ma let you finish, but WoW was the best mmorpg OF ALL TIME" "AION 4 LYYFEE"


... 3 more levels til I can get out of here. =(
 
So far I've had 1 20 minute queue and very little lag. Aside from one client crash, it has been quite smooth. Forget WoW's launch, it has been better than most of WoW's patch days, at least for me.
 
Khrno said:
Dude, what is with your casual ex-wow obsession?

There was a closed beta which was actually extremely easy to get into for like 2 months during some weekends, then an open beta for a full week and you didn't even get to try it out and now are just trying to find out if this is wow-lite or some shit?

If you don't want to spend the money don't even bother, but stop with the wow-lite shit please.
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Hey...WoW.
 
Khrno said:
Dude, what is with your casual ex-wow obsession?

There was a closed beta which was actually extremely easy to get into for like 2 months during some weekends, then an open beta for a full week and you didn't even get to try it out and now are just trying to find out if this is wow-lite or some shit?

If you don't want to spend the money don't even bother, but stop with the wow-lite shit please.







Trying to complete some quests was rather hard due to the amount of people camping mobs, but managed to get Lv 7 tonight.
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At least it looks like Aion will help siphon off some of the asshole players to it!
 
My experience of general chat could be summed up thus:

Imagine barrens chat, now imagine something much worse, ITS WORSE THAN THAT
 
got to 9, and promised myself I'd sleep at 1. It was a busy night and even just casually knocking out the initial levels was fun. 1-10 in Aion is a hell of a lot less less painful / dull than it was in FFXI.
 
shock33 said:
My experience of general chat could be summed up thus:

Imagine barrens chat, now imagine something much worse, ITS WORSE THAN THAT
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WHERE IS MANKRIKS WIFE>! LOLOL
CHUCK NORRIS KILLED THAT BITCH!!!!!!

ugh. yeah.
 
Scum said:
General channel's fucking unbearable. Then again...
Anyway, if you guys get the chance to, disable it for a while.
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People try and make names for themselves early in an mmos life. They just end up looking like assholes.
 
My only beef with this game so far since beta is how the stores are setup. I crash now loading after doing ascension because theres 600 people AFK with stores in front of me. I wish there was designated areas where you could camp and sell.
 
Jube3 said:
My only beef with this game so far since beta is how the stores are setup. I crash now loading after doing ascension because theres 600 people AFK with stores in front of me. I wish there was designated areas where you could camp and sell.
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This puzzles me. Why do people do that when they can just as easily put stuff up on the Broker and let them sell?
 
Orbitcube said:
This puzzles me. Why do people do that when they can just as easily put stuff up on the Broker and let them sell?
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Try this: Buy some pepper from Verteron cooking merchant. Now, trod all the way to Tolbas Village - there is a quest that requires you to get pepper from Verteron. Put up your private store next to the quest NPC and sell pepper with extraordinary prices :p

The feature itself comes from Lineage 2 - I'm not sure there even were auction houses in the game itself.
 
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