kanzy

August 13, 2009 at 2:27pm

Guys, this game has been running in Asia for awhile now, and it is horrible, tons of bugs and people cheat all the time, even worse than a regular online game.

philippecote3

August 13, 2009 at 2:23pm

I played WoW on and off for about three years and when I finally to got to the highest level it wasn't even fun. Everbody just seemed stressed and they only played "together" for a couple of hours a week. I'm ready for a new MMO that's different from WoW, yet hopefully it will be just as successful.

VaMage

August 13, 2009 at 9:39am

Back in the 90's Computer Associates had a product called Aion that was used to build expert systems. I wonder if someone still owns the name, if so it might be a whole new lawsuit, something I'm sure we all would just love to see.

BTW: We used Aion to build a pretty cool app that defeated the attempts by Doctor's offices to "fragment medical reporting codes into their component parts for the purpose of gaining a greater payout from the health insurer." In other words, say you had a broken leg, the insurer pays a set fee for repairing a broken leg, BUT it may pay more if you report each step in repairing a broken leg seperatly!

The fun part was that we built a system to stop this, but then someone else built an expert system for the Doctors offices that could fool our expert system, so we updated to defeat that. It was a fun little code war for awhile, but I got bored and moved on to an even newer thing called "OOP, object oriented programming". Gawd I am SO OLD. <LOL>

 

 VaMage

American by Birth, But Southern by the Grace of God.

Kaldor

August 13, 2009 at 8:33am

I just want a game that isnt /faceroll to hi level or /mashkeyboard to hi rank.

I played DAOC for 7 years.  One of the best MMOs ever from a PvP difficulty stance.  It took skill to excel in that game.  If you were nothing but a timer dumping scrub it showed and you got rolled time after time. 

I play WAR now.  Its not even close to what DAOC was 3-4 years ago.  Poeple are hitting max rank in less than a year.  The PvE system is horrible.   The entire game is about to unravel in front of Mythics eyes. 

I dont think Aion will do it honestly.  NC Soft doesnt have the best track record with Lineage 1 and 2 which were both big time grind and grief games as well as Tabula Rasa.  Their biggest success has been City of Heros/Villians and Guild Wars to a lesser extent.  I have a few guildies in the beta and they will probably make up my mind for me.

All this being said, I want some fast PvP action that requires skill.  Im tired of "I win" buttons like AE disable/knockdown in WAR.  Real interupts so unhealed casters arent killing melee DPS who are in melee range.  Unkillable healers that out DPS a MDPS class.  Hmm, looks like Ill be going back to DAOC once my WAR account runs out.

DAOC is still one of the best MMOs out there.  Its not noob friendly like WoW, WAR, or any of the other dozen WoW clones out there.  To compete you need to run 2 accounts or have a friend with a buffer.  Leveling is not painless, as questing thru the game like WoW/WAR isnt going to happen.   All Mythic really had to do to make a top notch game was add collision detection and update DAOCs quest system and they would have had a great game.

I hope Aion pans out.  People are getting tired of easy mode.  Even alot of the WOW players I know who loved WOW are tired of skilless games with no real end game other than raid dungeon X 50 times.  

/rant off

DBsantos77

August 12, 2009 at 10:12pm

Aion looks promising, graphics look amazing, I think it was built with CryTek? Or some Crysis engine of some sort. Wow is starting to look a bit outdated anyways.

Ogdin

August 12, 2009 at 10:03pm

  I think they should drop there expectations down a notch or ten. Wasn't all that impressed with what i saw in the beta.It'll sell a bunch od copies at launch than dwindle down shortly after like AoC and Warhammer did.