Aion

Inquitus

Did you and do you still play?

Kiith

Bought it, but quit after it became clear that it was an endless grind.

Rev Hellfire

Bought it, play it until it became clear I don't have time to play it.

Assmaster_Kronk

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

Bought it, play it until it became clear I don't have time to play it.

Yeah same, not really a game for casual playing.

Noxin

Never made it past level 20. Grind was just too endless for someone casual like myself.

Inquitus

Quit in mid 30's me, grind to interminable, and found the game like a 2nd job rather then something fun.

Drakar

Might be interesting to hear from someone who still plays.

bullets

Rolled 4 characters,
Got my main to L27 or L28 cant remember,
Then the game started to Grind, and there was lots
of client crashes in crowded areas.

Have not played in 3 weeks, was kinda getting bored of it too.

Dec there is a LOTRO expansion which was my Main game, so
I will probably go back to that full time. But that is starting to suck
too with all this gate'd content. where you need specific Armour
before you can do some endgame content, which leads to more specific
Armour for upcoming content.

~B

Lister1

bullets wrote: »

But that is starting to suck
too with all this gate'd content. where you need specific Armour
before you can do some endgame content, which leads to more specific
Armour for upcoming content.

~B

Get in a decent kin and problem with gated content is solved...

jaggeh

i quit after the mass bannings, didnt want to invest time into a game where i could be arbitrarily banned due to a scanners parameters being set to wide.

Back to Eve i went.

TheDoc

Played to 19 and quit

**** game, complete grind, no fun what so ever.

Funny cause it was just annother flavour of the month.

Dustaz is always right on these matters..always

Ivan

I'm begining to think that every MMO is just a flavour of the month. WoW's subscription base is just built on several different groups of people leaving and returning in an endless cycle...

Rev Hellfire

Ivan wrote: »

I'm begining to think that every MMO is just a flavour of the month. WoW's subscription base is just built on several different groups of people leaving and returning in an endless cycle...

I'm inclined to think you're right.
Its seems every new mmorpg game is a chance to relive the excitement of the first mmorpg which seriously hooked you. Then every game there after is accused of been a grind, though its likely the first one was as well.

Kiith

While this does seem to be the case, Aion is more of a grind then most other MMO's, or at least more then most that i've played anyway. The Koreans do love the grind apparently. Lots of style, with very little substance from what i've seen (which admittantly isnt a lot).

Ivan wrote: »

I'm begining to think that every MMO is just a flavour of the month. WoW's subscription base is just built on several different groups of people leaving and returning in an endless cycle...

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

I'm inclined to think you're right.
Its seems every new mmorpg game is a chance to relive the excitement of the first mmorpg which seriously hooked you. Then every game there after is accused of been a grind, though its likely the first one was as well.

If the above is true, what do you all think it will take for a new MMO to be succesful on a Warcraft level? Will Warcraft dying, or at least just getting very very old, be the only way it loses its popularity? And do you think we will ever see anything like it again?

Rev Hellfire

Kiith wrote: »

If the above is true, what do you all think it will take for a new MMO to be succesful on a Warcraft level? Will Warcraft dying, or at least just getting very very old, be the only way it loses its popularity? And do you think we will ever see anything like it again?

Personally I don't think we'll get anything like warcraft in the near future. If blizzard where not to ever refresh their content and technology then perhaps you could see it dying out, but that's not the case.

Though it's really the fault of the mmorpg vendors, lets face it there has been no innovation to speak off in what is fairly conservative genre.
While Warcraft didn't offer anything new, but what it did do was offer a fun experience. Other than planetside and eve (plus hopefully jumpgate) all the other mmorpg's have been the same beast in different clothes.

And with its huge player base, accessibility, and support for casual players it looks like it will remain unassailable for the time been. In the unlikely event of another mmorpg offering anything remotely original, its only a matter of time until its rolled in as well. If all you've got to trade on is fancy graphics and nothing else warcraft is going to devour you. And god help you if you release at the same time as an expansion.

Personally I think its great, eventually people will realise they need to seriously raise the game if they want to compete, creating prettier clones just will not work.

Dcully

Interesting discussion lads,as Rev says MMO devs need to show some innovation and creativity.
Personally im tiring of buying mmos only for them to not live up to anything like i hoped.
All sitting on a shelf gathering dust in my house are AOC,WAR,LOTRO,Aion,GW.
Every so often i go back to WOW and thoroughly enjoy it,mostly when they release a big patch with more content ie Ulduar.
After a couple of months my interest diminishes yet again.
I hoped Aion would keep me interested but the grind was so painfull and a lot more so than any other mmo which is a shame because underneath the grind was a great mmo.

Ivan

Some future features for Aion. supposedly not a single expansion but rather multiple, free changes that will come in free, downloable expansions/updates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAM0wr7cZ8

Vertakill

I'm going to get murdered for this but..
I'm still playing but not in the conventional means.

I was one of the unlucky ones to get banned for absolutely no reason near the beginning and so I was banned for an entire week until they decided to let me play again. I was given the same generic template that covered everyone got that covered every conceivable bannable offence without pinpointing the one you were being banned for.

I was unbanned later that week, therefore I lost a week on everyone and was left behind in levels and when I came back I was being ganked by groups of people +10 lvls on me and got sort of disheartened by it.

So I found a nice free bot and started owning up the place! So, I'm 45 now and might even get to 50 before I'm banned but I don't care anymore.

For ****s and giggles I started 2 alts as well and it was suprinsingly quick to bot them from scratch. Got both to 32 now with minimal effort (2-3 days on and off tops).

I've safely gone through more levels without being banned whilst botting than I did when I didn't bot.. so I have no qualms about it at all.

NCSoft did a great job of pissing people off right from the beginning with the ban wave debacle and then the whole issue with the 9 to 5 GM's... god forbid you have a problem out of hours! I was banned on a Friday night and didn't get a response until Monday night, despite the fact I was in the headstart and had the collector's edition. Nice kick in the teeth there.

Anyways, I'm selfish, I'm lazy, you name it. I want the good parts of Aion without the bad parts and I also want to experience some of the end of the game before the end of my life.


Once you eliminate the worst bits of the game (the grinding) it can actually be quite good.

Traeman

I quit at level 19, GRINDING i horrible.

Dubhthamlacht

I got to level 31 and quit. Up to level 26 wasn't too bad, but after that.....it was rotten. 3/4 of the way to 32 i joined a group for an instance, Fire Temple, and due to a few deaths, lost so much xp, it put the final nail in the coffin of this grind. I know you can pay to recover the xp, but i couldn't be arsed anymore.

The first 10 levels were fantastic. If they had of put the same thought into the rest if the levels as that it would be a terrific game. The profession grind totally drained my will to live.

Angron

Still play, level 35 Glad on the Spatalos server, Elyos side

Edit: However, I was in a legion that largely went inactive, so I left. Most of the legion either quit, or went to a new server. So now I'm legionless, and mainly going around doing stuff on my own, occasionally going with groups to places like the Fire Temple

ArthurG

Quit a while back - loved it up to The Abyss (was that lvl 25?), but trying to level in there with frequent gankings got old very quickly.

I'm on an MMO break now for a while - am tempted to go back to WOW but afriad I'll just get sucked back in.

I'm gonna wait for FFXIV next year I think - i played FFXI for 4 years and loved it, so will see what the new one brings.

rcunning03

I'm Level 35 Gladiator and am still loving it, though I like the grind anyway

teh.f4ll3n

Still playing on Castor Elyos side. lvl 39 Ranger. Gave up on the grinds, doing instances and fotress sieges only now. The game has a great deal of fun to it if you know how to have it.

nin2010

Sounds like there's lots of you jaded by the traditional mmo. You should have a look at Darkfall if you are bored of the same old thing. Beware though you need to like pvp to play, otherwise I wouldn't recommend it for you.

I have played WoW for 1 year and AoC for one year and tried everything else and Darkfall blows them all away.

cherryghost

3 month bump. theres a big patch on the way to help the game become less of a grind. more xp for quests n stuff, less random rare drops and in a more focused area... might go back.

Mac daddy

Heard about that patch alright I had a assassin levelled it up to 42 quit after that the grinding was getting to much endless grinding bugger all XP and Quest to go around.

Such a shame visually it was a great game.

Dcully

Doubt ill ever go back to Aion, i resubbed to Age of Conan yesterday.
They seem to have done a masive amount of work to it.
Tonnes of new content.

Funky

gonna give Aion another shot and see what they've done with it, i originally bought a 6 month sub and there's a bit of time left

Tails142

Still playing, I do quite like the grind though!

Playing on Castor Elyos, quite fun but it can require a massive amount of time to get to end level, but enjoy the journey not the final destination right?

Chronus

well after leaving darkfall i tryed out aion for a few months... got 2 chars to lv 40 and another to 20 something...

yeah the grind sucked... that plus the bots and all gold selling, though it's such a common thing in mmo's that it's not really a reason to get you bored of the game. It just seemed that Poeta was really cool and then everything after that wasn't. I think lack of content is a good definition.

That and i realized i can't play a game where it tells you who your enemies are.

Tails142

Hey all,

If any one is thinking of coming back or looking for a legion think about coming to Castor elyos side. In a legion called Exit, we got Ventrilo and do pvp/pve used to hold a fort till recently. 1.9 patch is coming out on Tuesday and then free expansion will be coming in probably about a months time.

Give me a shout in game, character name is Fallor though I play a few alts too. If you're thinking of starting a char on Castor give me a shout cause I will start an alt and level up with you.

Would be cool to get a bit of an irish contingent going.

super_furry

I picked it up on Tuesday on a whim. It looks great - by far the prettiest MMO I've seen, but it's really really grindy. I'm only at level 10 and already it feels like every single quest is 'kill 10 of something' or 'collect 8 of something else'.

uncle_sam_ie

Anyone still playing this? I thought I'd give it a try to fill in the gap until GW2 and SWTOR come out. Is it still a grind?

Kur4mA

Hmm, I quite at level 21 due to the realisation that the grind was taking pretty much the entirety of my gaming time when there are better games out there to be playing.

uncle_sam_ie

kyub wrote: »

Hmm, I quite at level 21 due to the realisation that the grind was taking pretty much the entirety of my gaming time when there are better games out there to be playing.

But, I thought they fixed all that? http://www.tentonhammer.com/aion/features/editorials/a-second-look

Kur4mA

Maybe they did, but I gave it more than enough of a chance and don't plan on going back tbh. There are bigger and better games than Aion coming out.

cherryghost

It's better but its still a grind after level 40.

uncle_sam_ie

kyub wrote: »

There are bigger and better games than Aion coming out.

Yea I know, but I thought I might give this ago til then. I have tried Rift and LOTR. I got board with Rift and LOTR was terrible. GW2 is what I want to play but that's months away.

Dcully

I too am looking for something to fill the gap,i got a scroll of rezzurection to wow last week and got bored withing an hour.
LOTRO is just a major bore to me,Rift i enjoyed for the free 30 days but my server population died off dramatically and i quit.
Im now wondering if Aion is worth another look.
Any offers going for past subscribers?

..Brian..

I have two toons and around lvl 45 a host of 30 somethings when I quit, got sick of the endless grinds and shítty drop rate! But more so the servers are totally dead, no population at all, making it impossible to get groups for instances unless your in a hardcore guild. For the casual player it sucks.

In saying that tho, there is a reactivation week with double drops and XP starting tomorrow so may log on again and have a look. Always good numbers online when it's free as well!

AL][EN

Never herd of it but judging from the out pour of "endless grind" quotes from other posters might steer clear of it.

dont really have the free time to invest to heavily in an grindfest atm.