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Originally Posted by Regorium
Just curious what you didn't like about Aion?
I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. I loved the PvP aspect of it (the fortress sieges were another story). I didn't even mind the grind - everyone had to do it, and there was lots of game in between (ie. not a lot of lvl 50's that come gank you while you're in the lvl 35 area).
The thing that killed it for me was the bots. Having one bot per mob spawn point in Beluslan made me unsubscribe in one night. The game itself was amazing, but it was the support that completely failed the game in that first month.
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I found the pvp in Aion to be gigantic zergs mostly (I much prefer small groups of 5-10 max whereas it always seemed to be groups of 25+) and unsatisfying. I also grated with the bots that you mentioned that drove me nuts.
I realize my gripe about pvp group size to be an unclear concept and a tough one for developers to try to favour....it probably evolves naturally or not at all, I just found the going tough for a group of two in the world pvp part of the game.
Ironically, rift also suffered a huge amount from bots. Honestly, MMO's have such an outside of the game economy I think bots are a huge issue for all of them with no easy solution.