Aion Fantasy MMO - are you going to try it?

[PowerPlayoffs06]

I had a 50 Cleric on Vaziel but quit playing when I got to the end-game and it was just constant grinding for coins or quest items to get guarenteed gear like the Fenris set, or running the single end-game instance over and over and over again, usually getting zero drops for anybody in the party, and never at least even breaking even on the cost of the materials to get in to the place to begin with.

Things may have changed now, but when I left nobody on my server was particualily happy about the whole Elyos / Asmodian disparity either. Elyos owned the abyss for about 2 months straight after NCSoft changed something in the timing of fort vulnerabilities just after Elyos had captured all our forts. It made it pretty much impossible for us to retake them which allowed the Elyos to build up a massive, and I mean massive, amount of Gold Medals to gear themselves to the teeth with all the best PvP gear, even further widening the gaping chasm between the two races.

It was really, really, really stupid of that game to give one race such a hefty advantage as far as leveling and gearing difficulty goes. Even before the big snafu with Abyss forts the Elyos had levels and gear handed to them on a silver platter.

Awesome game concept, piss poor delivery.

[Regorium]

I had a 35 sorc and a 32 chanter on Vaizel.

What made me quit were the bots. I decided to step out of fire temple after the 20th run without any gold drops, and tried to quest in Beluslan. Yeah, every single mob was camped by a bot. Immediately unsubscribed right there just before the free month was up.

I'm sure they've taken care of that by now, but it's frankly too late. The game was a lot of fun, both PvP and PvE, I just couldn't deal with the horrendous customer service and of course the farmers/bots.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

Oh yeah, the botting. Totally forgot about that. It was out of control and there was no reason for it. They could have had one or two people easily go from realm to realm and just ban all the bots a couple times a day. It was soooo obvious who was a bot. They were always in the same areas, they had such motorized routines and even after the botters smartened up and stopped naming the characters things like xvrtghqwwak and used real names, it was still plain as day. There was no excuse for that being allowed to go on for as long as it did.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Never made it that far (highest atm is lvl 32) to get into some of the high end areas but you guys may want to maybe try for another month as the 1.9 update may have taken care of many of your gripes. I agree, the bots were horrible for some time but they are now pretty much gone. Seeing a few whispers sent my way every now and again from people trying to sell kinah or materials in game but I think WoW had the same thing in it even after it had been out for a few years. Aion is still kind of in its infancy. Another patch due out again within a few months again with some pretty big changes.

Game looks a little tighter to after the update. I'm enjoying it more now I think.