Aion - closed beta start today

[Ellay]

From what I am gathering.. haven't played it yet but RL friends have this may in fact be a sufficient WoW replacement for many, I'm going to plop down the dollars to pre-order and multibox this and see how it goes

[Lyonheart]

From what I am gathering.. haven't played it yet but RL friends have this may in fact be a sufficient WoW replacement for many, I'm going to plop down the dollars to pre-order and multibox this and see how it goes

It is no WoW replacement! I think people who like Aion like all those Asian style MMOs.. i hated it and deeply regret spending the money. If you like that style ( nothing wrong with it ) you might like Aion. To me it felt really dumbed down. Just looking at the very cheap "painted background" Sky turned me off as well. Also another big "no no" to me is the macro system was made to ALLOW you to automate 100%. Any game that lets you do that loses my respect on that alone. I mean..WHY have that software blocker running in the background? bot programs are just scripts that someone writes for people so they can automate game play ( be afk and gain loot/exp) In this game people will go to some site and copy paste complex macros that they could have done themselves in the game. Copy/pasting them will just make it easier for people who don't want to spend the time to make their own.

[Mokoi]

Aion is a beautiful game.

Aion is an asian game, and for those who like FFXI and other simliar games, Aion might be worth a play.

I think the main difference from WoW to Aion is the playstyle. You don't have control over your spells and actions like you do in WoW. Everything is turn-based, like a card game, you need to wait your turn for a spell to go off or a move to start, so there's no control of burst and such, fights feel like a slow grind sometimes and you have very little control over how to do things.

I didn't like it.

I didn't like FFXI for the same reason.

Pretend like every single ability you have is like Heroic Strike and you have to wait for your swing timer to reset for your cast to go off.

I don't know, not for me, some people love it. Aion may be quite different from FFXI, but the control system looks the same, perhaps I am mistaken, i hope so because I would love to play this beautiful game =)

[Noxxy]

Just a note re getting into beta - if you have played TR before you get aion for free (digital download) and a month free when it goes retail plus access to all the betas. Think we also get in-game tshirt when it goes live...I have to dig up the exact wording on the email but my hazy memory suggests the above to be pretty close unless things have changed

Just a word re mboxing though, I read that each players UI will have a big honkin' "REPORT AUTO BOT FARMER" button or similar - so I am guessing anytype of boxing will be short-lived with lots of emails back and forth trying to get accounts reset, etc., etc. Could be a real pain as I can forecast what will happen - 6? boxers ganks lonely little noob. Noob spams 'REPORT BOTZ!!' button, mboxing takes a 'holiday' for a week before they can get back on - only guessing, but sounds a pain

I have heard a great idea re the game which I haven't confirmed though - there is only 1 exp bar, so like in eq2 we have 3 (adventure, trade and aa). What this may mean in aion is that we can play whack a mole for exp, gather some items, then trade skills a new set of ac all of which are adding to our adventure exp!! I assume there will be no disco or aa (EQ2) though but no matter.

Re trades, also understand they are a lot like WoW - one click and it's done. you can also go into batch mode.

I have also heard that some of the best attacks are part of style chains (like DAoC) - so a boxer would have to think which key to hit for max DPS - plus, there is no autoqueue (EQ2).

[jettzypher]

Just a note re getting into beta - if you have played TR before you get aion for free (digital download) and a month free when it goes retail plus access to all the betas. Think we also get in-game tshirt when it goes live...I have to dig up the exact wording on the email but my hazy memory suggests the above to be pretty close unless things have changed

*le gasp* howd you find this out and how do i make it happen? i played TR frequently when it came out. and since im interested in this game, this makes me happier.

[Noxxy]

Got an email containing the offer from the devs before all the betas started - looked like a normal advertising flyer but had all the info on it relating to aion

Something about being a valuable past customer from memory

Come to think of it - I was on the TR beta so maybe that has something to do with it - honestly not sure so I'll have a poke around and see if I can find it

[jettzypher]

awww...that might be why then. cause i havent seen anythign like that in my inbox. *sigh* oh well...

[Lunarsunrise]

Effex has been playing aion, i got as far as making a character while he was in the shower and then was told to "get off" ..how rude! So i have been watching it (why boosting my new fun team 4 priests) and i think it does look good, but even tho there are so many different things you do to the character ..they all look the same! some of the background music is a bit, well disney. The way they run really annoys me! The graphics are good in some places but i think i am gonna stick to wow. that's my girly opinion so it prolly doesn't count for much!

Luna xx

[Deekhay]

Is anyone succesfully software boxing it? ThinkI read somewhere that keyclone doesn't work with Aion.

Also, can you please give more details on the before mentioned "tbt" combat? All I've seen in videos really doesn't seem to be like that, maybe the rhytm is different but that's all.
For those already boxing the beta, can you please share more of your experience besides aestethics?

Cheers!
Deekhay

[beklyn]

Yes works flawless, you just need a patch for GG to disable it


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