Aion: Making Khadgar look Balanced

[Djfurball]

Unsub'd.  They need to double or triple XP gains across the board for me to consider coming back. The grind is beyond absurd.

Also unsub'd from Xbox Live Gold and Gametap. Woo I'm on a roll.

[rhetto]

Unsub'd.  They need to double or triple XP gains across the board for me to consider coming back. The grind is beyond absurd.

Also unsub'd from Xbox Live Gold and Gametap. Woo I'm on a roll.

I'm shocked you stayed on as long as you did. Everyone I knew who bought it on release had quit within 2 months.

[Djfurball]

Sometimes just logging in and mindlessly grinding was pretty relaxing. But I realized you can't do anything useful until high-40's, so screw it. I'm never getting there on 10hours/week.  Hadn't even tried in about a month, so I figured it was time to stop paying.

[rhetto]

http://www.allkpop.com/2010/05/wonder-girls-interview-with-ncsoft-for-aion

zomg, maybe i should renew my account

[Warlocksauce]

Rhet, does this mean I could cyber with Hyuna if I got Aion???!?!?!??!!?

[rhetto]

Rhet, does this mean I could cyber with Hyuna if I got Aion???!?!?!??!!?

You could pretend all you want.. But HyunA isn't in WonderGirls... She was when they first formed, but she left before they really did anything. GEEZE!

[Warlocksauce]

Is she solo now?

[rhetto]

Is she solo now?

She has done a few things solo, but she is a member of 4minute... they are releasing a new music video on the 19th, woo

[Nazgrax]

She has done a few things solo, but she is a member of 4minute... they are releasing a new music video on the 19th, woo

How do you know all this?

[Einheri]

Turns out he's an 11-year-old korean girl IRL

[Djfurball]

Greetings Aion Players!

Spring is in the air, the sun is out and the days are getting longer, and that means it’s time for update news!  After much anticipation, I am happy to announce the 1.9 update will be available on the North American and European public test servers on Tuesday May 25, 2010.  A week later, the 1.9 update will hit North American and European Live servers on Wednesday June 2, 2010.  As you might have read in the 1.9 patch notes or the 1.9 Q&A with Kinslon, the 1.9 update includes a number of great game improvements based on player feedback from around the world.  We listened to your concerns about where the game play experience was less than stellar, collected data to support this, and requested those changes to the game for the 1.9 update and we continue to provide this feedback for future updates too.  Along with a reduction in costs, better experience for quests and increased loot drops, we also threw in a collection of exciting systems and updates such as arms fusion, daily quests, rental weapon/armor system and a new look for group UI feature that are all aimed at improving the player’s experience.

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 One of the more recent concerns that we’ve heard is related to server populations, both in North America and Europe.  Some of the specific concerns you’ve told us about deal with difficulty finding groups in game, having resources to contribute to the overall server economy, and being able to gather strong enough forces to enjoy the end game content, particularly the Abyss PvP zone and Fortress Sieges. We heard your concern about this and did a comprehensive examination of all of our servers across North America and Europe.  After reviewing all of the game, character, and server data we found that certain level ranges or classes had healthy numbers, but across ALL level ranges and professions  most of our servers didn’t have ideal populations.  After a score of meetings, it was decided that the best thing to do is to merge some of our servers so that we have fewer, fuller servers with characters (and players) that are balanced better in population across all levels and classes. The primary goal of merging the servers is to create an environment that gives you the best possible experience in Aion.

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As you can see, we have quite a busy couple of months ahead of us; all aimed at servicing your needs and making Aion a better place to play.  I am excited at the prospect of what our players can expect in the near future, and can’t wait for the results to speak for themself.

Thanks,

-Chris “Kinslon” Hager

I might resub to see if they actually fixed questing in the 30 range. That was my biggest complaint. As for server mergers... Oy.

[Raargh]

Gonna log on and see whats up. I stopped leveling at 30 on my Temp and Sorc. Server merger= dying game.

Raargh

[Djfurball]

I mean, it's not patched yet. I'll give it another 15 bucks when it is.

I don't know what is up with the server mergers, to be honest. I'm on the worst-balanced and lowest-pop server in the game (Meslamtaeda) where every single fort is owned by Elyos and there's barely any Asmo presence to speak of. I didn't have much trouble finding groups for the few things I wanted to do.

They must just be completely hemorrhaging subs at this point to even announce that.

Edit: Christ, you leveled two toons to the 30's? I got my first one to 33 and gave up after my 431st Spriggan Gardener.

[rhetto]

I don't know what is up with the server mergers, to be honest. I'm on the worst-balanced and lowest-pop server in the game (Meslamtaeda) where every single fort is owned by Elyos and there's barely any Asmo presence to speak of. I didn't have much trouble finding groups for the few things I wanted to do.

They must just be completely hemorrhaging subs at this point to even announce that.

Yea but you were a healer type, everyone wanted you. I was on a pretty dense population server as a dps and I could never find a group for anything. Conversations usually went along the lines of..
"Chanter? Are you a healer?"
"No, I'm full dps"
"Get lost, only looking for a healer."
Which was then followed by 50 other groups in general chat spamming "lf HEALER@!"

Server merging mean all the bots will get merged too? el oh el. They should have fixed the xp and loot thing A LONG TIME AGO. Before they probably lost the majority of their subs from release due to terrible midpoint content. They finally realized the game is too much of a gind for people to want to pay for it but it seems like it is probably too late.

[Djfurball]

I really, really, really don't get why they didn't just take that double-XP-weekend thing and do it fulltime.  That alone makes the grind more reasonable in the mid-tier, and gets more people into the Abyss at a reasonable level (why the heck do they let you in at 25 when you just get one-shot by a 50?)  I don't see how this is rocket science, they had a huge push of sales on release, and when people hit the mid-20's to early-30's, everyone quits after their 431st Cold Lake Spirit.