Aion

NCsoft would continue with the game, if it weren't so clear that Guild Wars is their money maker in Europe.

WTB Warhammer 40k MMO :<

They're making it, shush.

idd. The idea is cool, but don't think it will ever be picked up by the masses.

Also, I highly doubt they can transfer the massive feel into the game. Additionally, how are they gonna translate every faction warring against every other faction into the game? A "forces of good vs forces of evil" would be just lore rape. Spess Mehrins alongside of Eldar? HERESY!

On the other hand.. WH40K is extremely cool...

You're a space marine, or a chaos space marine. The other factions are enemies, regardless.

Edit: On the note of lore raping, look at Dark Elves fighting alongside Orcs in Warhammer Online and wonder for a while.

Alpha WoW anyone? ; )

Halya wrote:You're a space marine, or a chaos space marine. The other factions are enemies, regardless.

Edit: On the note of lore raping, look at Dark Elves fighting alongside Orcs in Warhammer Online and wonder for a while.

Orcs would rape delves regardless of affilation. But CSM or SM? Now it gets interesting. Classes: TCSM, Havoc, Sorceror, Termy, Posessed, Raptor? Will they include vehicles ingame in not such a crappy way as WoW did?

Spess Mehrins alongside of Eldar? HERESY!

On the other hand.. WH40K is extremely cool...

Archal, technically the Imperium of Man are not officially at war with the Eldar and the Tau. Infact there is a Inquisition coven called the "Coven of Isha" between the most High Inquisitorial Lords and the Ulthwe. There has also been hundreds of cases recorded where Eldar and forces of the Imperium have joined forces against the common foe and then parted ways as friends. Talaarn, the 11th Black Crusade and many more.

The Imperium also has had a few alliances with the Tau too regarding some of the hive fleet encounters, so it is possible to implement such a element in the WH40k MMO o:

Didn't know that. Though that probably is the most tolerant wing of the Empire, isn't it? The general soldier is thought to fear the deceitful alien, amiright? "Suffer not the mutant, ALIEN, and heretic?"

most tolerant wing of the Empire

The coven is made with the Ordo Xenos. And they actually do favours for Eldrad. How is that for tolerant? And only the most fanatical really hate all aliens blindly. Just as a example the Biel-tan and the Talarn tank troops joined forces to fight back the Iron Warriors which were trying to take a dark relic. At the end of the campaign the eldar and the IG were victorious and they parted ways as friends, having already made a pact of alliance if any of them needed help in the future.

Eldar and the Imperium doesn't get along as well as you're implying Geldar.
They hate the shit out of eachother even while working together, and it's not uncommon for the Eldar "allies" to turn on the Imperium shortly after the greater threat has been dispatched.

If they lorerape the shit out of 40k to make it two big factions against one an other, I'll start worshipping Khorne and build a throne of skulls where it's being developed.
The only factions I can see working together for any length of time without reverting back to murdering eachother is the Tau and Ultramar, if Tyranids or something similarly sector raping is involved.

And to be tolerant in 40k, usually ends up with you being a daemon possessed monstrosity.

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Nvm, created a new Elyos character on Gorgos instead. And they very much are continuing with the game! Patch 1.9 is being applied today and it's a rather huge patch, and a lot of info about 2.0 is already out and it's in the works, which will include a raised level cap to 55 and solo dungeons amongst other things!

Edit: You noobs already have a thread for the nerdiest franchise ever created by man, stick to it. :<

Yeah, that patch has been screwing my connection for the entire week. It's freakin' huge!

Do you have details on all these changes? If I ever get a job, I'd probably buy a subscription to Aion again to go along with my WoW.

Ps. I dislike Warhammer because it's overrated, so hah. But yes, quit hijacking, you have your own thread.

http://powerwiki.uk.aiononline.com/aion/Patch+Notes%3A+1.9.0.1 for the 1.9 changes.

http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/aion/Korean+PTS%3A+Initial+2.0+Patch+Notes Initial 2.0 Patch Notes are what's in the works for 2.0.

THIRD ninja edit with shurikens flying everywhere: I'm just gonna let my concerns with 2.0 rest for now with this interview and this quote in particular:
"Is Assault on Balaurea an expansion or simply a large content patch? Perhaps something in between? We don't know, and Hager wasn't willing to fix that. "We haven't announced what we're doing for 2.0," he told us, explaining that sometime down the track they'd reveal the specifics."

"Autumn" seems like a pretty short time to launch an expansion with 1.9 being as beefy as it is and just having been released today... I can't say I'm not hopeful!

We'll see if it improves enough to be playable now, but right now it's still shit, and the EU team is rather horrible.

Jebus, those clothes are pretty glamorous.

They've not extended flight yet? They said they'd do that after the game got going more. Bah.

I still don't understand why they restricted flight so much, especially with the knowledge that WoW will allow flight everywhere.

Jakins wrote:Jebus, those clothes are pretty glamorous.

They've not extended flight yet? They said they'd do that after the game got going more. Bah.

I still don't understand why they restricted flight so much, especially with the knowledge that WoW will allow flight everywhere.

I'm guessing they don't want what flying mounts did to world PvP in WoW to happen. Truth is, in the abyss, you can fly for a pretty long time if you chug pots (that you should be carrying with you anyway). It's a really difficult thing to balance since world PvP is such an important thing in the game, but people don't want to feel like their wings are crippled, either.

It still generally seems like the wings are being completely disregarded, especially after the fact that the wings were what made the game what it is. People wanted the game because there were winged people in it but it just seems like it's close to being like the glide ability in Spyro games and made a minority.

Uh, I think people started playing because Aion represented a mix between Lineage and Final Fantasy. Not because of the wings, but yeah, I'm against limited flight time, though everyone will flee with full flight time...they should figure out a way to lock people in flight-combat.

Honestly, most reviews were based around the wings, then people got pissed when limited flight was implemented into beta.

What they could easily do is, with flight combat, make sure you can only do it within a certain radar radius. If someone spots someone flying in then there could be some sort of speed-boost ability that can only be used when an enemy player is nearby to act much like the way flying mounts seem to work in WoW.

Or something like that *shrug*

There's a level of skill needed in conserving your flight timer, knowing when to land and when not to, and when to flee opposed to when to stay and fight. I can see where you're coming from with the advertisement being as it is, but I personally don't agree with flying being bad as it is now, and I much prefer this instead of other options, speaking from a pvp perspective.

To each his own, in the end.

If this MMO had the questing like WOW does. I proably would glue myself to it.

I loved the story, and espically the charecter creation, music. It's a shame i didn't find enough RP on my little asmodian.