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@Motgar-KT This is just so sad to read. You are telling us and them, people who probably only enjoy Aion as a game than no other one because who knows what reason, that the solution of Classic is to shut down PS? You are literally telling that to people who finally can enjoy the game as they wanted on a Private Servers after they couldn't find fun here at Classic anymore? You really are trying to bring people back with such a feeling of disappointment to NCwest? And you expect them to come back????? Am sorry but this is not how it works. Most people who quit to PS was BORED on classic and they just kept playing here because they invested money into it and they couldn't find anything else to enjoy the game again UNTIL NOW. This is the sad reality, most people who quit classic for PS won't come back, unless NCwest do real changes (or actually fixes) to their own game. You are underestimating the problem if you think population problem will be solved by shutting down the servers. In fact, PS are the best advertising they have about this game, because not even NC cares about advertising the game and encourage new people to come to try the game, as PS do. To be honest, I swear if it wasn't because of PS not even 10% of the people over the world (at least out of Korea) who is playing Aion right now would care about the game at all. You probably don't even know the amount of people that play PS in EU/RU zone, just as an example.

Even if its against the ToS, people is playing private servers for a reason. When you contact a private server admin and it takes him no longer than 2 mins to answer you, while you have to wait hours if not days (sometimes weeks) to get a response from NC staff instead, it really makes you start thinking a lot. And that's only one example, sadly private servers manage their servers 100000 times better than NCSoft NA, and that won't change, it didn't ever change and it won't. And the truth is, if Private server shut downs, barely 10% if so of the people that left to there will come back, because they are done with NC.

I so agree with this and absolutely needs to be mentioned and asked for. We can't receive an uncomplete version of 2.0, game already barely allow you to grind open world since it is almost pointless to, so we need, for the best of the server, don't make this change done in korea to get NA. This is one of the most important solo content aion offers besides pvp, and bots won't be such an issue as it was on Theobomos since balaurea are open pvp maps, with no channels etc. Don't nerf the solo grinding even more as it is right now. Literally grinding OW mobs for kinah is the best way to kill time when nothing else is going on

Hello, I want to report an indirect or unintended(?) change which happened after this maintenance and was not reported, which may or may not be planned to happen but I still wanna make sure about this. Whenever a character swapped gear, or strip their gear/put back on, both their HP and MP bar used to stay at the same % they used to be. This stuff, combining with macros to gear off/on was a nice way to optimize the use of instant potions. As a sorcerer player (and I know many others also do) this directly affects to the potential to make highest dps on PVE as a non-lumiel's wisdom player (ew that skill). Also, I know many players used to use this feature to optimize hp/mp between fights on arenas or at any pvp scenario, or just to recover your hp/mp faster. On other case, everyone uses to play with more than 1 gear and swap between them using macros. Now, for example, if you are wearin your 50 gear, and swap to your 30 gear, and then go back to your 50 gear again, your HP and MP won't go up anymore, so it will put you on a huge disadventage whenever you swap gears with different hp/mp stats. I know the use of macros for this purpose was still a thing even in later patches, so I don't really know if this change was intended to happen on this maintenance or something was touched by mistake, because this was for real never touched even until 4.6 (which was the latest patch I played so don't know about any further)

I agree with all above, especially with the part about starting a serious discussion about this topic. In my personal opinion, as a south american player (+1 hour from east coast) would be actually helpful to get a much more comfortable schedule tbh, but I think the most important thing right now is gathering opinions of the vast majority of the playerbase and I would totally agree with the taken decission if it ever happens based on this. As you mentioned, this is one of the best way to keep our playerbase comfortable and being able to run most of the end game content thos game offers to us, after all i'm pretty sure most of us want the server to stay alive the longest as possible with a stable community.