Joxer

A couple problems... 1.) Aion doesn't really make NCsoft money any longer. Majority of the balance sheet is mobile games. The only game that makes NCsoft less money of B&S. There is no incentive to change the loot rates in Aion unfortunately. 2.) Drop rates in instances were changed as well. If this was only a way to fix bots, I don't think instances would have been affected . However, maybe KR has issues with Instance bots too. 3.) NA got their PayPal account in trouble today as PayPal issued refunds for escalated complaints. This could possibly force the hand to make the requested changes, but I am personally not holding my breath. However, do keep in mind a PayPal refund does get your accounts banned. So, I am all for "money talks", but it will come at a price. Joxer/Knoxer/Joxtrap are all banned over my choice of using my money to make a point. I will miss them and everyone I played with.

It does seem coincidental that refunds through PayPal happened today. Not that I actually wanted a refund, I wanted the game fixed and playable again. Same as what everyone that plays and enjoys Aion wanted. Money talks, I hope this has gets a positive change made to drops and in game content.

Refunds came today...And now NCwest can't process Paypal transaction. I never wanted to request refunds, I just wanted them to fix the game. Evidently, that was too much to ask.

A scheme to make people buy Premium Pass so you can get manastones and enchantment stones.

1 patch....Everything else has been regurgitated content. We are not talking all new content here Cyfur. Please note I did say "almost".

Except, Almost all that is done already. Remember Retail is in English and classic is just repackaged content from the archives. It is just slightly modified to fit the population of our servers, playing habits, and slight mix match of different patches from Retail.

I remember this to be the case as well. It didn't make sense and basically made the rich players more powerful and geared while others stayed perpetually behind and under geared.

@Roseae is there any update you can give us on expected down time as your post had that blank and what is being done to resolve the issue and the gear that dropped?

I re-watched that video. I see 4...4 places that it was quite obvious that it was not intended for navigation. I didn't even count all the places it was obvious that those areas were not intended for players to be in the first place. It maybe "easy" to manipulate the map to get around the terrain and obstacles, however, at the end of the day that looks exactly like what RIN specifically said should NOT be done.

Jake, we all know there are places in the game that are more prone than others to glitch through floors, get stuck on corners, or per your example stub your toe over and over. So to use the argument that if you aren't meant to go there you should get rebounded is gas lighting at best. For those that have played Asmodians, I'm sure plenty have glitched the guardrail in Panda to explore the other side and then under the floor without rebound kicking in. By your argument, it WAS intended to go there despite it was obviously not. How many have fallen through the floor in Adma? Clearly not supposed to happen. I could continue, but I think the point is clear. We all know that where the textures are smooth and looks like a cliff that would not be scalable/ or able to be passable, then it was intended not to go that way. In most cases this is true, but in some areas it can be glitched. RIN made it clear that if you have to deploy methods that get around what are/were intentional barriers then that is not ok. There is A path to Gelk Fortress, but it takes a lot to get through that path. That is what was intended, not some hopscotch round-about way that is being used now. Open word does not mean, limitless. There are clear limits on where the devs meant for players to be and not be. I would like to believe that none of us are so unreasonable to think that areas with no textures or mobs/guards are meant to be used/traveled. I personally would argue that the manipulation you show in your video and the killing of players within Gelk Fortress is a way for AP gain/quest kills that is unfair and breaks certain mechanics of the game.

The game client IS 64 bit. If it was not, I would not be able to run Aion from Windows 11 ARM as the 32 bit client cannot be emulated on an ARM processor + Windows 11.

Jake, your video and how you just described how you do it is exactly counter to what RIN stated about accessing parts of maps. As you are using terrain to glide around and over areas that were not meant to get over; then you ARE access Gelk fortress in a way that was unintended by the developers.

If that were true Dorito, I do believe the statement would have been made by the support staff already. They have not.

My point is that Ncsoft has not clarified that the Gelk or Ing Forts are free game for the opposite faction or not. If fact the statements are vastly more confusing and has created more confusion. I would argue that if Ing relies on group/kisk/RNG to get into then the ease of getting into Gelk fortress is by happenstance an accident and not intended. Be odd to allow Ely into Gelk fortress with ease on purpose but not for Asmo into Ing Fortress. Your comment alone leads me to believe that it is actually unintended. Why NCsoft has decided to be so vague for Classic is beyond me.

I do still expect NCsoft to say yes or no if Ely should or shouldn't be in Zone 1 of Gelk and vice versa. Retail this was not allowed and so far @Rin has only been vague. It should be simple as a yes or no. That I am aware of there is NO road or way into Gelk Fortress other than a gate that has to be broken first. This is being used to kill players that otherwise DO expect to be in a safe zone and does very much feel like an exploiting of the environment to get somewhere that was not necessarily intended for PvP. So NCsoft needs to put this on the record. Is Zone 1 intended for the opposite faction/PvP or is it not. It is an easy question. @Funkula