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    Wisp said they would ask in there and all we got was radio silence so...Below is what they said.

    On 5/27/2023 at 9:01 AM, Wissp said:

    I've requested an update on our plans to improve players' potential to acquire Luna and will update you when I have more information. Thank you!

  2. 17 hours ago, GenericUser9313 said:

    There is next to no motivation for them to make our gaming experience better. Considering our population, the cash shop is doing remarkably well, maybe too well. Everyone, including myself, needs to boycott the cash shop until things change.

    Boycotting does not add motivation it adds no reason for them to continue the game, In-fact the less $'s that come in the more likely it is for them to just shut down a 13+ year old game in the region. This is the problem, Then you can see with T&L beta NCsofts only goal is to replicate their mobile success. 

    Take BDO for example: It started out like Aion 5.0 during its worst time with gear blowing up and mostly a pay2win version of the game. Now BDO's current version is like NA Aion 4.0 where playing 1 character meant you could completely gear up your character to a competitive state in a reasonable amount of time w/o having to play more than 1 character if you wish.

    All this happened because the players themselves did not boycott but rather had an in-game protest in one of the main cities across all regions, KR/EU/NA all had players standing in towns for hours it caused server issues having that many people in the same channel same location but players persevered and now they have an amazing version of the game that even new f2p players go OMG this game you do not have to spend a dime on and i am competing in high end grind spot locations.

    Unlike Aion's community everyone came together in BDO, The cheaters/The pilots/The non spenders/The massive spenders/The E-peen warriors and the list goes on as the larger majority of BDO's community came together to protest the direction of the game.

    I have always said Aion suffers from 2 things, Lack of playable features on a single character and lack of cash shop options. If some wants to whale and get every single ultimate that is fine but there should be reasonable play-able content to get the same thing. Not wait around to get enough freebies for doing the bare minimum every week like doing only your battle pass. That is not a winning gameplay feature people will quit before they even get to their first one.

    ASPA is genuinely the best map design since 4.0(not eb online times), The problem is the rewards for participating on the map pale in comparison. That map can fix every single issue in Aion by having choice rewards for the camp quests. Doing bloodmarks got you 

    1. Competitive gear
    2. Ancient coins
    3. Enchantment stones
    4. Mythiic supps
    5. Vibrant PvP 

    Mega spenders/F2P/Undergeared/geared players all traversed those maps and changed the entire dynamic of gameplay and by the end of the week if you played a single character you would end up with the exact same reward as any other person that played a single character on the map be it you spent 40 hours PvPing that week OR spent 2 hours quickly smashing out the quests then worked the rest of the week.

    That is a winning formula. Either way no one will boycott because the moment something good comes up for sale the first thing spenders think is WHAT IF this is the turn around stage i need to be ready for it.

  3. This is what really F***s me off tho,

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    Reviewing the previous attempts, I see they are coming from an ISP that is commonly used by VPN services and is a favorite of individuals who participate in malicious activity within our services. 

    Unfortunately, we are unable to override this restriction.

    ^ a response from support.

    They never take action on people who are using programs with recorded proof that they are using hacks to exploit the system which causes people to quit then people who are using a VPN service. You ban no one who cheats blatantly in front of others but ban people who want lower than 200 ping to the server. It is actually a joke.

  4. 7 hours ago, One said:

    @Wissp So it's been two weeks. All i can say either shut down the game or make things better. And stop lying. 

    I do not think a CM can make anything better in-game, They can communicate with us better but that is about all. It does not feel like Wissp has improved on previous CMs thus far that is for sure.

  5. 8 minutes ago, GenericUser9313 said:

    The blatant hacking is good for noone on either side. Ive seen it on both sides. 

    The problem is you are looking at the culprits not the problem.

    The culprits are the ones who are cheating but why are they cheating? This is where the problem comes in, To many people are RMTing 3rd party kinah to buy these items they take advantage of the cheap goods these hackers are selling. Legit players will do instances with these cheaters if it means victory and they can get personal gain. They tell themselves well it is only PvE no one cares. Then these same players will turn around and not do content with other legit players because they can not do as much damage as a hacker.

    Who is the problem the hackers or the players who take advantage of those who are hacking. Obviously the answer is NCwest for not banning them, But then the hackers and players that exploit the hackers for their own gain are on the same page. This is why when i mentioned people are going in disingenuous when we talk about the problems in Aion on the other thread it is because people want to cover their own hides out of fear if NCAmerica does do something they will get caught up in it.

    NCAmerica need to come out explaining all past misdeeds will be forgiven because they let the game get in the state that it did. If this does not happen NCAmerica and its new management does not want to move forward they want to keep the toxic cesspool that currently exists in the NCwest culture.

    They need to do in-game community events do some instances with some well known members of the community that contribute to NCAmerica success to show they care. They want to rebrand but if they re-brand and just do the bare minimum in which Is exactly what it looks like why would the players actually change for a company that shows they do not care.

    Anyways i rambled enough LOL my point is the current version of gameplay has more players participating with cheaters/RMTers than it does have legit players.

  6. 10 hours ago, xTrinityStarx said:

     Alot of players like myself have stopped playing and supporting the game because of the lack of resolutions to real problems,   so i really am waiting to see how long it takes to fix this before my "break" becomes permanent .

    IMO the problem is we as a community could not have legit conversation about what the real problems are with Aion in our region. Like as an example everything is basically being sold for RMT, If someone values X item at $15 and $15 gets you 5 billion kinah then that item will be listed for 5 billion kinah till someone pays the RMT value be it through buying the item out right or using the equivalent kinah value worth. Then on top of this you can list items for 100m cheaper and they will be instantly bought out to keep the price at that 5 billion value because these players have got infinite amounts of kinah.

    Example: I went to buy cleric stigmas when i came back a little over 3 months ago and over a few months someone had listed cleric stigmas 6 times for 850m i whispered them saying look i see you listed this 6 times now do you want to sell them for 600m ill buy every single cleric stigma you got. They told me i pay a $ value or 850m. The amount of kinah they waste listing it over and over again is irrelevant if you are really trying to get $'s for it.

    How can we have a serious conversation about the problems Aion retail suffers from if the NCAmerica population suffers from being disingenuous going in to it. This is why IMO the only current topic everyone can be honest about is Luna because this helps new/existing/current/veterans/cheaters/3rd party RMTers and server supporters(BCM purchases). There are very few other things in the current version of Aion that affect everyone as equally as improving luna supply.

    Either way, I was not directing anything i have just said at you either trinity i was just using what you said as a sort of launching platform to say what i have about some problems i suffered from as a returning player. If it felt like i was saying you are participating/exploiting this then i am sorry and it was unintended.

  7. 1 hour ago, Zurl said:

    When the EU get to 2.5 they will be hit with the same nerf, maybe sooner as they already have a chronic bot problem. I have stopped playing there and am playing on Nezekan instead.

    They also mite skip right past 2.5 and get the new area that has the PvP zone kinah quests so it mite solve itself better. There is always different outcomes.

  8. 31 minutes ago, DMob-DN said:

    Please dont ignore your playerbase and leave us in the dark for too long as it happened in the past.

    This can not be spoken enough.

    To elaborate on this for wissp even bad news is good communication, In the past if we asked about something the CM would often say we will get back to you on that topic and then just ghost us for all eternity. Even bad news IMO is good news. Like lets say the manastone situation can not change because KR does not want it changed that is fine to tell us that we have to deal with the current rate of manastones but it is not ok to tell us that wissp will ask someone and then just ghost us.

  9. 13 minutes ago, One said:

    I want to test something. You haven't said anything about luna for months.

    What are you testing here? First i think if you wanted to test something maybe ask about how much they already know about Aion and will they be playing Aion so a question about luna is not foreign. I like the question i just think it is a bit early for such a question. If i am wrong my bad <3.

  10. First off welcome, I hope you enjoy your stay at NC America for years to come. Now time for the However part, We have had similar things said to us by older CM's and they have all burnt that house to the ground so from a player stand point of this community your actions will speak louder than words when it comes to the Aion community. As of right now you are like a firefighter bringing a bowl of water to put out the house fire. That is how burnt this house has been for a long time.

  11. 10 hours ago, Azan said:

    By my opinion Aion will die soon

    Aion has been dying since Omega stones LOL. It will survive so long as NCsoft wants to keep it open(since bots are subscribing in the 1000s of there it will not shut down any time soon). I am sure there has been someone who has already dropped $1000 on the server for candies and what not.

    It is what it is. Let those who enjoy playing with few people or like playing it as a single player game play it as a single player game.

  12. 8 hours ago, Zakovss said:

    Hello Aion players, I'm here to ask you for help to get unbanned my account due to an unfair situation, my account has been banned allegedly for the use of third programs to modify my gameplay which is false, I've been an active player in aion from so many years ago, I've played different servers like Aion Classic, Retail and EU Retail and this is the first time I have this incovenient, this is the first time someone allegedly claims I'm a hacker and reports me which leads to an unfair ban for mechanics that are available inside game without help of any third programs, this is ridiculous considering that there are plenty of known hackers inside game that have been there for years and they haven't been banned yet, many players know me and know that I never used any type of this programs, I'm an active player inside Aion Classic community and never received any warning or I have had any type of sanction.

     

    Gonna just pre-face with this sucks you been banned.

    Now let me continue on, It makes no sense that you would be banned for cheating in PvP when there are plenty of people still running around cheating in their games as we speak. There are people in retail that genuinely teleport around from base to base flipping the camps.

    Which leads me to believe maybe you were using pingzapper or another cheap 3rd party program that the bots use and get banned from using. Then you unfortunately got caught up in this. Unsure how long you have been banned but i imagine it was either a bit ago and support are ignoring you OR you just got banned and came straight here with out a response from support.

    To me it just seems bizarre how many people were blatantly cheating on both retail and classic yet never got banned but then 1 player claims you were cheating and now you are banned. There are other reasons as to why the 3rd party program usage copy paste message mite of been sent to you which you are not going to admit to if you did anyways.

    Example: If you afk gather materials to make potions so you do not have to spend active time doing so yourself. 

    Not saying that you are a cheater here either just giving you my opinion on the situation especially considering like i said so many cheaters have never been banned in Aion why would they target you while never targeting real cheaters.

  13. On 7/12/2022 at 4:00 PM, Forthyn said:

    Hello,

    I'm trying to find the players who won the Daeva's Day card contest back in October 2019. The prize of winning was each of us receiving an NCSoft t-shirt, which never happened. So instead I'm organizing to have our own t-shirts made instead. If any of you are still around or happen to glance at the forums and would like your shirt (or if anyone who sees this post and knows the whereabouts of any of these players, point them in my direction) please reach out to me. 
    — Discord Forthyn#8727

    You such a good person <3. Shirts look awesome as well.

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    @Chardonnay-DN Unfortunately the features that are out of reach for normal players are basically just hyper injected in to the game through events. Example:

     

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    How many people have gotten prime rune stones through playing the game? And out of those people how many are people who have gear/the runestones they need?

    I get this is apart of the accessibility part that you are talking about but when it comes to the forums this is the type of feature people like. They do not want accessibility they want hyper progression through event nyerk ups. 

    So when you say

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    that's why Ncsoft should get in touch with players in the forum, get information and opinions from players who really want retail improvement.

    I would say that the players themselves just want to obtain items these days and do not actually want to play the game.

    I think tho overall i get what you mean and as a returning player i found i hit a wall after 2 months playing elyos i assume asmos hit it faster due to the abundance of kinah you can make elyos side and what not. You end up hitting a wall where it is pointless to even play because things like this event invalidate any sort of progression towards anything you do in-game.

    Anything that makes you competitive is only accessible through events for f2p players so realistically a free player will never be able to get geared unless they get busted events.

    There is no fixing problems when talking to the players because if you remember 6.0 was the very patch that was created after NCsoft listened to the KR players. That was their apology patch.

    Overall i think i get where you are coming from.

  15. @Chardonnay-DN IMO it translated very well so no worries there. To me the problem here is basically the "i miss 6.0" at its best. When luna grinding was very powerful to be the strongest player and collections were not as bad as they are now.

    Do you notice what you have said is basically the exact same philosophy behind the changes that came in during 6.0. Which is a luna players wet dream patch. You essentially want to take out everything that was added past 6.0 and re-add features like luna back to the game. This in-itself is no different than those of us that wanted classic. Except your classic would be 6.0 because you enjoyed that patch. When i talk to people and they talk about 6.0 i always go Ohh you mean retail classic, pause in silence and go no i am like but 6.0 is retail classic that is the first patch of all the new changes. Which essentially is a classic version of retail now that we are up to 8.X.

    IMO there is plenty of things they can do to improve retail before trying to gut it a second time. If they made a 9.0 pre-patch that was called the playable patch and allowed players to actually get paragon gear actually get enchanted runestones , Actually allowed people to catch up in collectables you will be surprised how many people would play. Key word being play.

    The problem is Luna+Events do not fix this because NCsoft have to think about their spenders and unfortunately the reality is currently spenders specifically spend for personal progression and no longer spend to be stronger than others because 99% of all content where you were contesting is gone.  ID? Gone Evergale canyon? Gone Dredge? I dunno is that still here i forget. 

    You see what i am getting at even if every single thing you just said was implemented in to Aion 1 month from now it does not fix retail because retails fundamental flaw of playing the game on a single character = bad experience. Aion does multi-character systems worse than every other game including mobile games i have played.  Which is why people obtaining collections is not a bad thing, People not being able to play the game and obtain the collections while they are relevant is the bad feature. Paragon gear is not bad so long as everyone can obtain it before it becomes irrelevant. 

    I hate how people draw this line against spending players they keep the game open if they have stronger gear for 2-3 months but you see daily/monthly progression why does it matter that they spent money. That is what tempering was, People who wanted to spend 3-5k to get full +5 acc and +10 plume day one could but over the course of 3-4 months as someone who simply subscribed to the game i eventually caught up and started beating said players who had +10 plumes when i had +3 acc and +7 plumes.

    The moment you take away the ability for someone to play 1 character and not get to BiS and play with it for 2-4 months before the end of a patch in a game that has vertical progression is the moment you end up with no players and that is the state Aion retail is at.

    So while your changes would improve Aion for yourself it would not bring any players back other than those who liked 6.0 which IMO was a very dead patch since 99% of it was just people queuing up for dungeons on alts and mains at the same time.

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    8 - Improve the way to get lvl 15 stigmas and Daevanium skills for returning and new players.

    Let me use this as an example of what i mean. The current ways of getting +15 stigmas skills is awesome the problem is for stigma enchantment stones alone you need 140 experience per week for the 20(could be 16 i forget tbh) stigma enchantment stones. Which as a new player is dumb because that is 70m kinah per week and a ton of time grinding XP. That is no a sustainable playable game model it is designed so you spend cash and that is it. I used 100 stones and got 1 stigma to 14 maybe i was lucky maybe i was unlucky i do not know have not asked the community what the average amount needed is. What i do know tho is that is minimum 5 weeks of full time job grinding on a new/under geared get enough stones to attempt this for every single stigma i need enchanted. Obviously we can argue well events can speed this up and playing more than 1 character can speed this up and yes it can but you have to remember this is the MMORPG genre 80% of the population in the genre like to take on the persona of a single character/class archetype. So if you want more people to play the game you have to cater to the largest audience.

    Which ultimately leads in to why Aion retail can never turn over a new leaf, The only way to fix Aion is to make every playstyle feel viable. The only way to make every playstyle feel viable so it lock progression behind content which is the exact reason why Aion classic is working in every region outside NA. 

    Crafting/grinding/spending it all needs to feel like people are getting value for their time+energy and the only way you can do that is to progression lock people behind time.

    This creates a situation where spenders spending can progress faster, Crafters can get maybe a jump on the spenders through crafted gear but then fall off with that gear a bit later and then grinders those who often only subscribe end up edging out f2p crafters for a month or 2 in gear progression towards the end of a patch.

    Either way everyone has their own opinion but i do not see how essentially re-launching 6.0 again would fix it as that is the exact same thing as doing Aion classic but for the current retail.

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