Squid
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The problem is no matter how much they advertise you fail to understand that all the negative social media posts are made almost exclusively due to the community and their playstyle AKA ap trading.
No one is going to pick up Aion just because they see an AD for the game they will check out the game and go OMG the community that plays the game hates it why would i bother. The community is the biggest problem as to why no one plays Aion and it will always be the problem because the community is so small more often than not people have more friends on the other faction than they do have on their own faction which is a super weird dynamic compared to the old days where if they were red/pink/purple they were dead.
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Yea i think if you were going to do a double AP event a double medal event would be a good event to have along side it. Other than that you can just make new characters and get 10 gold medals that way if you are really starved for them.
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17 hours ago, Cuan said:
I'm sorry that you feel that way about the current state of Aion Classic. However I would like the game to not advance past 2.0 and just remain in that state. For the simple reason for the ground pvp of fighting over Gelk/Ing. Forts compared to Flight PvP in the Abyss. It's just more enjoyable and simple imo. To be honest I wished we had several of these events/features when Retail began all those years ago; I would of most likely stayed longer in the game before venturing off into other MMO's. Eg) Double XP/AP weekends.
We do not know this for sure tho, They said they have no current way to implement more content yet the actually created a brand new PvP instance for classic. If classic was deemed successful they will re-create 3.0 or take it in a different direction.
More than likely they will stop at 2.7 then announce the release date of Aion 2.
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55 minutes ago, Zarbi said:
It's becoming clear to all that they don't care about the players experience.
This was made clear back in late 4.X patches. I am guessing you are new to classic to not know this.
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Tbh Siel numbers would produce the best sieges that is for sure, I remember doing siege on the 6.0 new server and it was about 150-200 each side and they actually had strategy not just have more numbers and win.
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Once slayers take complete control of the elyos faction we should probably see elyos actually doing something on SL. This will take some time tho.
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12 hours ago, AriaTheMelodious-DN said:
Every single day, both factions get more and more L50's despite the set backs; you just have to stick with it despite the hiccups because L50 has never come for free on a healthy server~
LOL you do understand that level 50 elyos are re-rolling to asmo right? Elyos are losing 50s not just gaining 50s.
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Tbh SL-E is only gonna get worse, Even more players have quit elyos to re-roll asmo and beyond that the elyos clearly have a divide and are not going to budge.
It is what it is.
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2 hours ago, Forthyn - Asmodaes Pea-k said:
Looks like people are hiding so you can not fill this out correctly.
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Just now, Precursor-KT said:
Forthyn is cool
I hope this is not passive aggressive sarcasm because what he does is good. I just read it like you were trying that passive aggressive approach.
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Thank you asmo's for the free fort tonight we really needed a foothold in the abyss.
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49 minutes ago, Arazith-IS said:
Bold of you to assume that there is a merge coming. Look at how low retail got before they merged.
Merge or paid transfers, Either way people will be bringing medals over to sell for kinah so they can RMT them off.
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21 minutes ago, Fappachino said:
I'll do it w/o the quotes and say that yesterday's siege was a FREE FORT for Elyos.
Why do elyos even need forts? They are getting 10s of 1000s of medals from IS when it gets merged in to the server. Beyond that the instances will have portals for the losing faction so they can still do the instances. Other than morphs there is no reason to contest forts at all.
Elyos are better off getting a PvP buff since their entire faction seems to be solo orientated gamers.
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35 minutes ago, Loadrng said:
I'd like clarification on what you consider a "free fort", because there was a shiton of asmos pvping us. Sure IT WAS NOT the entire force, but we have less people at lvl 50, and due to that, less geared (pve, pvp, you name it). We had to have half of our force pvp and half on deity to try and hold the asmos, and even then we couldn't.
So no, it was not free. lolPretty sure that is why forth used the quotation marks.
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40 minutes ago, Arazith-IS said:
It's Sulfur...lol
Miren just went von, I rest my case :).
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Looking like 2 dead siege servers already.
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@Forthyn-KTAfter reading what you wrote and re-reading the letter itself, I think it makes sense why i recall it the way i do. Since i actively avoided FB groups i only re-call the aftermath that happened on the forums.
Reading what you said here more than likely ended up putting both you and saty in to a position where your letter to the developers was probably rushed on to the forums at that point.
Either way reading through it i still am genuinely confused as to why even have a memory like this after re-reading the letter. It contained solid relevant information that covered points for just about everyone who played the game back then.
Thinking about it for 20-30 mins now and i think below will explain the potential reason as to why i remember it that way. This makes me lead in to you saying this.
QuoteReading over them as the person I am today, I see no reason why they should not have been, but I cannot explain to you the reasoning of an individual who no longer exists.
This may be the case for me but in a different way, The person i was back then is different to the person i am today so i could of remembered the information from the forum post as a whole rather than the actual letter its content and intent. In which even back then the forums always had a fairly toxic environment to it.
Due to this it maybe the reason as to why I viewed it as both yourself and satyx not caring at all when the reality is looking back on it, The entire post as a whole had the toxicity involved in it so it diluted what efforts you put in due to this toxicity.
QuoteSo I'm sure you understand when I say that your comments over the matter hit me personally.
Ultimately this memory of mine all stems from me not having the whole picture due to not having FB during that time period in which will greatly change how someone views a post on the forums. I can definitely see now looking back on the letter written combined with your post now that both yourself and satyx obviously did care.
It would be super interesting to me to be able to re-read that whole post(i am assuming it is shut down now) and see if i still feel the same way about it today as my memory perceives it.
P.S turns out i did remember your name tho.
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6 hours ago, konKers said:
I'd say that it does sound like a problem, but not nearly as bad as we have right now.
I'm still looking foward to classic despite it's flaws.
If it's bad then, well, retail is worse. =(That is just it tho it mind boggles me how their developers/publishers do not understand this from their PoV.
Aion classic has its flaws but the reality of Aion classic is simple. No matter how much someone else spends to gain an advantage early on and how far ahead they get with in 2-3 months of active gameplay you can catch up to a competitive level. In which the longer the servers are out the easier it is to get gear because medals become cheaper and so on.
Which is why i always say it is not the payment options in retail that ruin it but the lack of pro-active gameplay activities to participate in that ruins retail the most.
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2 minutes ago, konKers said:
Is it that bad on Classic? I heard there is the Battle Pass and what I would assume is "bug" that you could gift yourself a lot of playtime and get AP crowns as rewards.
Is there something else?It is a tough one because i am of the mindset that the achievable goal to be competitive...scratch that to have an enjoyable experience is still achievable with in a month or 2 so in when you look at the grand scheme of things it is a non factor problem but i will explain.
The battle pass and the AP is just 1 side of the same coin. The other side of that coin they implemented with classic was the nerfed rate of kinah from sellable items. They are worth i think(from crafting old items i use to just vendor) is roughly 4.5x less than the original.
There was also the candy exploit where players could vendor candies they buy from NCsoft for 100k. We do not know if we will get this or not so if we do it will create an even bigger broker imbalance making it hard for players to buy anything.
The thing is ultimately it is not all that bad despite how grim i make it sound because all these problems are invalidated after about 2 months of playing and faster if you stay ahead of the leveling curve.
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2 minutes ago, Valedia-DN said:
hey squid dont worry when i get my new pc im gonna join u in bdo cuz with my current one my fps there is 8 lol
LOL 8 fps is rough.
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2 hours ago, Shainygirl-DN said:
I suppose manufacturing could help. Making xeross-clearsky is practically impossible. Buying things with real money (enchantment stones, stigmata enchantments, skins, etc.) to sell for kinah, and with those kinah buying equipment would be a good alternative, for those of us who do not spend real money. Basically, I would manufacture and with the profits I would buy what someone else would buy with real money. (It's what I did in 5.x and 6.x). It's what I do at BDO with skins, furniture, etc. Manufacturing in Aion is expensive (in kinah) and laborious, that's what they should keep but at least they can get the ingredients to make decent equipment. Manufacturing moves pvp and pve in the open world, and this I say from experience.
Please, if someone understands what I wrote and can express it better than me, please do so. I use a translator and I don't know how reliable it is.
It makes sense to me as someone who plays both BDO and Aion. While i may be going off topic a bit the thing is tho for me the issue is the way you earn silver/kinah in both games is vastly different and that is the major issue.
Like as i am typing this i am make 200m P/H crafting Valencia meals on the SEA server. The only way to get anywhere close to that equivalent in Aion is to do 4-6 accounts running at the time in luna before they removed luna. Which involved not actually playing the game. I was better off not playing Aion to progress then playing Aion and that is where the issues stem from.
When it comes to BDO every single activity you do requires you to participate in the world of BDO. The best part is it all leads to account progression where as Aion all the best progression activities have nothing to do with the game itself. It is filled with Mini games like Luna/SaS/Minium vault and so on.
Which is why items feel impossible because Aion's current design is for items to be gifts from developers through events rather than the ability to proactively obtain them.
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8 minutes ago, Valedia-DN said:
thats sad!
If it brings them enjoyment in the now who are we to complain. It will be sad when the game closes down for them but then again, We are all hear on a forum talking about a game that is doing very poor in our region to the point where bots probably outnumber actual players so it is also sad we still talk about and try to improve aion.
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42 minutes ago, Valedia-DN said:
SPY BUYERS TO GIVE A FALSE SENSE THAT NA PLAYERS ARE ACTUALLY SPENDING AND I SWEAR I KNOW SOME OF THESE SPIES ON THIS FORUM AND YOU CAN GUESS WHO THEY ARE BY THEIR POST LOL...ANYONE THAT DEFEND NCSOFT IN ANYWAY IS A SPY!
No they are actual spenders. They spend because Aion is their life and they will have a very hard time if it ever shut down.
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34 minutes ago, Ferk-DN said:
The features you wish to see returned were removed for pay to win reasons.
They want to sell your PvE and PvP enchantment stones separately. (That's why they raised the limit from +10 to +15)
They want to sell you ultimate manastones. (That's why you now have 17 x 3 sockets)
They want to sell you Stigma enchant stones. (That's why the +15 was added)
They want you to subscribe to the Prestige Pass (There is no other practical way to get A rank minions).
The more enchants fail, the more stones they can sell you. (It's a miracle they succeed at all)
With each update patch, they introduced new items you have to buy with real money, hence increasing the gear inequality gap for people on low incomes.
They went to far with the pay to win, and the player numbers in NA declined as a result.
That is what i am getting at, Those items being sold to players is a non factor it is the fact that people can not obtain them through playing which affects their sales. It is a serious problem when the closest thing to playing is waiting around for a good event to come along and give you items you need to catch up for free because they made an event better than it should of been.
It is legitimately projected through their Earnings that the playable features drove their sales.
The numbers in Aion is down world wide it is not simply an NA issue. Hell KR just announced they are merging from 6 servers in to 2 servers as well. Which is why when i talk about changes they do not even need to innovate or change the cash shop. They just need to make these items available through playable features that already exist/existed in the past.
Edit: They did have a jump when 6.0 was released but that was due to the dead promises they made to the community and had a constant drop outside major patch releases 6.0/7.0.
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Forth's Fort Log — Siege Numbers: Siel & Israphel — Updated Regularly [Classic]
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You are the hero we need but do not deserve
i was wondering what the divine numbers were like after the first one.