Vadux

New "drop system" is flat out rubbish.

They will end up merging them sooner than later. There is no way they will maintain a server for long with those numbers. It made little sense to open a new server in the first place. We dont have the playerbase for that.

Ah ok thank you.

Apparently I missed something, how are they pretty much free now?

It doesn't matter how many of whoever are on it. End of the day this is still an NA server. So actually EU players or anyone outside of NA are the outsiders here.

lol July of 2022, yet here we are. That whole stance of " Although this change was applied to all regions including our own, it clearly is not representative of our region’s needs. " went well huh?

Finding actual patch notes, or something from a dev is illuding me. However, here are several threads from the KR bulletin board depicting their issues. https://aion.plaync.com/board/clsserver/view?articleId=637256f06921dd12c7fafbd4&categoryId=635b1cbf12d2a800080c716e&viewMode=classic&size=18 https://aion.plaync.com/board/clsserver/view?articleId=63bfd1e0bff6ba55f8007d55&categoryId=635b1cbf12d2a800080c716e&viewMode=classic&size=18 https://aion.plaync.com/board/clsserver/view?articleId=63db2997c13b246a1c72d374&categoryId=635b1cbf12d2a800080c716e&viewMode=classic&size=18 KR is experiencing the same thing we are with no drops and new players suffering. It's just trickled down to us.

This is a fact, (I'm trying to find the notes for further proof to add) and yes I'm sure this is why NC West has said nothing. While I scrounge up the documentation, check any KR stream or video of them doing PVE. You will see they have the exact same drop rate as we do in NA classic now. Literally nothing NA / NC West can probably do about it, however making a statement addressing this to the players should be done and should have already been done. Rather than leaving everyone to yell at them wanting answers. But why would they do that when they could milk it for more money?

You act as If Gameforge will be able to do anything about this change. If KR deems it so, that's it, Publisher can only request changes. Developer's make the call not Gameforge.

Because KR made the change to the drop rates due to their problem with bots.........

I mean yeah it does. They however are not making any special changes for other audiences. KR has a major bot problem, we get 99% of the exact same updates they create for KR. Once 2.5 hits in EU they will also have drop rates destroyed. If they don't already include that day one, which wouldn't really shock me.

The drop rate change is still baseline from KR. It will be funneled down to them same as it was to us.

EU will have the same issues once they update. This isn't something strictly NA has done. KR is the same way.

Pot meet kettle.

I wish I could like this post multiple times. /clap

Stop ignoring everyone about the drop rate issues. You are driving this game into a hole it cannot get out of. So much damage to the players and the economy. Yet you do nothing. You look the other way, and ignore the ground breaking issues right in front of you're faces. You put this game in a sad state to speak extremely lightly. Aion is done at this rate. Even if you have no answers, you can at the very least acknowledge the overwhelming amount of concerns rather than ignore everyone making the situation even worse.

Hahahahahahaha

It's absolutely insane that they have left the game in this state. Not that Aion is drowning in new players, but IF new people were to try the game they would have a terrible experience.

Apparently they just plan to keep on ignoring the issues, and just sit around saying "this is fine" as the world burns around them. Meanwhile can't even muster up a community response to the tons of people complaining about the issues in this thread. The moment the bottom line is mentioned, its off to the penalty box you go though. I, and apparently plenty of others, just want to be able to actually play the game. At this rate however, good luck getting anywhere.

I had finally decided to come back to Aion and check out classic. It was very short lived. I made it through Poeta and onward to Verteron. Because the normal quests are hidden unless u know who has them or look for them, there is barely any low level kinah. I was bound still in Poeta when I reached Verteron. After buying skills and 1 row of inventory I was unable to afford to even bind in Verteron for the first step of the campaign there. Thus I thought I'd go out and grind some mobs to get a lil kinah, however nothing dropped. Without me seeing Crab Norris, I was promptly delt with and respawned in Poeta of which I could not even afford to leave. The way things are established now are terrible, mobs drop nothing or near nothing, and without the ability to toggle "normal quests" you play a game of seek and find to get what little kinah you can. The open world loot to me was part of what made Aion fun, and I did buy Siels, so I feel like that aspect of it for the drops/kinah are a bold lie at this point. Starving the bots is a lazy solution to the problem if this is indeed the case with what's done. You are hurting the real players and decimating the economy.

Seriously can we get an update?