Aion (Open Beta, Launch Day Info too!)

[Morfiend]

I have no issue with a G15, Lachesis or lag with Gamegaurd on Vista 64.

I have Vista 64, and a g15. Some times during play my clock on the keyboard LCD will freeze. Thats the only real problem I have with it.

[01101010]

MMOGs don't go gold. They just have a date where they start taking your money.

So does that mean the Open Betas are just a free trial period and marketing tool? Would not surprise me...

edit: for clarity...

[Calandryll]

MMOGs don't go gold. They just have a date where they start taking your money.

So does that mean the Open Betas are just a free trial period and marketing tool? Would not surprise me...

That's exactly what they are...and that's not a bad thing. If you're using an open beta to find anything resembling significant bugs then you've done something horribly wrong. Open Betas are useful to help make decisions on the next few updates and maybe some tweaks, but for the most part they're more like trial periods than not.

[Morfiend]

MMOGs don't go gold. They just have a date where they start taking your money.

So does that mean the Open Betas are just a free trial period and marketing tool? Would not surprise me...

I really hope that was supposed to be green.

[kondratti]

MMOGs don't go gold. They just have a date where they start taking your money.

So does that mean the Open Betas are just a free trial period and marketing tool? Would not surprise me...

That's exactly what they are...and that's not a bad thing. If you're using an open beta to find anything resembling significant bugs then you've done something horribly wrong. Open Betas are useful to help make decisions on the next few updates and maybe some tweaks, but for the most part they're more like trial periods than not.

And hence any MMO that has an NDA during open beta is doomed.  If the trial players arent allowed to use word of mouth, then you know there is a massive problem.

[Shatter]

So a guildie posted today that in 1.5 there is a 15% reduction in PvP damage, but no change to healing(Indirect healer buff).  Also that you will be able to master 2 professions as well.  Supposedly there will be an announcement next week about open beta which will be patch 1.5. 

[DLRiley]

http://itnap.lefora.com/2009/08/21/aion-vs-transformers-2/page1/

[Modern Angel]

http://itnap.lefora.com/2009/08/21/aion-vs-transformers-2/page1/

What the fuck is this?

[Brogarn]

http://itnap.lefora.com/2009/08/21/aion-vs-transformers-2/page1/

What they're saying didn't require a whole post. Also, they should eat less sugar.

[Segoris]

For those that are playing and care here's the official events schedule for open beta & head starty. I put the summary below, and the entire post on the Aion site is spoilered.

Open beta: 9/6-9/13
Pre-select (server choice and character creation): 9/18
Head start: 9/20
Release: 9/22

[Lantyssa]

The pre-select is brilliant.  I've always bitched about why MMOs needed to hold boxes until launch day.  Let us get that crap out of the way and a lot of launches could probably be smoother.

[Koyasha]

Well there's no indication that we'll get the boxes before release date, which combined with their (so far) stated comment that there won't be a grace period is sure to wind up with a lot of angry pre-order customers (possibly including me).  We'll basically get a couple days head start, and then possibly miss a day or two because they cut off our accounts on launch day instead of giving us a reasonable 2-3 days to receive our boxes and input the full retail code.

[Numtini]

Is that choose a name on one server only I wonder. Usually I run about grabbing Kathy on every server.

[Koyasha]

What I am glad about is being able to spend a considerable amount of time tweaking my character appearance to be perfect, without having to worry that I'm burning playtime and falling behind.

I also heard max characters in a name will be extended, so that's nice.  No idea whether you'll be able to create on more than one server or even whether you can make more than one character during the pre-select.  Hopefully there won't be any particular restrictions on that.

[Lantyssa]

Is that choose a name on one server only I wonder. Usually I run about grabbing Kathy on every server.

I had the impression it will be for all servers.

I'm going to be pushing for Zikel, I think.  I liked the name for some reason, so I want to stick with that server.

[LK]

I hope to try this at PAX and make a decision there.

[Tale]

http://itnap.lefora.com/2009/08/21/aion-vs-transformers-2/page1/

What the fuck is this?

A DLRiley post.

[Threash]

Their god damn auto downloader maximizes itself every five minutes over whatever im doing and its slow as fuck on top of it.

[Venkman]

Didn't run into that. Grabbed the 9gb from Fileplanet and let it patch through the NC launcher. Theoretically I'm all set for the 6th.

[schild]

Didn't run into that. Grabbed the 9gb from Fileplanet and let it patch through the NC launcher. Theoretically I'm all set for the 6th.

Awww, I thought you knew to vote with your wallet. Darniaq, you surprise and upset me sometimes.

[Venkman]

Huh? 6th-13th is open beta. No money required. Which is good, because my remaining gaming budget is already spent on Arkham and MW2.

[Draegan]

schild gets very flabbergasted about Aion when you mention it on vent.  Careful.

[Draegan]

Charts!  Kind of.
This is from the Korean servers.

First part is the population balance, followed by the top 10 AP Ranks on 5 big servers and what class each person is.



Edit:
Spoiled the image.

[Falconeer]

Took me a while to understand it, my eyes were refusing to stare at it. Are you saying, with that red paint arrow, that there's a server with 98% Asmodians characters and 2% Elyos?

[Draegan]

Took me a while to understand it, my eyes were refusing to stare at it. Are you saying, with that red paint arrow, that there's a server with 98% Asmodians characters and 2% Elyos?

Apparently.  Could be a brand new server?

[Falconeer]

On the contrary. Seems to me like a fucked up server that has been abandoned for some reason by the Elyos population.

[Lantyssa]

The chart pretty clearly says that's ownership of the Abyss, updated once a day.  The Asmodians are dominating that day, but it tells us nothing of actual breakdowns or history.

A whole lot of Assassins in the top ten.  Who would have foreseen a high-damage class with stealth would dominate PvP?

[Bzalthek]

Only Miss Cleo.  See what happens when you anger the voodoo spirits?

[Draegan]

Actually the best farming class in an assassin which is why you get a large population of them in Korea.  Assassins don't have a massive advantage with stealth, unless you're bad at pvp.  Only class that's at an immediate disadvantage is a sorcerer or spirit master.  Other classes have high hps/armor.

[DLRiley]

I look at most videos for Aion and it is usually 10:1 ratio between mdps and any caster.

[Draegan]

Funny, I've seen a lot of ranger vids.

[DLRiley]

I didn't know rangers are casters. But now that I think about it a ranger that can fly? If you though the whining about Age of Conan rangers were something 

[Nebu]

Someone tell me one reason that Aion is a better implementation of MMO pvp than we've already seen in other games?  It's a shiny new grind, I get that. 
 
I'm just not getting the love here. 

[DLRiley]

You can fly.

[Lantyssa]

It's pretty and bug free.  That in and of itself places it above most MMOs.

Can't comment on PvP itself since I never got that high and don't particularly care about it.