Aion

There probably won't be a time limit in NA.

Korea is very different when it comes to video games. There are quite a few articles including the one I have linked below. Playing 10 hours a day doesn't quite sound so bad compared to this guy.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

I don't think the game is expensive :S

approx ten hours a day per Month is too little time? Wow I don't want to know what your life is Like...

300 hours a month????  That is about 10 hours a day based on a 30 day calendar.....you honestly need to play more than 10 hours a day???  You probably have no job and serious health problems including obesity, carpal tunnel, and tunnel vision.

When I played Lineage One it was very common for Korean players to share accounts, and have someone leveling them 24/7.  This payment plan prevents someone from doing this. 

It levels the playing field a bit, its possible for a human (not healthy mind you) to play 10 hours a day and keep up with the Jones.

US plan will probably not follow the same model. Although, not sure how selling stuff is going to work.  In Lineage 2 you would leave your character up all night in "market mode" since there was no auction house.  Hopefully AION won't have this sort of set-up.

Originally posted by Kyleran

When I played Lineage One it was very common for Korean players to share accounts, and have someone leveling them 24/7.  This payment plan prevents someone from doing this. 

It levels the playing field a bit, its possible for a human (not healthy mind you) to play 10 hours a day and keep up with the Jones.

US plan will probably not follow the same model. Although, not sure how selling stuff is going to work.  In Lineage 2 you would leave your character up all night in "market mode" since there was no auction house.  Hopefully AION won't have this sort of set-up.

 

Now that you have mentioned it, I have played games that I would let sit for half the day while my character had a store open to sell stuff while I was at work and doing things that normal humans do. But still, 300 hours is plenty sufficient.

Its not that you would want to play 10+ hours a day  its the fact that you dont have the freedom to m starts of at 300 hours a month  & then a few other MMO follow suit & then one says 250 hours  & before you relize it you paying $15 a month for 50 hours or even an hourly fee..

Originally posted by Lukain

Its not that you would want to play 10+ hours a day  its the fact that you dont have the freedom to m starts of at 300 hours a month  & then a few other MMO follow suit & then one says 250 hours  & before you relize it you paying $15 a month for 50 hours or even an hourly fee..

 

 

This slippery slope you're implying just doesn't exist. This opinion is just incorrect and I would have hoped you saw that before posting this garbage.

To those screaming bloody murder about having a 300 hr limit-... tell that to the asian victims whose friend's addictions led them to play around +300 hrs/month. You know, the ones who have to grieve because a loved one became malnurished in an internet cafe, a block away from his apartment- where there was always plenty of food and rest to be had, and ended up dieing on his keyboard. Or tell that to the spouse who only wanted to spend a little time with their significant other, just an hour or so, and ended up getting knifed. All because the person behind the screen was too agitated trying to become uber in the game, and stabbed the spouse. I could go on about stories that happen every day in places like Korea, where this time limit is actually the law, because of these stories...

On the flipside, gaming isn't as big a deal in the West, so you will likely still get the standard $14.99/mo rate. Not as many deaths from farmers hawking each other's territory, in the west...

If you actually have a problem with it, well... then you might have a problem with that spaceship you thought you saw (but really didn't)...