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• • TR is going under, but giving away free gifts

  • Originally posted by MrNemesis
    

    what pisses me off is the fact i was going to re-subscribe last week however i put it off.  so mega lose for me.  Aion looks great, however it will probably go the way the TR and Auto Assault went. 

    /shakefist

    the difference is taht auto assault and tr were nc soft adventures to the western market and werent developed so close to "home" then aion.

     

  • Posted: 11/22/08 9:47 AM
    Aion
• • The "stop UK and other EU players having to play apart thread"

  •  as much as im no big fan of acclaim, maybe it would have been better to launch (western)world completely under acclaim.
    id really be interested to see an interview with the devs on this matter because the situation as it is now cant really make them happy. from my understanding as they are a very small company they had troubles to find a publisher at all and it hints to a situation where it seems rasther tough to introduce a mmo to the market if you arent alreaddy a heaviweight gaming company...

  • Posted: 11/22/08 2:56 AM
    The Chronicles of Spellborn
• • Is it me or does it feel like NCsoft is giving us the shaft.

  •  i agree with the above post and would like to add a few more points:

     

    1. asian grinder
    when  i talked to friends in lineage2 that played from honkong and korean ppl playing from the us they assured me that no, grinding is not their preferd way of playing.
    the fact that there are so many asian grinders is that spawning a mob is far cheaper then writing a quest, scripting encounters and doing cutscenes. so i think its more of a economic descision from asian devs to go for grind and a very tough leveling curve then storytelling

    2. internatonal market
    another fact that proofes that asians only want to grind is the success of wow in the asian market.
    also with many western mmos coming to the asian market the overall competition gets harder.  nc soft was many years like microsoft in terms of mmos on the asian market. as long as there was no serious competator they lacked the motivation to improve in terms of questing and storytelling.

    but make no mistake in underestimating them. they had fun sieging and pvp in lineage2 years bevore western mmos and many old l2 players say they have yet to find a game on the western market that rivals l2 in these areas of pvp.

    on the issue of record breaking open beta subscription im a bit more sceptical tough.
    we have to keep in mind that ob is free so many ppl playing lineage 1 or 2 will try out aion. wether they can a marketshare from rival mmos is only to be seen when its life a few month.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 2:07 AM
    Aion
• • Open beta has begun!

  • Originally posted by ozy1
    

    Nope just read on CoS forums UK is with the US lol. O well I wont be playing this game if I have to play ion US servers

    NEWS FLASH UK IS PART OF EUROPE! @ COS, fools

    everyone that sais no to the euro and beat us in soccer shouldnt play tcos ;)

     

    but really its weared. they have a finished game yet for some country the distributers are keeping them back it seems:(

  • Posted: 11/20/08 3:18 PM
    The Chronicles of Spellborn
• • Open beta has begun!

  •  take your time fellas, i need the full bandwith for my client download 1st :)

     

    some info from the official site:

    1.  Open Beta test is only available to European Players from the following European countries:

    • Germany
    • Austria
    • Switzerland
    • France
    • The Netherlands
    • Belgium
    • Luxembourg
    • Sweden
    • Norway
    • Denmark
    • Finland

    2. The European Open Beta test of Spellborn will start on Saturday the 22nd and will end on Monday the 24th of November.

    3. after the open beta the chars will be wiped bevore launch day on 27th nov.

    4. the client download is around 3gig

     

  • Posted: 11/20/08 12:54 PM
    The Chronicles of Spellborn