Aion collector's edition announced, spec'd

ncsoft's marketing department should hire you guys

never heard of this game before but i'm intrigued

Thats a lot of beer vouchers in exchange for another doomed MMO.

possibly sold. Then again, I only want the figure.

I thought the price was $69.99?

Sorry to say I have little hope for this game...one more in the line of "failed" mmorpg games to come.

I don't like timers. When I play an mmo I don't want to be on a meter. Just charge me a monthly fee and go the hell away. If they are using the same chinese cell phone minutes plan over here then, no thank you.

I'm guessing the naysayer haven't even played the game, seems like the same crowd as the Darkfall haters that have no idea about the game yet still feel the need to spam their WoW-fanboy opinions on every piece of news that comes out about it or every topic created.

Either way, I'm hopeful, from all the reports the game plays well, already has millions of active users (hence unlike other big hype MMORPGs, the game is more then just a beta game) and is getting more and more polished and improved every week.

So yer, I'm not saying it is good or bad, but most of the 'it will fail' or 'LOL KOREAN MMORPG' have never played it yet alone even looked into video or information regrading the game (most of them haven't even played an Asian MMORPG and are a part of the crowd that joined WoW in the middle of its timeline and have zero experience in MMORPGs).

So gratz to the spammers who feel the need to post about a game they know nothing about just because their dad beats them every day and make comments on news articles or forums because they can't take out their energy on their fathers.

Wasn't replying to you buddy. Any way, saying that I should 'Chill out' is jumping to the conclusion that I am angry, not sure where you got that idea from considering words in text form cannot at all express tone of voice.

Balls of Steel.....

The OBT Trailer on their page makes the game look pretty sweet. Although, with NC Soft's track record, I just can't be sure. I mean, yeah, City of Heroes is still hanging in there, but that's it really.

meh...another MMO, another group of people that can only run anywhere by pressing "X".

Can't wait, definitely be buying this on day 1+preorder.

Im a die hard wow fan, and 3 months ago i would have never have thought of quitting. Untill i saw aion. Ive been playing Chinese retail, and its staggering how good it is.

Unfortunately, NCSoft is more of a quantity than quality approach in games so be warned.

Seriously, I'm only going to try this game for two things:
- It's music (http://eu.aiononline.com/en/music srsly, tower of eternity gave me shivers)
- flight-based combat... the wings look cool, and I don't think I've seen any game try it.

@ Duke
Obviously you missed my first reply that stated that tone of voice cannot be expressed via simple text so your 'chill out' (maybe you can't read?) is invalid. I enjoy owning moron trolls.

Assuming they are WoW fanboys is natural, any other experienced MMORPG player won't spam and generalise other games. Who else would go out of their way to criticize other MMORPGs? People who don't care about MMORPGs altogether would completely avoid this type of topic and even if they didn't wouldn't judge MMORPGs they know nothing about since they know nothing about MMORPGs. So please, give reasons why it would be any other type of MMORPG player since every other type a part from WoW fanboys already play MMORPGs that don't have millions of subs and DO play those other MMORPGs. Why would they go to the trouble of insulting MMORPGs that may not be as popular when they themselves are playing a niche MMORPG?

And no, I have no idea about the dominance of WoW fanboys here, seems like you are only proving me right by stating this.

And the comment about the fathers beating isn't to be taken literally. But you get the idea of it, spammers/trolls that just leave comments about games they know nothing about ARE releasing energy. Why else would they do it? Make fans of other games feeling little about themselves so they can feel better since they have trouble IRL, again, why else would they spam this type of stuff?

And no, I have no issues, actually I have been very blessed in my family life and the people close to me... Well I have never heard of better people. So I find it ironic that you tell me not to throw judgements yet you do it yourself. Hypocrite much? How about you get your argument straight instead of not even figuring what an idiot you are being.

You lose buddy.

@ CrusaderStrike
Groundbreaking. I'm sure WoW had none of those issues when you first joined in the middle of TBC! Aion would be much more polished then WoW ever was at release.

@Omega2k3
Looks like you've never really looked into the game. Either way, Asian MMORPGs have to AT LEAST keep up with the one big West MMORPG which is WoW considering the millions who are joined on it in those areas. So your point is nil considering the reports that I have heard (yes! I look up information on the game! *gasp*) say the game isn't grindy at all in comparison to WoW, and for the simple fact that the world is one global village now days. 'Korean MMORPG lol' are just cheap shots trolls like you give it since you have no actual evidence.

Either way, WoW-fanboys don't exist, since WoW is already dead. All that exists now is an empty shell a business uses as a cash cow.

Yet you didn't at all prove my assumption wrong? All my assumptions were based on logic, if they were truly just a spewing of anger and nothing more then you would have disproved them all wrong. But all that I hear from you is this first paragraph of nothing then bark rather then any actual bite, a.k.a. you are just throwing judgments at me without any actual substance to your words, just generalisations (or assumption, which is ironic) which just keeps proving what a hypocrite you are.

My argument still stands tall since you fail to debate it and its logic.

Your whole first paragraph completely ignores the topic and is just you venting out your anger because you have nothing against the points I pulled up in my first post. Are you that much of an idiot that you can't actually know what you are writing is completely the same and even more extreme then what you were posting about me within the same paragraph?

Second paragraph, again with the assumptions, again and again, you seem to judge me for the same thing you are doing against me. "You stated a bunch of nasty comments and assumptions", isn't saying that I am not the kindest person, but also nasty... They are all major assumptions about my character. How can you honestly blame a person for assumptions just when you did it in the same sentence, no wonder I called you a moron, because you obviously are one. LOOK AT YOUR OWN WORDS BUDDY.

You fail to figure that maybe people are different in different situations? I'm not going to judge you when you are at your most horrible moments, when you are yelling at a family member the worst things or any other situation. Of course I'm not going to make one up an extreme example since you will purposely take it the wrong way and try and blame me and probably start to Godwin me and compare me to Hitler.

I never said my words had a tone, I was stating that tone is impossible to tell by simple text you see on the internet so how can you tell me to chill out when you don't know whether I am angry? Which is funny, since you say I am doing "the pompous internet prick thing" which opposes you telling me to chill out before, since I would be chill if I was just a troll spamming comments ("internet prick").

And yes, I did own you, but TBH it seems you mostly owned yourself. You cannot even string a sentence together without contradicting yourself.

You guys need to get a room.

owned.

Do people still think wow is a good game? that game has sucked since day one. its made for the lower then avg IQ in gamers. BTW Sibe no matter what u want to say u are an angry person otherwise u woulda just laughed at the posts but instead u had to add your own 2 cents cause u are insecure about your penis size.

OMG all you people that think this game will "fail" haven't even read enough info about it. Please, I recommend you go to either of these two sites:

aiononline.com

drphil.com

The game is in Beta, there is no possible way to tell if its a flop or not yet. I played a couple weekend betas, and to be honest, I like it better than WoW at the moment. Sure, its a little buggy, but again, its in BETA.

I have played WoW since Beta as well, and after all these years, I greatly look forward to something new and refreshing.

There is no way a new mmo is going to be 100% original, even wow copied a lot of stuff from previous mmos. (No, fanboys, WoW is not the first 0_o) So far, Aion has me determined to leap over from WoW, unless they mess it up somehow between now and release.

Honestly though, no one can deny that most people who throw in their 2 cents about new mmos have only ever played WoW and generaly know nothing outside of it. To me, your opinion means nothing. And this is coming from someone who has played WoW since beta (longer than most of the WoW players), and has also tried out most of the new mmos each year.