Aion: The Tower of Awesome

This is no different than your standard Korean MMO. This just has a bigger budget in the marketing department. It's the same boring and grindy crap that i have played half a decade ago. NcSoft should put a bit more money into City of Heroes if they want to compete with Champions Online and DC Universe Online instead of throwing all of their money at new projects.
 
To be fair they spent a good deal more time coating the grind in a nice shiny and well localized layer of paint. It doesn't really do anything bold or innovative, but then again, I pity anyone who thought it would.

MMOs have taken to the same marketing strategies as female hygiene products, adding wings. It's still a piece of disposable fabric used to absorb menstruation--or in this case, an endless treadmill of killing rats.
 
TwwIX said:
This is no different than your standard Korean MMO. This just has a bigger budget in the marketing department. It's the same boring and grindy crap that i have played half a decade ago. NcSoft should put a bit more money into City of Heroes if they want to compete with Champions Online and DC Universe Online instead of throwing all of their money at new projects.
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Champions Online was made by the same people who made CoH.
 
TwwIX said:
This is no different than your standard Korean MMO.
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The solution is of course to wait for private servers to get to a decent level of emulating the retail ones and then jump on a 1000x EXP one. I'm on some random one right now with bogus levels of hp/mana it's hilarious. I really dislike this type of MMO arrangement where a company simply buys the rights to one and goes from there. It doesn't give me a lot of hope for the future of the thing. So get in early see if it's any good and then leg it to the next big thing whatever that is.
 
I'm not really huge into MMO games, but I've played World of Warcraft on and off since it came out. No zomg epic end-game raiding, but I've got a couple toons at 80. And so far this feels pretty similar to that.
 
I miss the fun from WoW. It all seems so mechanical. Plus the sound is horrible imo.
 
Unfortunately I bought this.... (I should really hide my credit cards when I'm drunk)

I played for a bit over a week and quit.. Not too fun. Plus I'm very familiar with lackluster support that comes from asian based companies toward western audiences.
 
Got to 21, overpopulated areas made it impossible to get any farther. So, I'm just sort of doing nothing, and probably won't continue. Considering I don't find WoW any fun at all, I just hope ToR will prove better.

which it won't
 
Nay, if you ask me. I found the game lacking, especially in polish and fun.
 
No, it's not worth anything. It's by far the best MMO to be released since World of Warcraft, but it's still not good enough. I got to around level 34 and the amount of time it was taking to level up was getting way out of hand... I can't even imagine being able to get to level 50, and in a PvP game that's all "world PvP", that is unforgivable. That was the main problem, but the whole limited flight and inept flying melee combat was pretty bad too.
 
ok thanks guys, i still have about a month and half left on my WoW subscription but I barely play it now i'm getting out of the mmos i think
 
It was great fun up until level 20 or so. Then it was just grind grind grind, but nothing to grind with.
 
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