Comments on: Why I Cancelled My Reservations for Aion and Champions Online.

By: Lisetha

Lisetha — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:00:33 +0000

Wow… Do you ever reread your stuff and think on how stupid you were when you were writing it? While I can’t say I like CO, the “Cash Shop” is has.. nothing but vanity item “action figures”. By hell even WoW now has a cash shop. There’s a difference between a Cash Shop that lets you buy elite gear at level 1 and one that gives you nothing more than vanity items. Any game that offers an ingame item or service for real money has a cash shop. Including server transfers and character renames.

In addition, you previewed a year old version of Aion, that the game didn’t even release with. Grind? Yeah, but if your grinding at level 15 – you did something wrong. I played to Level 32 and barely felt a grind. After their 1.5 release and the several patches since then. If it’s not for you that’s one thing but you sound really stupid having written reviews that were nothing but talking out your ass.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:21:09 +0000

I get the feeling that most of these posts are biased towards one game, I really want to submit my opinion as it is alot more neutral, although, I do beleive that some posters aren’t biased either. I have played WoW for a good 3 months, I find it quite a grind based game to, alot of it is Kill X ammount of these, or, kill this monster, or, gather these items. In my opinion, remember this is my opinion, I find WoW boring, I looked forward to getting to level 80 in Dragonmaw, joining my friends in there Raids and obtaining the awesome gear, using them in battlegrounds and PvP. It never happened, I got so bored with all of the grinding and the quests all looked the same to me, true that the game was brilliant when it was first released, no doubt about that, I think the main reason was because there was no other game like it, but now it’s just lost it’s spark, other MMO’s are gaining there way onto WoW, so I decided to stop playing. I am now currently waiting to get my own copy of Aion, it looks quite exciting and the graphic detail looks amazing, I beleive it’s the game I have been looking for, the classes and races suite me and I love this idea of Raid on Raid and PvPvE. I am not trying to change your opinion or argue with you in ANY way, I beleive your right when you say Aion is a grind fest, but I could probobly put up with it due to the amazing graphics and gameplay. [I also played Maple Story for about 2 years, I think I could put up with grinding, WoW just bored me.]. It also seemed to me that WoW PvP was really not an option unless you had a high level character to get you the right gear, whereas, Aion is brand new, not many people will be twinked to kill all the low levels and it’s possible to get the best out of your PvP expirience before you reach the high levels. Conclusion, get what you want, this is my opinion on the war between WoW and Aion. [I do reccomend Requiem though, not so hard to level, quests give decent EXP, graphics are pretty amazing and there is lots of gore, [Horror MMO]]

By: Meghann

Meghann — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:13:42 +0000

First off I don’t understand why anyone would want to play Champions, it looks like some college kids project and not worth time at all. Secondly, if you want a game that reminds you of WoW then well stick with WoW. Aion is a PVP game and that is their end game focus. People should really do research on things before they jump into them. To be completely honest, there is no challenge in WoW anymore the pvp was killed in it looong ago I mean don’t get me wrong I still play and raid with my bf/friends but the game is getting kind of sad =/ Everything in Aion feels like an accomplishment and it’s such enjoyable game play.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:04:52 +0000

i feel sorry for all wow players.They have played this funny cartoon game and it became their lives.There is no such a thing like exiting pvp server in wow,no way to manipulate the environment in any way through your game.I am waiting 2 hours quene for Aion and it is worth the waiting.Sorry for my bad english but i could not pass by your mediocre article without writing something.

By: lavantis

lavantis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:53:47 +0000

Raaj, try returning it after you pick the game up at the store. Unopened games should be valid for a full refund right?

By: Raaj

Raaj — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:58:08 +0000

@Inktomi, I read your article and you have valid reasons, life comes first and you don’t have a lot of time to spend with these games at the moment.

I’m sorry if this response is blunt but to be honest, I came across this site because I to was wanting to cancel my Aion reservation, but Gamestop.com isn’t allowing me to do so cause of its beta code they sent out. I don’t understand it at all other than the in game items. But, i’m still wondering how can i cancel my order when Gamestop is denying me that?

I won’t have enough time as well to spend with the game, that is my reason of canceling. How did you go about doing this? Is there another way I can cancel my order, I really don’t want to pay for it at the moment and I even resported to possibly re-selling it through e-bay.

Any thoughts or feedback?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:45:33 +0000

Wow… did you even do any research about Champs Online before you wrote this article?

The RMT piece of Champs Online is only for COSMETIC items, for things like CHANGING YOUR NAME, and so on. You can’t do anything more than that.

You <3 WOW… but in WOW, they make you pay for a name change too. What’s the difference?

I’m hardly a CO fanboy, but I do find people making factual errors about games — and then slamming the game for it — disturbing.

By: Legend

Legend — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:57:56 +0000

After reading this review and whole lot others, as well as participating in CBT6 on EU servers I can pretty much deny all the grindfest ‘accusations’ that keep being shot at Aion. It took me roughly 2 days of less-than-hardcore playing to reach level 20 provided grinding about 20-30mobs total outside quest requirements, which turned out to be unnecessary since after completing the lvl 10-20 area I was lvl 21. Considering they have been listening to the complaints from people used to easy quest-lvling and will add more quests and increase quest xp rewards, I doubt that grinding outside the storyline will be needed at all.
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Now that I mentioned the word storyline, I have to say that having a linear story provided by the campaign quest chain to walk you through all the leveling makes it a whole lot more meaningful than, for example WoW (yes I did play that for a long time), where you’d basically run all over the place looking for quests with no well-defined guidance. Obviously the linear questing will pose problems when raising an alt, as monotony will surely kick in, but until you get to actually be bored of what your main can offer in terms of fun and content progression, you may as well forget and want to “re-live” all that story, if you like a story at all.
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I’ve noticed a lot of complaints here and everywhere else about the limitations of flight in leveling areas. I’ll ignore the complaints about not flying in your capital city, that simply doesn’t affect anything. At all. First off it’d make the game a whole lot noob-friendly if you could just fly all over the place and land directly on the mob you’re aiming to kill, or escape in flight when the ‘situation’ becomes dire. Need I mention that a ranged player could just simply nuke the heck out of melee mobs from mid-air without even worrying that the mob might actually touch them? Honestly, if anyone beats down on the flight limitations then they are the limited ones. Most maps come with well-implemented ledges where you can run off and glide for fast transportation around, provided you actually spend a few minutes to get accommodated with the gliding system, which is bend-able enough to allow prolonging a glide fairly long enough (I had my flight time expire on a couple glides, nearly died lol).
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@Inktomi: I’m not beating down on your review, as a matter of fact I think it’s pretty well-built and objective, provided the information you had. And I do agree that this game will not be a good experience for people that have VERY limited time resources. I personally have a job and a life but still can afford some daily playtime. However I strongly disagree with you labeling the game ‘pretty grind’; it’s true you can’t lvl all the way up by just doing fed-ex-like tasks and skipping content or pure pvp from the beginning, but the storyline pretty much covers the leveling and the cutscenes make the campaign chain worth paying some attention to while running through. TBH, WoW was a lot more grindfest than Aion when it first came out. Sure there are other MMOs out there with more in-depth lore but then again, Aion tends to focus more on PvPvE and uses the lore-based questing to introduce the player to the environment, skills and potential of the class they are playing.
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In the end it’s just a matter of taste; I’m guessing if you’re more into lore, endgame content additions and PvE overall you’d go for LOTRO or WoW if you aren’t already extremely bored and disappointed of it; if you’re more into PvP you’d probably turn your eyes to EvE (which I haven’t actually played, but appears to be the most PvP-oriented MMO worth mentioning). Finally, if you like a combination of the two sides of MMORPGs where you eventually get a choice between PvEing all the way to maxlvl or skipping half of that in favor of lvling up in a strongly PvP-oriented area, to end up playing PvE and PvP at the same time end-game, Aion is probably your best bet at this time.
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I’d probably have a lot more to write about this but the scroll bar is getting puny and I don’t want to ramble too much

By: inox

inox — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:26:47 +0000

Aion has something wow lost long time ago: Objective based pvp, pile a gold in the middle now fight for it you noobs!

( PS: it works and more than that it is VERY fun )

By: PukimakU

PukimakU — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:23:27 +0000

rofl….in the future there will be someone create an article complaining Blade&Soul, C9 and TERA about grind stuff. Hey if u dont like any grind feel in game, quit all MMORPG. Go to play flash game in facebook…lmao! Perhaps do u know what is grind? It means u need to work harder to obtain something. U wanna be top lvl, be rich, with imba items u need grind. Just like in real life u want higher position in ur job and better pay, u need grind too. It’s all same. Please dont go to work or study and just sit at home =)