Blogger compares Aion to WoW and WAR

Comparing three MMO's to each other is like presenting a basket of apples, all the same size, color and taste. There is simply no difference. Customer service and developer lying is what causes games to fail and lose customers, all human non gaming factors.

The Blogger makes obvious comparisons and states nothing new, nor does the blogger present solutions to the problems mentioned in any of the comparisons.

The problems in the MMO's are the same between them to one extent or another, with devs trying to mask the obvious with their own version of the same old content.

Customer service aside, which is what all of you SHOULD be concerned with, of the three MMO's mentioned, which one offers something truly different? Anyone?

The answer is none of them. Nothing new at all, if some of you jump up and down about the flying, several MMO's are already out that have your avatar flying around, combat or no. I can name three that are still running.

So i ask this, because someone puts a basket of the same apples in front of you, why do you feel the need to state the obvious or blog about it? Try this next time, make corrections, ask if the customer service has a good track record and do the devs state the obvious line or do they present the current problems and solutions to fix those problems?

The focus of the article is AION verse the other two MMO's, simply put, nothing is new, NC soft has a track record for lousy customer service and presenting games in which developer morals and ethics do not exist.

Yes this apple just ripened, it may be juicy, may be sweet, but it is still just an apple. Also, trying to state that your apple has a worm in it and is different wont work.

The best effort to date i have seen is to compare MMO"S to books or music, the stories and sounds are different to some extent, but after reading or listening to it once or twice, why keep it?

Now lets cross an apple and an orange and see what we get........

@Deathmutant

"And, as we saw with Tortage in Age of Conan, you know *nothing* about the "end game" by playing the first 20 levels."

That is entirely true when speaking of AoC. However, it does not really apply in regards to Aion. Many of us have experience in the end game content of Aion due to playing on the Chinese or Korean servers. Most of my knowledge about endgame Aion is from either first hand experience or watching a friend play on the Korean servers.

I played AION the first 10 lvls, in two days, it felt like a free mmorpg, that bad designed. In terms of graphics and optimization it is great, in terms of design and gameplay it is horrible, but friends keep saying that from 20 is uber, right.. will see.

Also i remember when playing the first 20 lvls in WAR, those guys from Mythic actually tried something. Public Quest, Rewards, each town was busy with combat and traffic(npc), it was alive. Aion it just feels empty and repeats the same old formula. Having a flying system and a decent RVR, doesnt make me to play it.

Time will tell...

lol

honestly in my opinion Aion is just going to be one of those MMOs that you hear about for a few months or maybe one until it fades away like all the others. I mean I remember when War and AoC came out there was all this hype surrounding it War had the whole so called epic PvP and AoC had the whole maturity thing around it (Digital Boobies and Gore). In my opinion they were all gimmicks implemented into those games to draw a certain audience group in which some of the long term players of WoW started to bash on WoW saying that it would be the so called WoW killer and ironically those so called person came crawling back after the first month of playing those games back to WoW like the prodigal sons and daughters they are saying that how it sucked and it was nothing like WoW and mainly a complete waste of their time and money. Further on I think Aion is just another one of these games that is using it's graphics engine to pull in the crowds but I bet not too long after those players will be singing a different tune just like all the others. Not to mention that Blizzard is coming out with a new next gen MMO in which they said that they will be previewing to the world at their next blizzcon which is scheduled for the 21-22 of August 2009 so yeah Blizzard has never failed their fans and player base and is one of the main reason why even in this time of economic crisis they are still showing growth on the stock markets.

Just as if a Korean copycat product will hold the future of MMORPG's.

Lack of western Lore, lack of any decent Raid content, lack of original humor (Hilton Paris), lack of decent questing chains.

And ... lack of any decent policy against hacks which will make it just another Korean uncontrolled game hacking ahckers and botters.

The hacks are already all over the place on the internet and NCSoft (as always) doens't have the means or tools to write its own protection code.

Prediction: 400K western sales in its first 3 weeks and then back to the 100K subscription drop when people have to ... pay a subs fee.

The game is bland, unoriginal, has translated text boxes, lacks PVE in its end game and is laggy as hell (tx to its "cap" and graphics).

The terrible zoning system nd hacks will kill it under the 100K cap after 6 months.

Pure waste of time.

Waiting for Kotor, Diablo3 and ... of course the new MMO from Blizzard