Fallen Earth beats out Aion in D2D sales last week

Say what you will about Fallen Earth but at least it's something new...unlike Aion which looks like it was built from a Generic Fantasy MMO template.

Oh, and it doesn't ship with GameGuard.

Looks like someone got some "good" info from somebodys cousins brother on their mothers side and then posted an article about it being true.......seems this goes on alot here at massively.

I joined the FE alpha program at the end of 2008, and after playing it a couple of times I just gave up on it.. until about a month ago. I have been playing the beta obsessively ever since. It's good, it's really good - once you get over the near vertical learning curve and figure out WTF is going on. ;)

The biggest difference between FE and all the other MMO's I've seen is the way the combat works. You don't target a monster, press a hot key to fire a spell, then wait for the monster to take a turn, rinse and repeat. FE wants to be a First Person Shooter. It's almost there, but not quite - the combat doesn't have the polish, speed or finesse of a true FPS game, such as QuakeLive or something, but it is *so* much better than watching two characters take turns hitting each other with spells that never miss. I can play Pokemon if I want combat like that.

The crafting aspect is also something that is very well done. There are literally hundreds of different things to make. One of the biggest complaints I see in the ingame Global Chat is that crafting takes too long. Well, it does take a long time, but you can do other things while you craft. You don't have to stand around and wait - just get on and play the game!

The graphics are fine IMHO. As someone else said, it's a post apocalypic desert - you aren't going to be seeing fields of grass with unicorns and rainbows! All the time you're playing it, you're on the lookout for scraps to salvage and make something useful out of. Sometimes, just finding a pile of scrap wood is enough to make you go "Woot!".

I for one will be buying Fallen Earth, although I am well aware that it is not for everyone. But if you like MMO's and you're looking for something different, this is it.

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Aion has been available to purchase for how long?

Fallen Earth has been available to purchase for how long?

The end.

But wait, there's more!

Aion is available through how many other vendors including the official site which offers a digital download?

Now is the part where you tell us why this even matters.

I'm surprised, and I would love to know what kind of figures those really are. Probably not the greatest, but I see Fallen Earth having a nice niche of players that slowly grows.

This game is amazing and is the first MMO in a long time that required me to play it to enjoy it. Meaning I didn't log in and say man is this thing sweet, I said this thing isn't quite right with me. But that intrigued me enough to look at it a day later, learn the system and it was exactly what I was looking for. I've tried to many MMOs to think I would be wow'd and I clearly am. Either getting a 6-month or year subscription. An Indie developer WILL have the power to actually do what there customers want rather than shove crap down their throats and listen to corporate know-alls like NCsoft has.

After playing the beta, I know that this game is absolutely not for me and probably never will be, but I wish them luck with keeping the subscribers.

It sounds to me like FE is going to have an audience pretty much no matter what. It's offering something that no other MMORPG on the market really does. If you want semi-FPS combat with lots'o'crafting and like / can tolerate the setting, it's FE or... nothing.

I'll admit that Aion has never presented anything to me that makes me care, but I'm still entirely happy with WoW, so I'm not really the target market anyway.

I was in Closed Beta about 5 or 6 months ago.

I liked the Crafting system.

Virtually everything else blows rancid goats balls. Graphics don't make a game. But they sure as hell help! I disagree that the graphics are Everquest 1- esque..... they are about 5 years behind that. At least. Gameplay/Combat is disjointed and sloppy. It tries to be both MMO button masher and twitch based shooter at the same time and the result is an atrocious kludgefest. Mob spawning was plain retarded as was the mob AI.

Great concept, just a really really bad implementation.

As for hoping for improvements in a few months down the track - get your hand off it. Its taken them years to get to this point...do you think they are going to re-write the whole engine to a new you beaut system in a couple of months post release? You are kidding right? Thats why all your classic MMO games, that have raked in millions are still running the exact same engines and graphics they launched with.

Oh and if you are playing from Oz - forget it. The lag just kills the game and makes it even worse. Shocking net code.

This one is going to hemorrhage faster than AOC/WAR combined.

These figures might have meant something if they were not tied into the Beta test.

As it is they are grossly inflated figures that reflect the desire of gamers to try out the game rather then to buy the finished product.

You can easily cancel your order for the game before the launch date simply to get into Beta. While the company is well aware of this and used the Beta to inflate these figures, by doing so they rendered the figures worthless as an indication of who will buy the game.

You might as well count the number pidgeons you can see from your window and use that as a guide as to the number of people who will buy this game.....it will be as accurate.

You young people and your splashy graphics. lol.

I've been playing games since the first Atari console, (pong actually). Awesome graphics can't support a game if it's crap or not fun to play. I'd love to try both of those titles, though as a WoW'r I'd probably end up giving up Aion for my WoW account instead, since that's where all my friends are. FE however looks like a breath of fresh air.... dusty air, but fresh! =)

If you honestly think the graphics in Fallen earth are anything but a sad trip back to 1999 where u vomit when you get out of the Delorean your as clueless as the artists for this game obviously are. I've shot players in counter-strike 1.1 levels that looked more detailed lol. This games an all around fail ... guess some people like it though.. probably the same people that like mahjong and peggle... u know.. not real gamers.