Aion's community address for November

I came back to Aion due to massive ban on bots.
And it is really noticiable, there are WAY less of those vermins now.
In fact, I I believe that if they are doing it, they at least hide, aside kinah stores.

Maybe to decrease the number of bots they could make be the game less grindish.
Just sayin'.

This is in testing in Korea, which means it's also in the middle of being localized for NA/EU, this is something NCsoft has been working on for a very long time, and even said last year that the Western launch of Aion would take place really close a massive update. I think it was a little stupid of them to launch prior to this, but whatever they haven't really lost that many people, most major guilds are sticking with it, especially after seeing 3.0 coming out, and all the servers are usually pretty packed with people despite it being the Holidays and people traveling all over the place.

The bot issue is a separate issue that NCwest has to handle themselves, and has nothing to do with the development team of the game at this point, the new GSU they've implimented for the game will help to be way more effecient in detecting and even preventing botting. Keep in mind that there are new updates coming to AION even before 3.0, with new content and some pretty big adjustments to XP and Questing.

Point-blank range critics full of rage are useless. But also people always hiding or resizing problems, and justifying developers are simply wrong.

A critic is needed to push the developers to improve the game. Otherwise they would just sit there and count money. And the more the critic is informed and strong, the more they are pushed to fix issues and do it fast.

What we all want is a good game with a lot of people playing it? Then listen critics even if you are not personally interested in that specific improvement.

You don't care about quests and you like hard mobs grinding to level up? Fine but keep in mind that most people don't like that. So unless you want to play in a game with just a couple of desert servers with those few like you, in risk to close any day.... add those quests and lore and you may have a lot of servers and a lot of other players (i took just one of the things missing from the game, another is instances with some sense and epic feeling). Developers will make a lot of money and will add more content and hire more people to create it and give a better support and so on.

The "everything is fine" logic brings only a fail game popuplated by few fanboys whining about how the rest of the world is made of carebears. Which happens more often than you may think.

About Aion's launch.... that was not a fresh launch really, since the game was already running in Korea, meaning the code was already clean and tested. There's a huge difference between this launch and the launch of age of conan, warhammer or even warcraft which was coming only from a beta phase.

The EU and US launch is a fresh thing only for the server part (which is important but is also more predictable).

There was no bugs simply cause the game is not new, and the whole Korea betatested it for us. So that's not a miracle. It's just how it should have been. They have done a good work and that's it. Stop claiming they have done the best launch ever, it's like cheating.

Heh, I started Aion yesterday, and i let the update run before activating.. good thing i did, because the complete update took about an hour..

This reminds me of the update that GW requires on a fresh install with all content installed off of the disks..

Personally, i am pleased with the updates that are happening, and after reading the update notes and press releases, it also pleases me that NCsoft is very involved in combatting the cancer of MMORPGs, botting, and the aids of MMORPGs, RMT.

keep up the good work, NCSoft.