NCsoft names new producer for Aion

Yeah I know, but she hasn't posted in months and she used to after she was associate producer, her twitter account has been emptied of tweets.

I really don't think NCwest has any power to do that, that's up to the Korean dev team. These guys here can only tweak things.

And the thing nobody realizes is that kingson is NOT A NEW PERSON. He was the fail producer of lineage 2 for some time and then got quietly shuffled over to the aion team when ncsoft was putting everyone they didnt want to fire on aion and putting l1/l2 on maintenance mode.

I love Aion, but I do recognize the need for some urgent expansion. The content is drying up fast past lv30 (mostly grind a few instances over and over), and there are some flaws that need to be addressed to keep people from leaving. However though, I don't think this new producer will be able to do much..

Richard Garriott had killed any influence that NC West had over NC Korea by completely and utterly messing up Tabula Rasa and royally screwing over NCsoft, so this new producer appointment is pretty much meaningless, IMO.

Aion is doing well? Are you serious? Even by niche gaming standards its fairly hopeless at primetime to find a group to do certain things. With the PvP and PvE portions of the game colliding in primetime. For a 6 hour span when fortresses go active for 35 minutes at a time its difficult to find people do PvE with.

Last night at 8pm there were a total of 15 Sorceror's online between 45-50. Of those 13 were defending in the Abyss and 2 of them were in already in a 2-4 hour instance. Sorcerors are pretty much a requirement to do any instance because they are the only "real" CC in the game. Move along to having 12 45-50 Clerics online and all but 1 busy with PvP and you are SOL for PvE.

Aion is doing far from well if there are less than 15 players playing in a certain required class and level during primetime on a Saturday night. Games that survive (even niche ones) have far more to choose from in a playerbase. They also do not have niche classes that are required above all else. If Aion wants to survive the year without losing more and more players they need to find a way to spread the wealth of CC, Dispels and Healing from the classes that have them. They also need to speed instances up by reducing monster health, reducing trash numbers, etc. People just don't wanna be doing an instance for 3 hours anymore. WoW learned that with Blackrock Depths, now NCSoft Korea needs to do so as well.

Some would say it needs alot more than that, unfortunately I see server merges on the horizon.