Aion free account reactivations, double XP incoming

I agree. I'd like to see some free trials as well...kind of wondering why there aren't any yet. In any case I think I'll check it out since my account is just sitting there, not being used.

Even if they hire you, NCWest has no powers to change the game around.

After experiencing Lineage II, I warned people that it wouldn't mattered what the western audience want, only what the Koreans want. I also warned them how useless the GM service is in Lineage 2.

Nobody ever wants to listen, but instead everyone persists in their fantasy how this dream Aion game will turn out. The best MMOs are always the one that hasn't been released.

Jade Effect, you have nicely articulated why I am not in the least excited about TERA. I'm not going to play another game whose developers are entirely and exclusively beholden to a foreign player base which wants a very different game than I do.

I certainly would think twice before playing any game that is being made by one company and then licensed out to another company (TERA, anything run by Frogster, etc.)

But NCWest IS NCSoft, they are the same company. But NCWest, instead of being run by smart people put in place from ArenaNet (another division of NCSoft), is instead apparently little more than a front for a handful of people that just don't know what they are doing.

From release they have made mistake after mistake. How many people would have bought the game last year if we had know that, in NCWest's own words, they don't have very good tools to change things, and they are "slowly learning to communicate with the NCSoft Korea devs".... months after release! Weren't these the same people that before release were boasting about the huge effort going into westernizing the game and how everyone was working hand in hand with the devs.

Oh well, at least Aion will be an example to others of how NOT to run a game.

Scratch that - apparently it does apply to Europe too.

I may give it a try but Im currently enjoying the free trial of City of Heroes (Ultra mode graphics are great!). I didnt think Aion was too bad when I played it just after launch but admittedly I only got to level 28 or something. Always open to giving a game a second chance though, especially after all this time - you never know, I may even give STO another go...!