dmtapper

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Finally a MMO set in the Forgotten Realms and Cryptic gets to develop it? I am so sad right now.... Why, why, why wouldn't they work out a deal with Bioware on this one?

Wow..... simply amazing that something like this even gets its day in court.

I will say, FFXI has a pop-up warning when you log in warning you that it is easy to forget about your friends, family and real life outside of the game. I used to be so annoyed that I had that warning pop-up every time I logged in. Now I'm thinking, "Good job, SE!" At lease they won't be subjected to idiots like this guy.

I just pray for an engaging story and NPC's that I actually care about.

Dear En Masse:

Please make this MMO have some emotional depth and a sense of urgency to the story. Please make the characters three dimensional with some captivating sense of personality. Please make the quests something that requires more thought than "kill 10 rats" (repeat 1/100). Please have more control over the development of this game than most NA importers of Korean games (IE: NCFail).

I'll hold judgment on the combat until I play the game, but yeah, the combat looks pretty boring.

People in the focused testing groups say that the game in its current state is Aion Part 2; heavy on grind and light on substance.

I hope that En Masse can do what NCsoft West obviously couldn't.

"anyone know what race we should start as so we start close to the shuttle (escorts)?"

Start off as human. This will start you in Archet/Bree. This is the closest zone to Weathertop.

My favorite event of the year! Props to LMB for organizing this event. Landroval is the best MMO community out there.

1.9 did nothing to improve the game. They actually LOWERED the drop rates on trash mobs, so it is even harder to make money that in 1.5.

Most legions are struggling to retain members and fort raids are becoming a joke to assemble the number the people needed to defend/attack.

2.0 needs to come fast with so many people feeling like 1.9 made the game worse. All you need to do is read the forums. Far more negative posts than positive ones.

This patch doesn't bring AION anywhere near where WoW was several years ago. The only UI improvements being made are a "still" crappy LFG interface and new hotkeys that you can finally move around.

Otherwise, the basic mechanics are not changing. They are adding a new xp modifier rather just re-scaling the quest XP and are fixing the drop rates (we shall see). The game is still 95% grind and this patch introduces next to no new content.

Players will have to wait until Oct/Nov for new content, more than a year after the launch.