Now it’s the beginning of a new anticipated game Aion. NCSoft recently invited the Ensidia, top-of-the line WOW guild to enter Aion(EU)’s Beta which will be launched the upcoming weekend.
http://www.ensidia.com/community/post/1196/
Description of the contest
All you have to do to win one of the 50 keys is post a comment with the words “I want to play the Aion EU beta” until Thursday, June 4th 2009, 14:00 CET.
So we have seen the same reply on follow-up comment - “I want to play the Aion EU beta“.
A topic named 1st WOW Guild Went over to Aion from Chinese online gaming interactive site named 178.com, report the event. But unexpectedly we found a very opposed phenomenon there. Most of players there left same words as “I don’t want to play the Aion EU beta“.
Why?
Months ago most of Chinese players were wishing that they had the chance to play Aion. One of the reason is that people was tormented with an everlasting itch for World of the Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King remote, on the other they were very excited to see a new MMORPG which got nice screens and details. People treat it a big project as “WOW Killer“, like everything that we are doing now.
But after the beta test of the Aion(CN), more and more Aion fans quit the game and delete the client. “There are full of bots and disgusting quest, it’s another grind MMORPG with DELUXE APPEARANCE, just a new WOW Clone.” Can Aion Dethrone The King of MMOs? It seems that the answer is clear.
Aion vs WoW
When we checked out the voting result and player comments relating to Recommended MMOs in November，it’s crystal clear that Aion and WoW are becoming the focus of MMO players’ discussions, due to the upcoming of Aion’s OBT and the recent release of Wotlk. Some players said they hope Aion or some other MMO will pose a challenge to WoW’s throne, “If a game comes out that poses a serious future threat, maybe the developers will get their heads out of their nether regions and start innovating some.”
Scenery in Aion is seductive and depicted to a nicety, and it’s eastern style. We can easily find the decided difference of water effect between Aion and WoW. Putting aside your system, Aion is more beautiful than WoW, but WoW is still a cost-effective MMO. The graphics of Aion actually look nice, but it should first make promises with its quest system, class and gameplay balance.
It is said that “WoW + wings = Aion”. Everyone is trying to imitate WoW in seeking success, but Aion also owns lots of unique things you may not notice. Here are some differences between Aion and WoW. You can explore the Aion world personally when its OBT starts. Plus, don’t forget to tell us your discovery.
1.Characters in Aion can fly, cause’ they get wings. Are you interested to see how aerial combat breaks out in an MMO, especially for melee/special classes. Is the assassin going to have to chase someone in 3D just to hit them? Are the spiritualist’s pets all going to fly with him’her? A system like this would seem to favor ranged combatants unless there’s some kind of lockon feature or speed advantage for melee classes.
2.There’s no Mount System in Aion but a Transformation System.
3. PvP system in Aion is larger than WoW, Aereschuranta.
The Abyss(Aion’s PVPVE area) is divided into three layers: Top, centre, and bottom. There are five fortresses and eight artifacts in the top layer, one fortress and seven artifacts in the centre, three fortresses and seven artifacts in the bottom layer with two strategic points.
4. Characters can’t swim in water. They will get a cumulative injury in water.
5. When the characters die, they will be sent back to the place where you bind. You won’t see the Spirit mode in Aion.
6. DYE system, just DIY your suits. There are more detail setting in character creating interface in Aion.
7. Players will get kinds of titles by sloving quests or collecting items, these titles affect characters’ attribute. This achievement system is added into Wotlk now.
8. Guild need to level up for enlarging its scale.
The combat system is indeed innovative as it is based off combos more like a fighting game but with the traditional MMORPG abilities. Think of every class as having an activated combat playstyle similar to the “Rogues”.
9. Skill CD prompt in Aion is innate but in WoW you need a related Plug-ins.
Is Aion a Killer to WoW?
Let’s just read players’ opinions we have gathered. A game requiring more than what people’s graphics card can deliver might decrease its supporters who just have an ordinary graphics card. People are hoping NCsoft will retain the same great character models and world graphics while not alienating those who have older systems.
Aion, despite some simalarities, is a completely different game. this world is nonlinear, whereas, I saw
some places that looked familiar, such as Dark Shire and GoldShire. In the world of building, no house is
gonna look the same as the last, there’s always gonna be something like a higher chimney, maybe an
extra chimney, but most of all, the SHAPE will be different. (Excluding the redundant townhouses.)
Now, when I see an inn, it looks the same on the outside. And the inside, which makes it even WORSE,
because this means that no effort was put into towns, this is severely disappointing and takes you out of
the experience and reminds you that you are playing a video game.
Aion will not only have better graphics, but the combat will actually be FUN.
Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Hellgate: London, Age of Conan and Warhammer Online. All of
these MMO’s were touted as ‘WoW killers’, but none have delivered. The Warhammer Online beta was so
bad they had to pull it back into active development.
Aion looks interesting, but is it a WoW killer? No. It doesn’t add anything substantially new to
the genre, but that’s not the reason why people won’t flock to it.
WoW runs quite well on many, many machines, including those 2-3 years out of date. I can already
tell, just by looking at the screenshots, that Aion will require more than my processor/graphics
card can deliver. That holds true for many of the WoW playerbase. I tried LotRO, but it wouldn’t
play on my laptop at anything more than the most basic settings, and that just made it look like
crap.
That is, IMO, one area that Blizzard has yet to be outmatched on: graphics. Wow’s graphics are
stunning considering that they’ve got low polygon counts and primitive textures.
Why can’t other MMO’s take a page from Blizzard’s book, and offer stylistic, simple and well-done
graphics that are easy on video cards? At a stroke, you’d have access to a much wider audience.
Edit: Don’t get me wrong, I hope Aion rises as a serious threat to WoW, as they sorely need the
competition. But I’m not holding my breath.
So whatever you consider with Aion and WoW, their developers are still doing their best for their own features. Don’t be too punctilious in your attention to the question if any game is a killer to another one.
from http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-06-04/20090604051826498,1.shtml
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