AION - could become great?

cHk4 said:
I will actually entertain this suspected troll with a reply... Unless you are specifically talking about buff bots only which I have not had experience with...

I will list a few points of what the problem is with botting…

Dave works, he only gets to play a few hours every other night. In that time Dave manages to get something drop which is of some value. Dave now has enough money to sustain his characters in frequent play and maybe buy him self some nice items. However this is not the case, Daves play time only equates to 15-20 hours a week tops. However the items which he gets drop is worth next to nothing due to botters which can farm the same place for 168 hours a week. This based on Daves 20 hour a week play style gives the bot a 8x more advantage of getting drops. This means two things… Dave doesn’t get as much money due to the botters flooding the market with items selling them for cheaper. Because the bots can sell the goods cheaper the people who are botting are making a load of money thus forcing the prices of other items up as there is more cash for the botters leaving poor people like Dave not being able to get anything.

Ok, so I’m a level 50 with pimped out gear, I decide to farm for cash in a nice little spot with some nice little mobs with no chance of me dying. Now Dave comes along as a level 45 to try and do a quest which requires him killing 15 of these mobs. Now because this is a good botting spot there are about 10 other bots, only 15 mobs spawn at once and unfortunately for Dave because we are all higher than him we out DPS him and he can not complete his quest, any items which drop again the botters get.

Same scenario as above as well the Aion world is rather small. Dave wants to level however the only 4 realistic spots he can level is all occupied with bots. Dave has gone from 15% an hour to sub 5% a hour. While it doesn’t effect the bots because they will be making lower exp all through the day/night.

Ok so Dave thinks, I know I’ll go and complete that campaign quest which requires I kill x amount of these mobs… O no again there are so many bots here levelling I can’t get the main part of a story line of my quest done…

A friend of mine used to bot in a game. He used to have about 10 instances running per PC on two pcs. The dude became rich. Because his main used bows and he was just buying all the bows up the bows nearly doubled in price… Now for your average Joe this was a big jump having to pay double due to botting….

Level 50 bot who is a known botter who has stopped botting after he hits 50 is not banned... Dave gets fed up of spending all his time each week to not even make one level. Dave thinks botting is acceptable and Dave ends up getting banned as the owners of the game decide to make them selfs look good and only ban the current botters...

Etc etc etc

TL : DR version - bots are for insecure emo kids.
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Hilarious
 
The Mad Rapper said:
What's the problem with botting? People use buff bots in DAoC all the time - it's commonly accepted that you need one to compete.
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The fundamental difference is that someone using a buff bot is still present at the PC and playing the game. Someone using a bot is running the bot 24 hours a day while they arent at the PC. One involves player control and the other doesnt.
 
Tombstone said:
The fundamental difference is that someone using a buff bot is still present at the PC and playing the game. Someone using a bot is running the bot 24 hours a day while they arent at the PC. One involves player control and the other doesnt.
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I might change my TL : DR to this! You summed it up :)
 
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Torchlight had pulled my attention away from Aion very Easily.
Would actually go as far as to say Im quite dissapointed with Aion now :(
 
Dist said:
but for me the first impression on an MMO is a BIG deal, you screw it up and you lose customers, do it right and you have loyal customers spreading the game by word of mouth.
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I take it an MMO has never grabbed you then? As far as I know no MMO launch has been "smooth" and I have taken part in a lot....

Aion's was in fact one of the smoothest for me...the intial queues were bad but they had learned from Warhammer Online where overstretching themselves soon made for baron servers and even more trouble in the future. This would have been a logistcal nightmare for Aion due to the server race balancing.

At the end of the day you shouldn't give up on MMO's from first impressions such as you experienced with Aion...the nature of MMO's means quick fixes are not always possible. Everquest was an absolute mess when it first came out but I still played it for over 4 years....longest any game kept me interested but if I had based it on the first few MONTHS of the game I'd have never continued.

It's still a relatively new genre...I'd have given it more time and future MMO's as well and you will then get to enjoy them and Aion for what they are ; great games :)
 
you have to remember though that when Aion launched in europe and the US that it had already been released a long time ago in asia, so the devs and GMs should know what to expect on release and the game should already be fairly bug free. WoW may have had more bugs on release than Aion, but I didn't have 9 hour queues in wow and find that over 10% of the people I run into when leveling are bots.

I gave the game 2 months, it took over 1 month to bring queues down to a reasonable level, and the bot problem is still present. That just just unacceptable in my mind. They are simply problems that should have never been there to begin with. Bots are easy to stop and the queues should have been predicted by sorted long before release.

I expect bugs on release, I expect over crowding in the newbie zones, I expect issues. I don't expect the same issues to continue for over a month though. Being a game that was released elsewhere already for a year just means to me that I expect even more from release.
 
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