Aion in Game Informer issue #200Follow

This month Game Informer magazine, in their much ballyhooed 200th issue, had a one page article on Aion, "Bait and Switch: Aion launches with equal parts fun, grind, and gold spam", by Adam Biessener.

The article was actually mostly positive, and remember that by the time it hits the newsstands the content is 2-3 months old, but they had a few things to say worth noting.

- Aion has the best directed PvP endgame available today.
-The problem is that you have to play several dozen hours of a mediocre World of Warcraft clone to gain access (to the endgame).
-The polish and iteration shows. Even Blizzard could learn from some of the little touches in Aion
-Even with my gripes about the game, it serves the chosen audience (hardcore PvPers) well.

They also had some nasty things to say about the gold spam and lack of NCSoft response, but remember the age of the article.

Although many parts of the current issue can be read online I could not find an online page for this specific article.


Edited, Dec 12th 2009 2:43pm by Bludwyng

I cancelled my account when I seen the video go from, wow look at where we are going!, to, well, we hope to be there someday. Theres alot of games out there to be played if you only consider where its going to be in the future instead of where it is in the present.

That is an incredible misrepresentation of the facts. From all I am hearing VERY few real accounts were banned, as can be seen clearly by the care they are taking to document every case. I would say that most of those that DO complain that they were banned and are not botters are those that botted occasionally, not to make Kinah for sale, but to cheat by leveling up with less work.

And, for those few that were caught by the net and did not bot or buy Kinah, there is a clear review process that you can use to appeal the banning. That said, I have yet to hear of a single case in which a ban was reversed.

Remember, it is not just bots that get banned. Those who buy Kinah, sell Kinah to Kinah sellers, or bank the kinah to hold it for the sellers are all subject to banning.