Aion Online

The most anticipated game of the year, Aion Online, was a total disaster for me, and many I believe. It totally failed.

Some quotes that i got:

"We are paying for beta service." -Belladandy

"I'm doing a quest with only 3 spawn points with a bot." -Mechsiao

"Castle sieges are done outside the castle." -Anonymous


Inclusive of poor services from gm, excessive botting and horrible lag at castle sieges in towns, Aion Online offers nothing good. The interface has tons of unfixed problems seen in beta. Too many loose ends not tidied up and the graphics is horrendous.

Chatbox has too many issues: spamming by gold sellers are minimized but still present. After typing the box doesn't close and you have to press enter again that makes it so irritating. Words can't be seen on many terrains due to fixed transparent chatbox background. By typing / and nothing else or some wrong command doesn't negate the error but still appear in the global chat. Also, switching chatbox has to be clicked, inconvenient in battles at times.

Graphics are sort of beautiful. Font and everything blends in well. But at close look, the terrain has poor quality paints and smoothness. Terrain is only nice when fully zoomed out and characters can only be seen in detail and nice at close zoom. It's impractical to zoom in just to see a character and zoom out to fight the monsters.

Botters are everywhere as well. Although there's a command to report botters, nothing so far as i can see has been done. The botters are still present though i reported so many botters.

Players are extremely childish for a paid game. And most legions are dead. Either filled with tons of botters so the chat is always empty, or the turnover rate of players are too high. Castle sieges will never work with only 15 legionmates on in most legions.

Castle sieges are extremely lag. At the gate, game crashes. Lag is everywhere except when you solo a monster. Might as well play some offline game then.

Enuff said.