From what I understand this Korean 'pass' is more like premium (Gold Pack with more restrictions) than actual subscription. Access to game will be free, but after 1h of play time (excluding events) you won't get any EXP, AP or loot. However you can stay online just to chat and interact with other players, but your character won't progress.
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From what I understand this Korean 'pass' is more like premium (Gold Pack with more restrictions) than actual subscription. Access to game will be free, but after 1h of play time (excluding events) you won't get any EXP, AP or loot. However you can stay online just to chat and interact with other players, but your character won't progress.
But i guess the 'pass' can't be selled at broker or something like that ? (contraly at the gold pack who can be buyed/selled at the broker)
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From what I understand this Korean 'pass' is more like premium (Gold Pack with more restrictions) than actual subscription. Access to game will be free, but after 1h of play time (excluding events) you won't get any EXP, AP or loot. However you can stay online just to chat and interact with other players, but your character won't progress.
But i guess the 'pass' can't be selled at broker or something like that ? (contraly at the gold pack who can be buyed/selled at the broker)
That's a good point. It would be quite big difference. We will see in 8 days
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Gameforge do not do subscribtion based games so there's no way aion classic would be this way
This! I said this before, but the nostalgics won´t listen anyways.......
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Display MoreSpatalos gang? In the early years of Aion I was CASTOR GANG!
I began on Server Nerthus.
My first legion was Northern Raids (Elyos) and we rocked the Abbys and its fortresses.
I wonder if they will let us use our collectors pack
I buyed the online collectors pack that was the reason to be able to play on beta then.
I pre ordered Aion collectors, but played Korean server to start with.
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Spatalos gang? In the early years of Aion I was CASTOR GANG!
I began on Server Nerthus.
My first legion was Northern Raids (Elyos) and we rocked the Abbys and its fortresses.
I wonder if they will let us use our collectors pack
I buyed the online collectors pack that was the reason to be able to play on beta then.
I pre ordered Aion collectors, but played Korean server to start with.
btw simply question it was in aion collectors you got the code for wing in guild wars 1 or it was added later?
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Spatalos gang? In the early years of Aion I was CASTOR GANG!
I began on Server Nerthus.
My first legion was Northern Raids (Elyos) and we rocked the Abbys and its fortresses.
I wonder if they will let us use our collectors pack
I buyed the online collectors pack that was the reason to be able to play on beta then.
I pre ordered Aion collectors, but played Korean server to start with.
btw simply question it was in aion collectors you got the code for wing in guild wars 1 or it was added later?
I would need to pull the box out and check I was not really into guild wars
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or it was added later?
no code was not included in the online Collector's edition so I have to ask for it.
So I received the code later because I asked the NC Soft support where my code is...
but yes it was funny to spam the emote in guildwars so that everyone could see that you were playing aion
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So I read that NC has finally decided to make a classic server about this game as well. I guess it's because they saw the success of Lineage 2 classic over the years and the decline of their current live games, so they said why not try with AIon as well.
I'm going to speculate and guess a few things based on my experience with the other game and their classic version. L2 classic started with the very early game versions but it wasn't the same game, or rather the same client. It had the graphics updated to the current main game, it had bug fixes that got caught over the years, got class balance and most importantly, all the quality of life features that were implemented over the years up to the current main game. Basically it was the current game but playing on the old patches. In fact, while KR decided to have separate clients, NA went ahead and used the exact same client for main and classic. It is the same client as well in KR or EU/RU but they have different business models in other regions. NA has both main and classic on f2p model but they have vip subscription for monthly vip accounts with many benefits (xp, drop chance etc) and some exclusive shop items, so it's p2w. EU/RU (same company) used different clients because main is f2p and classic is with subscription, and it was 9€ when I tried.
About how the patches went over the years, it was pretty simple. It started with early versions of the game but every half year they were doing a an update, advancing to the next version. The rest of the world was even more behind (except EU/RU) because KR delivers the patches later for overseas regions and then localization happens. I think 6 months that was mentioned here is reasonable. Remember that even if most of the resources are already in the current game client (textures, sounds, maps, items etc), they will reuse those resources and not just reactivate them. So it takes time to create patches for other regions, those regions to translate and localize them, test them, with publisher teams going smaller and smaller every year. After some years of patches they caught up with all that was considered classic and they started developing patches but on the same theme, not going into the same direction as the main. So it's basically another game entirely, its own game. Seeing it's mostly the same company and the same devs barly updating Aion today, it's possible a lot of thing would be similar.
About the game play and excitement, some of the players might be disappointed after a short time. Players got so used with this 2-3 seconds combat that they forgot how slow the gameplay was in early patches. Some might remember that we used to walk for long distances to conserve the expensive scrolls and we didn't have a mount. The content was mostly about grinding molars and other items for a piece of blue equipment, farming guards for AP, slow leveling and so on. It was a lot of fun but others might not see the fun in the old style mmo's that some were used to, slow paced with little to no instances and a lot of open world and farming and socializing. I personally prefer it over mandatory dailies and weeklies that we have now to get your stuff done. Locking stuff behind entries, dailies and weeklies was what made me think it was more of a chore or a job than a game. A lot more things we have today made me slowly forget about Aion in general. We will see how things will evolve in the future.
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Does anyone have any idea or understand Korean?
Would like to know if these streams show the game on the official server as beta for example ...
maybe they test it with a few players before it starts?
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Edit by Isobel : Out of ToS
I found an old very old screenshot by trying an a asmodian character
recorded during the Open Beta on Saturday July 18, 2009 at 12:08:31 AM.
back then, as you can see there was no "button"...
it shows changed in german language but only because I had moved the file to a different folder.
back then, as you can see there was no "button"...
I looked at a lot of my old screenshots and there wasn't a button on the screen, maybe we entered the shop behind the menu.
I can still remember that we sent our monthly rewards to our characters through the website or NC-soft Launcher ...
like this one from 08.04.2010 on the official NC Server.
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Just wait until it's out in Korea and you will see whether or not it's p2w, because we will get more or less the same as they have.
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Just wait until it's out in Korea and you will see whether or not it's p2w, because we will get more or less the same as they have.
4 days
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Just wait until it's out in Korea and you will see whether or not it's p2w, because we will get more or less the same as they have.
No.
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Just wait until it's out in Korea and you will see whether or not it's p2w, because we will get more or less the same as they have.
No.
Yes. Every p2w garbage that we had, korea had it first.
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Yes. Every p2w garbage that we had, korea had it first.
i think what notmyaion said it's possibl we won't have the same system as in Korea if it's on subscription because Gameforge do not do subscribtion based games so there's no way aion classic would be this way.
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i think what notmyaion said it's possibl we won't have the same system as in Korea if it's on subscription because Gameforge do not do subscribtion based games so there's no way aion classic would be this way.
Well, we also don't know what's in the contracts that GF has concluded with NC Soft.
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we always get the more expensive version of p2w.
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first of all, the client is based on 2.7. The version of the game that was redesigned to accommodate GF's f2p model.
It even has gold pack in it already.
https://aionpowerbook.com/powe…m/188710046?aionclassic=1
and 2nd of all, it will have quna store (in korea obviously) so they can make it as p2w as they want.
