Threads like this one are accumulating on the forum and so far we got nothing about what will be done about this. Will the "real" 2.4 that might drop next month or in november have
allsome of these issues fixed or is this game going into the ground ?
Expecting gameforge to listen to players, how very cute.
It doesn't matter who changed it and it doesnt matter who we blame KR or GF it doesnt matter...
What matters is GF has no desire to fix this issue because they don't consider it an issue because "but KR did it!". Despite players complaining about it since day 0. That should tell you enough about this company.
Drops are not something we can change on our own. I can't give the details but things have been done already, although they might not have been enough
Vendor price nerf is not a EU thing. Prices were reduced by the time KR was in 2.4 and since we're using this patch with gated content for our custom version, we have the official prices for 2.4
You guys are like government institutions... "It wasnt us, they did it! Go be mad at them!" No. You are in charge of the game here in EU. It doesn't matter how much you claim rates are the same as KR - it doesn't change the fact that they suck. A lot of players here in the forums have also played the OG 2.x patches and can remember quite clearly how it wasn't as nerfed to the ground as here...
What koreans do with their game is their business. If you can't provide an enjoyable experience here for EU players they will just leave. How much players has the game lost since launch, care to share that statistic? Since day 1 players have been against this vendor sell nerf and drop rates nerf and nothing has been done for months with the same dismissive excuse "its same in korea" as if thats going to somehow make it -not- crap...
I accept your concession.
Please play the game for more than a month and draw your own conclusions. This new wave of "new thing" MMO tourists is the reason people spout this nonsense in the first place.
Ask for something clearly unreasonable as 'evidence' for an argument that's obviously true -> proceeds to proclaim himself victor of argument when opponent refuses to waste his time with said 'evidence'. Great tactic bro. And then proceed with pointless assumptions and personal attacks. No buddy, you are wrong. I play MMOs for more than 15 years now, and Aion ever since the OG 1.9 You cannot prove that what the majority of us saying here is nonsense so you proceed to just invoke stupid personal insults to cover you being completely inept at having an intellectual argument with anyone.
A hallmark of a true gaming troll. Your input here is completely useless. Your suggestions of just doing nothing and letting bots roam around are completely useless.
Display MoreThey are banning bots. The fact that you personally don't acknowledge it, is a personal problem.
Please consider the last of my points of my previous posts: Take off your tinfoil hat.
If you start demanding proof of bans, then let me tell you something about the burden of proof, because you're the one having to prove things you were originally making claims about, not me, not GF, or anyone else. It's upon you.
Go ahead, show me a few bots, show me a ticket you've made about these exact bots, and show me the same bots sitting there after 2 weeks still doing their thing.
Do it. Give us time stamps. Prove your empty accusations. I'll wait.
There have been multiple people who say they have reported the bots and they keep seeing the same bots for weeks. I keep seeing the same gladiator bot farming mobs near asteria for 3rd week now. And if you don't believe them or me. I don't care. Im not going to go out of my way to waste my time in gathering proof for you specifically. Its already enough that we have to be the police and record and report the bots.. There are massive amounts of people noticing it too. Only you are here defending gameforge and providing zero solutions like some blind fanboy.
Can we get an official answer from GF or what NCsoft thinks about it - is botting allowed in classic or it isn't?
And if it is not what is the punishment?
And if there is a punishment is Gameforge actually doing anything to enforce it?
Im asking because I see hundreds of bots daily walking in lines and using speed/teleport hacks and they grind all the mobs. Same name bots that have been reported many times too. I was wondering if I should just join them because I don't rly see how is it fair for some players to make billions of kinah with bots while us fair players struggle to make 10mil.
Its better to just close retail at this point. NCsoft has killed the game ever since the major overhaul in 6.0 it has nothing to do with the real oldschool AION. It just became a p2w mobile game for PC.
It seems that rerouting connections and optimizing routes for better efficiency is indeed the main objective of these ping boosters. However, it's important to note that game publishers like Gameforge have the authority to set their own rules and regulations for their games. They may have recently decided to disallow the use of ping boosters for various reasons. The decision to ban ping boosters might be driven by concerns over fair play or security issues. Using such tools could potentially give players an unfair advantage, disrupt server stability, or compromise the integrity of the game environment. By enforcing this rule, Gameforge may be aiming to maintain a level playing field for all players and ensure a secure gaming experience. Regarding the sudden change in policy, it's difficult to say without specific information from Gameforge. Game publishers regularly review and update their policies based on various factors, including community feedback, technical considerations, and evolving industry standards.
Having good ping is not fair play? Give me a break. What a load of crap. If they could provide good service nobody would need ping booster. What is next? Ban all people with logitech mice because they have more buttons on them and this provides an unfair advantage over other players? Or ban all players who live close to the servers in Frankfurt because they have 10ms while the people further away have 100? This is absolutely ridiculous. It's not even an argument. It is a stupid indefensible "rule" that helps nobody.
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Display MoreHello,
It is not allowed to modify the game client.
Kind regards,
Isobel
Half the streamers of Aion use korean voice packs..
Why is it not allowed?
Such replies from admins and staff are laughable really.
All it takes is a brief walk outside in openworld, and then check animation speed in your dps meter to see how many noani hackers you'll see playing. Train-bots on every corner on map, and gold sellers spamming like crazy in LFG...
But hey... don't you dare use korean voice pack, they'll get serious and slap your wrist for it xD
And even funnier is when they give you 0 justifications when you question their "rules"..
"It is how it is deal with it"
No explanation why. Who does this rule help? Right now if you had to rly enforce this you would have to ban 50% of aion's population...
Half the elyos DC'd today at divine siege in Atreia.. On the spot where it logs you back after you DC we were like 3:1 elyos to asmos.. Elyos were just camping asmos to turn killable. How is this any balanced?
I got disconnected 7 (SEVEN) TIMES! And last week: 0 disconnects. I'm not using exitlag or any other ping booster because with them I hear people get DC even more!
Wtf is the point of going siege like this? It's once per week and every time people disconnect like mad and GF isn't doing jack shit to fix this. This is a day 1 issue and 2 months later - 0 results from them. Half my legion got DC...
We never in the history of Aion had such problems in siege. Yes FPS was always low but thats because the game engine is just old af, this can't be fixed. But ping and DCs? I never had problems with those. And dont tell me its because of the numbers we get I've played AION in its peak and it was running flawlessly ping wise.. Only in this classic version I get DC'd during mass pvp. And don't tell me "its your internet" - half the server disconnects....
The focus is not on the game version, but on the catch up mechanism. We all know that AION has no catch-up mechanism. Whenever a new version is launched, new players will fall far behind others. New players cannot join and AFK players cannot return. The population will be decreasing.
That was never rly that big of a deal in these patches.. No matter how "ahead" somebody is there is still an endgoal in sight and that is full pvp gear which is not impossible to obtain in a reasonable time even as a f2p player. So everybody can close that gap. Hell you can get 30ap gear for a week or two and still be able to fight against full e50 people..
This became a problem only in later patches when they started adding more equipment like plumes and wings and crap that had to be enchanted too, enchantable accs too, removing the +15 cap on items etc. There you can't catch up at all and the whales become immortal to you no matter how much you outplay them.. Same as current retail - complete unplayable clusternyerk. Old Aion was balanced.Okay, if you spend 6 hours or more per day, you may be able to catch up. However, the truth is that when you haven't finished the PVP set yet, new versions and new PVP equipment arrive. Because you must have enough tokens to exchange equipment, and the amount of these tokens obtained per day is limited. These tokens are the advantage of the old player. Not to mention that this game requires multiple sets of equipment with different attributes, which is an additional cost. Believe me, the endpoint you mentioned is not within reach for new player.
Yes it is in reach. For any player. You don't have to play "6h per day". And hell even if you had to - good. This is an MMORPG why should everyone get everything for free? You want to spend 30 minutes per day and have the best gear? Game is pointless then. This version of Aion is pretty balanced. Dunno why people complain about gearing up when it is definitely a lot easier than the current retail ridiculous version of Aion.
Display MoreHello,
It is not allowed to modify the game client.
Kind regards,
Isobel
Half the streamers of Aion use korean voice packs..
Why is it not allowed?
To date, there is a big imbalance in the fact that the Asmodians cannot get enough "Blue Balaur Scale", they have to go to the side of the Elians and try to kill 1-2 Balaur and get absolutely nothing. On the Asmodian side, there is no way to get scales playing solo, there are only elite (very strong mobs), many groups leave the game or completely ignore Dark Poeta... many people make the transition for another race, please pay attention to this problem, there should be equal conditions for both races to receive the "Blue Balaur Scale", or it should be completely removed from the entry requirement, as it is done in later versions of the game.
This isn't the only place to farm BBS. I get all my 5 scales for entry daily for free from upper abyss instances.
ARE PING BOOSTERS ALLOWED OR NOT? Simple question for the team. And if not, WHY?
Battleping, WTFast and similar software
Post from 2018 (even older than that, since it's coming from the old forum)
Yes I always knew they were "Use at own risk". However now I keep seeing GF CMs and discord mods saying left and right that its flat out not allowed which is just more confusing.
The focus is not on the game version, but on the catch up mechanism. We all know that AION has no catch-up mechanism. Whenever a new version is launched, new players will fall far behind others. New players cannot join and AFK players cannot return. The population will be decreasing.
That was never rly that big of a deal in these patches.. No matter how "ahead" somebody is there is still an endgoal in sight and that is full pvp gear which is not impossible to obtain in a reasonable time even as a f2p player. So everybody can close that gap. Hell you can get 30ap gear for a week or two and still be able to fight against full e50 people..
This became a problem only in later patches when they started adding more equipment like plumes and wings and crap that had to be enchanted too, enchantable accs too, removing the +15 cap on items etc. There you can't catch up at all and the whales become immortal to you no matter how much you outplay them.. Same as current retail - complete unplayable clusternyerk. Old Aion was balanced.
Checking the poll result is enough for me. And how you "feel" about my "insinuations" does not matter to me. You are manipulative and try to push your narrative by dismissing other opinions with assumptions about their personality and motives. They feel different than I do? Oh they must be habitual complainers. Right.
I could just as well claim most people are mindless lemmings who just click anything that is presented to them ingame away without reading it by choosing the first (or a random) option. There goes your ingame poll validity if I would go to that (your) level.
What "manipulations" are you referring to, lol. I'm not trying to push anything I'm just sharing my opinion which is that this patch sux for pvp and 2.0 is better. You think I'd go out of my way and waste time of my day to try and "push" some "narrative" in a freaking dead game's forum? It's not that deep.
Your second point makes no sense to me. How do you know that the majority of people are mindless lemmings who wouldn't read a poll? So because you think that its better to not do it? Makes no sense. Just do the stupid poll and decide on that. People may in fact prefer to have this nostalgia grind for couple of months more, makes no difference to me that I prefer 2.0 .. I'll just wait for it.
2.0 can't come fast enough. Make an ingame poll not in these forums. Forums are usually filled with people who complain the most.
No, forums are filled with people who care about the game and like to keep informed as well as voice their opinion. If you find that people in forums continually are of a different opinion than you, it is not because they are all complainers, it is because you keep having an unpopular minority opinion.
I find most of them share my opinion, as can be checked by posts-likes ratio. So I don't appreciate your attempt at insinuations.
And the forums are filled with plenty of people who complain just for the sake of complaining you cannot deny that. Best way to check for something is ingame poll like Angel wrote before me. Its pointless to argue who likes something more here.
multiple 'hot zones' = in front of the 2 forts of each area, where ppl try to do their daily quests, yeah right...amazing. with mobs that do more dmg than the players and an invisible Ragnarok killing everyone.
Thats like.. just your opinion man. If you didn't pvp anywhere else that doesn't mean there wasn't any other spots to pvp at. And even if there were only these two zones near the forts they are still 3 times bigger than a single camp and its surroundings + DC entrance thats filled with balaurs CCing u 24/7.
Hey Protecc or people that share such opinion
I was wondering why it is, that you require Inggison/Gelkmaros to enjoy ground PvP. Maybe you can elaborate on that?
My thoughts are, if one likes ground PvP one is already able to do so in Heiron/Beluslan at the end game level right now. Apart from the rifts usage limit, which can be increased, I fail to see any difference. Especially since sieges are just a PvE event now. Where is the difference from slaying questing players in Heiron to zering questing players in Inggison? Instead of camping the entrance of Draupnir Cave, players just camp entrances to each others Udas Temple or Silentera Canyon.
Because SC+Inggi and Gelk are vastly superior pvp maps to Heiron and Belu?
For multiple reasons too.
1. Both maps are filled with people over lvl 50 so no lowbies.
2. There are multiple "hot zones" so pvp is not in only one location of the map like DC entrance and one other camp for both maps..
3. Layout itself is bigger and better but thats subjective.
4. GROUND Sieges?
5. Classes will have access to their good shit when it comes to stigmas.
2.0 can't come fast enough. Make an ingame poll not in these forums. Forums are usually filled with people who complain the most.
What makes Aion 'unique' is aerial combat and the whole concept of Abyss. The switch to ground pvp and making Abyss obsolete is what killed the game (and more ofc). It made it no different to other mmos, that do it better.
Ok, the lvl 55 balaurea patch is not THAT BAD but still it should be delayed. This roadmap will kill the classic servers so fast.
I'm sorry but nobody who is into PvP likes abyss or flight PvP. Its buggy, requires stupid flight pots and EXTREMELY unfair. You cannot say what killed the game as a fact, thats just your opinion. Adding new bs infinite gearing (+accs, +25 gear, plumes, stigmas+ etc.) and p2w in order to compete is what killed the game imo.
I for one think 2.0 can't come fast enough. It is the vastly superior patch to 1.9 for PvP.. Starting with 1.9 was just for nostalgia reasons. Gelk, Inggi and SC are much better than the stupid flight pvp in abyss or camping DC entrance in Heiron with 100 people alliance and then calling that "pvp".
Someone mentioned he knows a lot of people who play just because its 1.9 and level cap is 50.. well I know a lot who hate this cap and want 55.. We are all talking out of our behinds here on forums.
Best thing to do is give us an INGAME poll/survey whether people want fast updates or not.
