Posts by carlesfm

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It's amazing that no one has a clue to actually what is going on.

Hi, name is Unbeatable and I'm from NA. Maybe some of you know me through word of mouth as a player and others might have watched some of my very infrequent streaming in the past.

I've recently played on the Korean classic for a few months, and have basically called out everything that has taken place up to now.

So, with that said, I just wanted to shine some light for you guys.

Gameforge does not have the rights to publish an Aion Classic server. It's simple as that.

Gameforge took over Aion from NCsoft in the 2.7 expansion. Gameforge's contract with NCSoft is for NCSoft to provide them all content that's available in Korea, starting from the moment they took over, and that was back in 2.7. That means, that any sort of patch or expansion that comes out in the retail version, such as the 8.0 expansion that is coming... Gameforge will get as it is part of their contract.

Korean Aion Classic however is version 1.2-2.7. These are versions that Gameforge never hosted and never had a contract to publish. It is a whole different entity compared to the current retail version, and one that Gameforge does not have the rights to publish.

So when these moderators of yours tell you "it's in the works", it means that they are trying to make a deal with NCSoft to get the publishing rights.

But here is the catch. Will NCSoft sell those publishing rights to Gameforge? Maybe, but highly unlikely.

Why? If you know NCSoft as well as I do, they're a money hungry company. To them money is everything, just as it should be for any company to be successful. Why would a company that has underestimated the success of the Aion Classic in Korea, sell their publishing rights to a company and make them rich.... when they can just deny the publishing rights to Gameforge, and have the Europeans play in NA and make themselves (NCSoft) rich instead?

Hopefully that opens up your eyes as to what is happening behind the scenes and how you should approach your classic experience.

Unbeatable

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like a genius man once said:

"speaking words of wisdom, let it be"

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1397945804640325636 NA tweeted this, its the same as korea had for their classic announcement

At this point Gameforge is straight up failing at his job.

Way to go GF.

Hi guys/girls,

What's the state of each class in 8.0 in korea? Which ones are strong or weak? Any news about that?

Salut!

And in addition with a little bit of luck:
• [Rune] Minionite Selection Box
• [Rune] Selection Box of Class A, Level 4 Minion Contracts

again with the sh*t rng

"I see a lot of speculations, the truth though is more simple, we are still stuck at the same stage as we announced. ECONOMIC challenges that we need to resolve if we want to move forward."

Here, I fixed it for you

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I have a big feeling that the biggest problem is the negotiation between nc and gf and not the technical problem

GF acting like this is Pawn Stars.

"Best I can give you is 5 cents."

if within this next month we dont have any news, i doubt classic eu will ever happen

tbh the only thing that i dont like about classic is the lack of content (this got better in 2.0 tho)

so when is aion 8.0 coming to EU?

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GF long term goal plan : sneaky stealth slow-brainwashing to make us all embrace the P2W religion.

amen

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I hope you people saw that s-minion pack for 459 coins last week :3? With the happy hour(which is over now) that was 25€ for an s-minion(plus other useless crap) and 500+ 20% pots so as 500+ 5 Min pots.

i hope they open that again, i need more minion class S on other characters

we've come to a point where people start actively wishing for more p2w

true that, but it is the only way for us new players to catch up with the veterans in a reasonable period of time

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I don't think you can compare grinding in classic with current aion. People on classic will focus on pvp. Join a veteran legion that focuses on abusing game mechanics and you 're done. That's what many old players will do.

Right now most people are pvers and almost all easy instances can be done solo or duo. Doing "coin runs" isn't endgame.

it is hard to pvp when you are grinding nonstop just for basic gear

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I hope you people saw that s-minion pack for 459 coins last week :3? With the happy hour(which is over now) that was 25€ for an s-minion(plus other useless crap) and 500+ 20% pots so as 500+ 5 Min pots.

i hope they open that again, i need more minion class S on other characters

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Quote from carlesfm

Classic is more hardcore player like, lots of grinding

it's the other way around. in classic you could play a couple of hours and not every day and you got your stuff. in the current version you have to farm a million things and spend so much time with everything that there is not much time to do all that. in classic if you miss something you go to the broker to buy it but now you have to farm things yourself because it isn't tradable. in current version you have to farm for enchanting skills... enchanting stigmas... for minions... for more gear (feather bracelet didn't exist or manastones in accs)... for transforms and cubes... and various and limited enchants. you have to waste time with a lot more sieges and waste time in events because some items are event exclusive.

that was the whole point of these update... make player feel like there is no time to farm so they can buy from shop as an alternative.

my point was that doing little things now you can pretty much play endgame aion (for example, you can do all the easy instances and 1st boss of prome HM with only ambush +10)

while in classic, just to get the basic endgame gear, it was an eternity

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Slight info on how well Aion is doing in Korea.

NCSoft recently released their Earnings Report for Q1 2021 with Aion. You can check it right there

Long story short:

Q1 2020: 10 143 KRW MN

Q2 2020: 8 194 KRW MN

Q3 2020: 8 453 KRW MN

_{Start of classic}

Q4 2020: 18 810 KRW MN

Q1 2021: 23 386 KRW MN

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that's actually pretty bad

imo classic and retail all have their avantages:

Classic is more hardcore player like, lots of grinding, earning everything. And the fact that there is little of everything is what makes it harder to become p2w.

Retail is more for casual players (although you have content to spend hours and hours playing too). It is easier to get items, and you have more variety -> more possibilities to be p2w.

I think the best solution would be a mix between both options: the leveling and the scaling of the retail version (ideal for all kinds of players), but the endgame (not p2w, abyss, ap gear) of the classic aion.

I started playing in 2.7, not as early as classic but almost there

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Why dont SM's DoTs stack? I can understand it, more or less, in pvp. But i think this is unfair in sieges and world bosses, where our damage contribution is severely limited by this situation.

Every skill that give Dot (Damge over Time) dont stuck on the same target.If you use same skill than overwrite othe other .

that's what i said haha

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results are being interesting thus far

yes I wonder where the "many" players are who only wanted to be f2p ...

i am more surprised by the amount of people not interested in aion classic

here in the forum it seems that 99% of players only want classic

hahahahah results are being interesting thus far

Why dont SM's DoTs stack? I can understand it, more or less, in pvp. But i think this is unfair in sieges and world bosses, where our damage contribution is severely limited by this situation.

guys, be realistic and assume we won't get aion classic, i'm sorry xD