Display MoreWe already strode too far away from Aion classic.
It is funny how people who quit retail and came back to classic constantly shout for the changes that ruined retail to be implemented into classic.
As it is for me, just bring back open world drops how they used to be. I wanna be able to come online, just farm some monsters with actual drops for an hour and log out. While moving all drops from mobs to daeva passes might be a nice business model and a common excuse against bots, it used to be a core part of Aion. I am very happy that I was able to reexperience that on NA with 1.5 and 1.9.
In the end we will just have two retails, Original and Classic. Two parallel worlds, similair and yet different. Both full of kinah buyes, both full of tool users. Weird stuff.
In reality, some aspects of retail have also been included in the classic, such as the set change system. I don't think you move away from Aion classic, if you were to add the other classes, which have been included in retail, but simply create a version of Aion in which there are aspects of retail, such as classes, but you keep aion based on the other points. The honor point system I propose is very different from that of retail, let's say that when you destroy an enemy player you get both abyss points and honor points, while if you are killed you don't lose abyss points, but only lose honor points based on rank. This will not create a problem compared to what has happened in retail. As for the Kinah and the drop of the items and it is linked that their reduction is due to the bots, if you put that the siel you have to have it mandatorily every month to be able to access the game it is obvious that there will be a heavy reduction of the bots. And this reduction of bots will be there because it is logical that even bots in order to play must buy the siel.
Like everyone else, including me, you would like to have your ideal version of classic. Which for you consist of the later retail classes and your version of the honour point system. Since everyone else has a different opinion about the ideal classic, you are always going to meet players who agree and those who disagree. It also depends in which version a player started experiencing retail.
For me, everything that happened past 2.x is no more classic, while for others it might be 1.x and for many certainly 4.x.