Just spotted this http://www.aionfreetoplay.com/website/ it started in February, goes live on 28th February 2012. Also they're gonna update to v3.
Meh, never liked asian style rpgs/mmos, but still it's good to know for the ones who wanted to try it out.
AION sucks and ncsoft ran it into the ground... made the entire game based on gear for pvp.. they let the game turn into a hacker fest and did nothing.. they wanted it to fail for ages.. they had employees masquerade as high level players to try to keep the factions alive.. pathetic..
If you enjoy hours upon hours of mindless grinding then Aion is for you. I grew sick of the game around lvl 40. I will say this though, the Abyss was very cool minus the lag fest fortress siege zergs.
Pretty much this. Plus the early game breaking siege bug that crashed the client did a lot to destroy the game's population early on. Graphical bugs when high populations were on the screen (texture bug in the software) Then the terribly managed server merges put the final nail in the coffin for most people. Imbalance and inability to fix it made the game boring and one sided.
Unfortunately Aion was pretty good when it came out, but NA's NCsoft is just horrible. My friends were banned for no reason (later unbanned but had to go through alot of support calls), poor handling of botters and hackers. They do however care alot about other trivial things such as you playing the game as its meant to be played (rifting). In Korea and other asian markets, the game is very very much alive, unlike its NA/EU counterparts where the branch companies are simply horrible.
is this game any fun...i was playing swtor but got board and went back to wow...is this worth playing to leave wow for?
Yeah gameforge is http://en.gameforge.com/news/gameforge But the thing is they're testing beta and i can't get the key, still.. I thought it was free to play right from the start..
It should be completely free, except some bonus features.. http://www.aionfreetoplay.com/website/download But its still beta atm - updated to V3.. And you need a beta key for now. you can get one here, but they go too fast... http://en.gameforge.com/news/gameforge EDIT: apparently beta ends on 20.2.2012 (tomorrow), after that it will go live.