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Having had a glimpse of the game Aion Online during one of their beta weekends, watching the clock like a hawk until the appointed time. The kickoff was prompt and logging in was relatively problem-free, but the newbie area was already crowded by the time the character woke up in the game. By 1PM, all twelve servers were registering high populations, some with login queues indicating up to a 3-hour wait. Considering that NCsoft had pegged their preorder figures at close to 400,000 by late last week, this was hardly surprising.
What’s causing people some concern is that up until last night, the queues remain and the situation seems to have worsened. As NCsoft tries to find the balance between alleviating the server load and diluting them too much in a game where population imbalance matters, two additional servers are due to be launched this weekend and the capacity per server has been adjusted as well.
So what is it about Aion that has made it one of the most highly anticipated MMOs this year? The game has been running in Korea for almost a year now and its success there has ironically caused some people here to dismiss it as just another Korean “grind-fest”, in reference to the fact that games which feature repetitive mind-numbing tasks in order to advance (ie. “grinding”) seem to be popular there. But it looks like the developers have taken pains to adapt the game to local preferences. Whatever they did, it seems to have worked because those who managed to get their hands on the game through their beta weekend events and at tradeshows gave glowing accounts of it, thus building up the hype. And does it live up to this hype? Having logged at least fifteen hours of game time since launch, here are the first impressions of Aion.
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