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Realpoor's Review of Aion: The Tower of Eternity

October 17, 2009 in Reviews comments 3

Realpoor features a review of recent Korean MMORPG Aion. It gives an answer to the question is Aion really a revolutionary effort, or just another MMO game that looks like all others.

Just when you think the world doesn’t have enough MMORPGs along comes yet another to toss its glove down in a challenge to reigning champion WoW. So what makes NcSoft’s Aion stand out from the rest of the pretenders? You can fly—and that’s about it.
The market has become completely saturated with MMORPGs that are trying to break the stranglehold WoW has on people’s time, minds, and money but none of them really ever stood a chance. Will Aion? Maybe but I doubt it.
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    Shuyu Oct 18, 09
    I was going to read it, until in reading the summary, I reached the point of the insinuation that companies only ever release MMOs as a challenge to World of Warcraft.

    People need to stop that shit. Right now.
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    Dine_Agoti Oct 18, 09
    The discussion of WoW within other MMOs is far too significant, I won't argue there. But the opposite mentality of completely censoring away discussion of WoW is just as extreme. The matter of the fact is that WoW has done many things right, and in a lot of ways earned its massive player-base. And if any new MMO hopes to succeed in the genre nowadays it's going to have to apply a higher standard than that of past MMOs, as Blizzard permanently raised the bar.

    That being said, these games directly "challenging" WoW and attempting to be WoW are fairly flawed, and ironically end up losing general popularity in the end due to their blatant attempts at targeting the WoW player-base. Just take WAR as an example, and how DAoC's RvR devolved into nothing but "Battlegrounds 2.0".

    As for Aion, well, I haven't gotten very high leveled in that game, so I reserve my judgment. But I am sad to report that at level 24 (one level away from being able to PvP seriously), I have lost interest in the game. Blame Demon's Souls.

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