I've tried it. Has beautiful environments and spell/attack animations.

That's pretty much the only good thing about it. Otherwise it's a Korean WoW. The cutscenes are hardcore cheesy, the story is awful. You're not allowed to fly in certain areas, the game has WoW's movement system, but any movement cancels a spell, even if it's at the end of the bar, so there's pretty much zero room for kiting, so the pvp's isn't as good as WoW's. If you take out the element of movement then it's just a button clicking fest, and that's what AION is.

Good to know it sold well!

Will be interesting to see how many played past the free month however. From my understanding, the numbers have dwindled quite a bit.

@Riegel88:
Really pretty areas and characters. Then you realize that yes, the areas are really pretty, but incredibly small. Leveling is sickeningly linear. And the game is your typical Lineage style grind-fest past level 10.

Played it, liked it, but felt pretty much like WoW, except with a more robust character creation and being able to fly more freely... frankly, if i wanted to play WoW, i'd probably just pick up "Runes of magic", as that game is also very WoW like but doesn't have the monthly fees... Though to be fair, i've been told that Aion is supposed to feel much less like WoW later on in the game; i think something with more focus on PvP than instances

I guess i'm saying that if it wasn't for the monthly fees, i'd probably have continued playing it

I'll never understand how people get duped into paying for a game they then have to pay monthly for after buying it...

I'm always tempted to play an MMO such as this but they just take up too much damn time in your life.

It's all well and good how many units they are selling, but what I'm interested in seeing is how many people are actually staying past their initial one month. I bought the game, but canceled after 2 weeks. I'm sure a lot of others did the same.

What MMO doesn't have grind though?

Aion is pretty good tbh. Reminds me a bit of the pre-WoW mmorpg's.
But with graphics that's good for this era.

WoW is so incredibly polished that I'd really question the sanity of someone playing Aion.

But still, I can't think of any bigger waste of time than an MMO.

I really don't see how many people are comparing it to WoW. It is a PvPvE game with more similarities to Dark Age of Camelot then WoW. It is a beautiful game with room for much improvement. The people bashing it currently are failing to realize it is a new game that was converted basically from the ground up for North America and Europe. They've announced that they will have free major content additions yearly for the game, and they will also have expansions you can purchase. The game is barely 2 months old, let them fix the bugs of launch and the botters before you go about saying it has no content.

Also, if you pay attention to the story line, it's quite good.

If I wanted to play an MMO, this would be the one I pick. Looks really awesome.

But I prefer my console RPGs any day...

Its just a grief fest, if you just like to be severely outnumbered and overwhelmed every time you respawn you might as well just play any FPS on free for all and save $10 each month.

I canceled my subscription after the first 30 days. It was a little grindy, but was alright on the whole. Then when I would log in every day and all I would see was gold seller spam in chat and bots running around with a retarded reporting system I said screw it. Characters look metrosexual as well even with good gear.

Nothing but little tween punks play that shit.

I'm waiting for a bit more spit polish before I reactivate the account.

It's already been said before, but the game is quite beautiful. And the soundtrack blows my mind, I mean, Impesetium (I know I'll never spell that right...) has this absolutely crazy Arabic ethnic music coupled with an accordion. It was bizarre, but worked so well. Whoever made the soundtrack needs a raise or a bonus or something, because for once I was actively avoiding ventrilo in order to just listen to the game's soundtrack. (Don't forget to turn off combat speech, though, gets a little old!)

Other than that, it's enough EverQuesty, enough WoWy and enough new stuff (though could be enough L2y, didn't play Lineage 2) to make it interesting for me. Just there were a lot of little things like a slightly sluggish response compared to WoW's more on-the-fly responsiveness and then other inconvenient things, like a broken guild management system. You can't set individual privileges or view logs of who deposited and withdrew stuff.

All in all, it lost most of the people it I went to play it with because things really, really slow down once you hit your 30s. I was fine with that, but I guess they're just not as hardcore as we used to be back in EQ.

My only real gripe is the forced PvP. Once you hit your 20s, there will be gank squads in pretty much every zone you go to except your capital city. It was pretty grieftastic.