NCsoft extends a thank you to Aion players for their patience

by Seraphina Brennan Oct 16th 2009 at 1:30PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, Events, in-game, News items

Remember those server queues? Yeah you do. How could you forget the glorious two-hour-plus waits to get in to play NCsoft's Aion?

Well, those times are in the past now. The Aion servers have settled down, leading to most people being able to log in immediately, even during peak hours. Queues have all but vanished, and the game is settling in for its long haul.

However, NCsoft did want to give the Aion devoted a little gift for putting up with all of the hassle. While it may not entirely make up for the time spent waiting in line, it will certainly help speed your progression -- Lodas Amulets.

These amulets, when used, will provide 20% bonus experience from monster kills for one hour. Every character has been given five of these unique items, meaning that pre-order customers will now have 10 of them, as they have already received five from their pre-order. Enjoy the weekend of adventuring!

Tags: aion, aion-the-tower-of-eternity, breaking, experience-boost, lodas-amulet, ncsoft, server-queues, server-stability, thank-you-gift

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MrGutts said on 2:27PM 10-16-2009

I am the last person on the planet to be the grammar police. Then again it's Friday.

Fixed: "NCsoft did want to give the Aion devoted a little gift for putting up with all of the hassle."

Seraphina Brennan said on 2:43PM 10-16-2009

I think one mistake is darn good for writing it, linking it, and putting in that picture, categories, and tags in 5 minutes. :)

Philip Whitehouse said on 2:38PM 10-16-2009

Hmm, I think "NCSoft want" would scan better myself.

On the actual article, it's nice for them to identify the issue as having been a problem and thank their customers :)

Infexion said on 2:54PM 10-16-2009

So alot of people didn't subscribe past the 30 days ala no server queues :P

ZombiBambi said on 7:40PM 10-16-2009

The game hasn't been out for 30 days yet.

Leshrac said on 3:27PM 10-16-2009

Actually I think putting timers on the personal stores pretty much removed a lot of queues. Initially there were some queues, and in order to avoid the queues players would put up personal stores to remain online which caused some major headaches.

The game has some issues, but they got a lot of things right as well. And the things that are wrong are fixable, whereas what they've done right (combat, chain skills), would be tough to fix without a complete combat re-write. I've played close to 20 MMOs thru beta or retail and Aion has the most fun and fluid combat out of any game I have played. The other stuff will hopefully be addressed over time. I hate to start talking about expansions, but it will happen, and it will help add additional depth to a somewhat shallow and linear game. But again, content is fixable, bots are hopefully fixable, etc.