NCSoft asks Aion players to fly their fan flags in public

by Rubi Bayer Nov 14th 2009 at 6:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, Culture, Events, real-world

NCsoft and the Aion staff have been spending a lot of time lately working to get the Aion community involved and engaged in ways beyond just playing the game. They began with the Eye on Community feature, brought out Aion apparel, and now NCsoft gives you Aion Around the World.

The Aion team is enjoying the international popularity of their game and want to see it in action. Community Manager Andrew "Tamat" Beegle explains "to highlight the global phenomenon that Aion has become, we want to see pictures of our community members in public locations. We're looking for pictures of our players participating in exciting activities or showcasing Aion-themed merchandise, art, or cosplay."

Tamat and two other Aion team members Ayase and Amboss illustrated the idea by cleverly getting themselves into one photo while 5,000 miles apart. (We anticipate someone taking the idea a step farther by doing the same thing with their entire guild.) Aion will be featuring the pictures on their site for the next few months, so get to work on those wings, grab your camera, and send your photos to the Aion Community email. Have fun!

Tags: aion, aion-around-the-world, aion-community, aion-the-tower-of-eternity, ncsoft, real-world-events

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Amritrao said on 6:32PM 11-14-2009

Huh?

CCon99 said on 6:48PM 11-14-2009

LOL, I really hope that picture is photo shopped. If it's not, all I can picture is them two guys acting all badass gangsta like saying "Imma headin home to git my Angel on!"

Tony Schwab said on 6:56PM 11-14-2009

Marketing sheep. What would you expect from the newest point a to point b MMO?

mumu said on 7:36PM 11-14-2009

Haha, i'll never be able to respect them anymore.

I mean really, what's with the retarded school kid/wanna be/poser attitude? Shouldn't they be -or at least look like- more mature, you know, with character?

Infexion said on 7:47PM 11-14-2009

Look at those playa's with their Dell laptop. LOL

Anticrawl said on 8:00PM 11-14-2009

Give me a year free and a copy of the game and I'll whore your game out NCSoft, I hated the beta...

Macabre said on 8:09PM 11-14-2009

Interesting species...

Binomial Classification: Dorkus Malorkus

crsh said on 8:17PM 11-14-2009

Given my current grips with NCsoft and their complete inability to show any sort of respect for their paying customers, I'd gladly flip Ayase and Tamat the bird in public. Hell, I think I'd go as far as throwing rotten tomatoes at them.

Minos said on 9:24PM 11-14-2009

Ahh, i remember that feeling. Then i made it up to lvl 18 and realized thats as far as the fun part of the aion experience went before reality started kicking in, my class started sucking, quests started becoming sparse, i had to start grinding, and an overall lack of necessary polish started to show through.

Ganesh said on 1:25PM 11-16-2009

yeah, aion in its current form is all about grinding, grinding, grinding. it's boring and quite repetitive (repeat quests, hello?) for both leveling and crafting. hopefully, ncsoft will see the diminishing subscriber numbers and make significant changes to the game by implementing more quests and more xp per quest. otherwise, it'll be another dead mmo for that company.

Wjowski said on 9:30PM 11-14-2009

One hundred and ten percent lady-proof.

JoeK said on 10:27PM 11-14-2009

And where was my Tabula Rasa apparel? If subscription numbers were low, I'm sure that the core group of dedicated subscribers would have bought enough apparel to make up for it. I know I would have as I know I couldn't get enough TR merchandise: http://www.divshare.com/download/6544165-3ab (calendar was my own creation)

Bradley said on 11:00PM 11-14-2009

Word.

I miss TR.

Psychotic Storm said on 2:57AM 11-15-2009

Not only I miss TR I would wish they did all this marketing for it.

but no it had "too low subscriptions" for a game that they virtually did no advertisement at all.

JoeK said on 9:35AM 11-15-2009

Was just thinking about the things Jinx.com could have done with things like Foreas Base announcements ("Reinforcements have arrived, as the drunk tank has been flushed"), or classes (forget about those "Rouges do it from behind" shirts, how about "Exos do it with their clone", or "Guardians: speak softly and carry a big stick")... sigh

justsaynosaj said on 11:20AM 11-18-2009

@Psychotic Storm

Are you serious? They sent Lord British to fucking space for that game.

JoeK said on 10:30PM 11-18-2009

@justsaynosaj

Actually, he paid for the trip out of his own pocket; and of the two biggest news announcements that I saw regarding his spaceflight (Wired news article & Colbert Report clip), neither mentioned the game (although the whole "Operation Immortality" project was a cross-promotion for the game... but then again, just how interested are kids in space these days anyways?)

Jason said on 10:57PM 11-14-2009

Yeah I actually played because I'm an MMO turkey, but surprise surprise, it really really sucks after 25. I couldn't bring myself to get past 27.

ethereal.wolf said on 11:00PM 11-14-2009

lol. sad.

Jason said on 11:19PM 11-14-2009

Allods looks like it's going to tear the heart right out of Aion, and it's free.

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