Death of a Game: Aion

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Aion, *cough*, "Ran out of glide timer" YEAHHHHHHH
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@nonfickshun 5 лет назад

If you're serious about doing a video about the differences between the Japanese, Korean, and Western markets I would watch the hell out of that.

@Fabrysiheder 5 лет назад

me too

@PetrSojnek 5 лет назад

Move upovtes for this guy guys!

@ugurcankarakas6554 5 лет назад

I'm already preparing popcorn dude

@CreationWebNovelStudio 5 лет назад

Agreed.

@Draconicrose 5 лет назад

Just adding my support for this idea.

@Alysana2604 5 лет назад

Man, that Aion intro theme in the beginning really hit me in the nostalgia feels. Used to love the music and the aesthetics even more than the game itself.

@ViewableSubway 4 года назад

Hopping into Aion as my first real MMO, ready to "step" into a new world and enjoy a game with my guildies from another game I played... starting in Poeta and hearing that music as I see tons of ugly and deformed toons run around trying to figure out what they need to do... Yep, hearing that Tower of Eternity theme always sends me right back to that memory and god damn, the hit in the nostalgia feels is always real.

@user-lc5bu9bm7v 4 года назад

The soundtracks are up on youtube. the one in the financial district is still really good :)

@sEaNoYeAh 4 года назад

I feel that's true for a lot of people who don't get really into MMOs. They often have great ideas and cool concepts but are married to boring grinds, terrible UIs, bad animations and other things that fail to sell the idea.

@NoGround94 4 года назад

Saaaaaaame. I didn't get into WoW, but AION was the MMO that got me into MMOs.

@JCPC17 4 года назад

To this day it still sends Chills down my spine... There's just something about it that screams Grandiose

@sascha5858 5 лет назад

The killer for me was restricted fly zones and limited flytime. You launch a game with the most awesome feature only to limit it to an absolute minimum? wth

@paintermagic 5 лет назад

Exactly the reason why I left the game before even getting to the Abyss.

@justahuman9273 5 лет назад

YES OMG!! Not even the pay to win aspect is the worst, but exactly what you said. Seriously, they are absolutely lazy developers! The best feature is flying with your majestic wings, but JOKES ON YOU, you never truly do that. Only like 5% of the game, maybe even less.. I am still sad, because aion has such incredible potential, great story, wonderful ost, stunning character creation, beautiful scenery or just world overall... Truly a shame. Oh and its community could be better, but that is just my personal experience.

@Fash1ma 5 лет назад

Flying might look cool, but its absolute dog shit, its cancer in pvp and pve.

@PaulRizzo504 5 лет назад

Everytime you see the word "Soon" used as a meme after a company name it originates with NCSoft and Aion. Trust me I was there and it was a nightmare waiting for content that was always being pushed back. We found out NCSoft West was not actually a dev team at all. It was just a bunch of GM's and translators. I knew one of the CM's and e-mailed him after he went to Rift and he told me it was horrible.

@aeternusdoleo4531 5 лет назад

If you're looking for an MMO with unrestricted actively used flight, Perfect World is an option. However, it's also F2P/P2W with a PvP focus. Caveat emptor.

@ladyvoltz 5 лет назад

Aion was my first MMO, lots of nostalgia.

@GodOfPlague 3 года назад

It wasn't my first but it was my favorite

@xe5101 3 года назад

And so do I, since 2013... I've played for 4 years. Such a wonderful memory i've ever had...

@velshgamesreviews6537 3 года назад

Sucks to be you XD

@velshgamesreviews6537 3 года назад

@darcia because Aion came really late to the MMO party, there was so many bether ones to start with

@kaahzvi5820 3 года назад

I feel sorry for you lads

@PkedSome 5 лет назад

It's pronounced aion not aion

@StriKe_jk 5 лет назад

I always called it Aion. May it be wrong i'm so used to it that I won't change it anymore.

@paperclip9558 5 лет назад

no no, it's aion

@darthXreven 5 лет назад

yer wrong filthy casual it's pronounced AION! 😜

@Doongie4ever 5 лет назад

All this time I thought it was called aion, thank you!

@shanechannel7066 5 лет назад

Ai didn't know Aion was produced Aion.

@Vampir3xfr 5 лет назад

gameforge did not deserve aion

@CErra310 5 лет назад

Nothing deserves gameforge

@arturgarlacz4439 5 лет назад

@@CErra310 bless does

@CErra310 5 лет назад

@@arturgarlacz4439 I guess

@Thatsasecret 5 лет назад

why not?

@Bentami 5 лет назад

Belgian Sebastian True but Final fantasy xiv is doing great. If you want to play an mmorpg play ffxiv. Square enix really cares about the genre, specifically Yoshi P who single handedly saved it. May not have big WoW numbers but they constantly pump out genuine and enjoyable content.

@KaleratYT 5 лет назад

Aion was such a beautiful game when it came out... grindy but fun and beautiful... i loved playing it and i loved just standing around admiring the scenery or rping even more then ncsoft sold it and it gone to shit (gameforge version that is)

@AuroraWalcry 5 лет назад

I can say that Aion saved me from deep sadness, that's why I can't leave this game. Aion will always have a place in my heart. Aion Forever

@Brubigo 4 года назад

Same here, made some true friends there, and i really hope they get aion 2 right and revitalize mmorpg

@Misstenebres 4 года назад

Same, Aion was such an amazing game before Gameforge came ruining everything.

@dredgaming2446 4 года назад

Aurora Walcry agree

@guardiananger1641 4 года назад

Very similar to my situation. I hope you are fine now, Aurora. If you will ever want to play a game similar to Aion, try Final Fantasy XIV Online. It's with P2P subscription model (with first month for free). But it's worth every price.

@jayzee6403 4 года назад

same hihi i always compared aion into other game but in my mind aion still best

@SirChocula 5 лет назад

The music in this game was/is incredible; I saw a trailer with some gameplay and music, and fell in love. I knew I had to play it.

@hyukaze7 5 лет назад

SirChocula rigth? Aion pvp music are awesome.. I even mod other game pvp with this aion abyss battle, just to feel the rush

@RobinTheBot 5 лет назад

I regret not playing it when I was young. I played crappier free games instead.

@specialke1 5 лет назад

Indeed. I've been playing Aion on and off since the launch of 3.5 (or 3.7? Can't remember) - the biggest pull for me is always the music and the lore that's hidden in the game.

@hyukaze7 5 лет назад

@@buschfelix4723 i no longer have it, if i remember correctly i downloaded it from a site, full aion ost album. Now u could grab some from youtube tho

@ZenoDovahkiin 5 лет назад

I survived Metin 2 as a teen. ama Never touch Gameforge, kids. *Never.*

@blairalquia98 5 лет назад

Same here, Metin 2 and 4story...

@neqzu115 5 лет назад

Metin2 will live long dont forget about private servers

@blairalquia98 5 лет назад

@@neqzu115 Sadly, I left Metin2 to focus entirely on my 4story characters as I had better relations with the players on it. Even more sadly, 4story died shortly thereafter, the guild that I founded died little by little and more than 90% of the players left the game in one and half year. Gameforge... Why you are like this? :(

@harmanhameed6286 4 года назад

@@blairalquia98 first time to see 4 story mentioned, i really loved that game especially the sorcerer where you could revive monsters and make them your own pet like that's so awesome, i am still looking for a game that has that skill but never found it

@paulgotik 3 года назад

who plays metin2 classic? Just play private servers, there are some amazing out there.

@Baleur 3 года назад

I loved Aion so much. I even modded the korean beta to english to be able to play it. It kinda saved me, i had lost my mother the year prior.

@DigiCube4 5 лет назад

The music is so..dam..good!!!

@ketogen 5 лет назад

As someone who played Aion heavily for 3 years, I just want to point out something that I saw directly leading to the death of the game in America. The server balancing was AWFUL. During the initial 6 months, there were approximately 12 servers, split between east and west coast servers. For a game about high intensity pvp, playing on your localized servers was a huge issue for ping. The problem is, you could find on their website stats about the two races along with results from their abyss wars. The end result? After about 6 months around 3 servers had remained equal and competitive (roughly 50/50 population balance, and within a 10% success rate in abyss wars) The rest of the servers had become laughably imbalanced between the two factions. Most servers tended towards one faction dominating, with the other faction completely suppressed, and as the community suggested for one server, completely given up. At around the 8 months mark, ncsoft pulled a huge "Server balance pass" and combined multiple servers together. These server mergers lead to huge issues. First off, you can't take multiple servers out of balance and throw them onto a balanced server, and expect the balanced server to stay healthy. For example, if you take a 500 vs 500 fight, add in 300 people to one side and only 100 to the other side, suddenly you've got a near unstoppable imbalance with the 800 vs 600. But that wasn't even the biggest issue. Due to the huge importance of the ping, the fact ncsoft took the east coast servers and moved them from the east coast and moved them to Houston Texas (hardly the east coast at this point) a large number of players took a hit to their ping. For certain classes that lived and died by their ping (refer to nerdslayers segment about melee players trying to fight in the air, after servers moved to Houston, I basically just never tried to air fight again, it was a lost cause). The last big death knell for this game was the fact that, even before Aion went free to play, they started selling various items for an advantage for real money. The idea that after the game went FTP and had unhealthy pay to win mechanics wasn't just accurate, it was already in place. It just got worse. I truly enjoyed playing Aion in the first year, but watched the slow heat death of the game. I didn't play through to the bitter end, the game was dead to me before then, but it was sad to see it go, in large part due to mismanagement on the part of ncsoft.

@Kyzrath 5 лет назад

Aion was the first MMO I dug my teeth into after FFXI.. I loved it but the server balance was, indeed, the absolute worst. Israphel never was the same once the Asmodian exodus to other servers.

@Trancer006 5 лет назад

I also hated when they removed like 4 end game pvp maps and added two new pvpve maps that crammed both high and low level players in to smaller spaces which of course resulted in ganks of the lowbies who were just trying to do quests. Plus the endless grind to get decent pvp gear, stupid looking bunny costumes, lag issues, mostly empty maps made me say goodbye to this old friend.... rip

@Mrsteep90 5 лет назад

I remember that the Israphel server was full of elyos with only a 12% of asmodian population, way to balance the servers

@vcdonovan5943 5 лет назад

I freebie'd Aion for a while. Other than Guild Wars 2 it's the only MMO I've ever been in danger of liking. A lot of what AION has to offer is really compelling. Its unique world, stellar graphics, interesting art direction, exciting fast paced combat for a tab target system. It's one of the few MMOs where I've gotten seriously invested in my characters. Generic though it may be beyond its stylings, AION is a pretty sweet and fresh tasting offering. But after many long hours the grind just wore me down. Really, all this game has to offer is grind. There is nothing else. Hardly any of the story is interesting. Traversing the world is its own adventure but the combat is just so repetitive and dull after a while. While characters really seem to expand and flesh out in ability as you level up, no variety is ever added to the combat and character builds are pretty much the same for whatever class you choose (only clerics seem to offer multiple build types: all both of them). AION seems to start off with a unique and compelling premise but then just devolves into your standard sloggy MMO grindfest and wears itself out.

@Zilong09 5 лет назад

you hit the nail on the head. I mentioned this in my own comment too. Nezekan met the same fate from server balancing issues.

@harddk1 5 лет назад

What killed Aion for me was ZERO interaction on the developers/publishers part. An official forum for bug reports that never got solved, for ideas that were never listened to, for discussions that never got further than other frustrated players. And then they announced Blade & Soul before focusing on their then current subscription based game. Yeah, that killed the game for me. NCsoft has since then been a curse-word that means avoid-at-all-cost.

@nerdSlayerstudioss 5 лет назад

I think it's worth mentioning how poor there customer relations is too I should have mentioned that.

@cafelatte1124 5 лет назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss On the other hand, the game died in Korea because of pay2win again. Most Koreans are now so tired of this repeating trend in game taking off and then going pay2win as soon as it gains enough popularity, they consider any Korean mmo releases to be pay2win automatically.This type of thing happened to countless MMOs and even in fps games with OP guns coming out as cash items. Koreans absolutely hate games made in their own country and since the rise of Steam/LOL/OW they have moved on with handful of idiot whales still playing same pay2win games to this day. I also don't like the fact that EA gets all the credit when it comes to pay2win. Because NC soft and Nexon are the true OG when it comes to milking players with micro-transactions, which EA and bunch of foreign companies saw and started copying. This began to spread as early as days of Maplestory and Lineage's release. I really hope all gaming industry dies in Korean even though I am Korean.

@Augoeides32 5 лет назад

This is pretty common amongst MMO's, sadly. They cobble everything together to be as "bare bones functional" as possible at low cost, which usually means that servers start at v1.0, rather than whatever version the game currently is in its own country, even if the game is a decade old. I don't know if it's a contractual thing with the proprietary owners of the game (not being able to change the core product, for example), or just them being lazy, but most companies never fix anything, unless the bug hinders the ability to log into servers. This is why when people say things like "the game will eventually get better over time", I usually don't hold my breath, as after a game is released, the primary concern of a company is establishing microtransactions, over stabilizing/optimizing the game or creating new content. This is why [in my opinion] subscription-based games are a waste of money. I really liked what I did play of Aion, back in the day, though. Then I just kind of forgot about it, I had no idea it was still a thing, until I saw this video, and another recently talking about how their making Aion 2 (but I think it's only for Mobile devices).

@TortureVisionTV 5 лет назад

Yeah, I remember the Western team selling themselves as legit developers. They were supposedly taking an already established game and "making it better" for us. Unfortunately they seemed like little more than a skeleton crew that translated the game into English and maintained basic server operations. They couldn't make significant changes because they were (A) incapable of doing so and (B) unauthorized to do so. I felt completely scammed when I realized this. Their absolute lack of control over the product even spilled over to the official forums, were frustrated players went nuts with venomous posts, viciously criticizing NC soft, just to prove the forums weren't being monitored by "devs" whatsoever. Eventually they did hire a community manager to try and calm people down, but by then it was WAY too late.

@attilaedem101 5 лет назад

Well for me AIon killed by Gameforge ridicolous Gold pack system... I still remember how i worry about my gold in the end of the month... That thing just give me an another grinding fest, and if u cant manage it to collect the money just in time u are fucked (becouse without the market u cant do closely anything). Furhermore the game didnt able to handle the Siege PvP which give an another nail to the coffin. And no, if u think the NCSoft treat poorly the customers i never have a chance to meet the Gameforge custom service.... thats a joke... Since that i NEVER play in EU servers, becouse not only the Gameforge treat the EU players just like this, closely everyone, Wargaming, Enmas even the Blizzard. I still feel a bit bad becouse the Aion, becouse its a promising game, just a little less grind content and better large scale PvP optimalsation and this game is great, but without these and with the current low playerbase this game just didnt worth the time.

@Kelly-wc8ue 5 лет назад

This game was my teenage years. I sadly recently broke up with my partner that I met on Aion and wad with for years. This video triggered a lot of memories, thank you

@Waywinds 3 года назад

I will be your new partner, I love red heads!

@octavianbischin2235 5 лет назад

When I heard that soundtrack i felt a lot of nostalgia man :(( I played the game 6 years..

@misakijunno9798 4 года назад

I played this game when I was still 10 years old. I'm 18 already. I feel very nostalgic and I miss the times where I played with friends at a computer shop.

@nerdSlayerstudioss 5 лет назад

Hello everyone. Thanks for watching, and we have a big announcement video coming next month (complete with live event footage + skits and the like :) ). So much stuff in store :). I hope you enjoyed my take on Aion, and why it never quite saw the same success in the West that it did in the East. And, well it's current status as an MMORPG. Make sure to pay attention to the hint at the end, and if you are right I will heart it. Oh, and I realize I didn't really explain fully my personal thoughts of Aion (or criticism), but ultimately I try to not make these play like a review and more like an investigation of sorts. I don't want to put too much of my opinion in this series ultimately :D. Edit: I realize Blade & Soul is closer to a "action hybrid with tab target elements" than a "tab target" game. It requires an active camera, which at least gives it some semblance of aiming. edit edit: I realize I didn't mention Aion Russia at all, but to be honest, I couldn't find much about it. Not even from NCSOFT themselves. But I certainly regret not mentioning them, and how they actually aren't doing too bad there business model wise and reception wise. I've heard claims of EU audience having "thousands of players because people don't use steam" and haven't seen any facts to back up this claim. Basically non-official data is skewed in many ways, and people are postulating that to mean "concurrent" players. One thing is for sure, we can check the revenue from NCSOFT the source. And Aion despite having a good Q1 2017, has been largely declining. This is in their financial data, it's about as accurate as a metric as it gets. Not to mention, the Korean audience dwarfs the EU audience. Which means, really in the end for NCSOFT, if Aion can't be successful in Korea (it's been slowly losing success to B&S in both markets), it will 100% be chopped by NCSOFT. Also, CryEngine 1 has been said to be used for this project. But I have also seen conflicting reports, showing they actually used CryEngine 2. Hard to know for sure (both credible sources), but we do know both aren't really nearly as different as say for example CryEngine 2 and 5.5.

@yungslyme4341 5 лет назад

nerdSlayer can you do realm royale a game that just disappeared after awhile

@clone1918 5 лет назад

please don't tell us the announcement is about you going to only mobile devices? lol

@cidfacetious3722 5 лет назад

Um.... do hearts have monetary value?

@sertandoom4693 5 лет назад

I remember a lot of people leaving because of the pvp and refusing to participate in the fortress battles. I also remember the lag- New Vaizel Crows secret weapon was the wall of lag. I also remember the grind, I think there's an article about it being too grindy for korean players and their protest.

@Chijiko 5 лет назад

Love your content huge fan since dark age of camelot i think. Was watching this with a friend and he asked "Did he do a video on Phantasy Star Online (PSU)" and I didn't see a video. Ever heard/had interest in it? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

@NimhLabs 5 лет назад

It is pronounced levi-oh-sa.

@TheScure 5 лет назад

Aion is still the best in one thing: soundtrack.

@MIGAS32000 4 года назад

Not even close. You should listen to FFXIV soundtrack and give the game a try.

@TheScure 4 года назад

@@MIGAS32000 I know that many people like them, but honestly i didn't find FFXIV musics that good. To me Aion and Lineage 2 is the best.. and even some random MMOs. Dragon Nest SEA version had some amazing tracks for example. FFXIV doesn't have these deep soundtracks.

@MIGAS32000 4 года назад

@@TheScure it does, i guarantee you that it's best MMO soundtrack there is from a music theory perspective. Probably for you it's not as good while others like you mentioned are better and deep because you played those games and you have memories/emotions attached to the songs, while if you haven't played FFXIV, it's normal that you don't feel that attachment to the music.

@TheScure 4 года назад

@@MIGAS32000 I didn't play much with Aion and never played Lineage 2. Still think the same way. I even commented in some Lineage video that i never played it and i can't even imagine these musics with added nostalgia. To me FFXIV missing something. Like the shadowbringer ost that was mentioned here. Like it tries to sounds good but it fails, there are soundtracks that try to sounds epic but it fails. I felt the same with Guild Wars 2 OST. While for Aion i can open a 2 hour long soundtrack mix and i enjoy them all.

@MIGAS32000 4 года назад

@@TheScure that's weird, shadowbringers OST doesn't fail in any shape or form. It succeeds far better than any other MMO OST and it's easily the most epic and the best soundtrack in an MMO. You can prefer other soundtracks and don't enjoy FFXIV OST as much ofc but you can't really say that it fails due to the amount of success it has.

@Pakenija 5 лет назад

Oh my god... I got so excited when I saw this video on my thumbnail... Thank you sir. :D p.s this game was my life for 7 long years

@Sam-vi2ho 5 лет назад

Back at lvl 50 cap: You literally can't gear as a melee for pvp because pvp as melee in the abyss was a shitfest, and if you wanted to get ap through PVE it would take you YEARS to get enough. Playerbase too low, game doesn't function as intended. Can't find groups for content/pvp. With each and every update these symptoms got worse and worse. Not to mention most EU players needed to use a latency fix software to even be able to play the game normally, without it there would be 0,2sec delays before skill executions. Pve/ground smallscale pvp/general combat was so fucking good, it's such a shame.

@Jokielk 5 лет назад

All hail OP Gladis back in 1.9

@shamusfarmer 5 лет назад

I'd love to see a video about the differences in gaming cultures. I've always wondered why koreans are so crazy about MMOs, and especially grindy ones...

@paristeta5483 5 лет назад

I Agree, if there is any info about that, do it now!

@SammerUzumaki 5 лет назад

Thomas Hobbes unacceptable

@lc9245 5 лет назад

@Thomas Hobbes This is truth unfortunately. We prefer to be occupied than to be truly entertain. No idea why, but that's the truth. If an MMO doesn't have a grinding experience, it won't be a "game".

@FerrickAnima 5 лет назад

its because Koreans like grinding, while other Asians do but not as much, which is why KRMMORPGS are usually a grindfest, while JPMMORPGs are grindy but not as much as KR and tends to focus more on story and end game

@CreationWebNovelStudio 5 лет назад

This would be a nice video to watch. I'm unfamiliar with this, so it would be very educational.

@Comech64 5 лет назад

Aion was the best mmo i ever played. Vanilla to 3.0 were some of the best experiences you could have in an mmo. No p2w. Just grinding for gear to compete. 2.5 was the best patch man. Gelk pvp for life!

@soldnerfreak4712 5 лет назад

Yeah, even 3.0 i enjoyed. But after that the downfall began.

@hashbrownmcflurry 5 лет назад

Totally agree. I miss those good old days

@su-chi5081 5 лет назад

Yes till. 3.0 it was so super it was Like u play a God if u hat end gear

@dharmdevil 5 лет назад

1.5-3.0 was the golden age. the best mmo at that time. played both NA and some private servers. beyond 3.0 the game lost its charm then they added the crap new classes.

@Sullisaur 5 лет назад

This video is just making me sad, I remember being 10 years old getting this game on christmas 2009, I was so excited to just start playing and god I did, best MMO that ever has or will ever be, it was just perfect.

@bryceburt6459 4 года назад

Absolutely loved this game. Everything about it. Visually stunning with the coolest armors and awesome skill effects. Wish it didnt have to go to shit..

@IShallCallHimTaders 4 года назад

I played this game for almost 10 months. I can give a few tidbits of what I remember. The community was pretty friendly, as you needed each other to do dungeons and abyss content. The insane amount of skills actually forced me to learn how to keybind instead of being a clicker. So in a way, Aion made me the player I am today in other mmo's. Melee was incredibly frustrating to play, and the damage you did was abhorrent compared to ranged classes. It was one of the major factors in me quitting as I mained a rogue. Pvp always felt a bit unfair in general. As twinks with their + attack socket builds would go into lower level zones and gank people trying to level to endgame. Faction imbalance would ultimately be the deciding factor in why I stopped playing. As we struggled to get into the abyss zones to farm the hearts (I think they were hearts) for the endgame armor set. Which ultimately discouraged my small group of friends from even trying. And eventually quitting.

@SHAKIZZY 5 лет назад

I probably sound like a broken record but my guy you put out like really good contents a shit ton of detail. Keep doing what you're doing man

@NovieKuun 5 лет назад

Cant wait for you to do Tera at some point, that game was 4 good years of my life lol

@thebabyfacedviking7494 4 года назад

This game was years of my life, I miss it so much.

@TR-sf5vj 4 года назад

The beginning zones were amazing, the end-game zones where you spend most of your time looked like an ash tray.

@TheChaoticReflection 5 лет назад

6:25 Aion wasn't made on Crysis CryEngine 2, it used CryEngine 1 (far cry 2004)

@EndlessAria 5 лет назад

Being pay to win with extremely punishing gear upgrade and stat slotting systems (unless you paid) and also having PvPvE zones being a mandatory part of progression was a deadly combination for me personally. I got nothing done struggling against highly geared people who would jump me in stealth any time I tried to pick up or do a quest. Aion was the first 3D mmo I ever really played and got into and I'm glad I played it, but it wasn't a game for me.

@soldnerfreak4712 5 лет назад

But this pay2win shit started after a while even after f2p release it was fine

@EndlessAria 5 лет назад

I played in those years. I started playing when f2p was first released and continued to play on and off for years. I was really attached to the game despite its flaws because, again, it was the first 3D mmo that I got into. It started feeling like an abusive relationship, I put up with it for longer than anyone should put up with a game they don't actually enjoy anymore, and I finally moved onto better games. I'm not going to lie, I sometimes want to check in on Aion and see what changed, but I don't want to PLAY Aion anymore.

@PahaOBaha 4 года назад

This was my first mmorpg that I truly played and got super in to. So sad :( still have yet to find another that brings me so much joy and keeps me playing for so long.

@omgbulldozer 5 лет назад

Thank you for making these videos, nerdSlayer. I love your content.

@crunchychips8123 5 лет назад

Aion, Firefall... stop being a tease and give us unrestricted flight in an MMO. Hell, give us a Crimson Skies MMO.

@staximus7172 5 лет назад

Why is it so hard for devs to give us another good sky pirate themed game??? Crimson Skies and Skies of Arcadia are the only two good ones I know of.

@Pandaxtor 5 лет назад

Its bad when warframe has better flight and its not the main feature.

@FerrickAnima 5 лет назад

there was a flight MMO where it plays like crimson skies, but unfortunately that shutdown pretty quick, cuz one of the biggest issue was that nobody knew it existed, I only found it by chance and even then it took a long time to even find a match, unfortunately I forgot the name of it and I am having a damn hard time trying to find it

@crunchychips8123 5 лет назад

Ferrick, was it an eastern MMO with dragon mounts where you just sort of... floated in the air?

@FerrickAnima 5 лет назад

@Crunchy Chips no, it was a legit pvp dogfighting MMO with planes that look straight out of crimson skies, but with cartoony style of graphics

@josephpettinato9968 5 лет назад

The first "WoW Killer" I remember my entire guild which had been raiding since Vanilla abandoned WoW to be the best on Aion. Holy shit I think half of us didn't make it passed level 30 before we were back on WoW.

@encara1 5 лет назад

Thank you..I needed this! I left Aion a year ago. And there is nothing left for me now. Mmo's Are as good as Dead. Too much Greed. I have now subscribed to your channel..Keep up the great Work !!

@architectsxiii5379 5 лет назад

I disagree about Aion not looking as good as newer mmorpgs. Graphics, yes I agree with you, but the art and locations look so much better and fantasy vibes are everywhere.

@omgitslos1843 5 лет назад

DEATH OF A GAME. RIFT.

@nerdSlayerstudioss 5 лет назад

Great work detective.

@Ninatx 5 лет назад

I played it around 2014-2015 and loved it! Revisited the game I'm 2016 and it was.. So disappointing. It didn't feel free to play at all and half my characters were gone, including the guy I Mained. It was such a let down

@Rob6990 4 года назад

Love this channel! Just found it!

@orintuke101 5 лет назад

Aion was the best mmo I have ever played, but it changed so much, I can't stay for longer than a few days at a time. The music is still the best and I'll continue to listen to it while crying :) goddammit.

@Uncle_Fred 5 лет назад

Really enjoy how well researched, scripted and paced this series is. Often gamer channels try these types of videos, but rarely are they as professional and insightful. I'd love to see you branch out and do non-MMO/RPGs too.

@chikentime4 5 лет назад

Dam really hurts knowing that aion died. So many memories in this game. RIP Tiamat

@thomasedmondson3631 5 лет назад

Very good vid! I'm glad this popped in my suggestions. Subbed

@SkylentShoreqwert 5 лет назад

I need to get me a highly produced and well thought out youtube series like this going. OH SNAP! 100k NICE!

@aegisofficial3819 5 лет назад

SKYLENT IS HERE I just wanna say, i love your videos bro, I fuck with you heavy. Keep it up

@fredozm 5 лет назад

I just opened the youtube page and it recommended me this, it is so strange, normally it recommends only soccer or shitty videos ( I don't watch soccer or shit videos since january '-').

@bilarmokhtari9281 5 лет назад

Yeah Man Those Top 10 vids kinda lacking but still great

@ahmedtag3904 5 лет назад

13:17 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCKING GAMEFORGE

@Chucky9999991 5 лет назад

"Where's Tutty?" I often replied "in my belly" The mobile news makes me sad :(

@ThePsychowizz 5 лет назад

my favorite character creator... it came with a game too...

@_Kalikko_ 5 лет назад

Love your content, keep it up!

@dxBIGBOSSxb 5 лет назад

I'm early, and I've watched exactly 2 seconds of the video, but I just want to say: Dude, you put out good shit. Like *really* good content, and I appreciate all the effort you put into your videos along with everyone else. Looking forward to all future videos with anticipation. My only request is that you do Metal Gear Online, one day (talk about "death" of a game, yikes). Love, Big Boss.

@nerdSlayerstudioss 5 лет назад

*fist bumps*

@dxBIGBOSSxb 5 лет назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss *CQC Slams*

@nerdSlayerstudioss 5 лет назад

"huh" "what was that?"

@Dielan9999 5 лет назад

I put so many hours into MGO1 and MGO2. I'd love to see a video on that. MGO3 could have been so good, but it just wasn't.

@protoman1521 5 лет назад

@robotrip M oof recognition jealousy

@jamesrussels2126 5 лет назад

Aion killed itself right at launch IMO with not dealing with all the damn botters. The game was already a grind but all channels (thing was 10?) had dozens botters every area. And Aion didn't do anything about banning them for at least a month+. Was a fun game though when I played. The flying combat was def a challenge for me.

@RR-gm1fp 5 лет назад

Got to agree, I played Beta and 6months after in the EU-West, the game was totally and utterly flooded with Korean Bots, seriously unbelievable botting. NCSoft had no answer to Korean bots ( as an example the map chat was would continuously scroll with gold sellers etc pretty much stopping contact with other real players). This must have improved after the first 6 months otherwise the game would never have lasted more than a year. Never seen a game so destroyed by botting. Why no mention of this problem where a game is launched first in Korea then months later in the West? Frankly the game had good promise and was fun for a wee while and for me a refreshing change coming from WoW, factional balance maybe another problem but gawd those K-Bots. GW2 player now (6 years since dumping Aion) and one of the best games I have played with most definitely the best non-toxic player base. No grind unless you want too, no hard sell, top prizes are skins rather than muscle which might explain the very low toxicity. For casual players with limited game time like myself, excellent.

@MrRjh63 5 лет назад

@@RR-gm1fp The only thing you could do about bots was greif em but even that was futile since even if you wiped one bot pair enough that they stopped coming back anther group would replace them immediately.

@GeneisHavoc 5 лет назад

Yeah the botters killed it for me. I hammered the game pretty hard at launch, getting pissed a bots collecting all the aether or whatever all the time. Took a break after 35ish, came back and they told me my account was banned, wouldn't give a reason, and told me to buy the game again. So apparently I got knocked out in a ban wave while my sub was inactive and they wouldn't give me any information or appeals. I essentially just swore off NCSoft titles at that point.

@MrRjh63 5 лет назад

@@GeneisHavoc I got the same email but at that point I quit months ago and would never return anyway.

@Zawoalowany 5 лет назад

I needed this, thank you

@cuterpooter 5 лет назад

As always, excellent video! I just have to say though - you played that fabulous AION music in the background and gave me 'Teh Feelz' fr fr. Also, RIP Origa *salutes*

@BalkanGoblin 5 лет назад

you are a great gaming journalist, can't wait your lineage video.

@onigames7309 5 лет назад

Better journalist than those so-called journalists who mostly use politics for clicks.

@probablystoned 4 года назад

This video made me realize that it's been like 10 years since i actually played aion and Not a few years ago like i thought, That made me upset :( im getting old lmao.

@shadowjutsumaster 5 лет назад

man i love this series.. your everquest video gave me mad nostalgia.. SWG could have been so much.. keep making these!

@damonromero4494 5 лет назад

11/10 Solid content. Looking forward to your future videos. Incredibly informative for a prospective MMORPG developer. Market trends are certainly important to keep an eye on. Keep up the good work!

@Narancsmagful 5 лет назад

at 13:26 that is my steam review.... glad to be at your service :D

@tianzhuli5063 5 лет назад

Congrats,100k !

@caseyddr 3 года назад

Jus commented that I hoped you had this, so I digged. Got the popcorn and ready to miss another icon in mmos past.

@novusrising1013 5 лет назад

Good idea, look forward to more of these.

@simplerainbou 5 лет назад

Good video my dude! I played Aion since it's launch in 2009 on NA (Gameforge was a no no for me) and I continued to play till patch 5.0. I did move to a payed Russian server in 2012. It was a great game, full of so many fun features and combat. Met so many of my friends there and we had so much fun. the grind was good for us, because we had things to do and kept us entertained. For 7-8 years I didn't play anything else (except Tera for a month) and as much as I love the game, I can't play it anymore. After the original Aion team left the company around patch 4.5 the game started dying super fast. The new team didn't have the ideas and vision the old did and started removing stuff. Patch 4.0 (dark Betrayal) was my favourite ever and the new maps were gems. The pvp there was interesting and the dungeons were nice. 4.5 tho, deleted allllll of these nice stuff and gave players stupid new maps were it was impossible to pvp unless you're only a pvp player, and some random transformations that, made classes even more unbalanced. After that shit went down super fast. I was so done with the pay to win thing, literally, people with (real) money could get the best gear in the game in like 2 days and destroy those who try to grind and get their gear the proper way. 6.0... A New Dawn... a.k.a A New Fuckup... By removing everything bad they did in the past 3 years, NC team thought that they can save the game! Still P2W tho... and it's back to dying. Aion 2 being on mobile was a huge disappointment. But don't you guys have phones?

@massony_pattisony 5 лет назад

Anna P. А как тебе Айон Ледженд (сервер 3.0)?

@tzvetantzvetanov5598 5 лет назад

Same exact reason I left.... Used to be a Rank 4 Star Officer Maxed Geared Glad at 5.0. Even so game at that time was pretty much shit I endured it, because at the time I managed to hang in by grinding 24/7 and + I was geared at the time (without p2w), but became harder and harder to continue the trend. Afterword's it was impossible to keep up at all. So today I'm actually grateful to my self that I left that loop of a hole Aion.

@NicoTheCinderace 5 лет назад

25:43 I love how you got an eraser out of nowhere.

@kin4245 4 года назад

Oh, Aion... how much fun I had playing it. I'm late to the party, but this video really brought up memories...

@NicoThXx 5 лет назад

Excellent analysis. Keep it up!

@lmttn 5 лет назад

Plans for Lineage?

@piotrkarp9562 5 лет назад

I REALLY hope so!

@kbforme 5 лет назад

you should a death of a franchise series, plenty of source material this year.

@oliviawilliams6204 5 лет назад

Bethesda sure seem hell bent on killing Fallout

@kbforme 5 лет назад

@@oliviawilliams6204 Agreed but it will be hard to top EA with what they have done to both dungeon keeper and C&C recently. In C&C's case they actually killed it a few years back just to reserect it and kill it again this year, just to make sure its extra dead I guess.

@The_Based_Batman 5 лет назад

*dOnT YoU gUYs hAvE PHoNEs?*

@YcleptCrazy 5 лет назад

@@oliviawilliams6204 Fallout 76 is fine and has a lot of potential if they listen to player feedback. It won't kill Fallout whatsoever.

@oliviawilliams6204 5 лет назад

@@YcleptCrazy Oh you don't get me, Fallout 76 did not kill Fallout, Bethesda did, years ago, Fallout 4 was a nail in the coffin, 76 is an insult, sure the franchise is popular. But when Bethesda brought it, it lost it'S soul they never understood what Fallout was about. They completely missed the point. Fallout was a game a bout choice and consequences with multiple path to victory for all quest. Bethesda offer one, shoot your way to victory. Also Fallout was a critic of American exceptionalism and a critic of nuclear proliferation. Bethesda made American exceptionalism cool again, and now in 76 make the players nuke other players for loot, MISSING THE POINT MUCH!! And finally it's about building a better future in the wasteland, and Fallout 76... Remove permanence, everything you build will be put back in your inventory each time you disconnect, so what are you rebuilding? Bethesda don't understand what made Fallout, they never did, and it's long dead, Fallout 76 is not what killed Fallout, it's a Zombie

@ninja2be 5 лет назад

I always get so depressed when it's games I actually wanted to play when I'm less busy show up here.

@InySsaI 4 года назад

I think Aion have the best game music ever created. So nostalgic.

@MukuonChannel 5 лет назад

Hey Nerdslayer, any chance of Allods online? Aka the Russian WoW clone?

@painwheel_1337 5 лет назад

I bet this one would be hard to investigate and not too interesting for Nerd's audience, but i definitely would be glade to see that video. I would easily play Allods over WoW now, i there were any players on subscription server, last year it were already barren.

@MukuonChannel 5 лет назад

@@painwheel_1337 The game itself plays decent but the notorious cash grab turns the entire player base off. I even remember they were throttling even experience to f2p players. Making the already hard grind next to impossible and forcing you to pay for sub.

@Red-in4fx 5 лет назад

Oh man, I remember trying that game a couple years back only to find a pretty much a ghost town of a starting area.

@painwheel_1337 5 лет назад

@@MukuonChannel F2P version was horrible yeah, you couldn't do anything without cash, but the sub server were great and the sub were cheap. But russian audience would rather play shitty F2P server over paying small sub fee. Not sure how this game was published globally.

@AsthmaQueen 5 лет назад

I'd love to see this actually, this game showed alot of promise early on and was very fun take on the WoW clone genre specially with its boat system. But then quickly took the hard p2w path with the perfume system which gave massive pvp advantage which was a large part of the endgame or endgame pve as well

@Blackfire459 5 лет назад

Could you do Dirty Bomb next in this series?

@nerdSlayerstudioss 5 лет назад

It's on the list, and it's coming soon (TM).

@harrymason4300 5 лет назад

Was Dirty Bomb ever alive?

@Blackfire459 5 лет назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss before or after Bless?

@dxBIGBOSSxb 5 лет назад

@@Blackfire459 Bless died in our arms on day 1

@darthXreven 5 лет назад

jeez, I totally forgot about Dirty Bomb LMAO

@BiDouXxXxxXxxxXX 5 лет назад

Among all the bad things that happend to Aion, it still provided us with some of the best musics in terms of variety. I've never seen such well performed musics covering literally every aspects of places you can encounter, desert, heroic, fantasy, watery, dark & light, they absolutely nailed to make a very accurate transcription of the feelings you can get while wondering these different lands. While you played Aion, you'd hear exactly what you'd expect. It was perfect. I think that's what touched me the most through the game and continues to do so to this day. For example, this video has been a blast of nostalgia after hearing the musics I'm so attached at. Great video by the way, you covered exactly what has been the death of Aion, as well as remembering me good memories about the game.

@CrimeFighterFrog 5 лет назад

Sir let me tell you you have the best intro in the game right now I fucking LOVE it

@twinklemeow6807 5 лет назад

you missed out on a huge point where the first editions of the game only displayed one of the 2 factions during character creation and you had to push a button to view the dark faction, which lead to overpopulation of Elyos compared to Asmodians (about a 80%-20%, 90%-10% ratio IN A FACTION PVP GAME!) and to make it SO MUCH worse, the NA publisher REWARDED the winning faction with pvp gear, leading to there being no pvp for the winning light faction and no way to play for the dark faction (throughout all servers), so ofcourse people left shortly after starting because for elyos the game became pve and asmodian players rightfully felt like there was no reason to play 1v10.

@GodOfPlague 3 года назад

Asmos dominated my server

@vidyastuff3509 3 года назад

@@GodOfPlague Yep. There was one server that got to be the Asmodian server cause, if memory serves, there was a very large and organized guild that started Aion together as Asmodian and basically just rolled over everything. Anyone who wanted to play Elyos in any remotely serious fashion abandoned ship and the server became a magnet for anyone who wanted to play a blue person.

@FhtagnCthulhu 5 лет назад

I played at launch and I can pretty easily tell you what my reason was for quitting: the grind. Almost all MMOs are time wasters, but Aion was a monotonous grind like I hadn't seen in years. I played for 2 days with friends and then we all abandoned it for a game that was actually fun moment to moment. Related to this, but also the section at the end: I have kind of quit playing MMOs. I play GW2 occassionally, mostly when new chapters come out, but I feel like right now the whole industry is overly exploitative. It feels like games stopped trying to be more fun or engaging years ago, now they just aim for addicting. Get players stuck in a loop and then offer them a shortcut for real money.

@fortniteignbest_stepbro6533 5 лет назад

So true

@silyu97 4 года назад

mmo = grind doing the exact same things for over a thousand hours to max one of your many skills in runescape, thats the soul of mmorpg 🙃

@dannystanciu 5 лет назад

im get so many nostalgia feelings when i hear about this game, i was so in love with this game, made so many friends and i spent so much time having time, but when time passed, the amount of players lowered, so sad

@XGP15A2 5 лет назад

I played this game for almost 8 years. It was the best MMO experience I ever had. Sadly it is now so bad it's unplayable.

@TheMavenDojo 5 лет назад

man, this makes me wanna play Aion.

@pdpMASTERP 4 года назад

damn im sad i missed being able to play this game.. the skill animations are fucking awesome and the wold looks amazing! the weapons are unique too for a western player like me

@silverwolf3625 3 года назад

NerdSlayer casually killing me with the feels by playing Aion soundtracks.

@Guirssane 5 лет назад

great video man

@IllPropaganda 5 лет назад

4:35 "concurrently at the same time" "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."

@Muridin360 5 лет назад

Still waiting for the Asheron's Call 2 vid

@spicedlatte2334 5 лет назад

To this day, I think Aion 1.0 and 2.0 had the most fun PVP in almost any MMO I’ve ever played. I miss that game and the friends I made there dearly

@fr0stlegend712 3 года назад

Love your video and how deep you went in to it so nice job, make one for aion classic and make your thoughts cause in Korea is pretty high atm

@nerdSlayerstudioss 3 года назад

I'm excited about it!

@Weezox 5 лет назад

I get abnormally excited when I see these in my sub box

@AsthmaQueen 5 лет назад

As soon as you read the PC Game part of Aion 2 teaser I thought it was weird why they were referencing Aion as being the PC game

@Apple_Beshy Год назад

Aion ostmakes me cry every time

@Waywinds 5 лет назад

The music in the beginning is so nostalgic, words can't even describe.. !

@Dagoratho 5 лет назад

Aion 2 Mobile xD !!! RIP Aion.

@jaytee2314 5 лет назад

Shoutout to the Darkest Timeline

@dkc4c 5 лет назад

Great video. Really brings back memories. In the time leading up to Aion's launch I can recall a tremendous amount of desperation from the MMORPG community to anoint the next "WoW killer." The term was thrown around frequently and people put all their hopes and expectations into games like Warhammer and Age of Conan only to be disappointed. I remember the hype surrounding Aion as the next "WoW killer was insane." I myself was super drawn in because I had never seen such a visually striking game before - art design, the world, the characters, the music, everything was gorgeous. After the initial honeymoon period though I feel like western audiences were shocked at how grindy and linear the gameplay was. Probably a lot of people moving to Aion from WoW hadn't experienced an "Korean style" MMO before and it was a bit of a rude awakening.

@Semireject 5 лет назад

Oh the music brings back good memories!

@1Caja 5 лет назад

I'd really enjoy a 'state of the genre' type video for the current mobile mmorpgs and maybe a prognosis for the future. Since a lot of thwm are popping up and to have a go to video to link to people when I argue with them over it. Or maybe you'll change my mind if it somehow ends up positive. I personally dislike them. Also, gameforge kills my favorite mmorpgs. Rest in peace AION and Tera PepeHands

@su-chi5081 5 лет назад

When I started this game its was so so so cool and was my life :D

@twinklemeow6807 5 лет назад

as a fan of your content and a long time heartbroken aion fan, my first reaction to seeing this in my recommendations was "AYYYYYYYYY :D"

@nataliedrake5614 5 лет назад

I played Aion since launch in the west. For years, it was my go-to MMO, and it still holds a dear, special place in my heart. Seeing what it's become now though..I can't say I didn't see it coming or didn't expect it, but it still kills me inside. Thanks for the memories, Aion. You deserved everything, but like so many others, were given nothing and left to rot.

@christianblocker1782 5 лет назад

They actually announced Aion 2 for mobile just an hour ago lol. 30 mins before the vid went up Edit: Just saw the end. He's fast

@Comech64 5 лет назад

It was announced days ago. So sad :(

@zuna4940 5 лет назад

I don't know if anyone is reading this after so many

@BKnerosky 5 лет назад

I feel the same.

@gunzoor5037 4 года назад

So sad man :(

@Praiju 4 года назад

I don't know why but for me Aion has the best combat system of all mmo games I've played. Could be because I kinda grew up with Aion but how often did I tried to find an alternative to Aion but every other game disappointed me.

@Shraknel 5 лет назад

I still got the soundtrack in my library. Great stuff

@TheAccursedHunter01 5 лет назад

Aion drew me in just with the ability to fly. The gameplay stuff looked interesting enough as well... however, once I started playing Aion what I found was why I never stuck to World of Warcraft, the gameplay bored me since you basically stayed in one spot and pressed a few buttons, as well as the same type of busywork quests like being required to collect 10 bear asses. The one thing that completely lost me for good was when I went through a solo dungeon on the Asmodean side. I was unable to fly, only glide. However, when I defeated the boss (who was a Daeva and had wings like me), he was able to just fly away through the window while I was still unable to fly myself. Flight was always super restrictive, even in the Abyss with the short flight time, but a boss I defeated being able to fly away while I'm stuck on the ground just reiterated my annoyances and I stopped. Based on how the game ended up, that was the right decision.