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Aion - Happy Times! not...

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In these modern times, you can be entertained everywhere, and anytime... So what makes a seemingly normal person decide to spend hours and hours waiting for Aion to finish its Queue so that they are able to actually LOG INTO the fucking game to play and level up their characters? Is it because the game has beautifully designed 3d models with lush and colourful textures, tons and tons of quests (some of them even require you to arrive at a specific moment in time in order to finish the quest... Oh the joy of having to wait for nightfall!) or is it perhaps because this game allows you to relive the wonderful moments you had spent in Lineage2 fighting off the hordes and hordes of strangely named BOTS that roam the land and kill anything that moves and breathes? (including the 10th and last quest mob that you have been searching for, for hours, to complete the quest that required you to show up at precisely 19:01, gametime...) What is it with Aion that makes us willing to endure a world wh

Qaion

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Saturday marked the day of a new era for Aion... The developers in their infinite wisdom decided to add 1 new server and increase the capacity of their existing servers. The result was the following for me: As you can see, the addition of 1 new server did very little for me, and the thousands of other players that prefer playing online games when it suits themselves, rather than when it is primetime, or when the Queue is lowest.. would probably agree with me ;) I'll keep you updated on this game, but you should probably expect a very biased blog-post once I finally get into the game, and manage to make myself play it for more than 30 consecutive minutes without feeling like throwing up in my mouth or going on a murderspree to burninate every bloody infantile player I come across in that game :P

QueuAion

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I'll refrain from writing anything about this game at the present... I did play it in beta... But I have yet to properly play it in the release version to be able to give you a really filling blogpost... Instead I will leave you with a picture from my experience of the game.