Ruined by hackers and over zealous pkers.
Aika since launch has had a very bad hacker problem, bots are everywhere and to make matters worse, it is almost impossible for new players to join without having an army of high level griefers running around.
The graphics and the wide range of character clothing is nice, computer wise, it does demand a pretty significant computer and graphics card, not that anyone new joining the game will stick around after being griefed for an hour or two.
The other amusing thing about the game is how hostile the Aika Forums are, never seen such a heavily troll based forums with large amount of fanbois with such ego's and downright nasty attitudes, overall for people looking to join a new MMo whilst waiting around for something good like Diablo 3 or Guild Wars, avoid Aika at all costs (unless you love PvP of course)