NCsoft full-year results fly on Aion

Also don't forget there is a company called "NEXON", which ALSO sports more fanbase than Blizzard (more current MMOG population than WOW worldwide), which has been selected the top 5 most innovative companies in the world 2010 by Fast Company. :P

Its true... This game does not have that much exciting endgame content.. I still play because I've heard many promising things coming from korea, and I want to have a good charecter for when the time comes.

Compared to most Korean MMO's ( ex. Rohan:Blood feud) this game is not a grinder. How does one make them self strong? By working out, right? In any MMO you shouldn't expect to level to the top in a couple days. Aion provides a ton a options to appreciate friends and challenge yourself with the chance surprise attack of an enemy while trying to get a quest completed or diving threw a rift into another factions homeland to spike some revenge of a comrade. Before you attack me on how World of Warcraft is better then Aion let me tell you that I have never played that cartoonish slop of a game and never will it disgusts me to even watch it. Besides the fact is was an attempt to make a warhammer game that got flopped to that piece of garbage. Could care less if a lot of people play it, get some taste. Congratz on the money NCsoft.

@oldpraetor You gotta work to advance in any MMO, pal.I've played enough of them to know that.The difference is whether it's fun to do or not.WoW makes it absurdly fun, streamlined, and polished.Aion makes it a pain in the ass.BIG difference.If you can't see that, well that's simply your problem.

Losers will always keep on criticising other's successes focusing solely on the negative side of the IPs hoping what they wish will finally come true (the company in question losing all the market share- hate mostly sprouted by feeling threatened and insecure of losing the market share or being dominated to some foreign companies - especially from a country they don't accept). Failing to notice the reasons behind successes and failures behind the already dead MMOG IPs. Criticising won't get the asian market share, it will just paint negative light over the losers who continues to be cinical - while the company in question continues to dominate by knowing what appeals to the players and what repels them from it.

Most of the money was made by asian companies buying accounts to sell gold and spam. LOL If they estimate profits up from a 31% increase in AION they are soarly mistaken. This will not hold up, and all of the grinders will move on to something else, and everyone else that was tired of the gold sellers and lack of content have already given up. Game has flash but no substance and it will die a gradual death like many of the MMO's before it.

I had fun on this game for 2-3 months! Still no MMO has been able to get me really hooked besides ULTIMA ONLINE! Hopefully the new KOTOR MMO from Bioware will change that!

I'm sorry but this game is 10000x better than playing the entire game by yourself until you reach freakin LEVEL 80.

one of the worst grinds ever in an MMO honestly.

played aion like 1 month they need to improve game and maybe i'l return to game again. they could do better game than it's.

As I said before, not being spoon fed. If your brother only had 3 quests at level 41 then he missed some other chain quests earlier in the game. Yes its a grind but what grinding does is weed out lazy people who don't want to learn the mechanics of the game. If you want to rush to 50 then yes you will be broke. Unlike WoW where it really does not matter what gear you have you can still level. You will get your backside handed to you in an instance. I went back and read your reviews. I am unsure if your ever going to be happy with a game. Games much like life are not perfect! Thats what makes them fun. Besides MMO's are more about building a group of friends and conquering instances and named monsters. its supposed to be fun?

I can't wait for Guild Wars 2, especially since there is no monthly charge like Guild Wars 1!

Just because people hated Aion (like me) doesn't mean they're not going to play FFXIV. You can read my Aion review if you want to know why, but it has nothing to do with WoW or spoon-feeding.

By the comments listed its very clear that most players are so lazy that they don't want to have to work for something. I enjoy the fact that the quest lines are not spoon fed to me like WoW. I also enjoy the fact that there are not hundreds of add on's. The mere fact that there are hundreds of complaints about this game makes me grin thinking of all the players who are not going to play FFXIV. Aion contains lots of content you have to work for it. The gold farmers are almost none existent now. There are more and more players coming back to Aion. Old

I think it's just the WoW players are playing both WoW and Aion.. Im quite happy with Aion getting money, since this means more money to feed Guild wars 2

ROFL! Everybody HATES Aion. How the hell is it making money??

Aion was a very Mediocare MMORPG that failed to make anything fantastic and kept the same insane grind fest with over rampant gold farmers with NCSoft Unwilling to do much of anything about it. For a game that looks pretty good graphics wise it failed to deliver on gameplay. Had potential but of course NCSoft Screwed the pooch.

good news for the industry

@Janus Hm i have played both Aion and Lotro and i can tell for sure that Lotro has a lot more content between lvl 1 and 50 then Aion,so whats your point then?

"They will have great profits for there first 3 months, but that will fall off greatly. End game just ain't that great, nor is the grind to get there. " First 3 months eh? The game's been running for 6 months already, and an additional year in Korea. Some more thought before you speak, please?

i hate this game cuz it made ncsoft be less supportive about GW2

they must bring more content to the game (from lvl35 to 50 at least)...the grind is just too much...the lack of quests hurts and fortress raids in abyss are way too laggy (it's unplayable) two things that made me stop playing AION

it isnt even that good

Wow. Lot of people waste money on boring grinder games.

Troll alert.

cant believe i wasted my money on this game, they should have been working on GW2 instead of this

I know you guys have heard this a million times but: World of Warcraft seriously owns Aion. And yes I have played both. Perhaps WoW more extensively but only because it's better.

How much content do some of you expect? If you're going to play a game 8-12 hours a day for a month, chances are you're going to max out and run out of things to do. Why does everyone expect these games to have unlimited content? Play it for what it's worth and then move on like you would any other game. Quit looking for permanent virtual homes.

Hopefully these large cash flows will help Guild Wars 2 to be even better than the original (and I loved GW1).

So now maybe they will have the funds to bankroll Guild Wars 2?

So true bloodmist. They will have great profits for there first 3 months, but that will fall off greatly. End game just ain't that great, nor is the grind to get there.

Hah, anyone notice how once everybody realized Aion is just another crap Korean style MMO, it totally went off every gameplay hour tallying chart?

aion clearly has lack of content what they tried to silence with grind,many left before they even came to 50 and others left after because there is no enough end lvl content. how much content can game have if you can hit 50 in 1 month hm...

Speaking of Grindfests WoW seems to be doing fine so unfortunately another MMO will probably survive, but on the bright side atleast another 3rd party developer is doing well

I wanted to like Aion, its gorgeous, has fun moments and I gave it an honest shot, and even though I don't usually mind the whole "grind" thing, I just couldn't put up with this...and no, I don't try to justify grinds with "well if you can't put up with the grind, then you're not hardcore" because for every massive chunk of time killing the same crap over and over and over again, I could be knocking out masterpieces like Uncharted 2, Assassins Creed 2, Demon's Souls, Mass Effect 2, and so on. Doesn't mean I'll drop NCSoft, they can still make great stuff, congrats on success and I'll keep an eye on Guild Wars 2.

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I doubt Aion will last. It managed to get its profits during the rush of its release, but people eventually get bored from the grindfest it is.

Too bad that extra profit is gonna dry up fast on another MMO people will play for a few months then get bored.

It looks so pretty, but I play GW... well not so much anymore due to a laggy comp, and servers, but I have all 4 installments thus far.

If the company needs more money, why don't they just go collect 20 cheetah rectums and turn them in?

this game but got boring after a week.

Let's just hope they don't do something stupid and merge with Activision or something crazy. *cough*

Yay for Aion!

Unless they did what WoW did to keep going and milk Aion via expansions, then after several months, it's all gonna die down drastically. Then again, GW2 is coming,so............

maybe they can take some of that money and start up on a full title Exteel 2, then i might actually have respect for the company.

yeah after 2 month i got bored

aion was a really good game, but after a few months theres not much reason to keep playing.

Hooray, more budget money for ArenaNet!

those that havent quit yet, will when SC2 and Cata come out to dominate the PC markets

sadly, it will more likely go to NCsoft's next awful MMO, Blade & Soul