Posted by: Snafzg
On: Jul 10, 2009 at 09:43am
Keen touched on this and I'm going to take his advice even if he doesn't end up doing it himself! :P
I am going to sit out for the remainder of Aion beta.
Why? The answer is quite simple really: burnout.
I do not want to burn myself out on Aion because most of what I've seen so far has almost zero replayability on the PvE end. Any longtime reader of this site knows that I'm not a huge fan of PvE to begin with. I will tolerate it and even submit to it just break up my PvP, but I generally don't enjoy it.
And anyone who has seen Aion's PvE knows that it isn't groundbreaking stuff. It's not hard for me to answer this question: "Why would I spend many hours grinding a character to rank 25 just so I can test the Abyss and then have that character wiped?" I don't see the point.
The game is polished as hell and Aion beta is more of a promotional / proof-reading exercise at this point. Any comments I make on gameplay will fall upon deaf ears since the game is being developed in Korea. I'm genuinely interested to see how they plan on westernizing Aion. My guess is that they'll translate everything to English and cut the XP requirements by 25%. That's about it, I'll reckon.
I already know what class I'm going with. I'm going to play an Assassin. Why? Because every time I roll a non-stealther I get pissed off that I didn't roll a stealther. I tend to PvP solo most of the time due to my casual but erratic play schedule, so stealth is a great defensive tool to prevent getting rolled by premades or zergs. I do realize I will need to group at some point in my Aion career and I think Assassins will be good DPSers in PvE raids as well.
And it's not just burnout I'm trying to stave off. It's summer as well and there's really no good excuse to vid out when the season is so fleeting where I live. I've also got tons of RL stuff going on as well from work to home renos to baseball to Massively to quite a few other things. I'm actually a bit concerned that I won't have the time or desire to play Aion when it does come out.
We can get into a habit of playing video games. We can also get into a habit of not playing them if we fill the time with other worthwhile and fulfilling exercises. Not that I have anything someone spending any or all their free time on games because its just as valid a hobby as any other, but in the summer, I just find it harder to justify. And right now, I'm too busy to notice that I haven't really touched my gaming computer since April or May. Crazy.
I am going to sit out for the remainder of Aion beta.
Why? The answer is quite simple really: burnout.
I do not want to burn myself out on Aion because most of what I've seen so far has almost zero replayability on the PvE end. Any longtime reader of this site knows that I'm not a huge fan of PvE to begin with. I will tolerate it and even submit to it just break up my PvP, but I generally don't enjoy it.
And anyone who has seen Aion's PvE knows that it isn't groundbreaking stuff. It's not hard for me to answer this question: "Why would I spend many hours grinding a character to rank 25 just so I can test the Abyss and then have that character wiped?" I don't see the point.
The game is polished as hell and Aion beta is more of a promotional / proof-reading exercise at this point. Any comments I make on gameplay will fall upon deaf ears since the game is being developed in Korea. I'm genuinely interested to see how they plan on westernizing Aion. My guess is that they'll translate everything to English and cut the XP requirements by 25%. That's about it, I'll reckon.
I already know what class I'm going with. I'm going to play an Assassin. Why? Because every time I roll a non-stealther I get pissed off that I didn't roll a stealther. I tend to PvP solo most of the time due to my casual but erratic play schedule, so stealth is a great defensive tool to prevent getting rolled by premades or zergs. I do realize I will need to group at some point in my Aion career and I think Assassins will be good DPSers in PvE raids as well.
And it's not just burnout I'm trying to stave off. It's summer as well and there's really no good excuse to vid out when the season is so fleeting where I live. I've also got tons of RL stuff going on as well from work to home renos to baseball to Massively to quite a few other things. I'm actually a bit concerned that I won't have the time or desire to play Aion when it does come out.
We can get into a habit of playing video games. We can also get into a habit of not playing them if we fill the time with other worthwhile and fulfilling exercises. Not that I have anything someone spending any or all their free time on games because its just as valid a hobby as any other, but in the summer, I just find it harder to justify. And right now, I'm too busy to notice that I haven't really touched my gaming computer since April or May. Crazy.
