AION in 2024.. is NOT What You Remember

[@MMOByte]

Huge shoutout to the Aion Discord/Reddit community for giving me dozens of different opinions and perspectives! Your input was invaluable, and it was truly appreciated!

[@unicornquasar8398]

I go online to collect outfits and weapon skins on retail NA nowadays just in case they make an Aion2. I want to add, NCsoft totally ruined Aion live server when they went full P2W and ruined the system we had with years of hard work, grind of sieges for medals, instances tons of kinah wasted on +15 gear weapons hours on hours of gaming with friends working towards our goals. We are all older now, most ppl are turned off about the thought of what happened and no reimbursement or equal to gear that was destroyed what so ever, nor acknowledge the loyalty dedication of playing the game as a community for years.

[@youngbilofi5836]

How to download that because I miss aion can u give me a link of aion

[@Keso_o]

this game still hunts me even this days none can replace this game

[@VicHdzHdz]

Agree, for a while i've been trying to find a game that might be similar, that might give me the same feels but no... there is none... so i'm trying to find out if it's worth playing these days...

[@luisbaldaia9897]

@@VicHdzHdz Guild wars 1 fellas !

[@cake869]

true :/ played it for like 6-7 years and it makes me so sad to see it die like this

[@aerinxshamy2052]

same, I miss this game and it’s former glory

[@weliveyou]

@@luisbaldaia9897GW1 and Aion have been a huge part of my childhood 😭

[@SkyXyzx]

Short term profit mind set is what destroyed MMO's in general

[@MMOByte]

Yup. And almost every single one of them shut down, after suffering irreparable damage.

[@АртурМилкович]

9oo

[@olkingsson]

Now the fun part is that classic is meant to be the return to the good days but they are going the same way once again with new classes etc. 🤣 another short term profit run.

[@berrex5152]

pretty much most modern games in general

[@laszloszell8753]

When I was school boy I did play a lot whit Lineage 2. Is also died ,and at my server wasn't monthly payment or anything. We started with 16k player ,but slowly in 3-4 year just 500 player and a lot of bot stayed.

[@vladgeor5579]

Old Aion just had a certain magic to it. The wings, the PVP, the combat system, heck. Even the leveling and dungeons. It was all just so frikin good. Making it Pay To Win was a disgusting move.

[@Blake-ld7mx]

Sht...bro the game was always ptw even back in 2010...I remember sitting in my barracks back at camp leguene buying gold from Asian sellers. When was it not ptw 😂..I think the problem is majority never admitted to being ptw

[@michaelalbrandt3341]

@@Blake-ld7mx when we started the game (i was in school these days) like every of my friend had to get a new account because they got banned for kinah buying and alot of ppl i knew back then too... since gameforge you could do whatever u want, even buy 100 millions of kinah at lvl 30 and no one bats an eye

[@Blake-ld7mx]

@@michaelalbrandt3341 it was fun I don't think I ever had fun on another MMO like that game.

[@lindaa9005]

@@Blake-ld7mx you can fool yourself, but basically if you did that then were cheating. I played starting in closed beta, made it up to Commander rank, and never had to buy kinah - the closet that anyone could say, is when it became P2W, and yes, I did buy items from the store, but I never dropped more than a limited amount - but I never bought kinah.

[@Blake-ld7mx]

@@lindaa9005 lol 90 percent of the player base bought gold 😂

[@_Jiwan_]

I loved this game so much.. Never really found another mmo that can compare to old Aion.

[@MMOByte]

Yup.. and never will.

[@yoshi3706]

Agreed, I tried black dessert, FF14, tera, lost ark, guild wars 2, etc. but no game was like Aion :(

[@АртурМилкович]

9oo

[@georgepierre3594]

theres the eu private server, that has like 900 players.

[@ThePraQNome]

Yeah. I wish I could find another similar game.

[@perceptivity_]

Aion started dying in 4.0 with the Gunner and Bard introduction, then went 10x downhill with Aethertech. ironically enough, my best moments of my gaming life were in Aion. the in-game social part of it was 99% of what made Aion special, the game didn't really feel like a game.

[@IIslashII]

yepp, lets see if the story wont repeat on classic

[@perceptivity_]

@@IIslashII it will, I played it for a bit and the ping issues and the absence of QoL changes made me drop it quickly. Good for nostalgia though

[@IIslashII]

@@perceptivity_ i still play, on EU, its fine till now. But with the now patch on US i started noticing the changes leading to the same path. with the new brawller class i notice they are once again focusing to a easy way to play like they once did with the composed chain skills

[@dorayaki5494]

Aion was still so much fun in 4.0. Building a Magic Suppression set for those 2 as a gladiator and watching them struggle to even land 100-200dmg hits was an absolute blast xD I played since 3.0 and ultimately quit in 5.0 once I started to notice how heavy P2W was becoming. It was always p2w but as a f2p player you always stood a chance so long you kept active. Which was my case I could absolutely tear through nearly every1 as a F2P. I could hold aggro of any boss with just dual wield auto attacks. Once 5.0 hit and lvl 75 grind became a thing I just quit... to this day I've never experienced a game like this one.

[@likesplants]

​@@dorayaki5494same here. The game kept being fun through 4.0 but once 5.0 dropped and the grind started again it was over for me.

[@WilliamDallas-fx9ss]

Tsunahmie here- Very enjoyable video! I am so glad to see that our community has been given a way to make it's voice heard through you. Thank you for that! I believe a CRUCIAL thing you didn't mention, is that the Korean developers of Aion Retail have all but given up on the game and have not added any new content in the past 2 years or so. It is run by a shadow team that is just adding shop events nowadays and they moved almost the entire retail team onto redeveloping the classic version of Aion. Once again, thank you for this and let's bring on the classic video!

[@papishampoo2427]

i miss the old good days when i played this game, i was happy and i didn´t know it. We remain daevas in our hearts

[@chillybunz]

I'm just very confused why companies run these once great MMOs into the ground. Like how can they not see how this would never work long term?

[@ifeawosika966]

Nop. Need a whole new company that is not lead by corporate and investor greed

[@АртурМилкович]

9o

[@seyumaiayami3536]

Publishers pushing agendas and paths that are wrong.

[@killerv135]

Humans like to fuss about things, they do it to keep your min occupied.

[@АртурМилкович]

9ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@angustheterrible3149]

Going to be honest, even though I've played many MMO's since quitting Aion, no MMO will ever be what Aion once was. From the music, to the zones, to the ORIGINAL asmodian character creator (with the mane and clawed feet and hands) it was an otherworldly experience. I love it. And I miss it so bad. Blood for blood.

[@PleasantDevil]

Aion was the reason i pushed to get a computer to play games. I spent a long time on it and made some really good friends that i still talk to 11 yrs later. My best friend and I were accepted into the ffxiv 2.0 closed beta and felt much more appreciated as a player, as we had slowly been becoming disenfranchised with Aion. We have both gone back time and time again for the nostalgia to find that it is a shadow of what it was. It feels like the Devs have given up and corporate are pushing for profits. It's really sad to see. NCsoft and Gameforge are now companies i tend to avoid based on how things have gone with Aion.

[@エスティアハル]

Ive play it 7 years before but still the game still manage to haunt me until this day, in fact I dream playing it last night lmao the gameplay, the music the mechanics is on of the best thing I have in this game that make my college days memorable, old school boss hunt and pvp rifting but the game now is unfixable sadly.

[@Obsidian1985]

I played from launch for about a year. It was definitely a very memorable experience. I have especially fond memories of the music, and some of the PvP encounters were absolutely legendary. Hoping Throne and Liberty can provide a similar experience when it comes out

[@adamtajhassam9188]

Seems like w every company greed kills it all.

[@arcadia7341]

Man, the old Aion holds such a special place in my heart, it's my "roman empire" so to speak. I cant stop feeling about it, how good it was in it's art direction and music, gameplay and pvp. I wish another game like this comes out one day, have really high hopes for the Riot mmo. But the magic of early Aion is something that i'm afraid can not be replicated. The worst thing is, after a bit of research into the people behind Aion, none of them seem to mention it at all as a part of their career. Is it really only the players who fell in love with the game? Did the developers always see it the way that they see it now?

[@geko1410]

Aion used ti be best solo group pvp MMO I've ever played, it all started dying after 3.0 IMO, as a Templar main it was my glory days playing in kahrun server.

[@alexcani4957]

Sad to see it's come to this. I started playing it back in 2008 or 2009 when private servers still were being actively developed (daily updates because the devs were figuring out the packets to communicate with the clients) since official was pay to play (I was around 13 back then and unwilling to pay for MMOs). When official servers switched to free to play I joined official and played there for quite a while, i think until short after Aion 4.0 (Dark Betrayal). Don't remember why I quit. I remember when they launched that class with the music theme, thought it was lame. It was a bit boring i guess, but i always felt the nostalgia (same with Lineage 2 and Runescape, two of my all time favorites as well) to go back to the game. Sad to see it went down like this. Don't even know what "retail" and "classic" mean in Aion context tbh.

[@doug_durray]

This is going to hurt I loved this game 2009-12. Ok, let do this 😬

[@MMOByte]

Haha. It hurt replaying it this year!

[@hkoizumi3134]

I was part of the CBT for Aion and during subscription era. Those were great times but a lot people I got to know slowly quit the game and I eventually was the last and only person in the guild. It was one of those sad times which I've felt alone in MMO.

[@ula3568]

It's one of those games I keep wanting to return to. I started when the game first came out, and I quit because the ganking in Morheim got so crazy one couldn't complete a single quest. Acquiring abyss points and good armour was also a PAIN. BUT that said, what can we play that's as good these days?

[@reavl6494]

check out Trone and Liberty

[@Draethar]

Your favorite NPC is Mimiti.

[@jonathanlara7576]

I put 3 years into this game, and it gave me the best gaming experience I have ever felt. Everything about the game when it came out till I stopped playing has a special place in my heart. It's hard to accept that such a good game died this way. The love for this game will always linger.

[@MMOByte]

When was the last time YOU played Aion?

[@kurtvekuzu6113]

there was no time i played it 😔

[@Butcherza01]

like 10 years ago lol last time i played it

[@_Jiwan_]

Last time I played Retail was in 2019 and last time I played Classic was yesterday

[@Ratagon]

Started Aion in aion 2.7 and quit around 5.3 (played for many years), enjoyed every moment of it especially in the earlier updates, enjoyed endgame pve and pvp using teamspeak for parties up to 24 people, made many good friends during the time I was gaming in aion and then moved on to Blade & Soul (the other ncsoft mmo and curse gameforge), got way too addicted in that game and reached rank 1 in pvp in my chosen class (gunner) in the server as well as completing endgame raids, every form of pvp and pve. Enjoyed BnS since 2016 to 2020 and I havnt been really invested in a mmo since (I have tried various other mmos such as runescape, black desert online, metin2 and other genre related games) however I have not been able to find a new 'mmo' that I would consider revolutionary in the current time. I was interested in what 'ashes of creation' claims to deliver for their mmo however I would not put my bets or hopes in it as it is extremely difficult to create a 'ideal mmo' for modern expectations.

[@Franka.1966]

Retail mostly 2012/2013... classic: last week, but gave up the next day due to 81% loading screen issue.

[@ThunderCrashed]

havnt played it in years, I remember playing the original beta and had the prelaunch preorder thing and was positive amazed on how awesome the spells and moves looked and earning your first wings was so great, but no idea how the game is today compared to back then :)

[@Dwayneff]

I was even considering coming back to Aion, but when you reminded me of the auto play button that I remember. it killed all drive to even try Retail again. Thank you for saving me the time and trouble.

[@ectolo]

Sank a few thousand hours into aion, made a name for myself (if such a thing even exists in an MMO). If you want some nostalgia, there's gladiator 1v1 content on my my channel :)

[@arifbykr4552]

As soon as I heard Nujabes - feather in your video I was like This dude knows what he's doing :D

[@rflett5797]

I bailed from Aion years ago after the uncontrolled server transfer fiasco was allowed to happen. The server I was on went overnight from pretty much a 50/50 faction split to an 80/20 split and there was no way my faction could ever get control of the Abyss again. All the devs did was laugh while they were at a convention even though they knew well in advance this would happen as people in the forums were openly discussing flooding certain servers when the transfers were allowed. I was even one of the people that did the pre-order of the game.

[@heapsgaming4118]

I played Aion to fill the void after Lineage 2 from 2008 until maybe halfway through 5.x in 2016 in arguably the most powerful legion in NA - "Clarity". Oh the times of our lives we had. Was never able to find a replacement for Aion after that, perhaps due to getting old :D Shout out to everyone from that golden era!

[@DarkMoxinho]

everyone can say what they want but when I watch aion videos it gives me a huge desire to play, all games have their flaws, it's true that aion's main flaw is the companies that generate them that put too much p2w in it, but Apart from that, taking away all the competitiveness, the game is fantastic, I've been playing since 2009, not very actively recently but it's simply impossible to stop playing this, I was 10 years old today when I started playing, today I'm 26 and I still play :)

[@HarunaOotsutsuki]

I remember playing Aion when it first released in North America, it actually managed to replace WoW for me for a while. Just wish the grind wasn't such a slog to start

[@General.Falcon]

Okay, i've played Aion since trial 2006 until it was hacked in 2012. Lots of Sieges, all characters lowest lvl68 and 3 max lvl 75 in that period (Legions: Hayabusa and Divine Order. I keep my playernames secret just of security reasons) Support dropped me out because I had no more detail regarding my registration email adres anymore. I changed from internet provider. They just couldn't help me anymore! SO, Everything gone, 6yrs just GONE! ridiculous! Later on i've seen many streams on youtube regarding abusing by support, they created ingame characters(by admins) and abusing their admin-powers. I still got the movie-stream from youtube a whole bunch of legal players where following this crap, cheater from support. For sure many have seen this stream as well. Many many cheaters and many accounts where hacked like it happen with mines on and on. Anyways, P2W killed every mmo! That's for sure! For now I tried Aion via steam atm. In 4 days I created max 2 characters(free play is max 2 chars). And they're both lvl 70 atm.face-green-smiling. I think I go delete 1 char to try a different class. I play Aion just for fun. But, broker is almost empty, teamplay? What do's that mean in Free play? Nothing to find at all! It's all pve and just to spend some chill moments to feel again a piece of the past. But the gameplay is totally different, maps have been changed, Eltnen is gone? From Poeta to Sanctum and from there to Heiron or Ingnisson... Oh Yeah Oriel for when getting bored and spend your money into this nonsense. They just create a piece of cheese for luring the mice. But not for me anymore... Just find a groep to enter Firetemple for example? Not impossible, Kromede still scks and droprate is crap only, killed enemy just disappears Atm, as i explained, I'm playing a bit Aion Free play via Steam until I'm getting bored again. I see Aion 8.0? Aion 2? I don't know. The Aion concept stays in P2W mode, I don't expect it will be that game as it whas long time a go. As well, new accounts will be more food for the hackers and cheaters anyways. but, I must admit, As soon I did hear the sounds and music in this game? For a moment I got pulled back in time when it was overloaded with players and Teamspeak whas full of legionmembers... anyways, The old generation that started Aion around 2006, they all know what I mean and understand what I'm talking about! Aion 2? I probably pass and stay on Aion Free until I'm getting bored. I just don't trust and I believe the gameservers will die eventually around 2025/2026. I'm almost 55yrs and spending bulls!t on P2W stuff? Neh, just pass me, P2W MMO's

[@Goodvibes-gj2bw]

I recall in my younger years when my playmate stole all my belongings; understandably, I was furious and never played with that thief again.

[@Freflix24]

I just downloaded the game again about an hour ago. But all my Characters are gone. Is it possivle, that they deleted accounts, that didnt't log in for a long time?

[@starkindustries7429]

Aion was my favorite MMO and it was sad to see it change over the years and die out but I am so excited for Throne and Liberty!

[@riverroadracing]

Had a hard time remembering the name of the game until I just did some deep dive searches. I remember it being so awesome but the servers were so crowded!

[@AceHairal-ih9pc]

i tried playing aion eu, but gameforge wont let me create a game account, it's always "an error occured" for a week now. I tried searching it and its bcoz maybe of region, i tried vpn but it still wont work. Im from asia, the classic global is korean while registering even tho I set the it to english language.

[@SaschaThys]

I remember buying this game as a kid, the blue metal disc box... man this game was hardcore but really fun!

[@BoKaNDaR84]

I’m one of those who pre-ordered this game since 2009 EU version it was GREATLY AMAZING till 2014 then RIP Aion

[@yoshi3706]

Great video as always mr. sticks. I used to play only Super Mario games, and after tried 20 non-nintendo games I only liked Aion, in mid 2013 I started playing it and it was the only game I played during 2 years, in mid 2015 I played a little bit less because they removed pvp zones I loved, later they remove even more zones so I stopped playing in 2018, the old zones almost all were gone, so if I wanted to play it for nostalgia it was impossible coz It was a completly new game, and it was a bad game now. After it I played black dessert but not a big fan of it and stopped playing without reaching max level, then switched to FF14 it was good but not a big fan of the endgame got bored after completing MSQ, then went to lost ark, but same, and tried gw2 and got even more bored than the others. Currently Im playing Aion classic, its fine, not as good as retail in 2013 but its ok.

[@vrkfarms4100]

I left AION when it introduced the Gunner class. I have gun PTSD so I can't handle guns, cannons, mecha, etc. Hoping AION 2 sticks to the fantasy aspect.

[@Franka.1966]

Made an Aion classic account...and when I wanted to play the next day: 81% loading screen issue. Same issue as back in 2012/2013. Jesus 🙄, 12 years have passed and they didn't fix it. I tried the config allow windows 8 trick, but to no avail. Bahhhh 😖...back to EverQuest 2

[@yoshi3706]

Yeah man, its terrible got same 81% issue too, and I had tor estar client every time that happens :(

[@АртурМилкович]

9o

[@sp1r1tsage]

At this point I just live on a 4.6 private server because playing the main game is too painful. So sad to see such a great game go down like this

[@Altai350]

Which private server are you playing

[@ectolo]

I absolutely loved 1.4 to 2.7 - Had the best gear possible at 1.9, was in a huge clan, loads of online mates on ventrillo 24/7, beat all the hardest content. Gave up on retail, went to arguably the best private server (notaion) and just enjoy being a GM there for years. Wonderful memories. Check out my channel for some 10 year old videos of 1v1 gladi pvp content with jump shots, split screen, cast cancles and all the good stuff that made the game so technically great!

[@ladyfinck]

That game can't even be called Aion anymore. Aion died with 4.0 and I'm so sad about it, it was my favorite for a long time.

[@ectolo]

I absolutely loved 1.4 to 2.7 - Had the best gear possible at 1.9, was in a huge clan, loads of online mates on ventrillo 24/7, beat all the hardest content. Gave up on retail, went to arguably the best private server (notaion) and just enjoy being a GM there for years. Wonderful memories. Check out my channel for some 10 year old videos of 1v1 gladi pvp content with jump shots, split screen, cast cancles and all the good stuff that made the game so technically great!

[@DonDaniellllll]

Aion until 4.7 was Peak. 4.8 Update and afterward destroyed the game.

[@ectolo]

@@DonDaniellllll Everyone has there own personal favourite point in the game. For retail servers 1.9 was peak for me. Was nearly perfectly geared, loads of mates online, and cos I was "rich" (in game) at the time, could just log on and do the fun stuff only. For private servers, I loved 3.0 through to 4.8 roughly. NotAion was dope.

[@DonDaniellllll]

@@ectolo A played during 1.9 era, and it was awesome, but in 2014 I cameback during 4.0 era, and it was amazing, server as fully as it peak.

[@fearingalma1550]

I joined at 4.8 which was about when most of the community agrees the game was going downhill. Loved it. The lore sucked me in, the combat was absolutely adrenaline pumping. But they just kept stacking more p2w on top of more p2w ever since. Archdaeva system murdered the gear system, people would just multibox and pass around equipment to break enchantment cap and abuse inventory reports to resurrect the gear and get it to +40 and be unkillable. Then they sensibly removed the archdaeva gear, make my gear impossible to keep skins from my old stuff on by changing from chain to plate (Aethertech main, hi, I ruined your game) and then added this bullshit candy system to replace scrolls that nobody asked for or needed. All of the p2w kept getting worse. PVP gear farming was more and more absurd, PvE kept throwing all the old content out so the story grew more and more incoherent. As much as I wanted to be hype for 7.0 they introduced another op busted class and ruined everything further. And then they did Classic... which immediately had p2w added to what was originally supposed to be a subscription MMO model resurrection where you could just dump money in and get currency to get ahead super fast. They weren't even trying. And so, I left. I still miss the game horribly, what it used to be, but it's not coming back.

[@Grumpy_Pirate]

Aion got so much right, in many ways it peaked already in pre 1.5 but the game did improve in some ways in 1.5 or 2.0. One might argue a bit beyond that but honestly the monetization killed it already back then and it lost me very quickly. It was a shame to see such a promising, and already great, game go to shit and all the more depressing to hear year after year how it just got worse and worse. If there was a genuine aion 1.0 re-release with subs and zero other monetization, with a team dedicated to build the game from scratch from there on, without changes to the monetization and free hands in direction id probably be on board in a hot second.

[@hansigasus2006]

I am saying it. I have been playing AION since release when I was a small teen. Aion back then was fun and grindy, but also unbalanced as hell, I remember that you where not able to do normal quests alone as an assasin.... Just saying In my opinion the balancing in retail is better. I agree with the fact that Aion lost alot of identity and story telling. What I dont agree with is that we all miss those beautiful worlds that now in retail are put together on one map. WHO THE HELL THOUGHT IT WAS FUN BACK IN CLASSIC TO WALK THROUGH A EMPTY DESERT FOR 10 MIN. Reatil is more compact more mobs at one spot and faster respawns. Also after free to play 2.0 go released AION went down fast. Who ever says AION pvp was fun, is a rich kid with to much time on its hands. After free to play, the botting and P2W started. I remember, cause I was still a kid couldnt affort to pay the goldpacket every month. It was impossible to PVP when u didnt pay 500-2000 buck later in 4.X to even start PVP. Classic has also issues and, I played classic like a month ago or so. IT IS AS EMPTY AS RETAIL !!!!!!!! The only people you see are BOT groups legit I am not kidding... You cant do firetemple you cant do eny low lvl dugeon caus no one is there to help... Atleast in retail I can play 1h get 5 lvls and dont have to move a cross an empty map. Is classic better then retail, well if u dont have much time and just wanne have some fun playing the classes then retail is way better!!!! If your a rich kid then you might be able to PVP phahaha Classic, is the same as retail but u can acuelly PVP without giving away your retirement money. But classic is as empty as retail in low lvl and you need way more time going to places and way more time to lvl, als alot of fun classes dont exist. This opinion comes from someone that has played this game since release! Dont be fooled by the people on the AION discord those are the people who regred paying thousends into theire accounts only to see the game die... AND dont listen to the classic people, cause they have no realife, and are able to grind 14h a day just to get 3 lvls and 4 new abilitys and gear that is 5 points better then the one before. The biggest problems with AION since 2.0 was always the P2W PVP and the insane grind. Atleast they got rid of the grind... My wish for AION would be, make it a subscription, make it fast lvl as retail is now but on diffrent worlds with quest that acuelly have story. NO PVP PTW bullshit. (if you q up for PVP events make it so everyone has the same equip) Make fun open world PVP where PVP gear matters but not to much so its still fun for the people who just wanne PVE. THEN AION WOULD BE GREATE.

[@AIONGAMING-CHAR]

I have been playing Aion Classic for 4 days now. My opinion about this: Difficult to find a group for the dungeons such as Fire Temple (FT) and later Steel Rake (SR) and often everything that comes after it with your campaign path. But now it's mainly about speed leveling up to about level 58 and then you only have more chances with a group, etc. Finding a Legion is quite annoying. Your pass is still accepted if you have a high level, and your origin is often a must, such as Spanish, Greek, and especially German, it doesn't matter. They only accept you if you are level 58+ and sometimes they want to see your gear. LOL you fools :P A newbie or a low level player will never necessarily say that you are a noob, right? Hey, every pro started out as a newbie, right? I'm not concerned about this. But hey, it's not a big deal. I'll get there and then maybe I'll start up my Legion and who knows ;-) Regarding pvp in the Abyss? Boring, very boring and especially it's Asmo who rule the Abyss I've understand. So if you start with Aion, start with Asmo. But I know it just has to be balanced and Aion is no longer that. I miss the old days of 2007 - 2015 with many game servers, a large alliance at the same time, the Sieges and all the planning together to tackle it. Also to beat the world boss for mainly the medals for your PVP equipment. Now in Aion Classic In 2024 it is mainly about "fast fast fast" and "having it" and getting your max gear for PVP as quickly as possible. And I know from experience that if you have everything, it will become boring and eventually they will not come back online as much. But anyway, P2W is the biggest culprit that ruins any game and especially MMO. NCSoft concept and does not change. I just pay for the Siel and that's it. It has to remain fun, right? ;-)

[@IIslashII]

6:06 i did the same and never logged again. I was trying to find hope on my fav mmo error 404.

[@Snoopi25]

I loved Aion, sank SO MANY hours into it, and it was extremely novel to its gameplay concept in terms of the PvPvE and the massive sieges against factions were its prime content... It died unfortunately, and it's really sad to see that no other game has anything near as big as what Aion offered. BDO's sieges pale in comparison to Aion's fort sieges. That being said, I was thinking of trying EuroAion... ping might suffer a bit, but at least I can play the clean version of the game before they ruined it

[@alyssarasmussen1723]

are u gonna play blade and soul neo classic china when it releases next week?

[@Stixxy]

oooo I should!

[@amandabilger2235]

I loved Aion, played from the beginning, but when they deleted Sarpan, Tiamaranta, Katalam and Danaria I was pretty much done. I tried to stay for awhile but I wasn't enjoying myself any more. Part of my problem was with them deleting those zones you had to go from Inggisson straight into Cygnea. That meant you had barely geared 55s dropping into a map with geared 65s and open world PvP. It got so bad, on my server, that you pretty much couldn't set foot out of a safe zone without getting pounced on by uber geared players, a lot of times running in groups, whose only goal in life seemed to be ganking as many as possible. The game was not only no longer fun it was frustrating, annoying and seriously pi$$ed me off every time I logged in. Needless to say I quit and went to GW2 and while there are things that I miss about Aion there is nothing that will make me go back to it.

[@aselon_eu]

Aion Live (Retail) is in an unsavable state - so much so that NCsoft doesn't even push out new updates for it but rather runs it on Maintenance mode, focusing resources to other more profitable projects such as Aion Classic, BnS Classic, development of Aion 2 etc... Eversince 6.0+ the game changed fundamentaly (dmg formula was changed, 100s of different gear items introduced that completely threw class balancing out the window) making the game unplayable. Aion Classic managed to capture some of the old charm of the game and started introducing new content that is faithful to the OG game mechanics with a few surprises here and there. It's far from perfect but it's infinitely far more enjoyable than Live and even tops the charts in Korea of most played MMOs to date.

[@KingRabid]

i appreciate you for hurting me year after year with these. it's actually one of the main reasons im able to keep myself from ever going back 😅 i loved aion more than anything at one time but maaaan.. them feels

[@vincentholguin3415]

When u say pay to win are u buying the in game currency and what do you even get from that

[@gamingzonealpha2143]

You play aion classic instead great game and full of people

[@_Jiwan_]

EU or NA? I've moved over to EU since it seemed more lively

[@MMOByte]

I’ll be doing a video on Classic!

[@Zyrokk]

@@MMOByte yea but do it for EU not for NA ;)

[@Dingle.Donger]

EU but you can't PVP due to ping

[@yoshi3706]

@@MMOByte its good, but EU because NA is dead

[@TheAmericanInfluencer]

Retail still exists!? I play Classic now and it is super fun atm. Retail... I tried logging into my old account and was completely lost. Everything has changed and not for the better.

[@carlkhendrixlantayona7783]

I've play this game since 2010 ! I love this game no game can replace this game

[@TheExiagundam]

I played Aion long, long, long ago. It was my first mmo. I was there on Triniel when the first ever US capture of the Divine Fortress happened in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHe5o313q9eBia8 . I wasn't even max level and I still showed up to help. I remember the guilds who were organizing it spamming general chat in the capitals 24/7 for like two weeks advertising for anyone and everyone to show up to get the capture. I left the game shortly there after to get into WoW, and while I definitely will never return to Aion, it will always hold a special place in my heart. Sad to see its decline

[@jenisesalido4802]

I think the game is very unique. I love the creative design and the music. And love the chain skills.

[@1HPWIN]

Did check Aion NA few days ago after like 9 year break and was disappointed to see how dead it is (~100-150 afk elyos online), close to 0 chat, stupid rift system where you can visit some areas for like 30min per day, over complicated gear and stat system and so on. Sad thing is that on my alt accounts still have Greater Running and other Scrolls, full bags and WH with old skins, mounts, pets, furniture and many other items (did some research and was well prepared for some of new patches so stacked up rare items that was removed from drops etc at some point) + like 20-25b in Kinah. Yet i have 0 will to play game in such state so cya from 🌟Sintuki 🌟

[@I_am_glacier]

This new format is great! im of the same opinion with neverwinter. I LOVED THAT GAME! but it but after mod 5 it became very apparent that it wasn't going to be the same game anymore.

[@MMOByte]

I'll ask the Neverwinter community if they're willing to do the same!

[@АртурМилкович]

9o

[@WinnieTheTrain]

I can never understand how NCsoft thought it was a good idea to delete Katalam and Danaria map zones and give us Cygnea which was a linear point A to point B crap map with no real siege or fort within the map/zone and they just threw all the lower level stuff from Sarpan and other zones before katalam and danaria into the map making it look so clustered at the spawn entrance. How was this a good idea? This was the beginning of the end and where half of the playerbase just stopped playing within the remainer of that year before Lluma came which attempted to revive the community, but the transforms were so stupid it killed the game more and with a huge grind to get to level 70 or whatever level cap it was which would take a normal player over a year or two. Eventually they added a better transformation system but game was dead at that point, and this whole system beats the purpose of the AP guardian general transforms which was a core thing in Aion and sieges. NCsoft killed my favorite thing which was rifting in 3.6 I believe with fast track sever implemented which allowed players to level to 55 without being rifted on....... So you could argue the game went down hill there cause they made a lot of the instances easier.

[@petarpavicevic6799]

when is aion classic video coming?

[@DuyPham-rf5xd]

Old Aion after Open Beta was good, it must be the best game, the game from future at that time. But it soon 20 years ago :/, time is also a hacker. On Aion EU i was once the leader of all Elyos allies for siege in Abyss, it must be a thousand players both sides, and that was awesome. Spent ton of hours playing the game, feel like we are friends all players in the server, we know our enemies so well too, those top players who used to rift to us for visiting :). Nothing like sit down a half hour talking with an Asmodian using translate, help him doing quests :). In beginning everything go slowly and too much fun, i re-played many characters, it took months to max level, and the game still in good balance. I remember it took all players in the server 1 or 2 years before someone can capture the Core of Abyss, those sieges are so epic. Someone spent years to collect things for crafting instead of farming mobs for drops... and that's fine too. In our guild we are like a family. A few years ago i downloaded and logged into the game, many things shortened, skipped or closed.... no one step on the old beautiful areas anymore, i walk through the forests, deserts, temples... and there were only me with the mobs and some NPC. It makes me feeling very very sad, im alone on the old world where i got many friends, many parties, too much fun..... now we all older and lost contact, all of us became fathers and mothers ...... It brings back good memories, nostalgia and i can't continue to play with that feeling.

[@lyngaming7912]

man i hope there is new dragon nest game. that game really good in combat, raid, dungeon.

[@georgepierre3594]

Pvp 1v1, was the greatest combat in the mmorpg genre, the top 3 pvpers I played in that game was like challenger/master tier in dota2/league/street fighter 3/4.

[@yaolao-oo7mz]

Itu game Perang ANTARA ELYOS DAN ASMODIAN. lebih ke PVP. Di world map-nya . kadang muncul portal ke server lain atau ke server musuh. Keduanya di bolekan ngebunuh player .

[@lyngaming7912]

@@yaolao-oo7mz ane juga tau ngab aion mah. Lagian siapa yang mau maen aion lagi di 2024.

[@omegateemo1701]

aion times were magical , tiamaranta eye pvp was 1 of the best , after that the dmg stats got boostedso high that it wasnt fun anymore , needless to mention cash shop

[@moonlight8068]

I loved aion when you only had lvl 50 /55 , even the gear was great because they where unique . After lvl 65 it was crap .

[@Andromeda-01]

Aion was probably the only mmo where I enjoyed pvp in. There was something to gain, something to lose. Mainly abyss points. pvp in MMO nowadays feel pretty aimless. Most of the time, you get nothing and you lose nothing.

[@Greasy]

Watching this as I'm playing bdo.. Really miss hangin out with the bois running rats down and doing random stuff :^(

[@facundoticera4238]

Hi, im actually playing AION right now after a few good years since the last time i´ve played. And a lot has changed. And i´m quite sure that not for a better experience. RESTRICTED CHARACTER CREATION? GOLD MEMBRESY? Besides, the quest are not challenging anymore. They have ruined it.

[@llllmoonchildllll514]

I found this game when I was 10 back in like 2015 and I loved it so much then the huge update came out in like 2018 i think? and basically everything got removed so i stopped playing.. never found another mmo like AION

[@JM-yq9gd]

I've never come across a single pay-to-win mmo in all my years of gaming. Are you people talking about gacha games or something? I seriously don't get it.

[@kizurisan8660]

Idk Aion is good, but my problem is combatsystem . After i playing Tera ant then Blade and Soul and the BDO since Release, i can play only non target system

[@davidalex9540]

i still play it today a private server, it's so unique good and bad in the same time, i played alot of mmorpgs and aion has like -the most- in many aspects alot of standing and customisation, recently when u rest u rest in a coffin xD, most skins definetly and armors maybe and informations about everything, distance in meters, ping items and even locations and see every item how suits on you, saw in archeage too and it was cool tho, and RANK, like when you start pvp ing you can quess by the rank who has an advantage, and you can see your number in game, pretty interesting aggro system and dungeon paths, some maps and towns specifically are pretty cool, also alot of fast travels like gliding throught wind streams, or other fast travels added recently with waterfall or a giant buterfly, can be used to run away from pvp and combat has some specific conditions like being down or in air or stunned you have spells that can be used only in those conditions, or after you remove stun another combos, saw this in C9 (and this game's combos are freaking awesome, like a tekken mmorpg but the whole game is a dungeon :( ) and the BAAAD things, oh WHAT IS THAT TRAILER SWIM?????? AION??????? LIARS???? and also some classes so good designed and others SO BAAAD, i have a assasin, cutest girl ever created (pro creation artist) but after a certain level, one specific skill is SOO BAD animated after scaling too much with attack speed that it makes that UNPLAYABLE. and also ranger i think is so 2008 bad looking skills class while BARD is SO CUTE that can compete with a black desert character. but feels so old and im looking for a new mmo that could make me quit that bloody bastarto league of legends, with tons of skills and variables focused more on pvp, not other actions because im used to fight in mmorpgs not to play imvu. also there is a specific timing on casting spells, like 0.25 sec depending on cast time when you can jump and still cast a spell but TBH I DONT REALLY KNOW IF IT'S A BUG THAT NCSOFT FORGOT TO REMOVE OR IT'S ACTUALLY MADE TO BE SKILLED.... OVERALL VERY UNIQUE BUT BUGGED AF, LIKE ONE OF THE MOST BUGGED BUT MADE ME PLAY OVER YEARS and quit and play, due unique skills and combos, like TRANSFORMS INTO A DANCING PENGUIN WITH MOVES AND MUSIC like polymorph in wow, and a combo that if nobody attacks u u are paralyzed in 1v1 12 seconds. also GLIDING IS BADDAS AND I GLIDE ALOT FOR FREE *im couching* gw2.

[@jaguilar718]

Classic Aion is probably the MMO I have the fondest memories of even though it kicked my ass; it was grindy as hell, and the RNG was brutal, could never get really good gear. But the combat was so damn good, best skill animations ever.. abyss PvP fun as hell. I miss the early 2010s 🥹

[@SoraKai]

I don't think I ever played AION

[@MMOByte]

Totally understandable! What's your favorite MMO?

[@SoraKai]

@@MMOByte I suppose it's FFXIV. I hope Blue Protocol can change that 🤣

[@АртурМилкович]

9o

[@Withthekaze]

it so sad to watch my fav game dying..

[@kurmis999]

Is this wester Aion or is Korean version too?

[@XakariTTV]

Just came back to eu classic after a break, after character creation i noticed 20 bots population just teleporting in starting area, in classic there are literally new bots party created every 5 min...

[@brandonstrong9127]

I played in like 2013,14. Don’t kno which that would be. Was a beautiful MMO with some pvp I was ass at. People would challenge you to a duel and run away. Come back thirty minutes later and flip your sh*t cause you forgot you accepted a random duel 30 minutes ago.

[@Dingle.Donger]

Stop. I played this for so many years as a top sorcerer in my server overall. Knowing I can never go back is such a shame. NA Classic is dead. EU Classic is great the insane ping in PvP hurt my soul. I loved the PvP.

[@fastguitars4380]

It was in 2018, that Aion was destroyed. It was destroyed when 6.0 edition started. And just before this update happened, they had all the Players play together as one in this new instance they called TIA... And all we did was run around it, in a circle.. and that was the Game... Then 6.0 landed, and the owner-publisher who had taken it over, simply changed the game from an ever evolving beautiful canvas, .. into dirt roads, redundant mobs, and a genuinely ugly violation of everything the game had been before. Wheras Aion was always about the next beautiful Instance or the newest gear.. that you experienced as you leveled up and up and up... . But that all changed, and starting with 6.0, .......= Players were prohibited from trading with each other...., and all the new Gear was redundant and horrible, and the entire look of the game was changed from beauty to dumbed down ugly , and simplistic. And before this happened, this game was always full of players, but since then, and now.... 2024...the game is several gens later, and no one playes it, .. it has no real updates for 6 yrs.... as its basically 6.0, continuing, while they delted Esterra and the other beautiful places.. And almost all the Older Players, left.., but a few of us occasionally go there and just can't believe how they destroyed this once amazing Game. Now, there is Aion Classic, and for me that is NOTHING... as why do i want to start over after years of advancing my CLERIC.... while playing the REAL Aion? It BS...., and the people who own this Game, didnt have to do it., but they decided they would and for NO REASON other then to try to encourage us to play Aion Classic..

[@Snoopi25]

I really want to come back and play Aion, but before they ruined the story and map, so around 4.6? EuroAion seems to be alive still, but ping from USA to EU is not... ideal for PVP....

[@Anna.K..]

I miss healing solo as support Chanter/Support Bard

[@fabiangreen6668]

I love AION... it's the one game i stuck to since i joined... tried other mmos and got bored very quickly, even uninstalled few days after installing... NCsoft needs to listen to the comunity and just fix it. i like when they focused on the story... it's the story that got me hooked to the game. as for aion classic.... i uninstalled that literally a week after installing. i also don't know why people in europe complain about gameforge but still stick with them... i'd suggest to just move over to NA.

[@alamarana6961]

i felt in love with Aion back in 2010, until they went full p2w, and i have played lot of mmorpg, WoW, Gw2,BDO, FF14, New World, Tera etc etc , theres no tittle that can fill the void Aion left inside me :( . I miss that open world pvp, like Tera on Release, but MMO's nowadays are too friendly, or at least their community. Good Video, Good luck mate ! Regards!

[@yoshi3706]

I got a similar list: Black desert, FF14, Tera (only lvl 15), Lost Ark, WOW (only lvl 20) and GW2, but no mmorpg like Aion :(

[@АртурМилкович]

9o

[@ectolo]

I absolutely loved 1.4 to 2.7 - Had the best gear possible at 1.9, was in a huge clan, loads of online mates on ventrillo 24/7, beat all the hardest content. Gave up on retail, went to arguably the best private server (notaion) and just enjoy being a GM there for years. Wonderful memories. Check out my channel for some 10 year old videos of 1v1 gladi pvp content with jump shots, split screen, cast cancles and all the good stuff that made the game so technically great!

[@VoxiVox]

i still hop into Aion from time to time just to mountain climb while listening to generic lofi songs while high.

[@ayaks90]

AION died after 3.0. The game was supposed to be twink pvp separated from max lvl but with every next update they were increasing the lvl cap.... nothing was better than to be a lv 45 twink kicking the lv 55 players....

[@lunareclipse-]

Tera and Aion… I miss it

[@Arknarter]

I still highly recommend playing EU Classic. Aint that bad as people say.

[@newtonexpert25]

not worth it

[@sals49ers1]

I loved aion for the first 3 years or so when it first came out quit in 4.5 than played classic for awhile loved my glad Backfat for ever :)

[@decades-y2f]

sadly the only places where you can actually play aion and enjoy it are private servers, and not even most of them but a small minority that are on fixed patches, like euroaion or others that try to give some sort of hope to it, but ye, even classic is becoming unplayable, no point in playing there since they even nerfed a lot the drops overall to counter bots (no anti bot system but rather no farm system for all players). The community is quite on the same page when it comes to this, as of right now aion is dead

[@1acc2rulethemall]

It is so sad i prefer WOW nowadays, just because its not dead. There are just not quite enough ppl in Aion Classic. I wish it was different 😞

[@loadrpg]

Hahahaha. I wasnt trolling for real! Sadge. I used to love the game, and I still play Classic now a days.

[@foryouthisgame9376]

I played Aion 2014-2016 i guess , Infitnite Aion, even you are low level ,if you have Item with full pvp stats , you can kill highlevel , Assassin the best that time, I am Asmo, Assassin level 40 that time, with full pvp abyss set , then i remember im going to herion and killing Elyos everywhere , even max level 55 i can kill 😅 And

[@reavl6494]

rip AION, do we try Throne and Liberty?

[@OnlyInhuman90]

Played when this had monthly subscription and this is not what I remember

[@bumblebee9337]

Bring back Classic on a private server?

[@yoshi3706]

Euro Aion has 4.6 version, its a private server

[@АртурМилкович]

9o

[@atreq]

I used to play Aion for years but then I had to switch my OS to Linux bc of school and I couldn't get Aion running on it so I had to quit... now I am on Windows again, can I joing anyone in playing? Classic, apparently XD

[@PedroHenrique-xp4wd]

i used to love this game, one of the best pvp that i've experience

[@ectolo]

I absolutely loved 1.4 to 2.7 - Had the best gear possible at 1.9, was in a huge clan, loads of online mates on ventrillo 24/7, beat all the hardest content. Gave up on retail, went to arguably the best private server (notaion) and just enjoy being a GM there for years. Wonderful memories. Check out my channel for some 10 year old videos of 1v1 gladi pvp content with jump shots, split screen, cast cancles and all the good stuff that made the game so technically great!

[@I_see_a_spider]

Worst thing after playing retail is playing Classic NA and seeing the shit EU will become. I mean suits me if they don't want my money, i have 2 accounts marked for death and the 3rd is only logged in because i still have aura left. I cancelled my 'sub' on both my NA accounts as well.