So I’ve pretty much almost played two weeks of Aion as a cleric. In general Aion is a really nice game with some good graphic. The bad side at the moment is the queues. Between 3pm-10pm GMT the waiting queue to join the server is around 2-4hrs. Imagine what it’s like for those that work or have school. They come back after a long day, hopefully to relax and play Aion, instead they end up waiting in the queue for 3hrs. By the time they get in, they can only play for an hr or two then its bed time. That’s what it will be like for me next week.

Continuing the queue issues, my friends and I predict that many players won’t continuing subscribing for the game next month. So we’re thinking that if NCSoft doesn’t do anything about it by then many players will quit which will reduce the queues. A really bad move from NCSoft as their response to this was to tell players to move to the less populated server. Well most people won’t do that as they have friends on the server they’re currently playing and don’t really want to re-roll and start again.

Besides the queue issues, the game isn’t so bad. I’ve only played a cleric as that’s always the class I play in every MMORPG. I find it really hard to level on my own as a cleric at first, then I understood how to play my class probably and it’s pretty easy. It’s probably easier than most other classes. Potions are expensive in this game and players don’t really use them unless its essential. Therefore when players grind they tend to sit down and regen their health points or mana points. Classes that can’t heal themselves or kite monsters have to sit down after killing 1-3 monsters to regen their health points. Cleric on the other hand just heal themselves when health point is low and only need to sit down and regen when mana points is low. Cleric also has a mana regen self buff that would regen their mana in about 10 secs.

Aion head start open two days ago. Each server has a max capacity and then a waiting queue. The night of the released, I wanted 2-3hrs to get on. Then the day after I waited in the queue for about 4hrs. Luckly I’ve been able to get online early in the morning before the queues starts (around 12pm) and just stay on either playing or leaving the client opened. My friends who tried to get on in the afternoon had to wait 6-7hrs yesterday.

They better increase the server cap soon because we are paying to play not paying to wait. I hate not being able to play with most of my friends much because they’re spending majority of the time in the queue.

It was Aion’s pre-selection last night around 8pm BST. The server were suppose to come on at 8pm to allow pre-ordered players to select their server and create their character. I wanted almost an hr for the servers to come up. No idea what was delaying them. They’ve limited the max number of characters you can create per server so those that haven’t already created probably can’t create anything now as most servers are closed. They will need to wait till head start tomorrow before they can create their character(s). Lucky I created as soon as the server came on live.

I bet that tomorrow the servers won’t be able to cope with the number of players rushing to start the game. Also the first few areas will be PACKED with people. It’s going to be really annoying doing any quest especially the ones involving killing monsters that spawns ever few minutes.