Awhile back I posted about how much I was enjoying Aion. Well, it’s unfortunate but I haven’t logged in since I wrote that post. I did the ascension questline and got my wings, and promptly stopped playing.
After hearing about how much of a grind it is at higher levels, I think I made the right decision for myself. I have been doing a lot of freelance writing in my spare time trying to make some extra cash, and I don’t feel that sitting down and playing an MMO is a good use of my time right now. Perhaps that will change..but for now, World of Warcraft is still my “go to” game for when I have some spare chunks of time to spend with an MMO.
Aion = Cancelled.
Tami Baribeau is the Associate Producer for Metaplace, Inc, currently working on Island Life. She is also the Lead Editor of feminist gaming blog The Border House, and the National Facebook Games Examiner for Examiner.com. She can be reached on Twitter or by email.
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Yeah, I’m doing the same thing. The main reaso is not the grind, but the fact that you can do an entire PvE dungeon in Aion (around 2 hr long) and have the bosses drop nothing at all. As someone who primarily plays for small group PvE content like that, such a ‘mechanic’ takes out all the incentive for doing dungeons at all. I don’t mind the grinding/farming and the RvR, but without fun PvE there’s no real reason for me to keep playing. I’m kind of disappointed because Aion was touted as being a good mix of PvE and PvP — I think the PvP part is great but it’s PvE aspects are very lacking atm.