Patience my…

Some people are wont to believe nuns have the patience of a saint (except perhaps those individuals who attended a parochial school).  The truth, however, (at least in my case) is perhaps more closely exemplified by our two winged friends above.

Some mmo releases are smoother than a puppies butt,  and some are rockier than a Hollywood marriage. One thing is for sure, however, and that is no road to release is without its share of potholes.

Granddad may have not been patient enough to wait in line to spend his money, but I dare say he probably wouldn’t have played Aion Online last night either. There have been long waits for some servers, it is quite true.  Some players, when confronted with an hour and a half wait time will simply say “Damn the torpedoes – full speed ahead” and wait it out.  Others, who do not enjoy having something to bitch about the next day, will simply select an alternate server: Ariel server? No wait. Fortunately, for me at least, some guild masters have the foresight not to select the server with the absolute highest population.  One other aspect of Aion does make a wait worthwhile…

Balance

You may not be able to select the faction you want at first (I had to wait a short while) but in the end I am happy to see that NCSoft has learned from other game releases (here’s looking at you  Warhammer Online devs) and not waited until after the fact to try and concern themselves about population balance. Still, as my old NCO used to say, if a soldier couldn’t complain she wouldn’t be happy. As a result, I have found some rather unique conversations across the blogosphere about the game that has already been out for a year in South Korea:

Gamer X: “I had to wait for an hour and a half to log on last night!”

Julie: “No one made you select the highest population server.”

Gamer X: “I don’t care.”

Julie: “But once you got on didn’t it run smoother than puppies behind? Heck I don’t even have a top end machine and there wasn’t so much as a hitch.”

Gamer X: “I don’t care – the game is too much like WoW”

Julie: “Too much like World of Warcraft? Are you psychotic? It’ doesn’t look anything like World of Warcraft!”

Gamer X: “I didn’t say looks I meant plays.  It plays too much like WoW. I’m back to killing 10 rats again.”

Julie: What the hell do you want? How many different ways can you kill ten rats or deliver a federal express package? I have the perfect solution for you though.”

Gamer X: “What’s that?”

Julie: “Log off. Cancel your subscription, and wait for Hello Kitty Online to come out – maybe that’s more your speed.”

“Gamer X”, of course, is an amalgamation of many of the blogs I have read out there since the opening day of Aion Online.

Yes, I will be the first to admit that some of the glitches were a bit aggravating.  When I first logged on it didn’t want my money.  I said to myself “don’t they want my credit card?” It appeared not, so I just logged on and played. Later that day I logged on again, only to be greeted by a message telling me my account had been temporarily suspended for not paying the subscription. Ok, I thought, it seems they want a credit card after all. I went out to the account management site and gave them my credit card. I went back and logged on again only to be greeted by the same message:

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