Aion Online = WoW Killer?

[AndreasG7]

Actually, last year WoW had 15 million subscribers. Now WoW has 16 million subscribers.


Aion WAS the WoW Killer. Then Deathwing came...

BS... Wow lost MILLIONS of subscribers due to wrath >.< last I saw it had 11 million players world wide - PLAYERS - so could be private as thats the sort of thing blizz would do tbh...
and this game looks good, but wow cannot die.

We've helped create a monster....
And it's going to slowly kill us all...

DUN DUN DUNNNN!

[Votkrath]

The hype will kill Aion sadly.

[The Maffyx]

The hype will kill Aion sadly.

I don't know about that, I was playing the beta yesterday, and there were a lot of people, and there were about 5-6 servers to play on and they all seemed to be populated about the same. I've already convinced like 5 people to get it that I know of. The forums for the game are pretty active and what not. I don't think its going to be a WoW killer but I don't think its going to flop.

[razor321]

I do not think Aoin is/will be killer of wow...Still it has stable player community a and it is nearly five years old....

By the way to the guys arguing about numbers of wow subscribers - Wow numbers dropped in last months, wow never had 16 million players. Here is just one of many articles about recent numbers:

http://news.filefront.com/blizzard-d...w-subscribers/

[Gawdlaw]

You guys do realise that wow doesnt have 16 mill players right? It are just the accounts they have.. and most of the players like me do have 3 of them, or already stopped playing the game.. (I think blizzard just uses the ammount of accs for commersial use) I'm playing Aion right now, and I really do enjoy it more then I do with wow. The first map of Aion may be a kind of boring but that's for the newcomers to get into the game without easely getting killed and such. I'm sure if you play it a few days you will enjoy it

[old dirty bastard]

half and half sounds good

[Viter]

You guys do realise that wow doesnt have 16 mill players right? It are just the accounts they have.. and most of the players like me do have 3 of them, or already stopped playing the game.. (I think blizzard just uses the ammount of accs for commersial use) I'm playing Aion right now, and I really do enjoy it more then I do with wow. The first map of Aion may be a kind of boring but that's for the newcomers to get into the game without easely getting killed and such. I'm sure if you play it a few days you will enjoy it

auctually they have 11 million active subscribers i think.

[Gawdlaw]

auctually they have 11 million active subscribers i think.

I really don't think that blizzard will ever tell the people that the amount of subscribers they'll have decreased, because that will make them look bad

[Viter]

I really don't think that blizzard will ever tell the people that the amount of subscribers they'll have decreased, because that will make them look bad

Last time they announced they had 11 million active subscribers.

But i bet they lost a few

[karapidiola]

hello i was playing the latest beta i lvl up a summoner to 21 lvl in 3 days (not 72hours)

i leveled 1-16 in 10 hours 16 - 20 8 hours 20 - 21 3 hours but i didn't know anything about the quest.

so its not so hard to level-up at all
graphics are so ****ing cool
gameplay its very nice there so many things into the game like stigma and many other staff
u can take profs so if u are borring just lvl up them
skills and combo skills rox
mobs hit hard but ok (i die 3 - 4 hits as cloth user)

also i have done some elite quests and minibosses runs and i have to say they are gr8
bosses need tacts also (do aoe skills etc)
u can take titles that gives stats with quests and camp quests
u can lvl up fast with every class like clerics,chanters (support classes)

in my opinion to play that game u need to got some experience about mmos

and here u can view my summoner before get wiped

[Iraq]

Last time they announced they had 11 million active subscribers.

But i bet they lost a few

last official statistic was in 2008 with the reported 11 million subscribers. in june of 2009 blizzard lost 6 million subscriptions in china due to the conflict with the9. that was the last known fact about subscription numbers, so you can actively say that they are at about 5 million now.

[Link_77]

bah even if they lose subscriptions they re going to get more and more player due casual players are taking wow instead dedicate ones

who cares about dedicate players? if they re goign to get same money every month if you play 1h/day or if u play 24/7??? well... all can see that


Aion wowkiller? pffffffffffffffffffffffff
dont think so, we all try new games and we say oh great!! great game, but some hours later we back to our raid :P

[Gawdlaw]

We can't say that Aion is a WoW killer till the time is there ..

[papardelos]

I joined the previous Aion OBT and this (the last one),now I am waiting till 20/9, where I will be able to play again at headstart.Also I'm playing wow since tbc(where I rly raided a lot) and till lvl 80 where I got sick of wow and the "un-skilled" suckers that pay blizzard.I wanted to conclude that Aion is really a great game, and I would recommend to everyone that plays wow.Sure, its not going to be a "wow killer", but it will kick ass.

[The Maffyx]

I'm psyched for it because it looks like a challenging game, where you have to actually do stuff to succeed unlike how WoW is now.