Aion is planned for release in Q4 2009. HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT for me and most of the fans. The communities already started to shatter and give up their hopes on Aion. This newsflash came as a bomb considering NCSoft hasn't released ANY updates at all on the game for several months.
That's not the way you treat your customers, because after all we are NCSoft's customers, clients, whatever you want to call it.Ayase, the good old community manager at NCSoft left (resigned or got kicked out, don't know for sure), and the new manager remained in his place, Liv, put up a detailed report regarding the current situation of the Aion community (if you ask me.... there is no situation at all anymore) to be presented to the upper managers and producers.
Liv also said that the Aion launch date will be decided by the Producers and not Financials department, who released that plan presented above... or so she says.Honestly, I think NCSoft does not know much about marketing. Blizzard announced that they are working on a new MMO.
The company Square Enix (the studio which created the Final Fantasy series) is also supposed to launch a new MMO in Q1 2010. So my opinion is that NCSoft's game (Aion) will not be at all that successful in terms of money making.
There is just too much competition at this point.The game is fascinating, I would really want to play it sooner, but it seems the Koreans want to keep their games to the east.
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