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NPD Reports Aion #1 for September

NPD Reports Aion #1 for September

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Remember the NPD Group? They are the ones that report on PC Box Sales, which is perhaps becoming quite an outdated metric in light of all the online sales purchases through services such as Steam or Direct2Drive. Nonetheless, the NPD Group still publishes monthly retail box sales figures for PC Games, and here they are for the month of September.

  1. Aion (NCsoft)
  2. The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
  3. Champions Online (Atari)
  4. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard)
  5. Aion Collector's Edition (NCsoft)
  6. Mumbo Jumbo Assortment (Mumbo Jumbo)
  7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (EA)
  8. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest (Blizzard)
  9. Reel Deal Slots: Treasures of the Far East (Phantom EFX)
  10. World of Warcraft (Blizzard)

While it seems like all new games are number one on the list, Aion didn't truly go live until September 22nd, so maybe it isn't a fluke, this time.

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Topics: General
Related Games: Aion (PC)

You Are Banned! 200 Players Accused Aion Company

You Are Banned! 200 Players Accused Aion Company

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According to Taiwan media, about 200 AION (a most popular online game) players accused the game company of banning and deleting their accounts without providing any proof. Not only the in-game treasures have been withdrawn, but also the rest money in the stored-value card could not be refunded.

Mr. Zhou, the customer service manager of the game company expressed the mechanism to investigate whether players used the cheating program is a business confidential. The company won’t bring forward any evidence until players report it or take legal steps. However, players can make an appeal via customer service or mail first, the company will inquire into the appeals and then restore their account if insufficient evidence is obtained. As compensation, the players will enjoy 14-day free subscription. Sadly, the rest points in the stored-value card will return to zero after the account is banned, thus the money cannot be refunded.

It is unclear which markets we are speaking about, but the fact that they are banning is important. Hopefully NCSoft will apply banning techniques that target the guilty while preserving the "rights" of the innocent.

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Topics: General
Related Games: Aion (PC)

Aion J!NX Apparel Now Available!

Aion J!NX Apparel Now Available!

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As an officially licensed partner of NCSoft, J!NX is proud to bring you apparel celebrating the beauty and adventure of Aion.

Check out all of the official Aion apparel by J!NX and while supplies last get an additional Aion Energy Boost Pack to power up your gaming with each Aion J!NX apparel purchase.

J!NX is a clothing brand heavily influenced by video games and geek culture. It's an immersion into all forms of gaming, tech stuff, the interwebz, cult classic cinema, spaceships, comic books, fantasy, rolling dice, and collecting things. J!NX designs, manufactures and markets unique apparel that enables its customers to demonstrate their intelligence, uniqueness, leadership and wily mischievousness.



Topics: Community
Related Games: Aion (PC)

NCsoft's October Community Address

NCsoft's October Community Address

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The Community Team over at Aion / NCsoft just released their Community Statement for the month of October. I'll post it below in its entirety:

It’s been a month now since Aion opened its doors to players in North America and Europe. In that month, the growth of the game’s community has signaled Aion’s success. We’ve received an amazing amount of feedback, both positive and negative. We’d like to reiterate that we’ve been listening. We have been working around the clock toward solutions to the problems many of you have experienced.

You’ve told us that it’s difficult to advance within certain level ranges. To address this issue, we’re planning to raise quest experience, in addition to reevaluating the experience rewards characters gain for individual kills. We understand how frustrating it can be to repetitively kill enemies. Our goal is to limit the need to mindlessly “grind.”

In this week’s Eye on Community, we answered a question that a player had about client instability. In the reply, we noted that most of the claims stem from the infamous “Crysystem.dll error.” We’ve been working with members of the community to identify the cause of the problem in order to find a permanent solution. Our development team is currently investigating, and will be testing a variety of different short- and long-term solutions. These include adding additional and improved display options to the Aion client, as well as system and memory optimizations.

We’ve heard your unhappiness about the chat spam and bots in Aion and recognize it as an annoying problem. We’ve taken measures to reduce the amount of chat spam you’ll be subjected to and have already seen substantial improvements in this area. We’ve been expanding our GM customer service staff, and we have also assembled a special team dedicated to hunting down and eliminating botting operations. It’s obvious these activities erode your gameplay experience far too much to be acceptable. They also harm us from a business standpoint due to the RMT organizations’ frequent use of stolen credit cards.

Many of you have asked us why we haven’t spent more time communicating the specifics of our plans. The unfortunate truth is that the same people spamming chat channels and setting up bots are also reading our announcements. In order to keep the enemy in the dark, we cannot be too vocal about our plans to fight back.

We want you to know, though, that we’re more dedicated than ever to eliminate chat spam and the use of bots. The good news is that you can help. If you see any suspicious player activity, report it. To quickly report these players, use the /AutoReportHunting feature by typing /AutoReportHunting while a suspicious character is targeted. It’s important to note that this system will actually begin to penalize players after they’ve been reported multiple times. The more of you that use this systemâ€"the more effective it will become.

To add more specificity to what we’re discussing here, early next week we’re going to be releasing details about a game update that will go into further detail about how we’ll be fixing some of these issues, in addition to others.

It’s been an exciting month, and the future of Aion is full of promise. Please continue to send us your feedback and never forget that patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The Aion Community Team


What do you think of their address?

Topics: Official news
Related Games: Aion (PC)


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