Another minor gripe is the complete lack of character stats. Not sure if that’s just a trial account thing or for all users, but I could only choosing char type and cosmetics, leveling up does nothing except act as a base for which quests and skill books you can use.

*** there are many mods for oblivion now that include flying: user wings, mounts, fixes for textures from above etc.

It’s like WoW without all the bits that really, really irritate me.

(Also, no, it’s not a Korean grinder – it is, indeed, an Asian WoW. With much better graphics and character customization that isn’t 10 years old. Woot.)

Also, Oblivion’s failure to include Morrowind’s Levitate spell was its single largest flaw in my book.

I wish western MMO’s offered something like that, if they did a lot more companies would be getting some of my money, Eve, city of heroes, Warhammer, and Age of Conan (maybe even EQ2) and more – games that I’d never play enough to justify the flat monthly fee, but would be more than willing to drop a few pound for a few hours play every now and then.

Anyway this just looks like another Korean grinder to me, i don’t particularly like grinding that much. Sometimes its therapeutic but other times i just want to do something else.

sigh.

Have been anticipating this title for almost 4 years, and (from my impression of the first 11 levels) it’s quite simply Asian WoW. Down to the fonts, the art style, the GUI.. (Example)

So incredibly disappointing. The flying is dangled like a grand reward and then is a complete failure, lasting initially barely a minute with the promise of it lasting… 2 minutes… after many levels. After playing Perfect World ( example) for almost a year and enjoying it’s vertical play, this came as a bitter pill. Expectations were that AION would be it’s more polished, larger and developed big brother, not it’s distant cousin.