NCsoft at Pax East 2011

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Genius

Pax East 2011 is only several hours away and if you were lucky enough to get your pass on time you have a great chance to talk with members of the Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars 2, Lineage development and community teams. On the official NCsoft site you can check out the schedule for details. Also, NCsoft players and their PAX East 2011 friends are invited to the NCsoft Boston Meet & Greet on Friday, March 11, 2011 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel.

Valid Photo ID required for admission. No one under 18 admitted without parent or legal guardian. Due to space limitations, admission to the event is limited and is granted based on a first-come, first-served basis to the capacity of the venue.

NCsoft Boston Meet & Greet 2011

When:
Friday, March 11, 2011
7 p.m.–10 p.m.

Where:
Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
Harbor Ballroom
425 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210

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New Aion Fortune Festival

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Genius

The Fortune Fayre, will takes place from Wednesday March 9th, 2011 to Wednesday March 23rd, 2011. During this event players will have a chance to trade Pink, Red and Blue gifts for hight level manastones and superior rarity or heroic rarity godstones. So try your luck and tell us what kind of gifts you got.

How to start?

Event Staff NPCs in each capital city give out all the relevant quests:

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Aion Server Maintenance 02/03/2011

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Genius

Aion team announced that Aion servers and website will be down at 12:00 CET 02/03/2011 for maintenance. The maintenance is estimated to take no longer than 3 hours.

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New Aion Event – Gateway Getaway

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Genius

Gateway Getaway is a new Aion Double XP event that begins Wednesday, February 23, and runs until March 9, 2011. During this event your character will be able to use special entrance gates for entering instances despite fort ownership.

You can enter a selection of the Upper Abyss fort instances and Divine’s Abyssal Splinter from the home territories of Primum and Teminon, and access Silentera Canyon from inside your home base in the Illusion and Gelkmaros fortresses.

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New Valentine’s Gifts at the Aion Store

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Genius

New Valentine’s day outfit, a pack of dyes and a fully refreshed experience bar! Starting Wednesday, February 9, 2011 new items will be available in Aion Store!

  1. Star-crossed Lovers Pack
    Woo your Valentine with a tailored outfit and charming accessories.

    The Star Crossed Lovers Pack includes these in-game items for use on one character, on one account:

    * One Truelove Outfit (chest item)
    * One Truelove Accessory (garland or mask)
    * One Truelove Waltz Hat (cap)

    The Star-crossed Lovers Pack is available until March 9, 2011.

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  2. True Red Dye Pack
    Red is the color of true love, the heart’s blood of your passion, so wear your heart on your sleeve by dyeing your clothes this Valentine’s Day.
    The True Red Dye Pack includes these in-game items for use on one character, on one account:

    * A stack of 5 Dye: True Red

    The True Red Dye Pack is available until March 9, 2011.

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  3. Hot Pink Dye Pack

    Celebrate Valentine’s Day in sizzle and style! Dye your garments hot pink like the first blush of love.
    The Hot Pink Dye Pack includes these in-game items for use on one character, on one account:

    * A stack of 5 Dye: Hot Pink

    The Hot Pink Dye Pack is available until March 9, 2011.

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RIFT – MMORPGs of 2011, Part 1

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Mikro

The year behind us was probably one of the worst years for the MMORPG genre. We saw several rushed out releases that brought shame to the IPs that powered them. We saw the quickest closing down of a high budget MMO in history. The only thing that seem to have made money are games for teenagers and browser games.
For the first time in our 4 year history we will be doing a network wide Editorial on all our MMORPG Life sites and the topic will be huge MMO games coming out this year and what we expect of them. The honor to be presented first is the soon to be released Rift by Trion Worlds.

Rift: Planes of Telara is a fantasy MMORPG made and published by the industry newcomer Trion Worlds. The game is set in a unique world of Telara that represents an intersection of several powerful planes of reality. As such it has drawn the attention of the mighty elemental gods of the Blood Storm led by Regulos, god of Death. As Death gods tend to do he attacked Telara and it is up to its denizens to try and defend it from the oncoming invasion.

We had the opportunity to play in the invitational closed beta events Trion Worlds has been holding in the past months and here are my impressions of what I’ve seen in my short time in Telara.
If you haven’t managed to get into one of these events and are curious to see what the game is all about you can also pre-order the game and that will grant you access to all the remaining beta events as well as early access.

Click here to read about all of our experiences in Rift

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AION 2.5 Release Date in Korea – January 26th

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Genius

NCsoft announced to bring Aion 2.5 to live server on January 26th. When 2.5 arrives, players will enjoy more instances, more items, more pets, more skills, more customizing and enhanced graphic quality.

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New Aion Rifting changes

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Genius

Aion team has released survey responses about adjusting the protection for defenders in their homelands. The survey responses showed:

  • The majority of players agreed with having a change to the large protective buffs put in place in for rifting.
  • The majority of players agreed with having the protections in Heiron and Beluslan removed.
  • The majority of players told us that though they liked the lowering of the protective buff in Morheim and Eltnen, they felt that the protective buff should be slightly increased.

As Aion team announced the rifting trial will be extended a few more weeks and the amount of protection will be slightly increase in Morheim and Eltnen.

We are extending the rifting trial a few more weeks. You have told us that lower level characters could use a bit more protection, and so we are planning to slightly increase the amount of protection for defending characters in Morheim and Eltnen.

Near the end of the trial, we will again survey you (our players) to gauge your opinions on the changes introduced in this rifting trial. We then plan to return the rifting protections back to their previous levels, analyze your responses, and communicate with you about what plans are in regards to rifting and the protection for defenders.

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New changes to Aion Crafting System

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Genius

New Aion 2.1 Part 2 update will be focused on crafting system and it includes new crafting recipes. Also, the Artisan Expo event is coming back featuring accelerated crafting, essencetapping, and aethertapping.

The Aion® 2.1 Part 2 update is heading to the North American and European Union test servers (PTS) on Thursday, January 20, 2011, and we’ve scheduled its release to the live servers on Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The 2.1 Part 2 update focuses on crafting in Aion, and it includes new crafting recipes. We’ll post the release notes when the update is pushed to the PTS.

Many of you are working on skilling up your crafting professions. In celebration of this patch’s crafting focus, the Atreia’s Artisan Expo event is coming back for an entire week. From January 26 through February 2, the craftspeople of Atreia will have a blowout weeklong event featuring accelerated crafting, essencetapping, and aethertapping. Start imagining the new things you’ll be able to make now!

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Two Aion surveys during Holiday season

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Genius

Aion team has announced two surveys with special gifts:

Two surveys will be going out starting Thursday December 23 and will be available for you to pick-up until January 3rd, 2011.

The first survey is a special holiday surprise, Daevas! We hope it will bring you good cheer and keep you warm in those cold, winter nights in Atreia. Remember if you want it on your main character, make sure you log on to your main then open the survey and accept it!

The second survey will deliver a second Watchful Ailu pet egg. The Watchful Ailu was a big hit and we want to provide an opportunity for everyone to get this wonderful pet. If you didn’t get a chance to get the Watchful Ailu the first time around, the second survey is your chance to get it on your main. If you already received this pet, the second survey is a chance to get it on an additional character!

Make sure you log onto the appropriate character before you open and accept the survey, Daevas.

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