Aion 2.0

[Oddbot]

In my experience if an MMO is doing well, they usually don't have a free trial for a while.

Doing it like that is actually fundamentally unsound as a business reason in a subscription model, where the vast majority of revenue is drawn from subscription fees, not the box sales.

I dunno the business reasons behind it, but it's just been my experience. Successful games like WoW and LOTRO have taken a while before they offered a free trial. Fail games like AoC and WAR offered ones much quicker, and now the first ten levels of WAR are free forever.

 

[AshburnerX]

It usually depends on who owns the game. If it's NCSoft, you can expect a trial within a year, tops.

 

[Shegokigo]

It is NCSoft.

 

[AshburnerX]

It is NCSoft.

Then there will be a trial soon. NCSoft hands out free trials like candy because of how the Korean gaming scene works.

 

[jasonisgreat]

I have been playing it for a week. It's pretty good so far, I guess.

I've played Wow, LotR Online, FFXI, City of Heroes, and Warhammer Online. I never cared for WoW or LotR, but Warhammer was pretty good. I played FFXI and City of Heroes on and off for a few years.

I haven't been playing Aion long enough to say whether or not I'll stick with it, but I like it so far. The flying, though more limited (time-wise) than I'd originally thought, is cool. The game looks great, and I like the few classes I've tried out so far.