The Aion Experience

That’s basically the title of the new gold spam MAIL that I started receiving today. Saying “sorry” does not make it all ok – ask any remorseful murderer or rapist. And yes, I put the pond scum that is gold sellers that spam in game in the same “should be shot on sight” category.

Gold Spam Delivered

They spammed the general channels and it got stopped unless you level up to 5. They spammed via whisper and again, that got stopped unless you level up to 5. So now, they take to mailing the equivalent of junk mail to us in game. Hey Spammers, guess what? WE DON”T WANT YOU IN OUR GAME!!! F#$% the hell off and go drown yourself in a public toilet please. They’re like cockroaches, no matter how many times you stand on them, they still don’t leave.

If they do insist of costing me time by having to open the mail, wait for the delete button to show up, then click delete and click yes I really want to #%$%ing delete this shit, they should AT LEAST include 10 Kineh with every mail sent. Call it proof me to you have the funds should I ever cause myself enough brain damage to order…

Although my subconscious must have a clock in view somewhere and I did in fact wake at 5am this morning, I had no plans to leave the warmth and comfort of my bed to jump onto Aion straight away. I also figured there’d likely be either a queue, or server issues as expected with a game launch, and wasn’t about to get out of bed just to sit and stare at my computer.

But I’m up now, and I’m online!! Wahoo!!

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I considered making my daughter some toast, and me some breakfast before I did anything. To just leave my Alexan standing there breathing in the fresh air she’s waited so long to breath. But then my daughter asked for cheese which she can eat on my lap and I noticed the first quest giver was just centimeters away lol. Since she was happy and eating, I figured why not just do the first quest right?

Finding your feet in a fresh MMORPG is always interesting, but when you’ve not even logged into your previous MMO (WoW) in a few months, it’s even more fun. Although I had the basics of moving, I couldn’t figure out how to open my inventory, locate my quest journal and for the first time since the beta of World of Warcraft, I paid attention to the in game tutorials lol.

Once I found the menu button and noticed the hot key letters beside each of the functions, I was pretty much good to go. Until 5 seconds passed and I forgot which was which.

Thankfully, the questing side of things really makes it easy! When you speak to the quest guy (right click works just fine, yay), not only does he tell you where to go – ie down the road, etc – but you can click on the NPC names of others involved and you get a second window pop up giving you info:

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And if that wasn’t easy enough, if you click on the locate button within that second window, you get a map!!

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So really, there should be absolutely no need to read “where do I find so and so” in chat. Of course there is, every 3 bloody seconds!! Just as there is the “press Alt + F4 to equip an item/find the quest/kill a mob/make a naked girl appear”. I can’t believe people still think that works, or worse, that it does!

On top of that, there is the already annoying for 1k spam. /sigh I hate people sometimes. Then I remembered it’s the first main day of the school holidays here in Australia and the game is likely to be flooded with the annoying cretins I try very hard not to swerve and run over in my car at 3:30pm each day.

But still, I’m in, and I’m loving it so far. As of this posting, I’ve completed my first real quest to kill 4 beasts and dinged level 2. I really hope leveling isn’t going to be that easy!! For memory the first quest in WoW also dings you to level 2 (remembering the Undead ones at least) so I’m not too worried for yet. I’m just in no rush to reach level 50 and want to enjoy the ride.

For now though, I’ve logged out and will make some breakfast…