Being that Korean gamers have been grinding on Aion for almost a year it was no surprise that the North American launch went so smooth, at least when compared with other recent mmo launches *cough* AOC *cough*. The only real issue that arose were the queue times with some people reporting five hour wait times. On my server, Marchutan, there has been queue times every day after 5pm the longest of which I have seen personally is one and a half hours. There is an upside to this though, a server deficient launch may stave off what ultimately served to be Warhammer Online’s demise; low server population within weeks of kick off.

As far as MMO’s go it doesn’t get much more solid than Aion. From the built in quest helper to the transparent map overlay it’s apparent that NCSoft can really add some flare to classic mmo game mechanics by adding just a few much needed HUD enhancements.

Since I’m still in noobville I cannot comment on the dynamics of in flight pvp, but I’m sure high level duels will be quite interesting. Check the pics…