Champions Online Executive Producer and industry veteran Bill Roper talks to WarCry editor John Funk about the launch of Champions - balance solutions, communicating with the playerbase, and the difficulties of launching a new MMO - and looks toward the future of the genre.
When you have two million words worth of Eastern fantasy adventure to translate - and make accessible - to English-speaking gamers, where the hell do you start? The NCSoft team sounds off on the monumental task of localizing a game like Aion.
Gamerzines' latest editorial series hits the interwebs today with How to make the perfect MMO - Part 5.
By ensuring that the MMO world is governed by rules that make sense, you create a world the player can believe in more, and offer more gameplay ideas.
GamerZines rolls out the next article in their series, How to make the perfect MMO - Part 3, with a closer look at craft skills.
Crafting is an idea that is arguable the only original gameplay idea to have appeared in MMOs over single player RPGs (discuss!).
There are times when you feel the need to mention a game, but there isn't really any other place in which to do it. These are the anomalies, the head-scratchers, or anything else that simply just defies categorization.
Suzie "Kalia" Ford chats with Charles 'kieron' Dane and Brian 'Xaen' Knox, two members of the Aion Development team about some of the features in their upcoming winged MMORPG.
In our first article from E3 2007 we focus in on NCSoft Seoul's Aion. This high fantasy MMO has been unwrapped for a while, but besides being beautiful, not much was known. At E3, they let us look at the first of the playable factions.
Last year, NCSoft introduced the graphically spectacular Aion to the world. This year, at E3, they've begun to show some of what makes Aion a game, rather than just a pretty face. Produced at NCSoft's Korean office, is a traditional MMO in a cinematic high fantasy setting.
The world in Aion was shattered in half. On the bottom half of the broken planet are the "Elyos" and on the top are the "Asmodan". The Balaur live in the middle. Players can play as either the Elyos or Asmodan, while the dragon-man Balaur are NPC only.
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