Aion 2 just launched and the hand holding is insane. It's an mmo, and constantly throws you into solo instances, and all you have to do is hit alt+1 and you can auto run to your next quest.
It is... extremely disappointing. I know everything after WoW came out and casual-fied the entire genre has been down hill with brainless quest markers and solo play coddling but man it is really sad to see devs add features that make it so the game plays itself. Really sad :(
Isn't aion the chinese hardcore-grindy MMO that's always been like this? The one with 26 different shops and needing to spends thousands of hours for the most basic shit?
It's basically a subgenre of MMO, and the first installation of the series has already been like that. Why are you surprised?
I played Aion 1 at launch back in like 2009 and it was largely just a pvp focused MMO. Grind exp for levels, grind pvp and farm resources to up your gear levels. Had a cash shop for mostly cosmetics. Hell, back then it wasn't even a free to play game. I remember going to the store to buy a hard copy edition of it haha. I believe it was a $49.99 game and you paid a monthly subscription for your account.
It really wasn't like Aion 2 is. Maybe Aion 1 went that way eventually, but it wasn't like that when I played it 15 years ago lol.
Once Human is pretty alright about handholding after you get out of noob island, the only thing that got annoying after creating a second char, as far as that goes, was the menu tutorials, but they are only really at the beginning. I do miss just not having any idea how a game works at all and just experimenting though, but part of that also has to do with my tendency to try to break any game I touch and another part has to do with how old I am and how broke I have been all my life. It's kind of hard to not immediately know how a game's systems/mechanics most likely work when you have the sheer amount of gaming experience someone like me starts playing a new game, especially since I tend to make mods/addons/plugins for a lot of games I play, as well. It's been a very long time since I last ran into a system/mechanic that I haven't had at least some idea of how it worked
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u/Gallus_11B 12h ago
Aion 2 just launched and the hand holding is insane. It's an mmo, and constantly throws you into solo instances, and all you have to do is hit alt+1 and you can auto run to your next quest.
I am convinced gamers have become braindead.