It’s no secret that since the pre-selection and head start of Aion the que times have been a bit of a problem. It’s even become a bit of a joke with survival guides posted to help ease your time in the que. Generally I am not one to complain much when it comes to my MMOs. I can put up with most anything. I come from, despite my cries otherwise, hard core gaming stock. I’ve put up with random PK in Lineage 2, frustrating PvP in WoW, often repeative game play in City of Heroes, and the list goes on and on. And while I didn’t not start playing WoW until a few months before Burning Crusade was released I do remember the ques when it was. They lasted for the most part a day or two on my server at the time. However this is the 5th day for me inside the que and I’m sorry but I’m getting a bit annoyed.
I understand the reasons why there is a need for a que. I appreciate NCSoft’s logic in wanting to maintain servers where play time is enjoyable by all. I get that. But it seems that they’ve failed to understand the basic human logic, if there is a will there is a way. Right now the will of the people is to play and the only way to beat the que at the moment is to set up an afk shop. I mean let’s be honest in pretty much every MMO its basic human nature to devolve into a complete and total prick. I’m sure there are other underlying reasons for the que outside of afk shops but its the one that people are the most upset about. When you see things like the picture above how could you not be.
They’ve offered a solutions by uping the amount of people that can be on the servers at any one time, sending out messages of what servers don’t have ques and opening 2 new servers over the weekend it ultimately doesn’t seem like much to me. Because while technically there are 12 North American servers at the moment there are only 6 servers designated for the East Coast, 5 for the West and 1 for Oceanic. Meaning that prime events such at fortress sieges will take place around a times that some what fit that time zone thus making the decision for which server to create a character on even smaller. So that means for me I’d -have- to pick one of the 6 East Coast servers which always have a que. Being able to participate in fortress sieges and the endgame pvp content is and was a huge selling point to me when I started getting into this game. The end game is what is really important here and if you can’t participate in that then it kinda negates everything you’ve done to get there.
At this point I’m not really sure what I’m going to do. I want to continue to play with the friends I’ve gamed with for over 4 years but I can’t continue to see me waiting around 3 hours every night after work just to play. They say this won’t continue and I’m going to give them that chance to prove it. I have to say though that if I was actually paying for this I’d cancel my account tonight.