NCSoft Has A New Game In The Works, Could Be Aion 2
After it launched in late 2008, Aion quickly became NCSoft's top earner -- especially after its NA/EU launch in September 2009. Before Lineage went crazy, Aion led all NCSoft games in revenue for nine straight quarters, or just over two years. It's not surprising that the company would try to replicate that success.
According to South Korean magazine The Fact, and reported by 2p.com, NCSoft might be doing just that. Apparently, a team at NCSoft is working on a new game, codenamed "Project A2." That's no guarantee of anything, to be sure, but previous "secret projects" have only included a letter, not a number. And "A" could stand for "Aion," so ...
While it's true that the MMO scene has changed greatly since Aion's launch nearly a decade ago, shiny Korean MMOs are still capable of generating significant hype and at least an early initial audience, as Blade & Soul and Black Desert Online proved. Upcoming titles like Revelation Online and Bless Online are also hotly anticipated by fans, so a sequel to Aion could do very well for NCSoft.
What would you like to see in Aion 2?
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And a longer timer on flying or better yet no timer at all for ariel fighting.
who cares about aion anyway the ncsoft servers were the worst servers ever and full of lag not to mention the game wasnt even that good and just another boring korean drawn out grinder
I don't mind if they make Aion 2 with same combat style. What I like is free movement and Aion tab targeting was easy and great. And another thing I liked is a lot of skills and some of them had chains.
And I don't know where some have idea that ncsoft is known for gender locked classes. Aion has none of those, lineage 2 had none of those, guild wars had none of those, blade and soul some classes can't be picked for certain races but still they all mostly look like humans and I didn't have problems there either.