11.04.09
Posted in Aion at 7:17 pm by Middea
And now ladies and gentlemen -
the Keeper of the accounts,
the Countess of the servers,
the keeper of Atreia,
Matron NCsoft Corporation!
Ask any of the birdies in my pen
They’ll tell you I’m the biggest Mutha. . . .Hen
I love them all and all of them love me -
Because the system works;
the system called reciprocity!
Got a little motto
Always sees me through -
When you’re good to Mama
Mama’s good to you!
There’s a lot of favors
I’m prepared to do -
You do one for Mama
She’ll do one for you!
They say that life is tit for tat
And that’s the way I live -
So, I deserve a lot of tat
For what I’ve got to give! |
Don’t you know that this
hand washes that one too -
When you’re good to Mama
Mama’s good to you!
If you want my gravy
Pepper my ragu -
Spice it up for Mama
She’ll get hot for you!
When they pass that basket
Folks contribute to -
You put in for Mama
She’ll put out for you!
The folks a top the ladder
are the ones the world adores -
So boost me up my ladder kid
and I’ll boost you up yours!
Let’s all stroke together
Like the Princeton crew -
When you’re strokin’ Mama
Mama’s strokin’ you!
So what’s the one conclusion
I can bring this number to?
When you’re good to Mama
Mama’s good to you!! |
From Chicago: The Musical
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Moral of the story:
Birdies pay for 6 months subscription (tit)
NCsoft gives us pretty sweet wings (tat)
Free wings? Yes please.
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| Black Cloud Traders’ Commodities –
Available for Level 40+.
Attributes: HP +181 – MP +181 – Flight Time +60 |
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Asmodian |
Elyos |
Elyos Wings
Asmodian Wings
What are your thoughts on the Veteran Rewards Program?
And just a reminder, able to apply first month’s rewards already 
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09.30.09
Posted in Aion, Rant at 11:02 am by Fedoldinn
I’m going to try and keep this short, for your sake. However, as much as I’m enjoying Aion at the moment (and I do think it’s a great game), I really despise the NCSoft Launcher.
In my opinion, it is useless overhead we are incurring each time we wish to load our favorite game. You could argue that it does keep your NCSoft games up to date and it is able to repair corrupt game files, but I think these two don’t nearly make up for the shortcomings of this annoying little program. First, most games these days do a check for updates when you launch them or, in the case of MMOs, when you log on to the game servers. Second, although a repair shouldn’t be necessary, it would be easy enough to incorporate this into a standalone program that users can run as needed.
The launcher itself seems to be the cause of many of my issues lately. I can’t count how many times in the last week it has thought that Aion was not up to date (when it was) or that it encountered an error the last time it was run. Both of these have made it necessary to choose to force the game to play without checking for updates or repairing, since I know damn well that nothing is wrong with it.
Aion has crashed on me on occasion, but I don’t find it bothers me as much as the fact that when you log off or get disconnected from the game servers, you end up back at the launcher and have to reload the game in order to log back on. The game takes a considerable amount of time to load, and if it was already loaded why do I need to head back to this annoying little program to reload it and make sure everything is just peachy before I can play again?
I’m happy that NCSoft decided to remove GameGuard from the Aion release (for now anyway, we’ll see about that later on), but I really don’t like their launcher. I don’t own any other NCSoft games*, and I don’t really understand the purpose of this program other than to annoy me each time I want to play Aion. Why should I have to load a program before I can load my game? Especially if it provides no added value to the experience?
* As an aside, I may have once described in great detail how much I disliked Guild Wars and it’s expansions to the developers and NCSoft PR folks at E3 one year.
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