AION – The Chinese Revolt
Chad September 24th, 2009
In every RPG I’ve ever played or known, grinding (repetitive action or non-entertaining gameplay) has been how you level your character. Generally you would grind on MOBs or Monsters and gain experience and loot by killing them. One would expect paid professional gamers (aka: Power Levelers) to be used to this type of grinding and understand it comes with the job.
But with recent games such as World of Warcrarft and the release of “The Burning Crusades” and “Wrath of the Lich King” and Blizzards upgrade to their massive questing system, power levelers have become used to easy leveling. Many of the new power levelers have only ever played WoW and do not know what grinding even is. The older and more experienced power levelers remember far too well the glory days of Lineage and Ragnarok and the days it would take to gain just one level.
It seems the Chinese Powerleveling community has started a revolt and many have walked off of their jobs or been terminated because they refuse to play the new and popular AION US Version. The biggest complaints so far from the power leveling community is the “boring and repetitive killing of mobs” . They would prefer to quit or face termination then spend one more hour leveling AION. This is coming from a community of paid professional gamers, in which their job is to “Grind”.
Some of the other complaints have been that they lose XP (Experience Points) from when you die is causing a serious performance issue. Due to location and horrible Chinese backbone internet, most power levelers play with a very bad ping of 500 or more. This causes them to die a lot and some power levelers are reporting almost no progression after a full days shift. You can imagine how upset the paying customer would be to see after 10-12 hours of gaming that their character has not gained one level, to include management paying for the labor.
Now you combine the fact that the power levelers do not like the grinding style of the game, low performance and management and customers yelling at them. Many have decided to walk off the job and quit. This has caused a sudden shortage within the industry which was already over booked due to the unexpected demand for a game just released two days ago.
But don’t fear readers and give your loyal power leveler some credit as the hard core and reliable ones are rallying up for a fight. They are working even harder now knowing that the noobs have “Failed” and given them a great opportunity to show their skills. So if your order is not going as planned, do not give up hope and speak with your company’s customer service rep. Find out what is going on and if there is a new estimated time of completion or what they will do as compensation.
Otherwise, if they are not willing to help you, give me a shout, we can always help you with your toon. 
- AION News
- Comments(1)
Hahaha, sounds like a whole world of fun.
Why did I see this coming with the AION release?
People seem to think AION is going to slaughter WoW but they don’t realize how many games involve Pure Grinding, whilst WoW came as a questing game.
I feel bad for the power levelers…AION is gonna be Nightmarish…
Hopefully you can Fight the good fight and carry the day.
G’Luck, Hope this is not as terrible as it seems it will be.
~Soresm