AION Price Drop! $5.96 1,000,000 Kinah
Chad November 6th, 2009
AION US has dropped in price again and now down to $5.96 per 1M Kinah!
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AION Kinah US Down to $9 Per Million!
Chad October 20th, 2009
With all of the bots out there farming gold, Kinah has now dropped down to around $9 per million!
AION – Mass IP Ban on Tunnel & Proxy Companies
Chad October 10th, 2009
Today NCSoft decided to take action on RMT (2nd Market Industry) and botters and in the process IP banned nearly every gaming tunneling company. (Tunneling is used by gamers to reduce their ping “latency” in game and speed up the connection to game servers.) NCSofts plan was to IP block the power leveling companies from having access to AION but it seems the idea has back fired.
NCSoft did hit the 2nd Market Industry hard as we are hearing numbers of up to 80% suspension and ban rates on majority of the botting companies. In this huge swipe it seems that NCSoft has pulled a well known Blizzard mistake and took out many innocent gamers by hitting the tunneling sites.
Some tunneling sites are reporting a 100% IP Ban and all of their AION customers are now unable to connect to AION using their company. This has created many issues for these companies as customers are now demanding refunds or filing charge backs.
On top of all of this it seems NCSoft does not email their customers to tell them that their account has been suspended, banned or even why! If you’ve been a customer of Blizzard you know how horrible their customer service can be. It seems that NCSoft has taken it to a whole new level with this major screw up. What’s even better then that is the fact that they are deleting posts on the official forums in reference to this screw up. You can see this by all of the deleted posts and people posting about NCSoft deleting their posts.
If you are one of the unlucky people that got suspended, please contact NCSoft tech support and work with them to get your account unlocked. If you use a proxy service or tunneling company and your account was suspended or closed, then it’s a good bet that your proxy / tunneling company was hit.
The AION Experience
Chad October 6th, 2009
Over the past few weeks with the release of AION US, my life has pretty much revolved around AION. During the day I help customers with orders, answer questions and at night I play AION. I’m even testing out an AION bot for personal use and to see what our competition is capable of. AION has become a fairly popular game and has a good size gaming community and many popular community forums.
AION – Tip of the day! Blocking Spammers
One of the most annoying things when a game becomes popular is all of the in-game spamming! I hate it and I know you do too and that is why you will never see my company participating in this form of advertisement. And to help fight this annoyance do the following: Right Click the persons name doing the spamming in chat and click “block”. Once they are blocked you will no longer see their advertisements and be able to see LFGs again!
AION – Speed Leveling
If you have not noticed, over the past week we have almost doubled our estimated time of completion for our packages and custom levels. The reason for this is due to many factors but just because the estimated time of completion is doubled does not mean it will take us twice as long. We prefer to give our customers a reasonable amount of time vs. something we know is not possible or unreasonable.
I’ve also noticed that many of our competition have started to drop their estimated time of completion to unreasonable amounts. Example is AION Powerleveling 1-45 in 15 Days! This is unreasonable and when contacting the company and enquiring how that is possible and proof that they can complete this. Their response is, just purchase it and we’ll prove it to you. I don’t know about you but I prefer proof prior to purchase!
So if you are out searching for a company to level your account, please tread carefully when you see sites offering unbelievable leveling speeds. There are hacks out now and even if they are not using a hack, it is a good bet things will not turn out well in the end.
AION – Death and Money Sink
NCSoft has done a really fine job in creating many forms of money sinks in the game. One of them being their Death Penalty and having to pay for Soul Healing to get some of your XP back. I have noticed in my 30s each death costs me around 18-20k and this can add up really quick for a power leveler on a bad connection!
I experience around a 400 Ping when playing AION and I live in the Washington State. When I get ping spikes and hit 1000+ I will usually end up dead if I’m in the middle of a fight. This is one of the biggest problems within the game as your average power leveler plays with 500-1000 ping! So they deal with rubber banding through their whole session.
The solution to the ping issue is to grind on low level mobs, so that there is a very low chance of dying. But who wants to grind on mobs 2-4 levels below you for hours on end. No one and this is why nearly the entire AION Powerleveling industry has switched to botting. Bots do not complain about killing the same mobs for days on end and just does it is designed to do “GRIND”.
AION – I see Bots!
Early last week I reported briefly on AION US bots that started to pop up. Well now they are all over the place and many botting programs that works in previous version of AION are now all supported for US version. This is mainly do to game guard being turned off and companies not having to worry about software detects.
This has created a mass hysteria and a witch hunt for botters and caused some heartache. I have had reports from friends and a couple customers that they have been kicked out of their guilds because they guild members thought they where botting. The funniest thing so far is the post on AION Online forums that my guild is a bunch of botters. Well I can say they are the loudest bunch of botters, I’ve ever met as we all chat on vent while grinding.
The real issue here is how to tell if someone is botting and will NCSoft do anything about it. So far NCSoft doesn’t care or has done anything about it, they can make posts, etc… but action speaks loader then words. So far we have reported daily of the people we know from other guilds that are actively botting and not one has been banned.
What does this mean for you? Well if you buy a Power Leveling order, I wouldn’t care too much if the company is botting your account because most likely they are. Now what you should care about is if they are Farming or trafficking Kinah with your account. That will actually lead to account closure as there are reports from our gold farmer friends of account closures for that.
So the good news for the day is that Account Sharing and Botting won’t get your account closed but kinah “gold” farming might.
AION Kinah “Gold” Big Drop in Price
Chad October 5th, 2009
With more bots out farming gold and suppliers now having an abundant steady supply of kinah, prices have been dropping. We have seen about a 50% drop in wholesale and retail prices across the industry. We will continue to find the best resources and offer our customers the lowest or most competitive prices around.
AION – No more queue
Chad September 28th, 2009
Well we’ve completed most of the short orders and got things running smothly again. Orders are starting the same day they are placed again as usual. 
Thanks.
AION – Bots are invading!
Chad September 25th, 2009
Bots are now starting to pop up in AION US as Thsale and other companies have finished their upgrades and testing. They are now pushing out to their workshops and the shop owners and managers are relieved to have a solution to the current power leveler strike.
Now the old problem of who bots and who does not has yet again reared its’ ugly head. As you know we are a hand leveling operation and will continue to do so. Our recommendation is just keep an eye on your toon and see how many hours per day it is played and if any quests are completed. So far the bots that have been released are just grind bots and of the ones I’ve seen in-game are pretty bottish looking. So if you have friends you trust, let them know you are being leveled and to keep an eye on your toon.
Also keep an eye on prices of the site you are thinking of buying your services from. Since we hand level and generally the industry standard for hand leveling prices, if a site is 20%+ cheaper then us. It’s a good bet they are a botting site as we can not complete with botting prices as our overhead is far greater.
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.