2011年1月27日星期四

The enormo-box reminds me of a bygone era in computing

It was just humming along, its red tubes pulsing, green lights throbbing. Speed for its own sake. If it sounds like a ual experience, that's because it was. The enormo-box reminds me of a bygone era in computing, when clock speeds trumped all—and just reading “5 Ghz i7” made my heart dance. CES is supposed to be about neat things we'll be using effectively in the future, but sometimes I'm okay with replica Omega 1521.41 Ladie's watch.”Since its release, Korean-born MMO Aion has undergone a profound transformation as developers hone gameplay to suit the needs of a North American audience.

NCsoft's Sean Neil tells us how the upcoming 2.5 update will further refine the Aion experience.Aion is a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game that's been striving to please its players since the North American servers first opened in September of 2009. Players flocked to the graphically stunning title, discovering a Korean-made MMO that tasted of a more western-influenced game. The game favored questing replica Omega 1112.30 Men's Watch story development over the grind, something many Korean imports fail to do.But Aion isn't your average Korean import, given a shoddy English translation and sent on its merry way. NCsoft has a full North American development team that springs to life as new updates arrive, sure the content and changes will be well-received by the U.S. audience.

Even with such a strong focus on North America, the game has needed more than its fair share of tweaking. Over the course of several major patches the development team has changed the game dramatically, all in response to their player's needs and wants.”In total we've gone through and increased the experience; we've increased the drop rates; we've increased the crafting system in the game - the basic core systems for the replica Omega 1302.10 Men's Watch players,” says Sean Neil, Aion's associate producer.Not all of the changes have been well received. Version update 2.0 brought changes to the game's rifting system, which allows player from Aion's two opposing factions to encounter one another, which were not well received by the players, to put it mildly.