Aion level cap reached in 17 days News

Well done you two, your families must be very proud!

It's like MMO-Concentrate. Months of playing stuffed into 2 weeks... fook that.

Dismiss them as OCD nutters if you wish but...maybe this is just sign o the times stuff.

Global recession, unemployed people with no jobs available and with plenty of time to kill, etc, etc

...And I bet they've had a better time doing this than I have slaving away at work every bloody day.

"They played about 18 to 20 hours a day and grinded most of the time."

I can't imagine how much fun that must have been

Good job fellas.

Gaming needs its heroes.

If it took them 17 days playing 18-20 hours a day that means for normal people it would probably take about 6 months.

I got level 50 in a day but deleted my character to avoid the publicity, I didnt want to have to reveal my methods.

18 to 20 hours a day? Bloody hell.

Now that's something to tell grandchildren stories about when you're old!

Play Fallen Earth. Its taken me 6 days to get to level 8 haha :D

18-20hrs? O.o family? partner? job? sleeping? eating? shitting? God I wish I could completely escape into a fantasy world.

"Now that's something to tell grandchildren stories about when you're old!"

You think they'll ever have children?

20 hours a day.... ffs.

"How can you kill that which has no life" etc

@optimusprym8

haha love the south park quote. well i play games about 1 or 2 hours most days and IM a geek apprently? what does this make these two, androids?

It seems like ODST Firefight record is 20 Millions which was achieved in a 21 hours session, where the guys drove a Chopper the entire time.

Point is, there are some pretty hardcore kids out there. No judging here though.

I guess those two didn't have queueing troubles then.

I guess that means people can now start complaining about there not being enough content and describing Aion as "dead" in an effort justifying the act of not playing it for 20h per day.

If they enjoyed themselves, and they didn't hurt anyone, all power to them I say.

All this talk of "getting a life" is utter bollox. Sad attempts to feel better about ourselves by lowering our view of others. Glass houses, stones, ring any bells?

Now they wont have yo play as much waiting for content updates and doing the occasionall PvP and raids. At least, I assume they'd cool it at this stage...

It would be a funny story but you have to consider that these people don't work, don't spend time with their families and don't do anything useful. They probably feel empty inside after finishing. It's kind of depressing

18 to 20 per day of grinding, my god, I just couldn't handle that level of tedium. The post 60 end-game in vanilla WoW was bad enough, I was always being told by people in my guild "get to 60, that's when the real game begins" but the only thing I found was the endless grind for gear. Thinking back, the journey from level 1 to 60 with my humble warrior was where I had the most fun.
I'm not knocking these guys, they bought the game, they play it how they want but in my opinion there is something wrong with an RPG that makes grinding rather than missions/quests the quickest way to level.

They can sense that in a few years they'll be slaving away at McDonalds, so they try to enjoy themselves now as much as possible.

"If they enjoyed themselves, and they didn't hurt anyone, all power to them I say.

All this talk of "getting a life" is utter bollox. Sad attempts to feel better about ourselves by lowering our view of others. Glass houses, stones, ring any bells?"

Amen!

They decided to set themselves a challenge, and they completed that challenge. It's not as if that is their usual playing pattern (well probably).

No-one was harmed in the process so I really don't see how anyone can put them down for it. Kudos to them I say.

"I'm not knocking these guys, they bought the game, they play it how they want but in my opinion there is something wrong with an RPG that makes grinding rather than missions/quests the quickest way to level."

I think you might be missing the point slightly.

What these guys did was take all the shortcuts possible to hit the cap as a kind of meta-game. Traveliing to quest locations, talking to NPC's, crafting, etc. probably is slower than just grinding mobs, but that's not what the majority of people will do.

Most people will play the game to experience the quests, crafting, social aspects, etc.. Alts may be fasttracked but in general a level cap rush is not the norm for first time players.

once again the mighty factimus speaks the truth. there does seems to be a lot of the self righteus "get a life" brigade on EG and as FM so brilliantly pointed out no one has been harmed getting the record. plus if you have never,ever put in a 14 hour session on your favourite MP game(or wanted to) then your not really a "true" gamer.

I wonder how much time they spent queueing?

Can u lvl ma ranger my login is: Nolifer and my password is: wishihadsomerealfriends cheers!!!!!

@Robthehood

Would you say the same of the first people to cross the antarctic, scale Everest, run a 4 minute mile or swim the channel? I can guarantee you that they spent a hell of a lot more time preparing for those events than a couple weeks of MMO-ing.

Ultimately all those achievements were pointless except to the people who made them.

It's really not up to us to decide whether what they did was worthwhile or not. Personal goals are exactly that. Personal.

must have stayed online for the entire 17 days.
I've only been able to fiddle with my level 20 gladiator 2 days in the past week and a half - once was after 10pm.

perhaps they logged out, relogged back in straight away, got 4 hours sleep while the characters sat in the queues?
:)

To be honest its all relative. I'd wager that it will take most people the same amount of playtime to reach the cap. The only difference is that they chose to do it over 20 hour day, while most people will do it over several weeks.

And in regard to some of the comments, MMOs must be the only type of game that 90% of people won't have played, but are quite happy to comment on. I wonder why that is? As people have said here already, there must have been times where most ppl here will have spent whole weekends playing a non-mmo game. I know i have (I crammed Dead Space into a whole sitting very recently), but the still seems to be a social stigma regarding the lifestyle of the average MMO player.

In the 'old days' it used to be non-gamers looking down on those who played games. Now we have gamers looking down on subsets of other gamers. The way i see it, people can choose to spend there time any way they like, I don't have any right to pass judgement on what others choose to do with their own time and lives.

EDIT: some sanctimonious little gobshite marked me down. Giggles.

@farticusmaximus

You can't compare this to climbing everest or crossing the channel! Those things are inspiring and give people something to aspire to. No one is going to be inspired by people who sit infront of a computer for 20 hours a day and if they do it's not something to be encouraged

donnie, the concept of a 'real' gamer is stupid in itself. We can't define what makes someone 'a real gamer' or a 'true fan' or a 'hardcore' gamer since everyone has their own definitions. It's as silly as saying 'real men play sports'. Subjective.

@Robthehood

Well, most of here spend 12 hours + a day behind ours, as we have to work on them. At least these guys were doing what they wanted to do. How many ppl here work 8-9 hours a day on on a PC, only to go home and log on to look at forums and game sites, or play a game as soon as they get home?

@ZuluHero:
I do on days I don't work out or go see friends.
I made my passion my job lucky me! :)

Concerning those guys: Kudos.
"For the Harmony" reminds me of "In Harmony" a world-class WoW guild. Maybe this is their Aion off-spring.

Special Olympics

lol, bunch of self righteous cunts up in this thread. who are u to say what is a good use of someones time. you are posting on an internet gaming forum, looking down on people for being gaming nerds is a bit hypocritical. oh wait, theyre far better at being gaming nerds than you, ahh, i see, thats fine then.

“A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance."- C.S. Lewis

They'll be sucking off Aion and the devs for new content now.

@Robthehood, metalmike25: Okay, then compare it to baked bean-eating or sugar cube-stacking or any of the other meaningless bollocks that fills up the Guinness Book Of Records. I don't see them getting the same level of scorn when people talk about food.

I don't like MMO games for exactly this reason. they are full of dangerously obsessive, creepy people. Oh not all to be sure but, enough to make you hope that some government, somewhere, is keeping a list in order to use them as live bate when the zombies finally come.

18-20 hours a day for 17 days... well, as long as they're subsidising themselves (i.e. the taxpayer isn't forking out dole money for them to just sit playing MMOs all day) then i guess it's up to them how they spend their time... but if they're just a pair of jobless wonders on benefits, or students who are meant to be studying (again, all paid for by the taxpayer) then I reckon people should stop defending them and start treating them with the contempt they deserve!

18-20 hours a day for 17 days... well, as long as they're subsidising themselves (i.e. the taxpayer isn't forking out dole money for them to just sit playing MMOs all day) then i guess it's up to them how they spend their time... but if they're just a pair of jobless wonders on benefits, or students who are meant to be studying (again, all paid for by the taxpayer) then I reckon people should stop defending them and start treating them with the contempt they deserve!


@ Metalmikey666


...People can be unemployed and be on benefits for LEGIT reason you know? Not everyone is a fucking yob. If they want to pass the time away by grinding there face off on Aion. I say let them do that. There not your kids :P

@gremly

if they're on benefits for legit reasons, i'd expect them to be looking for a job. and i tell you this: if you spend 18-20 hours a day looking for a job, it's gonna take a hell of a lot less than 17 days to find one.

How the f**k did they get on the server to do that?

"All I am saying is that you can't really claim that they are well adjusted members of society and are "normal", as many people here are attempting to do, because that is just not true."

I work hard during the week, exercise, visit my parents regularly, lavish attention on my girlfriend and pets and have a pretty full social schedule, but I took 2 weeks off work when WoW:TBC was launched and played for as many hours as my eyes would allow me, to the exclusion of everything else.

I know plenty of other people who did too. Real-life friends.

I am normal and I am a well-adjusted member of society, as are my friends who redeyed the TBC launch with me.

You have no reason whatsoever to assume the 17-dayers are not well-adjusted, normal individuals.

@Robthehood
Like spending time with friends doing something they enjoy? Isn't that what Ashen-Shugar described?

"THE FACT THAT THEY PLAYED A VIDEO GAME FOR 20 HOURS A DAY FOR 17 DAYS STRAIGHT."

On one occasion. If they do this every seventeen days, then fine, you've got a point. But there's nothing to indicate this.

@Robthehood

"You might well be "normal" in your perspective, but to me you are not."

From my perspective, your perspective needs to be less up your own ass.


"I think the majority of people would use two weeks holiday to do something constructive, spend time with loved ones or go on a holiday."

I do all those things usually on my holidays, but once, just ONCE, I spend 2 weeks on my hobby instead. You have no right to judge that.

Lol, the karma on the posts in this. MMO mega-freaks get +s, anyone with a life gets -s

What a shame, if these people could direct their focus into something productive they'd be millionaires.