I was tempted to look at Aion, because of the overall high production values - lavish cutscenes and creative quest mechanics that are more than 'go here and kill x', for instance. The flight thing seemed interesting - a game where everyone can sprout wings sounded awesome.
Finally, the Aion character creator is incredibly powerful; the amount of face and body shape morphing you can achieve in Aion is to some degree better than City of Heroes. Granted, you then still have to wear gear and equipment, but Aion also allows visual customisation of armour without altering its stats - you can 'reskin' gear to look different.
However. However.
I too do not want that invasive stuff on my computer.
I need to investigate the ramifications of this myself, to see just how bad what we're dealing with is - but I've had rather bad experiences trying to get stuff like that off a machine before, so this makes me very, very, wary. While I'm not giving up on Aion just yet, until I do some reading and fully understand the ramifications of what's being talked about... for the time being, it looks rather doubtful that I'll purchase the game.
And let's be clear - I was planning to buy it.
Edit 2: I do have Exteel running on my backup desktop, which is another GameGuard protected title. I've not had issues over there, but it does bear mentioning that I don't use that machine frequently enough to really know if there are any issues. Plus I dunno if I would have installed that game if I knew about it. As I mentioned, I had a devil of a time rooting out (pun intended) stuff on a family computer not too long ago, so...
Edit 3: Of course since I also did buy Spore, despite knowing it had SecureROM on it, I dunno if I've really got any leg to stand on here.
Edit 4: And as someone just pointed out to me, I bought Mass Effect too. If I'm trying to stand by my principles regarding this sort of software, I'm doing a terrible job of it.
-- Acyl
Finally, the Aion character creator is incredibly powerful; the amount of face and body shape morphing you can achieve in Aion is to some degree better than City of Heroes. Granted, you then still have to wear gear and equipment, but Aion also allows visual customisation of armour without altering its stats - you can 'reskin' gear to look different.
However. However.
I too do not want that invasive stuff on my computer.
I need to investigate the ramifications of this myself, to see just how bad what we're dealing with is - but I've had rather bad experiences trying to get stuff like that off a machine before, so this makes me very, very, wary. While I'm not giving up on Aion just yet, until I do some reading and fully understand the ramifications of what's being talked about... for the time being, it looks rather doubtful that I'll purchase the game.
And let's be clear - I was planning to buy it.
Edit 2: I do have Exteel running on my backup desktop, which is another GameGuard protected title. I've not had issues over there, but it does bear mentioning that I don't use that machine frequently enough to really know if there are any issues. Plus I dunno if I would have installed that game if I knew about it. As I mentioned, I had a devil of a time rooting out (pun intended) stuff on a family computer not too long ago, so...
Edit 3: Of course since I also did buy Spore, despite knowing it had SecureROM on it, I dunno if I've really got any leg to stand on here.
Edit 4: And as someone just pointed out to me, I bought Mass Effect too. If I'm trying to stand by my principles regarding this sort of software, I'm doing a terrible job of it.
-- Acyl