This game is so beautiful, I discovered it through a friend a long time ago but I was playing in Aion NA, I've already played a lot of MMORPG and I've never had fun on any of them beside Aion.
Back time Aion felt like a real good game, it was full of players, it was alive and vibrant, I was a noob going to these big war events that happens between Asmod and Elyos where a lot of them fight each other, I know I am weak but I was just following the Elyos just like a noob camera man to watch how the war is going on and have fun with it, sometimes I die on the way but there is an Elyos who comes after me to save my butt and kill the asmodians and revive me. it was a lot fun, the quests too, everything was fun on this game.
I had to take a break from the game, I haven't played in years, then I cameback to it but decided to play in European Server (on steam a few years ago) I noticed the game starts to change, I tried to play in both servers NA and EU, but still everything changed for me. the game is nice but not as nice as before.
Now I decided to comeback to it again after a long while, and it literally looks dead to me, and what make it worse is I have to buy the gold pack and spend money in-game to be able to create a new character either from the same server or a different server...literally killed the vibe of the game...I would stay neutral if there is a choice of it, but since I love the game a lot and I had lot of fun on it in the past I'll recommend it, And I hope the devs reads my message and update their game and make it much better like how it was a decade ago. And why not create Aion 2.0 with new graphic engine and better graphics and make sure it's not pay to win because it will ruin the game.