| San Diego Comic-Con: Massively's interview with Aion producer Lani Blazier Part II |
Fortresses and artifacts have always been in The Abyss. But these two new regions, Gelkmaros and Inggison that we've added, these are new. We've also added eight new instances, two of which are soloable. Sometimes you have players that play an MMO, and you think "Oh, they like playing with lots of people and grouping all the time," and that's not the case at all. Sometimes they like the social aspect, just knowing there are people around them, but they like to play the game solo, so we dedicated two of our instances to those types of players. We're giving them that same experience of going into an instance and getting the rewards, but for the solo player. That's one of the things that I've talked to players about. We had a player that was super hardcore when we launched. She made 50 really quickly, and then she just kind of slowed down. She was a big PvE player, she wasn't really into PvP. She said she'd read all the quests, done everything, and she just deactivated her account. When I ran into her again, I said "you've got to come back for 2.0." We talked about it and she's just super stoked about it. And that's the thing, when I'm talking to players, trying to let them know that of all the updates, 2.0 is going to be the reason you need to reactivate your account and try this out. |