To anyone thats skeptical because of past MMO experiences, I'll give you a few points to help you out:

-From what we've seen through open beta, there is a significantly smaller smacktard population than many other MMOs.

-The PvP system in the game is excellently designed. You jump headfirst into real PvP at level 20. However, at any level in the game, you can "duel" against members of your own race without any consequence. The duels end when one player gets down to 20hp, so nobody dies. In actual PvP versus the other race, you do die.

-The is no PKing in Aion. So you dont have to worry about some rogue member of your own race coming up and killing you while you're in combat.

-Pvp is limited to certain maps in the game, but these maps are huge and not "collisseum style" pvp. The true idea is PvPvE. Just because youre fighting monsters doesnt mean that someone from the other race cant run up and start busting on you. The converse is also true.

-The coolest aspect to PvP is "rifting", in which players from one race can invade the maps of players of the other race via gateways that appear in random locations (and relatively infrequently, that being every 2 hours). You can also carry along "kisks", which you can place anywhere (but hopefully in a secure and well hidden location) so that you can respawn in the same map you died in while in enemy territory.

-I know pvp isnt for everyone. In Aion, it is entirely possible to reach level 50 without engaging in PvP. You may have to run from a fight occasionally in some of the higher level areas, but you can definitely get to the endgame without fighting anything but mobs.

-There is an IMMENSE crafting system in the game that ANY class can choose to participate in. Its not like many other MMOs where you have to be in a class dedicated to crafting to do it.

-We have a decent sized legion of people who have spent well over two weeks worth of play time in the beta series, so we have all the knowledge you'll need to get going and we're willing to bend over backwards to help. You wont be going it alone in the dark reaches of a foreign MMO.

I hope some of that has helped you guys make the decision to play the game. We look forward to expanding the legion and getting some of you onboard for some MMO fun!