From a post on Aionsource a long time ago, when people were kicking up a fuss about “translation” taking so long, aparently this is one of the items that will be “westernized”.

Their defense of it taking so long to translate was that they wern’t just translating it they were adding extras and tweaking the game to make it more appealing to a western market.

As to how this will look in the end we’ll see, the Beta we we’re playing was also the 1.0 version, 1.2 is out in Live so we’re a couple of versions behind as in most Betas.

Im betting people who have seen the CN/KO versions won’t see differences for a while yet, at least until we start seeing it patched up. ^^

I agree that the visuals are astounding, but the gameplay itself is just standard fare (with more than a few annoying bits tossed in to counter the nice things).

I think we’ll see a quick turnaround just like we did with AoC/WAR. People love to have something new and shiny to play with (especially when its for free in beta) but then when it comes down to it and people realize they’re grinding out the same old quests for nothing but a glorified battleground experience in the end-game I think Aion will quickly become the next target of ire.

I imagine the game will be grindy although I’m guessing NCSoft will just up the leveling speed to compensate. Doubt they will be able to engineer any more interesting quests.