New claim system, the death of open world content?

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Originally Posted by Xatsh

Would hurt players too... Look at Aion's ganking problem

Rival linkshell claims X mob go kill them, Rival Ls is gathering for Dungeons Go kill them, Rival linkshell member just raised up at a Aetherit gate camp their body until you force them to just log off.

The kind of PvP you describe would basically kill the game more of less.

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Pretty much all of the above is wrong in one way or another.

1. Aion is a pvp-centric game.
2. Aion doesn't have a ganking problem, since they essentially nerfed the rifting system that sponsored it. Even back when rifting was rampant, you could avoid being ganked fairly easily. In my trek from 1-40, I was ganked perhaps a dozen times total, split evenly between Eltnen and Heiron. If I had really wanted to avoid it, I could have simply jumped over to Theobomos.
3. Said pvp has hardly killed Aion. Last time I checked, Aion was pushing 4.5 million subscribers worldwide, which is hardly what I would call dying.

Though, oddly enough, I've never ran across a bot in the Abyss. I wonder why... :)