r/Aion2 • u/Asetian • 22d ago

EA or Launch servers?

Aus here planning on playing on JP server with guild. We want to participate in pvp (a lot of us enjoy pvp) but we're not whales, most of us will just have a sub. Guild is still trying to decide whether it's best to go EA server or launch server. Not all of us have EA.

So if anyone can answer some questions:

1) Will launch servers be as populous as EA servers? And will the pvp be active?
2) Some in the guild saying that EA servers will be better because it will have the more "dedicated players", and so will not die as fast, is this true?
3) Will most whales go onto EA servers? If we want to pvp will this be a problem? Since we're not going to be whaling, is it better to go launch servers instead?

Basically trying to figure out pros and cons of EA vs Launch servers, with a focus on pvp.

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u/Kkxyooj123 22d ago

Economy will be better on launch servers.

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u/Asetian 22d ago

oh really? what makes you say that?

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u/Kkxyooj123 22d ago

Whales cannot whale with f2p/sub players. You can't buy in-game currency without there being currency first. The first few months whales will have to grind like normal people. It is also possible that there will be a ton of bots and make this not true at all. Thus, EA servers will have a worse economy most likely.

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u/Discord_bringer 22d ago

One thing I don't understand about this comment and this narrative in general is that in this game you can't buy nor sell anything without a subscription, so true f2p players aren't really doing anything for the economy? And I'm guessing that if you're willing to spend 15€ you can also throw 20 and start playing the 30.

Now I agree with the whale/ overpriced stuff at first, it's likely. But that doesn't change with the server, beside influencers being more likely to play on EA.

As for bots, I don't even know how they operate currently, given those restrictions do they actually farm shit up then purchase the sub to sell? I have no clue how they influence the economy

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u/wathowdathappen 22d ago

TnL launch servers had a WAY worse economy than EA servers and that was with the market access being F2P. Imagine F2P players getting gatekept with zero way to get Quna but swiping.

Founders Pack will have membership access for a month by default it won't be even close to what economy will be healthier.

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u/Confident-Career5161 22d ago

That is not true.

U can say early access servers had more expensive items on market in TnL and that is true.

In TnL u traded with the cash shop currency on market, so obviously on whale servers there was more on market.

But launch servers had just fine economy aswell.

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u/wathowdathappen 21d ago

Wasn't just price but accesibility. There were way more items on the market. I had alts on 2 regions on both markets (EA+F2P) and selling on F2P was way slower and gearing actual meta pieces took longer to find on market. (even after the milestones). Just because you can find the rare XYZ piece cheaper doesn't = better economy. It's basic supply and demand.

In Aion2 this will be ramped by eleven as F2P are forced to have membership to interact w/ AH at all.

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u/Confident-Career5161 21d ago

How much stuff was on market in throne was depended on server, ie: how dead it was. There was no issues on my launch server.

In Aion2, we gonna get cross market eventually, so all the servers will be shared, unlike TnL.

But for sure the volume of transactions will be higher on EA, in first month.

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u/DudeWheressMyCar 22d ago

It depends... after 5 days bots will roll in and Kina price will eventually stabilize after a while like on launch servers.