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One of the common misconceptions about power-leveling services is that they are typically safe, and using them is a painless process. This notion couldn’t be any further from the truth. When you pay third party companies or groups to level your character, you open the doors to the possibility of future compromise of your account, which could result in losing everything you’ve worked so hard to obtain. These companies save your information with the intention of stealing everything at a later date. It’s important to point out that these are professional thieves. Even if you change your password, they know your personal information, so it becomes all the more likely that they’ll regain access to your account with malicious intent.

We’ve teamed up with Rooster Teeth to bring you a laugh out loud scenario that depicts these services as what they truly are: a scam run by criminals. In the following video, our poor friend Dylan learns firsthand the consequences of employing Papa Lou and his Power Leveling for Losers team.

If you use power-leveling services, you’ll be setting yourself up for one heck of a bad deal just like Dylan did, and there won’t even be any cookies! Stay tuned throughout the summer for more episodes of our ongoing The More You MMO series and a few surprises along the way.

Play safe, Daevas,

-The Aion Community Team

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Greetings Daevas,

Are you ready for another Double Experience Weekend? If you said “No”, congratulations on level 50! For everyone else, it’s time to once again stock up on food and caffeinated beverages in preparation for a weekend without sleep. This Friday, March 26th, at 8 p.m. (server time), we will enable double experience. The experience bonus will run through the weekend before ending on Monday at 8 a.m. (server time).

We’ve broken down what time the double experience will begin on each server. Plan accordingly, and enjoy the double experience!

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Cerafina on server [ENG]Perento asks:

“It’s been several weeks now since the fort timer survey. When are we going to see a change?”

We’ve taken the data collected from the in-game survey and compared it to our internal server statistics. Based on these factors, our decision is to “keep the enemy on their heels.” Next week we will be changing the capture timer to one hour, which is twice the amount of time it is currently set to.

Our goal in the original change was to increase the difficulty of these battles and reduce the amount of time players needed to dedicate for the event. We believe that the new timer achieves a good balance, but that doesn’t rule out future reevaluations. We will be closely monitoring activity in the Abyss after the timer change is implemented to make sure that the battle rages on without any new negative side effects!

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Caladon on server [West]Kaisinel asks:

“You mentioned in the latest community address that you’re having more events in the game in the future. Are they going to be like the Solorius Festival?”

We think in-game events are a great way to liven up your day in the game, to tie the community closer together, and to further Aion’s lore. They are a necessity for keeping the game experience fresh. That we are planning for more in-game events was briefly touched on in our January Community Address, but we can say a few additional things here. Our planning is still at an early stage, but we have established a rough timeline for what we want to do over the coming year.

Something we have been kicking around to try for a rainy day is that we might have more spontaneous events that are not announced a long time beforehand. We find thrills not only in spontaneously jumping onto servers and spawning Guardian Deities, but also in meticulously planning a chain of events to set off without any news announcement paving the way.

Remember we are always open to ideas. If there’s an event you’ve been dying to see in the game, let us know. Who knows—maybe it will turn out to be the masterful insight we’ve been looking for!

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Greetings, all. I’m Scott Jennings, otherwise known as GM Luminary, working with NCsoft’s Game Surveillance Unit (GSU). I’ve been asked to take some time to speak for a bit on the fallout from the war that we’ve been fighting in our games against real money trading (RMT) companies and others trying to violate your account security, and how you can help in the fight.

Make no mistake—it is a war. One that you, our players, see the effects of whenever you play our games or visit forums related to our games. Many of you have noticed the decrease in bots, farmers, and gold spammers as a result of our efforts.

In the game industry, we have also seen an increase in attacks by third parties in an attempt to steal your account information by any means necessary, including phishing, obtaining passwords from third party sites/systems, and using account information provided by those engaged in power-leveling services and other prohibited activities. Recently, the number of these attacks has risen dramatically.

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