And so it is with a heavy heart that I terminate my Warhammer account once more. Temporarily? Permanently? Too early to say.

The reason? Aion. I installed it and patched it today and was immediately impressed. And the reason was simple. It’s like WoW. Yet not. See, the game feels like WoW. It’s the closest I’ve come to experiencing that same ’stickiness’ that WoW has. It has the same focus on PVE levelling that we all love to hate. And it looks to have a solid PVP potential endgame which may or may not beat Warhammer’s. Where Aion differs is merely it’s flavour, which is sufficiently alien to offer a distinct experience. Everything else about it remains comfortably familiar.

It’s like WASD. Every FPS uses it. If it ain’t broke, why fix it?

Regardless, it’s probably way too early to gush. Way, waaaay too early. But Aion seems to be the game that, finally, offers every WoW player what they’ve secretly been aching for for years. Something completely different, yet entirely the same.

Whether this game replaces WoW in the near term, for me at least, is probably highly unlikely. In a solid guild and raiding and like where I am. But Aion gives me something else to do when I’m not playing WoW. Something I actually enjoy for the simple fact of enjoying it, rather than trying to prove a point to someone.