Gunz 2 switching to Aeria Games

[SlickNick]

Hi everyone I don't know how many people know about this but I've heard that Gunz 2 is switching to Aeria games. I went on their website and they were saying that prosiebensat.1 games will be switching to Aeria games and they said that you'll have to make a new account with Aeria games.

Now i looked up what prosiebensat.1 games was and it's like a gaming company in Germany. Basically what I'm asking is if this transfer will affect all countries (ex: U.S.) and or steam users, or if this just affects European servers. The reason why i asked is because in the article it says it's switching all platforms to Aeria games and I didn't know if they mean steam as one of their platforms or not.

Anyways here is the link to the article and if anyone could give me some insight on this news announcement I would gladly appreciate it.

http://gunz2.co.uk/news/migration-announcement-psg-en

[Tooze]

It obviosly only means EU version. It would be stupid for them to move the steam version aswell to Aeria.

[SlickNick]

okay, yeah I thought so but I wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one seeing it that way. Thanks for the feedback

[Vexy.........]

Reckoning bit.ly/15949Uz eredeti hozzászólása:

It obviosly only means EU version. It would be stupid for them to move the steam version aswell to Aeria.

To be fair, switching to Aeria at all is quite stupid.

[PJ]

Switching from Steam to Aeria?

That'd be like jumping off a cruise liner to get into a row boat that's slowly sinking.

[JinNJuice]

Correction. P7S1 is claiming Aeria. Therefore, the services from Aeria will be replaced and run by P7S1.

[cool_seiken]

Wow, I'd be pretty pissed if this happened to us Dx

[Fulminati]

Yeah, I'm not sure why people are saying Aeria is going to destroy EU GunZ 2. P7S owns them now, outside of the pisspoor choice to not transfer people's accounts, nothing should change.

[Ondredge]

Well I am not sure about what you are talking about, but:
• It looks like US players have the game hosted via Steam, which means this doesn't concern you.
• I'd like to say that moving GunZ 2 on Aeria is a good thing. They hosted GunZ 1 too, they have the know-how and the communiny who will appreciate having GunZ 2 on their site for sure.
• Aeria is not the bad guy in this. ProSieben started its gaming division by acquiring former Burda:IC GmbH, which was a company that created a gaming portal, Alaplaya. The portal is dead now, due to ProSieben's experiments, shutting down good games and weak&terrible customer support. Let's hope that Aeria will be kept working as it was before the acuqision and Pro7 will learn from them. If not, well, EU gamers will have bad times.

[Casual Sun]

Aeria runs every game they own into the ground and turns them into gigantic money grabs when they feel a game is starting to fail.
I made a big long post about my experience with them in some other thread talking about this.

For instance, A.V.A. where they turned many guns that you could buy for unlimited time into 30 day purchases, without lowering the price. Yes, i bought a gun that lasts forever where someone else bought the same gun at the same price for 30 days. The main balance in A.V.A was making in-game currency hard to acquire. Aeria was trying to run everyone's wallets dry until they felt they needed to buy prems. I played A.V.A quite a bit ever since it opened in 2007 and even before that on the Japan ver. It was a pretty good f2p for the time, but Aeria has successfully made it a horrible experience, especially for new players.

Also they have absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous loyalty programs, some lasting months, others lasting 3 days where you can buy $300 worth of crap for more cool stuff. I'm not kidding, there will be 3 day 'events' where you can get prizes for wasting $300 on video games.

Plus they give hackers a free pass if they spend enough money on their games.

[Kiragami]

Pro Sat basically bought Aeria EU, even for mobile games. So no surprise here about GunZ 2 for EU.

Also I'm very happy the NA version isn't hosted by Aeria, they ran GunZ 1 into the ground. It was legit better back in IJJI even though IJJI wasn't that good either.

[Alqei]

What I don't get and I think is complete bullsh!t and just bad business, at least from what EU players tell me, is their accounts are being whiped out, any money spent and prems won lost. I guess I could see that if it was Aeria who bought out Pro Sat like when Aeria took over for ijji on gunz 1 we all lost our items and even that was BS, but Pro Sat is taking over Aeria, so unfair to those players who put in any money. Doesn't make sense, is it really that hard to keep the integrity of their current accounts? Sounds scandulous and greedy!

[Ondredge]

2Casual Sun:
Please, go and check out Pro7 forums. You'll find the same, maybe even worse. ;) I have to say that my friend, working formerly for Alaplaya, will be transferred. From what he told me, the conditions are 1000x better. I can't say anythingAbout Aeria but what you are describing to me has happend on our games (S4 League f. e.) some time ago. Only time will show if the merge was a good thing or not...

[Sig]

Some information on the conditions of the EU transfer to Aeriagames:

- All accounts will be wiped, everyone will have to make a new account.
- Everyone who purchased a Founder's Package will receive something like a code to claim a new one. (We never had anything else to buy because the company felt like they should finish the game before actually making people pay for it.)
- We will have to be fast in remaking our personal nicknames and clannames before someone else takes them, this is the biggest downside on the whole reset.
- Most "real" players here actually want a reset, to get rid of unfair ranks and such. We have a full clan here called Cx who are all gold+, simply because they went into an empty region and boosted eachother. Seeing them losing their rank is nice if you ask me.
- The servers will close on july the 8th, and we will get an e-mail when gunz 2 is available on aeria. This makes remaking our nicks before someone else takes them a bit harder, and is quite annoying.
- From what I've heard, our terrible, TERRIBLE community manager, and the most childish and incompetent moderator we have, will both come along with the transfer, and remain as active (if you call once a month active) staff for gunz 2. Our best moderator will sadly resign.

[5onic]

Wow casual stun actually said something factual for once. Aeria games sucks.

[Sig]

To be honest, as long as aeria just provides decent customer service, and maintains the same prices as steam, the game won't need alot of management. So having any publisher wouldn't matter much, as long as the staff is active to help with problems, and the game actually receives updates.

P7 did neither. We never received any help from the staff, and by the time a mod DID give a (mostly useless) answer, the question was likely already answered by +/- 5 other veteran players with actual information. We also never received any updates and patches on time, and it seems the QA bug testing team was only there for show, since p7/maiet would never do anything with their reports and suggestions. (I know this because I know several people in the QA team, who actually work their asses off for the game, but their suggestions and reports simply never get handled by those in charge.)