pffft irl programming it would be hardly the same. they are obviously then using a propriety engine and "first" aion was scaled down of that and the one they are doing now is a notch up from the previous one.
i'm not one to just back into something i left just because it looks better now
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I still think they made a mistake using the Crytek engine to start with, but I don't suppose there's anything they can do about it now without restarting from the bottom up.
I don't think spam bots are completely gone, but I haven't had any shouts over the last couple of days, and having mentioned that, I haven't seen too many bots running around either - so I think they're getting a handle on the problem. I'm surprised that gold spam would induce anyone to quit though - easy enough to block as it is - so even when it was a problem, it didn't really bother me all that much.
There are rumours floating about that the level cap is going to be raised - of necessity, that should mean new content - we hope.
As for when Vision was going to be implemented, I believe it's going to be an ongoing process, and not all done at once.
One thing I really do wish they would pay attention to are holiday events - Valentine's Day was limited to a rather stupid looking balloon hat (at least, that is all I saw) and double xp, whereas Guild Wars had the whole Canthan New Year theme going (so naturally, I spent a bit of time on GW over the weekend again).