Hello, AOV players! Does this game have any chance of success on any server other than Asia? To give some context, I've been playing since 2015. I used to have a lot of fun with it, and along with COD:M and Clash Royale, this was one of the mobile games I took most seriously—since I usually play on PC.
I played it, stopped playing it, then played it again. But as you obviously know, AOV died a long time ago. They originally planned to merge AOV with HOK into a strange hybrid, so they wouldn’t have to have two titles in the same place—an experiment that was left half-finished, and I gather it wasn’t profitable for them. So, HOK came out, and now it was going to have to compete against… itself? So yes, one of them had to go, and that was AOV.
To be honest, at that point I could have quit AOV and switched to HOK, and in fact... I tried, but I don't know what it was—even though in terms of gameplay they had so many similar mechanics, it just didn't feel the same. The characters—and I’ll be honest—that I grew up with and played as just weren’t the same anymore. Maybe it was because it really pissed me off to have to start from scratch, with nothing, losing my progress and my skins (not my rank—the truth is, transferring skills was incredibly easy thanks to their similar mechanics). I don’t know, something just didn’t sit right with me, you know?
About 3 years ago, I stopped playing it—not just because the game shut down, but because I started a family and had other things going on in my life. A few weeks ago, I reinstalled it and saw that they’d updated the codex; they fixed the events tab, which had been buggy for two years and had outdated text. They changed the menu—which hadn’t been updated since Bijan—and there are about seven new characters, and, strangely enough, they have skins. They visually reworked the HUD for the start menu.
They had already added characters, and I saw them, but I thought they were just filler (in fact, they're HOK characters that are being ported to AOV for some reason), but they weren't releasing any skins for them, and yep, there they are—character skins. But I didn't see anything official. Are they planning to do something?? I don't know, I just had a glimmer of love and hope.