Quoting Ayase (Aion's european community manager), in a post at another forum.
The fact that beta now only happens to cover the South Korean regions does in no way mean that we have any less desire to let other territories partake in testing the game. More rather, we would want nothing more. But reality remains - there are obstacles there that prevent us from doing so at this instant. I'm of course talking about localization, both client-wise and communication-wise. The client is not yet fully translated, and while it's progressing with a good pace - we don't want to expose the game to players in a language they probably don't understand. It just takes away too much from the MMO experience. To come to terms with this, the initial testing phases are in the development language, allowing the developers to put more time and effort in to actually making the game ... dare I say 'awesome'?
Quoting Ayase (Aion's european community manager), in a post at another forum.
The fact that beta now only happens to cover the South Korean regions does in no way mean that we have any less desire to let other territories partake in testing the game. More rather, we would want nothing more. But reality remains - there are obstacles there that prevent us from doing so at this instant. I'm of course talking about localization, both client-wise and communication-wise. The client is not yet fully translated, and while it's progressing with a good pace - we don't want to expose the game to players in a language they probably don't understand. It just takes away too much from the MMO experience. To come to terms with this, the initial testing phases are in the development language, allowing the developers to put more time and effort in to actually making the game ... dare I say 'awesome'?
Open beta in Korea is expected for September/October, there won't be any more closed betas there, our closed betas for Europe and US should be announced soon, hopefuly in Leipzig/PAX, the release date for this game in EU/US is stablished sometime during the first quarter of 2009.
World wide releases simultaneously in different languages in different locales are extremely rare if not impossible to make happen. They are actually doing quite well. If the game launches in Korea in early 2009 or *gasp* before and we get ours 6 months later, or around there. That's pretty good.
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I believe the beta application is only available in Korea. So far there hasn't been any announcement for the NA beta signups that I know of.
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Ok thanks for the replies. The avatars look gorgeous and the wings are wicked.
Quoting Ayase (Aion's european community manager), in a post at another forum.
The fact that beta now only happens to cover the South Korean regions does in no way mean that we have any less desire to let other territories partake in testing the game. More rather, we would want nothing more. But reality remains - there are obstacles there that prevent us from doing so at this instant. I'm of course talking about localization, both client-wise and communication-wise. The client is not yet fully translated, and while it's progressing with a good pace - we don't want to expose the game to players in a language they probably don't understand. It just takes away too much from the MMO experience. To come to terms with this, the initial testing phases are in the development language, allowing the developers to put more time and effort in to actually making the game ... dare I say 'awesome'?
I hope we will see beta in europe becouse game itself looks realy nice and it's something I want to see
We must wait for betakeys only in EU/NU and sign up correctly.Now it's hard if you want to play because CBT3 are coming soon in korea
I believe that was posted at AionSource.com.
ArcheAgeSource.com
there should be a beta of somesort, for a stress test at least
What is the release date for this game?
Sigh. Did you even read the topic? There is no release date or open beta for westerners yet.
Sigh. Did you even read the topic? There is no release date or open beta for westerners yet.
No there isn't But you can expect this:
Korea: (1/2 Months)
CBT4 (Maybe, i think not)
OBT
Other: (3 Months) (Short repeat of the Korean Phase)
CBT1
CBT2
CBT3
CBT4 (Maybe, i think not)
OBT
Jan or Feb in 2009 will be reasonable.
Release for us.
Sigh. Did you even read the topic? There is no release date or open beta for westerners yet.
No there isn't But you can expect this:
CBT4 (Maybe, i think not)
Nod, just confirmed there isn't going to be one. Go go Korean proxy address
www.thisisgame.com/board/view.php
Sigh. Did you even read the topic? There is no release date or open beta for westerners yet.
No there isn't But you can expect this:
CBT4 (Maybe, i think not)
Nod, just confirmed there isn't going to be one. Go go Korean proxy address
www.thisisgame.com/board/view.php
Thanks, so OBT in Korea after soe little days/weeks then it will come to us in 3 Monhts time test.
Greets,
Dawn
Open beta in Korea is expected for September/October, there won't be any more closed betas there, our closed betas for Europe and US should be announced soon, hopefuly in Leipzig/PAX, the release date for this game in EU/US is stablished sometime during the first quarter of 2009.
They should be announcing Korean OBT date on August 13th.
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I think its weird they have problems with "localisation" while they already have several NC games located and servers set up in europe already.
World wide releases simultaneously in different languages in different locales are extremely rare if not impossible to make happen. They are actually doing quite well. If the game launches in Korea in early 2009 or *gasp* before and we get ours 6 months later, or around there. That's pretty good.
I'm being generous with the time here too...
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Aion - The Tower of Eternity will be release Early 2009 and the english closed beta will probably be soon.