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Approximately when do you guys supose Aion will have a closed beta for us North Americans?
darkness421
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I've been wondering about this for awhile, also checking mmorpg.com DAILY and looking up Aion. It's mind racking and Is starting to annoy me actually. If anyone of you know or have a guess as to when it will have any type of release. Please do post it here so it can somewhat re assure me.
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I've read it is suppose to be Q2 2009 for release. I think I read that there isn't a closed beta for US, but probably some form of a beta to make sure all runs well.
This is just a guess, so please keep that in mind. I dont think they are going to have a closed or open beta for the NA release. I mean the game has already been released and is live. What exactly do they need to test on the NA version aside from the translation? Some countries in EU are also going to have the English translated version or at least an option for it. I think they will just do as they stated, I know I read it somewhere on their site, that it will be released every 2 months. January in China, March in EU and May in NA. Ofcourse I hope im wrong and we get to play it before May but hey, no rush as long as the game works and is polished by the time I get it lol.
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There is no english beta.
Preview events so that some of us paying attention will get to try it before release and to maybe test out servers and such, I guess.
As for frustration for waiting.... lol.
Just keep checking, if it helps, Ayase of NCsoft EU community peoples blogged that they have been having 'meetings' lately... So maybe we'll get updates soon.
*crosses fingers*
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Westerners are too stupid to participate in a beta (or as they like to think of it, a free trial). We're going to get previews just to stress test the servers, everything else will be duplicated from the Korean servers I guess.
yes, we're going to get "weekend previews" of the game for us to test/stress it (think like the Guild Wars approach)
Im really hoping that we will get the first 'preview' soonish, given that people are taking Q2 (april-june) for release...
The Tabula Rasa crowd gets in early right? I suppose that would be a part of closed beta.
They had a closed beta for Lineage2 even thought it was live in Korea. It may not be a very long one, but I would suspect there's going to be something going on within 1 month of release.
My speculations? Beta in May and release in June.
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My guess would be a preview event at either the end of Feb or beginning of March.
As Cynthe said, there is no closed Beta, just preview/stress events.
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As Cynthe said, there is no closed Beta, just preview/stress events.
Now we just wait. I would say release in April or May. That is if they stay on the same time frame they have been on. With the Chinese release right around the corner the plan is 2-3 months after each localization to move on to the next.
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As Cynthe said, there is no closed Beta, just preview/stress events.
Now we just wait. I would say release in April or May. That is if they stay on the same time frame they have been on. With the Chinese release right around the corner the plan is 2-3 months after each localization to move on to the next.
It's the waiting that hurts : (
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Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
As Cynthe said, there is no closed Beta, just preview/stress events.
Now we just wait. I would say release in April or May. That is if they stay on the same time frame they have been on. With the Chinese release right around the corner the plan is 2-3 months after each localization to move on to the next.
It's the waiting that hurts : (
Haha yeah, patience is not one of my greater virtues . . .
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My guess is that Aion will be released somewhere early august.
Reason for this is the compensation for the former TR players. They all received on january 14 2 keys for a 3 month subscription to L2 and CoX (which have to be used withing 6 months). NCsoft will figure that everyone they gave those keys will play them one after an other, so 6 months after the compensation gift they'll release the early access, allowing the TR playerstheir early access, followed by the release.
Then again, I'm only guessing
Hmmm I think the Tabula players will just be able to access the game 'early' via the preview events nothing more. They do get the game for free already after all. I could be wrong.
I'd like to know just how long these preview events will be, some people estimate one weekend and I fear that's a right guess. >< A week would be a lot nicer.
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Let's just stop guessing on what date the game will release on in NA and know it will be in the next few months. There won't be a beta, there will only be a preview weekend at most.
I actually don't think that August is a bad guess.
Although, I wouldn't base it on TR compensations, it's very possible for this game to be delayed by a quarter or so. Maybe NCsoft wants to bring over a version after balance changes have been made or maybe localization is taking longer than expected. Whatever it is, I like the thought that Aion will be polished when it comes out for us.
Also let's hope this gives them time to add swimming. ^_^:;;; Apologies if it's been added now and I missed the memo.
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Sadly, that's not the case:(((((
I don't think they will add it anytime soon:(
It doesnt matter as long as we don't have to wait till Fall or Winter. I wouldn't mind especially us students who have the summer break in june if Aion was released around that time. I should also cut down my daily checking to maybe 2-3 times a week. The fact that I check so often hurts even more, so the best thing to do is wait patiently. Even though I say this I doubt my patience will last
Lets just hope Aion comes out soon. Like tommorow... maybe?
They timed the korean release right after the korean's got done with there school exam's. Will see if that hold true for the west also.
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Hehe, nope but it is funny to watch the unsuspecting "swimmers" jump in only to sink faster than a mobster with concrete shoes.
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The lack of information is starting to make people really rowdy. I just want them to release at least a shred of information to us. It's like they don't even care about their NA crowd who could potentially bring them a copious amount of money.
The amount of Asians that play Aion is no where near the amount of NA's that will play. But still hopefully they will stop neglecting us and start posting some information fast.
Tbh the western crowd does deserve information accessible to them in English. However if one is resourceful, you can find pretty much everything through browsing aionsource.com and certain guilds (Hellbound) forums for information.
In fact a lot of very specific information about stuff you'd only expect to know post release is also available in english.
I'm not saying you should search for it. I'm just saying its there if you really want it.
Naturally I realise it is very important for NCSoft to seriously market this game. Approx 3 months from launch and its got mostly word of mouth hype. Sure theres footage on the official site, but not enough for a lot of people.
Aionsource.com is really the main information point for all things Aion though.
There posting Information way to slow, its been almost 2-3 months before their last post of video/information.
I need more >.< and I know alot of you do too.
You have not been paying attention then. They have posted once or twice a month since december according to the news section and there's a new post from friday introducing the new NA community manager...
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