Aion: The Tower of Eternity Breaking Beta Test Records in Korea
One of the most highly anticipated massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, Aion®: The Tower of Eternity™ from NCsoft®, is already showing signs of reaching hit status in only a matter of days since open beta testing kicked off earlier this week. Aion is scheduled to launch in Korea within the year and launches in China, North America, Europe and Japan are planned for 2009.
Since Tuesday’s launch of open beta testing in Korea, concurrent user numbers have already jumped to more than 170,000 players, making it the most popular beta event in Korean history. According to NCsoft officials, more than 11,000 people were logged into the game after only two minutes of open beta service. In less than an hour, that number had ballooned to 40,000. Currently the number of concurrent players has leapt up to more than 170,000.
To meet the unprecedented demand by gamers, NCsoft rapidly expanded to 25 servers over the first few hours of opening the beta. Even with the increased number of servers, tens of thousands of people were waiting to enter the game. By the second day of open beta, the game reached the top spot in Korea’s Gametrics web site that rates games that are played in Korea’s PC Café industry.
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The History of Atreia, Part II
The history of Atreia is as inspiring and immersive as the game itself, and every now and then we receive a token of wisdom and insight from some of those who are most knowledgeable of it. A new chapter each has been added to the Elyos and Asmodian background stories. The experiences and writings of Rafaela, a human living in the bright and vivid Elysea, can be found in the Elyos part of our website’s Background section. If you however wish to rather explore the history of Atreia from an Asmodian perspective, head on over to Kineas, an ascended Asmodian Daeva who will certainly invite you to learn more of his people’s tough struggle.
Aion Entering Open Beta in Korea
The Aion team in Korea announced that Aion will be entering Open Beta in Korea on November 11th. This is very exciting news for us as well! Since the game has entered its next phase in Korea, we thought we’d take a moment to explain the status of Aion in the west.
Visual improvements – Light and Shadows
Take a look at the stunning new light and shadow effects in Aion.
MMOZine Issue 7 features Aion once again
Set the Stage: Winning Performances!
Games Convention is over - and we have our final winners.
MMOZine Issue 6 gives Aion 90%
Aion: The Tower of Eternity was recently featured in MMOZine Issue #6, which can be downloaded here (jump to page 21).
Aion in PCGZine Issue 21
PCGZine Issue 21 is now available for download right over here. The cover story this month is about nothing less than Aion: Tower of Eternity, put together by their team of games journalists.
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