Aion (Open Beta, Launch Day Info too!)

[Nonentity]

Goonswarm is rolling on Azphel, afaik.

Staying far the hell away from there (on Zikel).

[Shatter]

400,000 preorders according to NCSoft.

Didn't WAR have like 700k? 

I'm surprised Aion isn't matching up to WAR.  Not enough hype apparently. 

Pretty sure War didnt have that many preorders.  Think they were in the 150-200K ballpark. 

[IainC]

WAR had about 600k pre-orders IIRC. It was the best selling item across all categories on Amazon.de the day it went on sale.

[BitWarrior]

400,000 preorders according to NCSoft.

Didn't WAR have like 700k? 

I'm surprised Aion isn't matching up to WAR.  Not enough hype apparently. 

I'm actually surprised by that number, I was expecting it to be lower. NCSoft has been fairly tame on the external advertising, whereas Mythic went fairly crazy promoting the game pre-launch (interviews upon interviews, big hype at every conference, advertising on competitors sides (wowhead and wowwiki), promotional websites (can't recall domain, was a geographical contest) - the hype machine was worked around the clock. I can't say that Aion has done much of anything along these lines, I think most of the excitement has been largely fan generated.

[Draegan]

It's ok, Schild can't wait to play Lego Zelda.

[Shatter]

WAR had about 600k pre-orders IIRC. It was the best selling item across all categories on Amazon.de the day it went on sale.

Link?

[Outlawedprod]

"Yes, #Aion disappeared from the launcher. We're working on fixing it. Stay tuned and don't play around with your game files."
http://twitter.com/aion_ayase/status/4083730039

[Falconeer]

And Avira Antivir now (since today's patch) recognizes the main file Aion.bin as a trojan. It's Avira's fault, yet funny.

[IainC]

WAR had about 600k pre-orders IIRC. It was the best selling item across all categories on Amazon.de the day it went on sale.

Link?

I got told in a briefing meeting. I don't know if it ever got announced officially.

[Nebu]

Apparently it was reported that WAR attracted over 500k players in the first week with no release of preorder sales data.

I'm not sure how credible this site is, but it was one of two that had much at all about WAR release that I could find in less than 10s.

You are correct fundamentally.  400k preorders would be better than 500k in the first week. 

[Draegan]

I think we need a preorder chart.

[Morfiend]

Goonswarm is rolling on Azphel, afaik.

Staying far the hell away from there (on Zikel).

Hey Non, just a heads up. The goons are moving to Zikel. Not joking. Your welcome to come join my band on Azphel.

[Falconeer]

While the Italians are officially on Telemachus, IainC server. Good luck.

[Falconeer]

"Yes, #Aion disappeared from the launcher. We're working on fixing it. Stay tuned and don't play around with your game files."
http://twitter.com/aion_ayase/status/4083730039

And now this:

We're going to push out a small patch to fix Aion disappearing in your launcher, and to resolve error 1024. Very soon now.
1 minute ago from Seesmic

How the fuck could they fuck it up 40 minutes before launch?! It was fine 1 hour ago!

[Venkman]

I'm no pro but I imagine course-correcting on GameGuard this close to launch was bound to screw up something. I also keep forgetting the PDT part of the noon preselection. Which explains why I keep getting kicked from the login screen

[Nonentity]

Goonswarm is rolling on Azphel, afaik.

Staying far the hell away from there (on Zikel).

Hey Non, just a heads up. The goons are moving to Zikel. Not joking. Your welcome to come join my band on Azphel.

Hm. I don't want to be on the same server as the goons.

I updated my post to point to Asphel. I'm sending out last minute update emails.

[Falconeer]

Pre-selection servers up.

[Threash]

How do you get aion back on the list?

[IainC]

How do you get aion back on the list?

Run the launcher again and you'll get a patch.

[Venkman]

Yep.

And just registered. Surprisingly smooth.

[Falconeer]

Chars done. Back to waiting. Sigh.

[Threash]

Yeah that was some very anticlimatic 2 minutes.

[Venkman]

Well, you can always periodically check back in to make sure they're still there 

[Koyasha]

I expect to consume many hours over the next two days tweaking and re-tweaking character appearance.

[Nonentity]

It took me 30 minutes to make one character (my main), now I have to make my alt.

[Falconeer]

I expect to consume many hours over the next two days tweaking and re-tweaking character appearance.

Sigh. I did that in beta. Now it took me 5 seconds to replicate my two perfect models. I had notes and screenshots too, to be sure not to fuck it up. Character creation is serious business 

[Draegan]

Heh, I have screenshots too.

[Checkers]

It would have been a nice feature to be able to output a settings file for your character's appearance.

[Threash]

Man, the default voice really is ass-demolishing gay.

[Draegan]

It would have been a nice feature to be able to output a settings file for your character's appearance.

They probably could of created templates for you to keep from beta.  Some games do that.

[Falconeer]

EQ2 had that character setting save feature. I loved it.

[Soln]

FOH list of uber guild PvP server declarations

[Tale]

Man, the default voice really is ass-demolishing gay.

I have decided to make the world's smallest and youngest looking scout with the tough guy voice.

[Outlawedprod]

"Race balancing is in place on every server. If one side gets overpopulated, we have to temporarily block creation."
http://twitter.com/aion_ayase/status/4088127594

[Draegan]

FOH list of uber guild PvP server declarations

That's not accurate.  Many of those guild have left as far as I know since it became Oceanic.