Aion beta

It has been a week already, that Aion has started its open beta in Korea. Just in case you don't know, Aion is a new game by NC Soft, scheduled to launch in Korea within the year and launches in China, North America, Europe and Japan planned for 2009.

According to NC, the number of players has reached an un-proceeded record

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.

According to pirate-ninjas (I like these guys more and more every day), it might be a mistake to implore only korean testers.

There are no plans for any non-korean open beta. There are only a few short Preview-Events planed North America/Europe. So the real beta testing and playerbase influence gonna be again Korea. For NCSoft self proclaimed next big triple A IP (thats supposed to become an international success) this isn’t too promising. With that and the Lineage 2 failure in mind: Aion will be NCSofts next international failure, event tho it got a huge potential - just like Lineage 2 had.

I could be persuaded to give it a try.. Anyone else interested??

Some more Aion-related sites:
Official site: http://eu.aiononline.com/en/
Greek article: http://www.mmorpg.gr/features.php?read=1829
Pirate-ninja's article (and sneak view!): http://www.pirateninjas.net/aion/aion-korean-open-beta/
Aion Global: http://www.aionglobal.com/
Aion Source: http://www.aionsource.com/