Aion Pre-Order now on Steam

[Bahumat]

Just seen Aion advertised on Steam. £34 and you are supposed to get Beta access

 

[mooSe_]

You get beta access with all aion pre-orders afaik, I didn't realise it was on steam but I paid £35 somewhere else for a direct download and I have been in the last 2 beta tests.
Anyone who is interested should get in quick as there is another beta weekend starting tommorow.

 

[Bahumat]

ah cool, thanks for the heads up

 

[Bahumat]

Once you install this via steam you need to setup an account via the NCSoft website (right click on Aion in steam and press Manage Account iirc).

After all this you install an NCSoft app that applies a 15mb patch. It will say Aion US. Do not worry, under File, Settings, Region it will allow you to choose Europe - England etc.

The Aion US and Aion EU client are the same. It's the region settings which tells the game which servers to load (EU or US).

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Giving this a go meself, spotted it last week and thought it would be worth a try, if only for a month or two.

Wonder how long it'll actually last, heh, NCsoft seem to be churning these out for fun.

 

[mooSe_]

Some advice to first timers as well:
- There is no tagging system on mobs; whoever does the most damage gets the loot.
- If the zone you are in is over-crowded and people keep stealing your mobs, then you can change channel in one of the options; each channel is a separate instance. These channels are only present up to the level 20 zones, and it isn't confirmed how many of them there will be on release. There are currently 10 channels.

 

[Lookdaddy]

The lack of a mob tagging system is slightly annoying but hopefully that will get changed for the official live release of the game!

Also, you can get Closed Beta CD keys if you pre-order from play.com for only £24.99!

 

[Ctuchik]

lol £34.....

d2d uk sells the exact same deal for 30.....

steam are even ripping off UK ppl now it seems...

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Bloody graphics card broke on Saturday morning, got 1 hours play out of the whole weekend, typical

 

[Aada]

So if i preorder now i can join the closed beta?

Or is this selected weekends only?

 

[Ctuchik]

iirc if you preorder you get invites to the closed beta weekends.

 

[WiZe^]

Is it like Lineage 2 ? :X

 

[Talivar]

Its like wow pve to 25 then its like daoc imo, cept pve is hard after 25 as u do a lot in enemy realms iirc

 

[Bahumat]

So if i preorder now i can join the closed beta?

Or is this selected weekends only?

iirc if you preorder you get invites to the closed beta weekends.

I bought it off Steam and you get access to the beta when it's open. They seem to do stress/bug testing on weekends so its not always open which is a shame.

 

[Lookdaddy]

So if i preorder now i can join the closed beta?

Or is this selected weekends only?

If you pre-order it now you will get access to all the remaining closed beta weekends which are as follows.....

Closed Beta Event #5 - July 31-August 3

Closed Beta Event #6 - August 14-August 17

 

[mooSe_]

There isn't a continuous closed beta going on, it's just preview weekends.

And I very much doubt that the mob tagging system will be changed before release.