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Szark  11/17/08 11:01:48 AM
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NCsoft has announced that Aion reached 170,000 concurrent user during beta testing, making it the largest beta event in Korean History.

SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 14, 2008—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.

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Valentina  11/17/08 12:37:26 PM
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Ozmodan  11/17/08 12:56:24 PM
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Hope they have an open beta for the version on this side of the pond.
 
Greatness  11/17/08 6:31:31 PM
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Hopefully this will game will finally be a nice change of pace but not keeping my hopes up yet since I have said to every single other game. Does pique my interest considering thats a lot of players, they must have done something right.

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Perko  11/19/08 10:28:34 AM
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Originally posted by Greatness

Hopefully this will game will finally be a nice change of pace but not keeping my hopes up yet since I have said to every single other game. Does pique my interest considering thats a lot of players, they must have done something right.

 

It's always possible the only thing they did right is marketing.  E.g. see "Age of Conan"  :-)