Aion Beta Hits Milestone
November 17th, 2008, 9:11 am by James Fudge (No Comments)The game that NCsoft hopes will be be its next big hit in North America, Aion: Tower of Eternity, has seen more than 170,000 concurrent users in its closed beta in Korea. Obviously the game will do very good there but how it will do in the west is debatable at this point. Aion is scheduled to launch in Korea within the year and in 2009 in places like China, North America, Europe and Japan.
NCsoft calls the response in Korea “incredibly exciting” and notes that its audience in North America and Europe is rapidly growing. The company has aggressive plans for Aion in the west as it prepares to launch the game in multiple regions in 2009. We’ll see how that all pans out later this year, I guess, but it’s hard to gauge how well an Eastern themed MMO will do here given the failings of previous games that have attempted to crack the lucrative North American and European markets.