Aion going Free-to-Play, already in February 2012.

[Ker]

I looked at the item shop too and saw they offered stuff to make delay to enter instances shorter.

19 points to reset udas, lower udas, kromede trial instantly. Each item requires different instance.

You can check for yourself what's in the stock since no logon is needed to look:

http://www.aionfreetoplay.com/website/shop/;jsessionid=8297db79b1fbdae7edbfd9627070

Ker

[Jonybat]

Some of these scrolls exist already, but only as a quest/survey reward i think. Is there anything in the shop that gives advantage directly? Mostly something like over powered gear or uber rare stuff. XP boosts, instances resets only give indirect advantage.

[Syrie]

Only skins, pets (lots of them), lodas amulets, gold packs, scrolls resetting instance CDs etc.

[Ker]

About the cash shop, this may interest you:

gold pack costs 99 premium points which I guess corresponds to the 9.99€ quoted, but also:

Gold Pack

"Additional information
- activation of additional Gold Packs extends the effect period
- effect valid for all characters in an account
- can be traded with other players
- can be traded at trading agents"

So basically you can buy/sell gold packs at the broker.

Ker

[Ashelia]

Hmm... that's not good. Will give the paying customer a major advantage at the ingame economy. We'll see what happens.

[Teaser]

maybe, but its also a way that all members can have acess to the gold pack.

[Ker]

I tend to favour Uther's interpretation but we will have to see indeed.

[Syrie]

Oh that way maybe I could finally afford to waste 40kk kinah on Miragent's pants. ^^

[Ker]

I think two warnings are in order:

(1) the message on aiononline that they will delete all classic veteran rewards on 25/02/2012 may mean that we need to claim all our rewards: Gameforge would not be getting our veteran reward status (what's been taken already what not), Gameforge would continue to give the old veteran rewards when earned until the 28 month one.

(2) if you buy the shugo lad in the ncsoft store he's for the entire account, when you buy him in the Gameforge store it is per character (!!), so basicallly if you want that 24 storage pet get it quickly before the accounts are moved AND claim it on ALL characters BEFORE the accounts are moved.

Take care

PS. Hehe Syrie

[Syrie]

You will still be able to claim all of your veteran rewards on old and new characters. It was confirmed by the Gameforge CM.

Oh and game goes live on 28.02.

[Syrie]

Aion Europe Transition of Service 27/02/12 17:00 CET

Greetings Daevas!
On February 27, 2012 at 16:00 GMT (17:00 CET more), all of the EU Aion servers will be brought down in preparation for the transition to Gameforge. At this time the forums will be turned off, and the webpages for uk.aiononline.com, fr.aiononline.com, and de.aiononline.com will reflect that the transition is occurring.
If you wish for your character to be transferred to the Gameforge servers, but have not made this selection yet, you will need to "opt-in" to the transfer from your NC Master Account. Details can be found here.
NCsoft West wishes to thank you for being our customer and joining us in the world of Atreia. May your future Aion journeys be glorious and rewarding.
~The Aion Team

http://uk.aiononline.com/news/announcements/aion-europe-transition-service-270212-1700-cet

[Teaser]

and a newsletter sent to my mail today, gameforge announced aion 3.0 for spring, no schedulled date yet tho. most probably late march, start of april i think.

[Syrie]

I think it's going to be the same time, Aion NA goes f2p, because they will also get 3.0 by then.

[WhiteHorse]

So Aion NA also going f2p, did not knew that.

[Ker]

I'd nog get too worried about not having been able to register for the Guild Wars 2 beta:

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/18441-guild-wars-2-beta-sign-ups-close-to-hitting-one-million/

to be precise: 990 152 beta signups. So good luck to all that managed to subscribe <grin>

Ker