The beta testing for new MMORPG Aion Online last week broke all Korea OBT records. On last report, there were around 170,000 players in the first couple of days alone.
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 (November 12) launch of open beta testing in Korea, concurrent user (CCU) 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.
To meet the unprecedented demand by gamers, NCsoft rapidly expanded to 25 servers over the first few hours of opening the beta. Even with the increased number of servers, tens of thousands of people were waiting to enter the game.
Meanwhile, here are screenshots of the game:
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