NCsoft has released pach 1.5.1 for its MMORPG Aion, now available for download.
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Aion has been out for roughly 6 weeks so Massively thought it might be fun to crunch some of the numbers NCsoft provides on their official North American website. They've taken a look at realm balance, class balance, and what level Aion's population is at. Data collection occurred on November 12 at noon Eastern.
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Direct2Drive has released it's top ten sales chart for the week ending in November 7.
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NCsoft has released details of the Aion Holiday Ascension Pack, which contains in-game items that vary depending on which retailer the pack is purchased from.

The pack consists of scrolls, potions and a dye, unique to each retailer.
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Eurogamer writes: "NCsoft has announced that nearly a million copies of PC MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity have been sold in the West.

Over 500,000 units have been shifted in North America, while the figure for Europe stands at around 470,000 units. The game was released in the West during the last week of September."
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D2D has released their latest top ten weekly sales chart for the week ending on October 31.
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D2D has released their latest top ten sales chart for the week ending October 24.
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Valve has released their weekly top ten sellers list on Steam for the week ending on October 24. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 makes its debut on the weight of just two eligible days of pre-orders.
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NCsoft has released an updated game client for their popular MMORPG Aion, now available for download.
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Gamer Limit writes "As October starts coming to a close, one thing tends to be on every one's mind, Halloween. This spooky holiday also seems to have NCsoft captivated . The developer/producer is planning Halloween themed events across all six of its active Western titles."
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Following in the footsteps of other MMOs, Aion's own in-game Halloween-based holiday, Harvest Revel, was announced by NCsoft at the weekend.

Whereas the Asmodians celebrate the dark days with special dishes and wild hunts, the Elyos team up to defeat risen undead, who are set on destroying towns and villages.
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IncGamers reports that, according to a poll on an Aion website, over 86% of players intend to renew their subscriptions after the first free month of game play has ended.
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Aion's Lance Stites has spoken about the current state of the game in a letter to the players, confirming that players on realms with long queues will have a chance to move servers.

Every player will be offered a free transfer with a new transfer service that should be available within the next month.
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Players can get their hands on an Aion demo at some participation iGames centers in NA.

The demo lasts for 3 days, 5 hours or until level 7, whichever is reached first. There is a limited number of demos available.
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NCsoft has announced the arrival of two new Aion servers for European players.

French-speaking players now have Deltras as an option and English speakers get Kahrun in addition to all their existing servers.

This follows the opening of new US West coast server, Fregion, on Friday. An East coast server is following shortly.
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Gamervision reports: "One of the many innovations in NCSoft's Aion: Tower of Eternity is the ability to set up shop. Sure, it's been done before in different ways, but most other MMORPGs keep trading limited to Auction Houses and spamming the chat channels. In Aion, all an entrepreneur needs to do is hit "Y" and choose prices, dropping down a pole and marking themselves as a vendor. It's wonderfully simplistic, and should help keep Aion's in-game economy bustling. It also has a second function: tricking the game into thinking you're not idle.

NCSoft hopes to solve the lines by removing this abuse of their good nature. In a patch today, they've set a 30 minute marker on idle players, which should stop the huge amount of people using the shops as a way to avoid getting kicked offline.

They've also added another West Coast server to the game, which will be followed by another East Coast and European server. These additions should help the issue even more. We'll update if is any more info, but it looks like NCSoft might have found a way to help their MMO's growing pains. Good for them."
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A look at this week's news from the world of MMOs, including Aion, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft, Fallen Earth, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online and Final Fantasy XIV.
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The AION Online: Tower of Eternity MMORPG is now live. NCSoft only has 18 servers with 400,000 pre-orders and a 2,000 active player cap per server. So it is no surprise that the average wait time per server is 3 hours and there are over 2,500 in the que ahead of you.

Check out the server status, watch the launch trailer, and get more up to date information.
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Gamer Limit writes "Aion already appears to be getting off to questionable start, not only with our previously reported epic queues, but now players are being banned for merely joking about gold sales.

Below is a copy/paste of the email banned Aion player Redmoons sent us."
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Gamer Limit writes: "Well, Aion is technically here, and it's not looking good so far. The official forums are flooded with complaints over insanely large queues for an event that was supposed to allow people that pre-ordered the game to play two days early with a pre-registered character.

While this is fairly typical of MMOs (and this isn't even technically a true launch), it seems like NCSoft wasn't able to meet the initial demand despite pre-order and pre-registration statistics. Whether this problem will carry over to launch day come this Tuesday is yet to be seen."
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