Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The AION 2 head start is here in two days. Advance Access runs 30 September – 4 October 2026, five days before the free-to-play global launch on 5 October — and...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The single date every AION 2 Founder's Pack owner has been waiting for finally has a clock on it: the Advance Access pre-download opens Monday, 28 September...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2 launches globally on 5 October 2026, with Founder's Pack Advance Access opening 30 September, and one question is dominating the pre-launch community...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2 launches globally on 5 October 2026, with Founder's Pack Advance Access opening 30 September, and the single most-asked question before anyone can lo...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: In AION 2, all trading between players goes through a single central Market (the auction-house system) — and as of NC's post-test notice on Se...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: AION 2 is NC's (NCSoft's) new Unreal Engine 5 MMORPG, launching free-to-play worldwide on October 5, 2026 — PC only, via Steam and the PUR...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Global launch is October 5, 2026, and Founder's Pack Early Access opens five days earlier on September 30. As of this guide there are only a handful of days...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Is AION 2 coming to console? Short answer: yes, eventually — but not at launch, and with no date. NC (NCSOFT) has confirmed a console version is in the works, b...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Is AION 2 pay to win? Short answer: not in the blunt "buy a stat boost from the shop and win" sense — NC says the AION 2 cash shop sells only cosmetic...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2's first real Western hands-on came in the September 17–18, 2026 Launch Scale Test, and the early read is genuinely split: the presentation, character...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The AION 2 Launch Scale Test runs September 17–18, 2026, is open to everyone on Steam and PURPLE with no keys or invites, and lets you play up to level 37 — but...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2 markets "over 200 dungeons" with solo, 5-player and 10-player raid tiers, plus the Abyss as its faction-war endgame — but as of September 14, 2...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2's global launch is expected to run on regional servers grouped into four areas — North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Japan — but as of Sept...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2 is free to play, but its most useful economy systems sit behind an optional Membership that costs roughly $15 a month. That Membership is what unlocks th...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Short answer, up top, because this is the question everyone is really asking.
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Character creation in AION 2 is the first real decision you make in the game — and because NC has built the game around a faction you can't easily change an...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2's earned currency is called Kina. You will see it written "Kinah" almost everywhere — that is the spelling from the original Aion (2008), a...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2 is a brand-new game — a full sequel built from scratch, not a remake or a remaster of the 2008 Aion. It runs on Unreal Engine 5, it's published by NC...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2's early access — which NC officially calls Advance Access — starts on September 30, 2026 and runs for five days, ending when the game goes free-to-pl...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
AION 2's PvP is built on the returning Elyos-versus-Asmodian faction war, and for the 2026 global launch the reported modes are the Abyss (large-scale open-...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: AION 2 has two factions — Elyos and Asmodian — and at global launch on October 5, 2026 the choice is mostly about look, story flavour and who you ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: AION 2's only pre-launch test — the Launch Scale Test (LST) — runs September 17–18, 2026 on Steam and PURPLE. It is open to everyone with no k...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: You cannot download the full AION 2 yet — it launches globally on October 5, 2026, free-to-play, on Windows PC only. Before then there are two way...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Quick answer: To run AION 2 at minimum settings you need Windows 10/11 (64-bit), an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 / Intel Core i5-10500, 8 GB RAM, an NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti (4 G...