AION 2
Sources, updates and coverage.
Current edition
Global live · October 27 PDT patch and Hard Expeditions · official sources checked November 1, 2026 UTC. 24 guides and 15 connected reference entries. Research checked 2026-11-01; article edit dates are recorded separately.
What still needs work
- The October 14 patch and restriction notices were fetched October 14. Earlier product terms, source checks and gameplay reports retain their separate dates. Nothing here was play-tested.
- Dungeon names, category, up-to-five-player scope and setting summaries come from NC. No dungeon was play-tested; entry, matchmaking, roles, mechanics, rewards and resets remain unresolved.
- Class descriptions and some currency prices are official; full skill, item, quest, NPC and economy catalogs remain incomplete. Pet and wing records are partial official announcements, not tested systems.
- Trailer and promotional footage, interviews, leaks and community speculation are intentionally excluded from the record ledger.
- Prices cited from publisher tables are reference offers, not tested purchases; numeric drop rates and balance comparisons remain unconfirmed.
How updates are reviewed
Sources are linked to the guides that depend on them in Kingy’s review pipeline. A source change requests an editorial review; it does not automatically rewrite the guide or advance its edit date. Automated source checks are separate from a substantive guide review.
Source ledger
Official · NC / AION 2 Global
Patch Notes · October 27 PDT / October 28 CET
Announced boss balance, Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island Hard mode, base HP, Odylium Repository, shop limits, gear Amplify and Transfer, and the Atreia’s Call attendance event. No installed client or gameplay test.
Official · NC / AION 2 Global
Patch Notes · October 20 PDT / October 21 CEST
Announced Krao Cave and Draupnir Hard mode, the Ariel Daevanion Board, class fixes, Abyss changes and the Rise to the Challenge event. No installed client or gameplay test.
Official · NC / AION 2 Global
New Pass Product Info · October 28
Announced Daeva Pass: Prelude to Flight dates, price and level cap. Not purchased or tested.
Official · NC / AION 2 Global
Steam Payment Issue Resolved — October 15
NC reports item delivery and purchase-limit restoration for affected October 6–12 Steam payments. Completion time is stated as October 14 at 10:00 without a timezone. Individual delivery untested.
Official · NC / AION 2 Global
Patch Notes · October 13 PDT / October 14 CEST
Announced shop, class, Halloween, Abyss and settings changes. Regional product-opening labels differ; no installed client, maintenance-completion or gameplay test.
Official · NC / AION 2 Global
Account Restrictions · October 14
9,422 reviewed restrictions; security locks remain separate and require individual support review. No tested restoration.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
Platform Services Maintenance · October 13
Account registration scheduled unavailable October 13 at 14:00 PDT / 23:00 CEST, equivalent to 21:00 UTC, for 30 minutes. Subject to change; no completed outage or restoration observed.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
Game server maintenance · October 13 PDT / October 14 CEST
Game login scheduled unavailable October 13 at 23:30 PDT / October 14 at 08:30 CEST (October 14 06:30 UTC), estimated four hours. Players will be disconnected when it begins. Update details are still to follow; no numeric patch or completed maintenance inferred.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
Account restrictions · October 12 PDT / October 13 CEST
NC reports 10,000 reviewed policy restrictions at October 12 23:00 PDT / October 13 08:00 CEST. Separates policy sanctions from precautionary security locks and directs individual support review; no cause for other login failures or tested restoration.
Official · NC / official AION 2 Global Steam announcements
Account Restrictions — policy sanctions and temporary security locks
Full official October 11 notice fetched October 12 UTC. NC distinguishes reviewed policy restrictions for botting, unauthorized programs, RMT and economy abuse from precautionary security locks. It directs affected accounts to Customer Support for individual review; this is not evidence that October 10 server-selection reports shared this cause. Kingy has not tested restoration.
Reported · Steam Community players (not NC)
Player reports: cannot get past the server list — October 10
Thread fetched October 10 at 7:17 p.m. PDT (Vancouver). Fourteen distinct reporting accounts from 4:33:59 to 4:45:37 p.m. PDT, counting each profile once. Server-selection/login failures; some preceding stalled actions; one Triniel West Coast report. Most regions and client builds unknown. No verified recovery, cause or global-outage claim; no official acknowledgement of this cluster found in the fetched official Steam news feed.
Official · NC / official AION 2 Global Steam announcements
Server Transfer Products Info — October 9
Upcoming maintenance-based PDT windows; same-region/same-faction transfers; storage exclusions; 0 Quna base/per-character fees and 1,000 Quna slot shortfall; eligibility and irreversible once-per-account limit. No client transfer test.
Official · NC / official AION 2 Global Steam announcements
Server Transfer Q&A — October 9
Confirms one transfer across the whole event, server-storage contents stay behind, destination slots and daily regional purchase hours. Source fetched October 10; transfer implementation not yet tested.
Official · nc_community / NC official Steam announcements
Launch Known Issues (Updated: 10/9) · NA West Nezekan
October 10 recheck through the official Steam news API at 7:17 p.m. PDT retains the resolved Nezekan entry and supplies no acknowledgement of the new October 10 player-report cluster. Full official Steam announcement checked October 9, 2026 at 2:31 p.m. PDT (Vancouver). Posted at 12:21 p.m.; last modified at 2:26 p.m. PDT. NC moved the NA West Nezekan character-selection issue and associated latency/delayed-action warning into Resolved Issues. At our earlier 1:48 p.m. check it was under investigation without a fix or ETA. Resolution is publisher-reported; Kingy has not tested a login. No cause, client-side workaround, repair details or exact recovery time is supplied. This notice does not establish a global outage or another region’s Nezekan status.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
AION 2 · Global game contents
NC page and its declared /en-us/conti/getContent?service=aion2global&alias=about-en endpoint fetched October 8. Official eight-class roster and description summaries, flight, dungeon formats, customization, pets and Expedition names. Broad promotional descriptions do not establish stats, rotations, entry requirements or rankings.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
AION 2 · current Steam store
Steam appdetails API fetched October 8 for app 3393110, English/US. Released October 5, 2026, free-to-play Windows game; requirements and languages checked. Publisher advertises flight, solo/five-player/ten-player formats. Promotional descriptions are not performance tests.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
Server transfer announcement · October 14 planned start
Current official body fetched October 8: same-faction transfers announced from October 14, initially free; Advanced Access players restricted to Advanced Access servers initially. All instanced content including dungeons is cross-server. Future transfer availability and full requirements not yet tested.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
Founder cosmetics sharing policy · October 3
Eligible cosmetics announced for all characters/servers. Membership, Campaign Supply Chest, Styling Chest and contents remain one-time rewards. October 7 patch supplies the owner-shop approach; no redemption test.
Official · NC · official Global publisher source
Patch Notes · October 6 PDT / October 7 CEST
Full official Steam API body fetched October 8: founder-owner shop across characters/servers; weekly 20 Sealed Wings morphs per server; increased Raw Leather drops without percentages; 25,000-Kina resurrection item limited to ten per server/week; map-pin, Asmodian weekly-mission, controls and emote fixes. No numeric client build supplied or gameplay test performed.
Official · NC official Steam announcements
Maintenance · October 6–7 · servers back online
Full current official Steam API body fetched October 8. The notice now says servers are back online, replacing the earlier expected-duration status. Asia still has a duration line; no distinct regional completion time or Kingy login test is claimed.
Official · nc_community / NC official Steam announcements
Launch Into AION 2 Now!
NC explicitly states the global service is live. This is the publisher’s launch confirmation; Kingy has not logged in, tested regional server availability or verified the announced maintenance fixes.
Official · NC_Quokka / NC official Steam announcements
AION 2 Will Launch On Time
NC confirms the global opening at 6:00 AM PDT / 15:00 CEST on October 5, 2026, both 13:00 UTC. The subsequent live notice confirms launch; actual client, login and gameplay behavior have not yet been tested.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Scheduled Maintenance · October 4–5
NC schedules game-server maintenance from October 4 at 22:00 PDT / October 5 at 07:00 CEST for eight hours, ending Advanced Access and beginning commercial launch. The expanded notice announces character deletion at level 1 with a 24-hour wait, a Journal Duty fix and quest-recovery changes. Login is unavailable during maintenance; NC says the schedule may change. The planned end converts to October 5 at 13:00 UTC; neither launch availability nor the announced fixes have been tested by Kingy.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Launch Servers List · October 4
NC says choose region, then Elyos or Asmodian faction, then a faction-exclusive server. The table distinguishes Advanced Access and general-launch servers and says opposite sides meet in shared Abyss PvP spaces; permanence, transfers and live availability have not yet been tested.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Advanced Access Known Issues · updated October 4
NC warns that opening the Map Duty tab before level 45 may delay Duties until the following day; avoid that tab until level 45. This is an announced workaround, not a Kingy gameplay test; the live issue notice may change.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Launch Rewards · October 4 UTC announcement
NC says Pre-Registration and Steam Wishlist rewards extend to every account created and logged in before maintenance beginning December 1 PT / December 2 CET. In-game mail expires before December 8 PT / December 9 CET maintenance. Published PT and CET cutoff hours differ by one hour when converted; no single cutoff hour is asserted. This is an entitlement notice, not a gameplay test.
Official · NC · Global product notice
Global business model: Our Approach
Official image letter directly inspected; later product notices supersede broad July prices and benefit wording.
Official · NC · Global product notice
Special Quai Membership product terms · updated September 28
Current product table fetched October 8: nonmembers cannot list or purchase Market items; membership activation, server scope, renewal and $14.99 USD reference price are stated. Personal Trade and World Exchange/Market wording remain inconsistent with separate notices; no gameplay test.
Official · NC · Global product notice
September 30 Daeva Pass product terms and rewards
Current product body fetched October 8: Planet’s Call sales and specific claim text now name October 28; the claim timezone says PST while the sales line uses PDT. Faction pass and generic Season 1 notes name December 15. Two paid tracks, character scope, reward tables and level skips reviewed; no gameplay test.
Official · NC · Global product notice
September 30 Common Product Info: Quna, Starter and shop
PURPLE reference pricing; other storefronts may differ. Item functions and probability outcomes not independently tested.
Official · NC · Global product notice
Founder’s Pack product terms · updated September 28
Full current product body read October 8: sales ended October 5 at 08:00 PDT; historical USD tiers and 30-day activation terms. Named founder cosmetics are appearance-only with no added stats. October 3 sharing policy and October 7 owner-shop notes supersede older character/server restrictions.
Official · NC · Global product notice
September 30 New Skin Items Info
Cash/Quna cosmetics, Mileage awards and redemption restrictions; PURPLE reference prices may differ by store.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Launch FAQ · September 30
Global service; publisher documentation, not a firsthand gameplay test.
Official · NC · corporate release
Earlier-service Membership consolidation · June 26
Korea/Taiwan-era update history; does not establish Global prices or full feature parity.
Official · NC · corporate release
SUMMER FESTA and Membership changes · June 17
Regional historical roadmap, sharing and pet convenience changes; not proof of Global entitlements.
Reported · Steam user Rheetro
Rheetro · September 30 Steam review · Not Recommended
Selected public player opinion; short launch-day playtime. Does not independently verify prices, item rules or representative sentiment.
Reported · Steam user ArecArwsTTV
ArecArwsTTV · September 30 Steam review · Not Recommended
Selected public player opinion; short launch-day playtime. Does not independently verify prices, item rules or representative sentiment.
Reported · Steam user Nayhris Jenova
Nayhris Jenova · September 30 Steam review · Not Recommended
Selected public player opinion; short launch-day playtime. Does not independently verify prices, item rules or representative sentiment. Dollar figures have no verified locale and are not used as USD facts.
Reported · Steam user Dragon
Dragon · September 30 Steam review · Recommended
Selected public player opinion; short launch-day playtime. Does not independently verify prices, item rules or representative sentiment. 1.5 hours at review time; personal enjoyment and launch comparison.
Reported · Steam user Miss Morrigan
Miss Morrigan · September 30 Steam review · Not Recommended
Selected public player opinion; short launch-day playtime. Does not independently verify prices, item rules or representative sentiment.
Reported · r/Aion2 · player discussion
Subscription tab confusion · September 30 Reddit thread
Viewer feedback about separate Membership and pass products; reply prices and durations require current official verification.
Reported · r/Aion2 · player discussion
Subscription and Odyle Energy debate · August Reddit thread
Pre-Global debate including self-reported Taiwan play. Does not establish Global regeneration rates or necessary spending.
Reported · r/Aion2 · player discussion
Players debate Global monetization changes · September 21
Test-era opinions about equipment and trading changes, with skeptical replies; not audited Global live progression rules.
Reported · r/Aion2 · player discussion
Genuine question about monetization · September 3
Player preferences about subscriptions and additional spending; prelaunch predictions and regional claims remain opinion.
Reported · Reddit user XLudacritzXx
Enjoying Taiwan despite monetization · August 15 comment
Self-reported Taiwan experience; positive enjoyment does not certify Global prices or competitive fairness.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Pre-download Available Now
Steam and PURPLE pre-download; files remain encrypted until September 30 Advanced Access. No installed-client test or decryption duration guarantee.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Advanced Access Servers
Announced regional/faction server selection and UTC access/maintenance/global launch windows; maintenance can change and server availability is not a country eligibility list.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Advanced Access Server Matchmaking
Elyos/Asmodian server pairings for cross-faction modes are announced as temporary and may be updated; no live matchmaking test.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Launch Server Matchmaking
Separate global-launch Elyos/Asmodian pairing tables for Europe, NA West, NA East, LATAM and ASIA. NC says pairings change periodically; the September 29 Advanced Access tables remain dated history. No live matchmaking test.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Launch Scale Test Comes to a Close: What's Next?
Global test closure, separate Steam client, PURPLE, trading and queue policy. Steam displays September 18 Pacific; API timestamp is September 19 UTC. No installation or queue test.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Launch Scale Test: Day 2
Global test windows, wipe, platforms and test-only restrictions; does not establish launch gameplay limits.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Steam Pre-release FAQ
Global PC platform, server locations, languages and limited controller-support statement. No country eligibility list or verified control test.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
Founder's Pack Content Showcase
Global free-to-play plan and pack contents. This notice may be edited; current captured text is not proof of its original wording. No regional price verified.
Official · NC · Steam announcement
30-Day Membership Added to Founder's Packs
All Founder’s Packs include a 30-day Special Quai Membership and seven listed benefits. Activation, renewal and account binding are unstated; the personal-trading line conflicts with the newer September closure notice. Pacific displayed publication date.
Official · NCSOFT
Korea and Taiwan launch announcement
Historical November 19, 2025 Korea/Taiwan launch and mobile preregistration, not global PC access or feature parity.
Official · NCSOFT
AION 2 — official site, English contents
Current English Japan-site contents fetched October 8. Supports the four Expedition names, up-to-five-player scope, setting summaries, factions, pet transformation and possible auto-looting. Launch reward account/claim cutoffs are regional. The page no longer supplies Founder’s Pack terms; use the dated Global product notices. No gameplay test.
Reported · Kingy editorial
Kingy AION 2 wiki launch brief
Internal launch input dated 2026-09-14 recording the October 5, 2026 launch target and the four dungeon titles (Krao Cave, Urugugu Canyon, Fire Temple, Draupnir). Treated as Reported evidence pending an independent official recheck.