All the Aion Closed Beta participants that created their account prior to July 29, 2009 you need to update your NCSoft Aion account right away. NCSoft changed their account system on that day to accommodate for the upcoming live release of the game and you need to take the following action to update your account (we’re gonna do this like we do our quest walkthroughs – with steps and screenshots ).

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Closed beta #6 is primed to rocket onto the servers on Friday, August 14, 2009, noon PT (8 p.m. BST, 9 p.m. CEST). The beta forums open their gates two hours earlier, and access to them will be ongoing throughout the weekend until Monday.

This upcoming sixth and final closed beta event marks the end of an era. The level limit will not be raised from that of the previous event. The maximum level will be level 30 for Elyos and Asmodians alike, encouraging you to spend some time to catch up with your friends or explore the vast lands of Atreia.

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Aion Closed Beta event #5 (CB5) is coming tomorrow July 31 – August 3. New fixes, improvements and fine additions have been completed since the previous event. To give you an overview, please find below a pure list of things to expect for this coming weekend:

• New Sound files have been added
  • NPCs should now have a greet and farewell voice
  • Cutscenes will now have voice
  • Race Prologues are now available when you create a new character for Elyos and Asmodian
  • Tutorial videos are now available in game via the help menu
  • Player voices are now available at character creation
  • System voices are now available
• New NPC Dialogue/Quest text for Theobomos and Brusthonin
• Various Localization fixes
  • Broken HTMLs have been fixed
  • Various grammatical errors have been fixed
  • Various Glossary term fixed
• 2 New servers added for each territory

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We’ve already shared with you some information about upcoming Aion Beta Event 4. Just a few days remains until the next beta event and here’s what you will want to remember:

Focus: Elyos and Asmodian levels 1-25, including access to the Abyss.
Starting time: 17th of July (noon PST, 8 PM BST, 9 PM CEST)
Ending time: 20th of July (July 19th 11.59 PM PST, July 20th 8 AM BST/9 AM CEST)

More details about upcoming event

The Fourth Aion Closed Beta Event starts on Friday, July 17, 2009 – Noon PT, and ends on Monday, July 20, 2009. For this event we can expect the first 25 levels of both the Elyos and Asmodians and a first taste of the Abyss!

For the first time, Aion players will get to experience the infamous Abyss, an unstable rift between the two shattered halves of Atreia where the center of the Tower of Eternity used to be. Get ready for a whole new MMO experience with PvPvE – epic battles with hundreds of Elyos and Asmodians fighting both each other and the AI-controlled Balaur!

Upcoming Closed Beta Events:

Closed Beta Event #4 – July 17-July 20 Focus: Elyos and Asmodian levels 1-25
Closed Beta Event #5 – July 31-August 3 Focus: TBD
Closed Beta Event #6 – August 14-August 17 Focus: TBD

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AION closed beta event no. 3 is about to start. In celebration of Fourth of July and Canada Day it is scheduled to last longer than the previous two events – from July 2 through July 6. It is supposed to start in less than 15 minutes (12:00 PM PT, 9:00 PM CEST, 8:00 PM BST) and to participate you need to be one of the lucky winners of contests that have been running all over the net in the past few weeks (Fileplanet, Mmorpg.com and a lot more sites had some of these running).

The alternative is to have preordered the game through one of the officially supported retailers (some have digital downloads available). For US version check this page out while EU players should go here to preorder. You might want to wait a bit for our first impressions tho .