AION 2 Launch Day: Korea and Taiwan Servers Open November 18

On November 18, 2025, NC flipped the switch: AION 2 went live in Korea and Taiwan with a simultaneous open launch, downloadable by anyone in those regions. The gates to Atreia were open for the first time in the modern era.

A Seven-Year Road

The sequel's path to launch was long even by MMO standards. Announced in 2018 — originally as a mobile title — the project transformed into a UE5 cross-platform PC game, changed lead directors three times, and spent seven years in development before this date. The launch build shipped with Nanite and Lumen lighting, DLSS 4 multi-frame generation, and the classic worldview rebuilt around a 36-times-larger world.

What Launch Players Got

• The full manual-combat experience: eight classes, action-style fighting, and cross-server PvP from the feature set
• The Fire Temple, remade: the classic dungeon returns in Unreal Engine 5 as an early solo rite of passage
• A 200+ parameter character creator with PC–mobile continuity
• Launch events like the Adventure Prologue wings track to carry players through the first month

Why Launch Day Matters for the West

The KR/TW service is the global version's dress rehearsal — its economy, class balance and anti-bot enforcement (see the first lawsuit against cheaters) set the template the 2026 worldwide launch inherits.

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