The open beta starts on November 14, 2026 at 14:00 CET. Not a launch and not a finished product, but a real beta: you get in early, put every system to the test, and your feedback goes straight into the release.
The date: November 14, 2026 at 14:00 CET (13:00 UTC)
The open beta starts on November 14, 2026 at 14:00 CET (13:00 UTC), and that date is set. Put it on your calendar: from that day, the server is open to everyone and playable end to end.
What a beta actually means here
A beta is not a soft launch with a different name. It means the server is playable end to end, but it is going to have bugs, and finding them is the entire point. You logging in, playing, and telling me what broke is worth more than any amount of testing I can do alone. This whole project has been mostly one person for a long time — the beta is where it stops being just my eyes on it.
So expect rough edges. Expect things to change. Expect the occasional restart. That is what a beta is for, and going in with the right expectations is what makes it actually useful.
You'll level faster, and earn coins along the way
The beta runs with a big XP boost. You'll progress much faster than the normal 1x rates allow, so you can reach the dungeons, the PvP brackets and the later systems sooner and actually try them, instead of grinding for weeks to get there. The sooner you're playing them, the sooner we find what's broken.
You'll also earn AION Coins and AION Beta Coins as you play. Beta Coins are for the shop during the beta, so you can try it out for real. AION Coins carry over to the official release, even though your characters won't. The shop only sells cosmetics, so neither one is a head start.
What I want from you
Play the content. Push on it. When something doesn't behave the way you remember, or the way it should, tell me — a quest that won't advance, a mob doing something strange, a dungeon mechanic that feels off, a number that looks wrong. Small reports add up fast, and the people who show up during beta are the ones who genuinely shape what launch looks like.
Reports go in the report channels on the Discord — that's where bug reports and feedback should land so nothing gets lost in general chat. That's also where the back-and-forth about how things should work will happen. If you want to be part of getting this right, that's the room to be in.
A beta only works if people actually show up and break things. That's not a disclaimer — it's the whole plan.
Progress will be wiped at release
Let me be clear about this up front so nobody's surprised: beta characters will be wiped when the server goes live. That's not a maybe. The whole point of a beta is to test systems that are still changing, so everyone starts fresh at release, on equal footing.
So come into the beta to play and to help, not to grind a head start — there isn't one. What you take away from it is the experience, your AION Coins, and the fact that you helped build the thing.
That's the plan
Years of work have gone into getting the game to a place where handing it to real players even makes sense. On November 14, 2026 at 14:00 CET, that's exactly what happens. It won't be perfect — that's not what a beta is — but it'll be real, and it'll be ours to shape together.
If that sounds like something you want to be part of, I'll see you there. More soon.
Come hang out
The Discord is where all of this actually happens.