Aion 2, NCSoft’s sequel to the original Aion set 200 years after the original game, launched in November of last year to some mixed opinions about its microtransaction schemes—that doesn’t appear to’ve stopped the sequel from picking up steam, though. Literally, it’ll be coming to Steam as part of a global release later this year.
Per this news post, Aion 2 will be arriving to North America, South America, Japan, and Europe some time in 2026:
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Even so, it’s not like any of these things have stopped the developer making bank. Aion reportedly made $68 million in the first month and a half of its release with over 1 million subscribers. This earnings report from earlier this year also signals that the game’s been trucking along just fine on the balance sheets, responsible for a 12% bump in revenue for the quarter.
In other words, it’s not surprising NCSoft’s aiming at a global release—it remains to be seen whether other audiences can stomach those same monetisation woes, though. It’s an unfortunate quirk of the genre that, while we all might complain about FOMO mounts and the like, they do seem to make companies bank regardless of how many pitchforks get waggled.
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