Aion 2 EU/NA Launch: Early Access Sep 30, Free-to-Play Oct 5 (13:00 UTC)
Founder early access opens September 30 and the free-to-play launch follows October 5, both at 13:00 UTC. Launch-week schedules, resets and what works on Aion2.gg today.
Aion 2 opens in Europe and North America this week. There are two launch moments:
| Date | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced access (Founder's Pack owners) | Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 13:00 UTC (the servers opened at 14:00 UTC, an hour late) |
| Free-to-play launch (everyone) | Monday, October 5, 2026 | 13:00 UTC |
13:00 UTC is 15:00 in Berlin and Paris, 14:00 in London, 09:00 in New York and 06:00 in Los Angeles. The launch hub counts down to both moments in your own time zone.
Advanced access runs until October 5 at 05:00 UTC (October 4, 22:00 PDT), followed by maintenance until the 13:00 UTC launch. The game is free-to-play and PC only (Steam and NC's PURPLE launcher). The first advanced-access servers are in Europe, NA West, NA East, Latin America and Asia, with one faction per server and paired Elyos/Asmodian servers; NCSOFT added six more pairs on launch day as queues grew (the current list is on the launch hub). Sources: the AION 2 Steam page and NCSOFT's "Advanced Access Servers" announcement on the AION 2 Steam news hub. The full server list, editions and local times are in everything we know about the EU/NA release.
Launch week at a glance
Everything below comes from the EU client's own schedule tables, in server time (the client says so itself: "Schedule for all content is displayed in server time"). The launch hub and the event timer convert every opening to your clock for the server region you pick.
- Spacetime Rift: the rift portals open every 3 hours from 02:00 server time in Verteron and Altgard (and in Eltnen and Morheim once those zones open with a higher level cap).
- Shugo Festival: the Shugo minigames (Jump Jump, Wraith Evasion, Mysterious Track, Hidden Lugi and more) start every hour on the hour.
- Artifact Siege: Monday, Thursday and Saturday at 21:00 server time in Chaotic Lower Reshanta.
- Field bosses on a timer: the Reshanta guardians and executors spawn on fixed days and times; the full list with levels is on Events & timers.
- Resets: daily reset at 16:00, weekly reset on Wednesday at 16:00, Attendance at 16:00 (all server time) provisional. The event timer shows each one on your own clock.
What works on Aion2.gg today
- The database is built from the EU retail client (Steam build 25624879, extracted on September 30): items, skills, NPCs, quests, dungeons with drop rates, recipes, Daevanion boards and more, with game text in six languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian) taken from the client's own localization.
- Timers that follow you: the event timer now plays a chime 1 to 15 minutes before an event (your choice, with a test button and mute), offers a calendar feed you can subscribe to so alerts work with the site closed, and builds an OBS browser-source overlay (transparent, compact, with sound).
- Server clocks are provisional. NCSOFT announced the launch moments but not the EU/NA server time zones. We assume regional local time (Central Europe for EU, US Eastern and Pacific for NA East and West) and mark every timer and reset hour as provisional until the clock is checked in game.
- Rankings and character lookup show the Taiwan and Korea servers for now. They come from NCSOFT's official web API. The EU/NA boards switch on once we have checked NCSOFT's EU/NA ranking data.
Data updates
The database mirrors the retail client: we re-imported it on September 30, the day advanced access opened, and we re-import after every patch. Items the client still shows as "???" placeholders stay hidden from lists and search until a patch names them.
See you in Atreia. Start with the launch hub, pick a class with the class finder, or plan your route on the interactive map.