^^this. No you can't reserve names persay, but you get early access (3 days?), and therefore can usually get the name you want. I got all 6 of mine in CB (all pre-ordered people, same peeps for early release).
Prepurchase Aion™ now and get exclusive in-game items, as well as early access to Aion™. All pre-purchases from the NCsoft Store come with:
* Seven (7) Days of Additional Free Game Time: One extra week of free game time
* Aion™ Beta Events: Receive a code to access all of the Aion™ beta events. Play in an Aion™ beta event, and you will have a chance to win* a killer Alienware gaming notebook or other great prizes, including ATI Radeon™ HD video cards and subscriptions to Aion™.
* Head Start on the Live Game: Get an early head start to the live game, before the game goes on sale.
* Preselection: Access to Aion™ server and character pre-selection!
* Prepurchase-Only In-Game Items:
o Black Cloud Hat (gives boosts to HP, MP, magical resistance, and evasion)
o Lodas' Amulet (gives a +20% experience boost)
o Ancient Ring of Wind
The in-game items will be available for use during the Head Start Program.
Now this is what i found, Notice the line i have underlined. This could just be them comenting on there early head start to the live game. I hope this helps
First our Open Beta is released, when it comes to an end it gets close to the release date. sometime before the Head-Start program we can apparently log in, choose our server and make our characters like we would playing the game, and log out with your character long since ready before most everyone else. Then the Head-Start is the 20th where characters can then be accessed along with special items from CE, and game releases the 22nd and 25th for NA and EU respectively.
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Thanks for the info. I did a little digging and found these two dev quotes:
Everyone who pre-order should be getting access to the pre-selection. Pre-selection is something that will happen before the head start and allow players to exclusively reserve their names and create their characters in advance.
Q: When and how is the preselection going to work, and maybe you can describe a bit what preselection is?
A: So preselection is for everybody that preordered the product and there'll be actual * create their characters, pick their servers and basically get everything in order so day 1 they can just, bam, hit start
^^This is the same way they did it for the Korean launch^^.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
And its a great thing especially with a character creactor as in depth as Aion's I have spent about 9 hrs in it during the beta and have a list wrote down of numbers sliders and toggle positions
But even with that prior planning I'm sure I could waste another 4hrs on launch day fine tuning things so the pre selection is a absolutely awesome idea.
And its a great thing especially with a character creactor as in depth as Aion's I have spent about 9 hrs in it during the beta and have a list wrote down of numbers sliders and toggle positions
I've always wished that games would offer an option to SAVE all of your character customization selections.
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I've herd the same thing.
I think it's just a roomer since i haven't seen any actual adds saying this is true yet. I could be wrong tho.
I think its just another way of saying, "You get to play early so make a bunch of characters with names you like before everyone else does!"
^^this. No you can't reserve names persay, but you get early access (3 days?), and therefore can usually get the name you want. I got all 6 of mine in CB (all pre-ordered people, same peeps for early release).
Prepurchase Bonus
Prepurchase Aion™ now and get exclusive in-game items, as well as early access to Aion™. All pre-purchases from the NCsoft Store come with:
* Seven (7) Days of Additional Free Game Time: One extra week of free game time
* Aion™ Beta Events: Receive a code to access all of the Aion™ beta events. Play in an Aion™ beta event, and you will have a chance to win* a killer Alienware gaming notebook or other great prizes, including ATI Radeon™ HD video cards and subscriptions to Aion™.
* Head Start on the Live Game: Get an early head start to the live game, before the game goes on sale.
* Preselection: Access to Aion™ server and character pre-selection!
* Prepurchase-Only In-Game Items:
o Black Cloud Hat (gives boosts to HP, MP, magical resistance, and evasion)
o Lodas' Amulet (gives a +20% experience boost)
o Ancient Ring of Wind
The in-game items will be available for use during the Head Start Program.
(This was taken from https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl?dnv=2659764656&action=viewItem&item_id=131 )
Now this is what i found, Notice the line i have underlined. This could just be them comenting on there early head start to the live game. I hope this helps
Seemingly, what happens is this:
First our Open Beta is released, when it comes to an end it gets close to the release date. sometime before the Head-Start program we can apparently log in, choose our server and make our characters like we would playing the game, and log out with your character long since ready before most everyone else. Then the Head-Start is the 20th where characters can then be accessed along with special items from CE, and game releases the 22nd and 25th for NA and EU respectively.
Leader/Founder of Deritus Free Company - Chocobo Knights of Apocalypse Linkshell
yep
EU launch 25th
Pre order Headstart launch 22nd
Pre selection period 20th to 22nd
Thanks for the info. I did a little digging and found these two dev quotes:
Everyone who pre-order should be getting access to the pre-selection. Pre-selection is something that will happen before the head start and allow players to exclusively reserve their names and create their characters in advance.
Source: http://www.aionsource.com/forum/betaboards-bug-reporting/33437-charactor-pre-selection-2.html
Q: When and how is the preselection going to work, and maybe you can describe a bit what preselection is?
A: So preselection is for everybody that preordered the product and there'll be actual * create their characters, pick their servers and basically get everything in order so day 1 they can just, bam, hit start
Source: http://www.aionsource.com/forum/general-discussion/38058-transcript-interview-brian-knocks-21-08-2009-a.html
^^This is the same way they did it for the Korean launch^^.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
And its a great thing especially with a character creactor as in depth as Aion's I have spent about 9 hrs in it during the beta and have a list wrote down of numbers sliders and toggle positions
But even with that prior planning I'm sure I could waste another 4hrs on launch day fine tuning things so the pre selection is a absolutely awesome idea.
I've always wished that games would offer an option to SAVE all of your character customization selections.
I know right... made a very cute female scout...will be an effort remaking her >-<
Leader/Founder of Deritus Free Company - Chocobo Knights of Apocalypse Linkshell