AIONology

According to the main Aion website the final patch that updates beta clients to release version should be released in the next few hours.

Here is the post from the main AIon page:

Greetings!

As we draw closer to tomorrow I wanted to give everyone a brief update on the progress of our live version. We are excited to announce that we will be serving out the final update for you to patch within the next few hours. You will be able to use this version for both our Preselection and our Head Start. We are very excited with our final product and think that you will be as well! Below are the release notes for the patch you will see later today:

- Aion now features all three languages French, German and English. To select your language simply right click on Aion within your launcher and go to Properties->Language Options. Please select which languages you wish to download and which you wish Aion to display.

- After analyzing our open beta test results Aion will not feature GameGuard at launch. We will however continue to pursue ways to effectively utilize GameGuard within Aion in the future. Right now we’re focused on providing players with the best possible Aion experience.

- The level cap is now level 50 (previously 45).

- Players will be able to reserve 2 character names during Preselection and create 8 characters in total once Head Start begins and beyond.

- Channels will be set to 10 instances for the beginning 2 zones of each faction. Please note that these will be lowered as characters progress and spread throughout Atreia.

Xaen
Aion Producer

No more GameGuard! I think some people will be very happy to hear that. It caused no problems for me, but for a lot of people this change will make the game playable and error free.

I am also glad that they changed the number of channels (instances) back to 10, from the 2 it was set to at the end of the open beta. It can be a real pain when questing and there are too many people around to complete a quest, as I expect there will be at release.

Now I’m just waiting till noon tomorrow and then till Sunday….