[Translation] Aion's Release Schedule

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아이온, 상반기 이후 오픈베타-유료화
Aion expected to commercialise after 1st half 2008
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엔씨소프트의 MMORPG 차기작 <아이온>의 상반기 중 유료화가 힘들어졌다.
The commercialisation process for NCsoft’s highly anticipated MMORPG, Aion, has just become more complicated.

엔씨소프트가 13일 ‘2007년 4분기 실적발표’ 컨퍼런스 콜에서 <아이온>의 유료화가 상반기 중에 힘들다는 입장을 밝혔다.
NCsoft revealed that it may be difficult to commercialise Aion within the year’s first half in a conference that took place on the 13th.

엔씨소프트 이재호 CFO는 “아무래도 <아이온>의 상반기 중 유료화는 힘들지 않겠나”라고 말했다. 실적발표 자료와 컨퍼런스 콜 서두에서 “상반기 말 유료화에는 큰 문제가 없을 것”이라고 밝힌 것과 상반되는 내용이다.
NCsoft’s CFO Lee Jae-Ho stated, “It may be difficult to commercialise the game during the first half of the year.” This contradicts the earlier statement that was announced in another conference which stated that there wouldn’t be much problem in commercialising the game by the end of the first half of 2008.

이로써 지난해부터 엔씨소프트가 고수해왔던 ‘2008년 상반기 중 유료화’는 실행이 힘들어졌다. 엔씨소프트는 2월2일로 예정됐던 <아이온>의 2차 클로즈 베타테스트를 “준비 부족”을 이유로 3월로 연기한 바 있다.
It appears NCsoft’s aim at commercialisation during the first half of 2008 may have become difficult. NCsoft had previously postponed the second phase CBT to March that was originally to take place in February.

그렇다면 <아이온>의 오픈 베타테스트는 언제쯤 진행될까?
Then when will the Open Beta take place?

엔씨소프트는 3월에 시작될 2차 테스트부터 인원을 대폭 늘려서 ‘오픈 베타’ 수준의 규모로 키워나갈 계획이다. 이후 짧은 오픈 베타를 진행하고, 바로 유료화에 들어간다는 입장이다. 오픈 베타와 유료화의 간격이 짧아지면서 사실상 오픈 베타도 상반기를 넘기게 될 전망이다.
NCsoft plans to dramatically increase the number of testers in March to make it an Open Beta-sized test. A brief Open Beta will then take place, followed by commercialisation. It seems that even with the sped up process of open beta to commercialisation, the open beta will likely miss the originally planned date in the first half of 2008.

엔씨소프트 관계자는 “<아이온>의 오픈 베타는 사실상 큰 의미가 없을 것이다. 2차 클로즈 베타를 충실히, 대규모 인원으로 진행할 예정이며, 그 결과에 따라서 유료화 일정을 확정하게 될 것”이라고 말했다. 엔씨는 <리니지II>를 런칭할 때도 짧은 오픈 베타 뒤에 바로 유료화를 실시한 바 있다.
NCsoft’s publicist stated, “Aion’s open beta won’t really play that important of a role. The 2nd phase of CBT will be carried out with a larger number of participants, and we will make the arrangements for commercialisation accordingly.” NCsoft had moved Lineage II right into commercialisation following a brief open beta in the past.

한편, 엔씨소프트 김택진 대표는 컨퍼런스 콜에서 “올해 상반기에 개발중인 미공개 MMORPG 6개를 투자자들에게 공개하고, 자세한 일정을 설명하겠다”라고 밝혔다. 엔씨소프트는 올해 <아이온> 외에도 <포인트 블랭크> <펀치 몬스터> <드래고니카> <러브비트> 4가지 캐주얼 게임의 오픈 베타와 상용화를 진행할 예정이다.
On another note, NCsoft’s representative Kim Tak-Jin has stated that exact details will be explained after six MMORPGs currently under development are showcased to their sponsors. Besides Aion, NCsoft plans to commercialise four other casual games during the first half of the year.

[Kattrina]

Wow good post. Thanks for the heads up.

[Midgarsormr]

I still hate the fact they're working on...6 MMO's at once. Six. By trying to be so money-****ing-hungry- none of those games will become successful. Except maybe for Aion.

[StrongArm]

nice post. keep it up dude.

[aznkenshin]

Great news, but also bittersweet. It's great that we'll be having more and more information as the days go closer and closer to Korea's betas -- however, it seems that we'll be having our release in 2nd half of 2008. Of course, our CBT/OBT will be earlier, it only confirms the fact that we'll be having it after Korea... no surprise.

Thanks, Jamie.

[arkhaal]

Midgarsormr : I don't see why working on 6 mmorpgs at the same time will result in 6 fails whereas working on 1 mmorpg will be better. They aren't limited in the number of developer.... so 6 mmorpgs means 6 teams of developer, 6 times more people working, not 1 team working on 6 games. Plus, probably most of them aren't developing by NCSoft but published.

And, blizzard has an objective : 1 game for everyone, whereas NCSoft thinks different : more different games, because everyone don't have the same "needs". I'd rather play a horror/mature/blood/sex mmorpg with 500 000 customers, than WoW only satisfying 20% of what I'm searching for. After all, I'll be playing on 1 server, 10 000 players is enough, as long as there is updates and "monitoring".


and thanks for the translation

[Celestin]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I have been waiting for over a year now ;_;

[Glitch]

Aion news is always good, even if it's bad! thanks for the translation.

[Kiyumi]

Oh my gods, info! o.o

NCsoft is always struggling with making proposed deadlines.. >.> They need time management skills or something.
Hm, I wonder how brief the Korean Open Beta will be. I kinda wanted to try getting in with my connections. ;l

/sigh This month is going by so slowly for me... Hurry up, March!

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Celestin

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I have been waiting for over a year now ;_;

I can tell you exactly how many days I've been waiting if you want. I know it's over 400, off the top of my head.

[aznkenshin]

Originally Posted by Mark

I can tell you exactly how many days I've been waiting if you want. I know it's over 400, off the top of my head.

Then I guess we'll have to add another couple hundred to our day count...

[Santa]

lol i should find another mmo to keep me busy till then

[IceTea]

Bad news... but u wont a day numer we wait?^^ mhh its about 700+++ day now-.-

[Dallyoop]

Wish i could say im suprised... but im really not. I figure it will be out in NA around 2009 ish. Good thing there is alot of other good MMO's coming out like AoC and Warhammer. Something to entertain us until NCSoft gets their act together.

[Kentaro]

Originally Posted by Santa

lol i should find another mmo to keep me busy till then

FFXI Time waster number 1 trying getting 75 and endgame access, and gear and you'll have Aion before you know it. ^^b

Thanks for the translation Jamie, it's good to know whats going on rather then guessing.