Am I Ready for HeadStart: FAQ

[buffinita]

Originally Posted by Athenian-Aion

What's the "perk" on your account keys?

I ordered the SE from NCsoft; then I purchased the $10 CE upgrade

standard key = SE purchase
perk = CE upgrade key

[Namix]

could be anything , mostlikely and upgrade from stndard to CE or maybe the LE or summing

[Lerxst of Syrinx]

Do you know if you bought the Collector's Edition or the Standard Edition from D2D?

[Athenian-Aion]

Ahkay, thanks!

[Odessin]

Well done OP, thanked.

[Haiku]

This actually brings to mind a question I thought had already been answered long ago by Ayase.

People with the Pre-Order status don't get their account type changed until they enter the new serial they get with their hard copy of Aion.. but how much of a grace period is there for these people. Ayase had originally said that the time between the head start and the required time to have your new key put in from your hard copy of the game would overlap, creating a grace period for shipping and the like.

This thread states though that the new key has to be put in on the 22nd to continue playing. It's a fact that some of the online retailers of the game's pre-orders won't be shipping their hard copies until up to a week after the 22nd, in the USA. This would render the head start absolutely useless for players awaiting hard copies to be shipped to their doors, unless ship dates have been changed.

So the question is: Have they changed the ship dates so that people will be getting their hard copies by the 22nd, or is the grace period still in effect? If neither, well, that sure sucks for everyone that either didn't order the game digitally or didn't pre-order it in person at brick & mortar stores. x: I hadn't really checked up on this since early July, because it didn't seem like something that would change. o.O

[buffinita]

Originally Posted by Haiku

This actually brings to mind a question I thought had already been answered long ago by Ayase.

People with the Pre-Order status don't get their account type changed until they enter the new serial they get with their hard copy of Aion.. but how much of a grace period is there for these people. Ayase had originally said that the time between the head start and the required time to have your new key put in from your hard copy of the game would overlap, creating a grace period for shipping and the like.

This thread states though that the new key has to be put in on the 22nd to continue playing. It's a fact that some of the online retailers of the game's pre-orders won't be shipping their hard copies until up to a week after the 22nd, in the USA. This would render the head start absolutely useless for players awaiting hard copies to be shipped to their doors, unless ship dates have been changed.

So the question is: Have they changed the ship dates so that people will be getting their hard copies by the 22nd, or is the grace period still in effect? If neither, well, that sure sucks for everyone that either didn't order the game digitally or didn't pre-order it in person at brick & mortar stores. x: I hadn't really checked up on this since early July, because it didn't seem like something that would change. o.O

I know I read an official statement from ayase or someone equivalent that retail keys were needed on official release date; i believe that in the same statement they mentioned somthing about shipping. Will try to dig it up

source (linked directly to ayases postes)
post 1Regarding headstart to live transition
post 2 Regarding headstart to live transition

[Namix]

your probably right . the only reason ive been posting the release dates as a start period is because its a worst case scenario if ncsoft dont provide a overlap

[Haiku]

Originally Posted by buffinita

I know I read an official statement from ayase or someone equivalent that retail keys were needed on official release date; i believe that in the same statement they mentioned somthing about shipping. Will try to dig it up

source (linked directly to ayases postes)
post 1Regarding headstart to live transition
post 2 Regarding headstart to live transition

I can't remember which thread the original post I read was in, since I picked it off the dev tracker part of the home page a forever ago when I was still on the fence for pre-ordering or not / didn't have an actual AS account. Those two posts are dated more recently than that one though, which is very good news. d:

Means they must've changed their plans for the shipping dates between June and August, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks for the find.

[buffinita]

Originally Posted by Haiku

I can't remember which thread the original post I read was in, since I picked it off the dev tracker part of the home page a forever ago when I was still on the fence for pre-ordering or not / didn't have an actual AS account. Those two posts are dated more recently than that one though, which is very good news. d:

Means they must've changed their plans for the shipping dates between June and August, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks for the find.

yes, in the first link ayase says they were working with retailers to have all boxes either in store on on your doorstep by release day

ack fell to page 3; bumping to cut repeat threads

oh no cant even bump it!

[finnegan]

ill save you!

/bump

[Aion Bunny]

buffinita, if you could make the original post relevant (where applicable) to both the NA and EU release dates then I would like to sticky this. At the moment it's referring mostly to the 20th launch, so if you could tidy this up that'd be fab

[buffinita]

Originally Posted by Aion Bunny

buffinita, if you could make the original post relevant (where applicable) to both the NA and EU release dates then I would like to sticky this. At the moment it's referring mostly to the 20th launch, so if you could tidy this up that'd be fab

anything for you bunny

[Namix]

two stickies.... damn your good

[Aion Bunny]

Ok that's coming along nicely, I think it's just question 1 that needs a little bit of tweaking. I'll sticky it now and you can tidy that bit up afterwards (I have faith in your skillzors )