Record Numbers in Aion Beta

Aion is an upcoming mmorpg, and it has recently gone into open beta over at Korea. It's full name is "Aion: The Tower of Eternity" by NCSoft. They've achieved over 170,000 players playing, all at the same time, all for this one game. Can't imagine how laggy and intense that must have been, hah.

“The response we’re seeing in Korea is incredibly exciting,” said David Reid, president of publishing for NCsoft West in Seattle. “Our Aion community in North America and Europe is also rapidly growing. We’ve got aggressive plans for the western launch in 2009.”

Bah, I'm still looking for an mmorpg too. I can't wait until I get a chance to play this. Runes of Magic was a pretty big disappointment to me -_-.