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NCsoft has released its financial report for Q3 ending on December 31 and it proves that business is good for the MMO publisher.

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Aion players could see the long-awaited gender change and plastic surgery services happening in the next couple weeks.

Also, the developers posted a nice bit of information on how you can protect your account, and what it’s doing to combat hackers and gold farmers.

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NCsoft has announced that Aion associate producer Chris “Kinslon” Hager is now the game’s full-fledged producer.

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Aion players on the Azphel server were given 30 trillion Kinah yesterday, as a game bug caused money sacks to overflow with in-game cash.

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Oh the hilarity. NCsoft devs are on a banning rampage in Aion, and the video posted below the break shows how much fun banning can be.

Instead of just quietly banning coin vendors and evil bots, moderators show up on the form of a giant rabbit and squish you or take the form of a fire breathing squirrel and toast your ass.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

See for yourself, courtesy of Kotaku.

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NCSoft has released a nine-minute teaser for Aion, showing off visual upgrades, an awesome battle, and a something that may look a bit familiar to some.

It definitely looks like an MMO players naughty dream, honestly. Too bad 16,000 users ruined their future chances of reveling in it.

No word on when the changes will be implemented, but it does not look like something that will happen in the immediate future.

Go watch it on Kotaku.

Take that, Aion cheats. NCsoft’s rebooted its Aion servers and taken the opportunity to ban 16,000 users for botting and real money offences.

“If your account was closed for the use of 3rd party software (botting) or participating in RMT (gold buying/selling) the evidence for the account closure was gathered over several weeks,” said the firm in this forum post.

“It may be completely unrelated to what your character was doing right when your account was closed.”

Be warned. Read the full thing through the link.

NCSoft has revealed during its financial report for Q3 of its fiscal year that Aion has sold more than 500,000 units in North America and 470,000 in Europe.

The Korean publisher’s financials are up 112 percent to KRW166 billion ($142 million) with net income for the July-September period at KRW46.9 billion ($40 million), which is a 836 percent year-over-year increase, with Aion contributing to 52 percent of those figures.

MMOs Lineage contributed 16 percent, City of Heroes/Villains 4 percent and Guild Wars 3 percent.

Revenues from Korea accounted for 48 percent with North America, Japan, Europe, and Taiwan following in that order.

Via IGN.

This was a rather large week in MMOs as far as news went, and not all of it was Halloween related.

Past the break you will hear all about how Ultima Online is still going strong, get familiarized with the new patch for Aion, read up on Cryptic’s Blood Moon event via a dev chat, PvP henchmen and Guild Wars, Alganon’s delay, China’s ban on males playing females in games, and many other bits of stuff that didn’t hit the front page during the week.

Also, we hope everyone who plays MMOs enjoyed the Halloween and Fall festivities that their particular favorites hosted. Loads had celebrations, more than likely every single one of ‘em. If we forgot to mention your particular game, head on over to the list through the link ther and add it in the comments section so that we may give it its proper shout-out.

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NCsoft’s announced a ton of in-game Hallowe’en events for its MMOs, bringing seasonal quests, costumes and contests across across Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Lineage, Lineage II and Exteel.

It’s all very spooky. All details, including dates, are listed after the break.

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Direct2Drive’s latest Top 10 best selling PC games downloaded for week ending October 3 has Risen at the number one spot.

Fallen Earth rose to the number two spot, while Aion’s standard edition dropped to number three, and the collector’s edition to number five.

Five of the titles on the list were on sale for $5, so that should be taken into account as well.

Here’s the full thing, courtesy of BigDownload:

1. Risen
2. Fallen Earth
3. Aion
4. Mount and Blade ($5 Sale)
5. Aion Collector’s Edition
6. World of Goo ($5 Sale)
7. Champions Online
8. BioShock ($5 Sale)
9. Defense Grid: The Awakening ($5 Sale)
10. Civilization 4 ($5 Sale)

NCsoft has said that if adding more servers to Aion would but an end to the endless queues, it would have already done so.

Speaking with Eurogamer, NCsoft’s Ryan James told the site that people are causing the queues by trying to log into the busiest worlds.

“If the solution were as simple as rolling out new servers, we would no longer see queues today, given that we’ve already rolled out six new servers in Europe alone,” he said. “The reality is that there are servers today that have no queues in Europe.

“The problem is more that there are many people trying to get onto very few servers, whilst the rest still have room.”

To combat this, NCsoft will offer a free, one-time server transfer next month to help with the overload.

More through the link.

There is just no stopping the Aion: Collector’s Edition from keeping the top spot on both the Direct2Drive and Steam charts.

To add to it, the regular version of Aion took the second spot on both as well and the similarities end with newly released MMO Fallen Earth at number three, on both too.

The full thing is below courtesy of Shack.

Steam (9/20 – 9/26):

1. Aion Collector’s Edition
2. Aion
3. Fallen Earth
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
5. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
6. Left 4 Dead
7. Resident Evil 5
8. Counter-Strike
9. Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection
10. Red Faction: Guerrilla

Direct2Drive (9/20 – 9/26):

1. Aion Collector’s Edition
2. Aion
3. Fallen Earth
4. Neverwinter Nights 2
5. Assassin’s Creed Director’s Cut
6. Titan Quest Bundle
7. Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
8. Champions Online
9. BioShock
10. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

NCsoft said today that its opened two new Aion servers for Europe.

French-speaking players can make their new feathery home on the Deltras server. English speakers among you can plump for Kahrun.

On Friday, NCsoft announced that a new West coast US server, Fregion, was added, and an East coast server will follow shortly.

There’s more on Incgamers.

Aion’s launched in Europe, NCsoft confirmed today.

The MMO is by far the largest game of its type taking off this year, and those looking to inhabit the European servers will no doubt be praying the crippling rush of the game’s pre-start program has calmed somewhat.

“We’re extremely excited to finally deliver the game to Western audiences and believe they will enjoy Aion as much as Eastern players have,” said Jaeho Lee, CEO NCsoft West.

“The effort we put into Westernising Aion is unprecedented in our industry. Players will experience a completely rewritten storyline spanning more than two-million words, along with a variety of enhancements specifically for Western audiences.”

PR after the break.

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NCsoft MMO Aion’s been experiencing some clogging issues since it went live yesterday, with many seeing waits of several hours before being able to get a-levelling.

The publisher isn’t worried.

“This isn’t a scenario that’s likely to be repeated regularly since it’s really just about that initial rush of players trying to gain access to the game,” a rep told EG.

“These next few days we will be calculating data and weighing the ideal time to open more servers. I think that the community will understand how important a healthily populated server in a game with PvPvE is, and that we do not want to go down the low-pop server path.”

The game releases in Europe on Friday.

Aion’s will get “at least” one major annual content update going forward, NCsoft has confirmed to VG247.

“There will be at least one major update a year,” said brand manager Christian-Peter Heimbach, talking in an interview published today.

“You know this from our previous titles. We’re currently adjusting on how we’re going to make these available, but there will be free content updates for all players, and we’re looking then at how big the major updates will be.”

The MMO, which has collected a giant 400,000 pre-orders, will go live in the US tomorrow and on Friday in Europe.

NCsoft has long adhered to a system of providing its MMOs with yearly content updates.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, NCsoft MMO Aion releases this week. More than 400,000 people are lined up to play the Korean fantasy import, and it’s looking very much like this is the largest MMO event of the year by a substantial margin.

To celebrate, we had a chat with brand manager Christian-Peter Heimbach at NCsoft’s Brighton office on westernizing the game, plans for the future and plenty more.

After the break.

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Loads of news this week in MMO land, kiddos.

Massively is giving away Beta keys to Star Trek Online, Aion dropped GameGuard and launched its first server, Pirates are everywhere, and Sony is giving you double station cash this weekend.

There is also news concerning Champions Online, EVE, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, Warhammer, Runes of Magic, and loads of other stuff you can find here instead of searching everywhere.

It’s all past the break.

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NCsoft has announced that Aion preorders are nearing the 400,000 mark, making it the “biggest MMO launch of the year”.

As a bonus to those who preordered their copy, NCsoft is allowing buyers to pre-select their servers starting September 18 and participate in the five-day headstart period, beginning September 20.

The game goes live for the rest of the world on September 25.

Full press release through the break.

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