AION 2 Still Has No Final Server List Three Days Before Advanced Access

AION 2 Advanced Access begins on September 30. That is now only three days away, Founder's Packs are on sale, players are organizing Legions and groups are trying to decide where they will spend the next several hundred hours.

There is just one rather important detail still missing.

NC has not published the final AION 2 Global server list.

As of September 27, we know the regions. We know how Early Access servers are supposed to work. We have even seen NC add extra worlds during the Launch Scale Test. What we still do not have is the actual list of permanent worlds players will be choosing from when Advanced Access begins.

The AION 2 Global Regions Are Confirmed

The broad structure is not a mystery. AION 2 Global will operate across North America, South America, Europe and Japan, while Korea and Taiwan remain separate services.

For most players, choosing the region is the easy part. Europeans will normally choose Europe, South American players finally have a dedicated regional option, and Japanese players have their own service region.

The difficult choice comes after that.

NC has not yet announced how many permanent worlds each region will receive or what those worlds will be called.

We Did See Several European Server Names During the Test

The September Launch Scale Test gave us some clues, but they should not be mistaken for a confirmed launch roster.

During the first test day, NC expanded European capacity twice and opened four additional worlds:

• Vaizel – Elyos
• Triniel – Asmodian
• Kaisinel – Elyos
• Lumiel – Asmodian

We covered those additions in our report on the European test-server expansion. The names will be instantly familiar to long-time AION players, so it would hardly be surprising to see NC reuse them.

But that is speculation.

Test worlds are test worlds. Until NC publishes the permanent roster, Vaizel, Triniel, Kaisinel and Lumiel should not be treated as confirmed destinations for September 30.

The Missing List Matters More for Early Access Players

The timing is particularly awkward because AION 2 uses separate server waves around launch.

Founder's Pack owners enter the permanent service during Advanced Access on September 30. Additional Launch Servers can then open for the free-to-play release on October 5. As explained in our Early Access server guide, free players may later join an existing Early Access world if character creation is still available there.

That creates a genuine planning problem for mixed groups.

If three friends start on September 30 and two others wait until October 5, the Founder's Pack players need to choose a world without knowing how heavily populated it will become or whether character creation could eventually be restricted.

Dungeon matchmaking being region-wide helps, but it does not make the home-server decision irrelevant. Legions, faction communities and the broader server economy still give individual worlds their own identity.

Do Not Trust a “Complete Server List” Yet

This is also a good moment for a small warning.

Several server lists are already circulating around search results and community discussions. Some reuse Korean or Taiwanese world names. Others mix test-server information with assumptions about Global.

At the moment, there is no verified complete Global launch roster.

The safest distinction is very simple:

• Confirmed: the Global service regions
• Observed: server names used during the Launch Scale Test
• Not yet confirmed: the permanent September 30 world list

That may change at any moment over the next three days.

For Now, Plan the Things We Actually Know

Anyone preparing for September 30 can still settle the decisions that matter most. Pick your region. Agree on Elyos or Asmodians. Decide which friends are entering Advanced Access and which are waiting until October 5. Our AION 2 Before You Play guide covers the rest of the useful pre-launch jobs.

What you probably should not do is announce that your Legion is definitely playing on a specific permanent server because somebody found the name in the test client.

We are three days from Advanced Access. At this point, the final server list is one of the last major pieces of practical launch information NC still needs to put on the table.

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AION 2 Global Server Regions Confirmed: Europe, NA, SA and Japan, but No Oceania

AION 2's global launch is getting very close, which means we have reached the traditional MMO stage where choosing the right server suddenly becomes almost as important as choosing a class. NC has now confirmed the regional structure players can expect when the game launches globally on October 5. AION 2 will have servers in North America, South America, Europe and Japan, covering most of the major global markets. One region is conspicuously absent, however: there will be no dedicated Oceania server at launch.

The four confirmed regions are listed in NC's official AION 2 pre-release FAQ on Steam, which names North America, South America, Europe and Japan as the locations supported by the global service. Korea and Taiwan continue to operate separately from this new global version, meaning players should not think of the October release as one enormous worldwide server network. There are several distinct AION 2 ecosystems, and the version launching next month is its own service.

AION 2 Global Has Four Confirmed Server Regions

The confirmed global server regions are:

• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Japan

NC has not yet published a final list of individual world names, and players should be careful with supposed complete server lists currently circulating online. The regional structure is official. Every individual server name, population prediction and unofficial recommendation chart is a different matter until NC publishes the launch list itself.

For most players, the obvious choice will be the geographically closest region. European players will naturally gravitate toward Europe, while North and South American players finally have clearly separated regional options. Japan acts as the global service's main East Asian location.

Latency matters in every MMO, but it could be particularly noticeable in AION 2. The game puts considerably more emphasis on action combat, aerial movement and PvP than traditional tab-target MMORPGs, and the recent AION 2 PvP showcase demonstrated how important positioning and movement can become. A slightly delayed auction-house click is irritating. A delayed reaction while another player is attempting to remove you from the sky with a sword is rather more educational.

There Will Be No Oceania Server at Launch

The awkward part of NC's regional plan concerns Australia, New Zealand and the wider Oceania community. After being asked directly about support for Australian players, NC confirmed to Massively Overpowered that no Oceania server is planned for the global launch.

That leaves players in Australia and New Zealand without a truly local option on the global service. Japan is geographically the closest of the four announced global regions, although real-world latency depends on routing rather than simply measuring the distance between two points on a map.

NC has not announced whether an Oceania server could be added later. The current statement applies specifically to launch, so it would be equally wrong to claim that Oceania is permanently ruled out or that a dedicated server is definitely coming later. For now, there simply isn't one.

NC Points Oceania Players Toward Taiwan

Interestingly, NC's response also highlighted that the Taiwanese version of AION 2 supports English, effectively presenting it as another possible route for players in the Oceania region.

There is an important catch. Taiwan is not another server inside the October global service. It is a separate existing version of AION 2 with its own service, progression and update environment. NC has announced no character transfers between Taiwan and the global version, so choosing Taiwan should not be treated like selecting a different region from a dropdown and changing your mind later.

We also already know that the global version will follow its own modified Season 1 progression rather than simply copying the current Korea and Taiwan builds. That makes the decision about more than latency. Players may also care about where their friends are playing, which content schedule they want to follow and which community they intend to stay with long term.

The Global Version Supports Eight Languages

Server region and language are not the same thing. NC's global FAQ confirms support for English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Korean. A European player choosing the European region therefore does not need a separate English-language server simply to play in English.

That should help consolidate communities compared with older MMO launches where every language received several separate realms and everybody spent launch night trying to remember whether their guild had chosen Server 12, Server 17 or the one named after an obscure dragon mentioned once in a quest from 2009.

Choose Your Region Before the Real Launch Begins

Players will get an early opportunity to test AION 2's network performance during the Launch Scale Test beginning September 17. Since progression from the test is wiped afterward, it is an ideal time to experiment with regional latency before committing a permanent character to a launch server.

After that, the real servers arrive quickly. Founder's Pack owners enter through Advanced Access on September 30, followed by the full free-to-play global launch on October 5.

For most players, the server decision should be straightforward: choose the nearest region and make sure your friends do the same. For Australia and New Zealand, unfortunately, it is more complicated. Japan is part of the global service, while Taiwan offers English support through a separate version of AION 2.

North America, South America, Europe and Japan are ready for global launch. Oceania will have to make a choice.

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