Aion 2 Steam AI Disclosure: Exactly What NC Soft Stated

The store page states it in a single sentence: some in-game assets were created with the assistance of AI tools, and Arcana card designs plus some icons use AI-generated assets. That is the whole official statement. NC Soft did not quantify a share of assets, name the specific AI systems, or commit to removing anything.

Because the text sits on Steam's storefront, it is durable and machine-readable: it is not a tweet, not a dev blog, and it does not depend on a press release surviving. Players who look at the page before buying will read it.

This report quotes that sentence directly. Treat the quote, not our paraphrase, as the primary source.

The disclosure names two specific categories: Arcana card designs and some icons. Both are presentational — card artwork and UI icons — rather than gameplay systems, world geometry, audio, or narrative.

It also makes a broader, unquantified claim that some in-game assets were created with AI assistance. That second clause is wider than the two named examples and is the one worth reading carefully: it does not say whether those assets are cosmetic-only.

Notably absent: any statement about gameplay content, procedural generation, NPCs, quest text, audio, or live-service content. Silence here is not confirmation either way.

Steam requires developers to disclose AI-assisted asset creation on store pages, and Gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live became the moment several titles were examined against that requirement. Kotaku listed AION 2 among the titles whose store pages “list varying degrees of genAI usage”.

That context matters for how the disclosure should be read: it is a compliance statement produced for the storefront, not a creative-approach manifesto. NC Soft is telling you a fact about production, and the store page is the official place to find it.

Other outlets flagged Aion 2 in the same news cycle specifically for players who want to avoid AI-generated content, which is exactly the audience a store-page disclosure exists to reach.

Open the AION 2 Steam store page and scroll to the disclosure block near the platform and content-rating information. The AI statement sits alongside Steam's standard “In-App Purchases”, “Online PvP” and “Online Co-op” feature tags and the mature-content note.

The same page confirms the commercial and schedule facts at once: Release 5 Oct 2026, Advance Access Starts 30 Sep, and the Free to Play tag. Verifying the disclosure therefore doubles as verifying the launch timeline.

If the page changes before launch, the text is the authoritative record of what was published — Steam store pages are dated and widely captured, so a later edit is visible rather than silent.

No percentage, no asset count, no named vendor or model, no statement about whether AI output was edited by humans afterwards. The store page deliberately stops at “assistance” and “some assets”.

There is no commitment to swap any asset for a non-AI alternative, and no player opt-out mechanism. Anyone with a strict AI-free policy has to decide before purchase, because nothing on the page offers a choice in-game.

For context, the page's own feature tags confirm the game is free to play with in-app purchases and online multiplayer, and it carries a general mature-content and gore note. The AI disclosure sits inside that same block of consumer-facing facts, not in a separate apology or FAQ.