AION 2 Founder’s Packs: September 30 Early Access

NC’s July 22 notice says advance access begins September 30, 2026 and runs for five days. Every buyer shares the same start and end dates; purchasing after the window begins only grants the remaining time. Maintenance and patches can also reduce the actual playable time.

Steam’s Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate package pages currently show October 5, 2026 as the release date, consistent with a five-day head start. NC has not published an exact opening hour, and older official marketing still says September, so this article does not invent a midnight, PDT, or UTC launch time.

Standard includes 5-Day Advanced Access, Daeva's Campaign Supply Chest (Bound) ×1, and the Unique-grade Title: Vanguard of Atreia ×1. The chest contains Return, Courage, Speed, Benediction, and Absorption Scrolls ×10 each, Life Potions ×100, Life Serums ×50, Healing Potions ×30, Power Shards ×10,000, and Resurrection Spiritstones ×5.

Deluxe adds the seven-piece Ascended Daeva appearance set—breastplate, greaves, helm, pauldrons, gloves, boots, and cloak—and Eternal Sun Weapon Skin Chest ×1. Ultimate adds Styling Chest ×1, the six-piece Moonlit Aria set without pauldrons, Black Dragon pet ×1, and Blazing Sun Wings ×1. The Styling Chest contains Customization Voucher ×1 and a seven-day Appearance Change Voucher ×1.

The official item table marks trade, deletion, and storage as unavailable for every listed reward. Higher tiers do not add access days, and NC states that the title, armor and weapon skins, pet, and wings grant no additional stats.

NC instructs each account to choose one of the three tiers. Buying more than one pack provides no extra rewards, and the five-day benefit does not stack. A Steam purchase can be played only through Steam, while a PURPLE purchase can be played only through PURPLE; both platforms connect to the same servers.

PURPLE lists paid upgrades: Standard→Deluxe for $25, Standard→Ultimate for $75, and Deluxe→Ultimate for $50. Steam has not announced an equivalent path, so Steam buyers should choose their tier before checkout. The global notice labels these amounts in USD; currency conversion, tax, and the final charge depend on the signed-in storefront.

NC will first open Early Access Servers to Founder’s Pack holders. A second wave of Launch Servers opens at full release; non-buyers can choose those new worlds and may join an Early Access Server if it remains open and available.

Dungeon matching spans the Early Access Servers within a region during the head start, then expands to both server waves at launch. The local Server Market system opens on day one; under the current global business-model plan, using it still requires active Membership. The Cross-Server Market will not open during advance access or at launch and comes later when participating servers have reached a similar stage.