I was hoping I would be able to play the Aion beta this week. It is a mmorpg. Where as I understand wings and flight is a large part of the fighting and game play in later stages.

There are two opposing factions, the Asmodians(I had a geek moment here that if I played against them I could claim I killed Asmo), and the Elyos. Both these races where once humans who where granted power buy the gods to fight the Balaur that have recently surfaced again. The Asmodians and the Elyos where once the same race but had a falling out and they now live on different sides of a divided world.

As I said earlier I hoped to be able to play the beta, however they have had a lot of problems first with the Gameguard, a program to stop bots and similar, it is a rather controversial piece of software that have many ordinary programs it don't get along with. Firewalls is just one of many. Then they also have had problems with the authentication server, both these have stopped many from playing in the current beta phase.

Another problem they have had that they say they are working on is the beta forum, apparently most that have got an invite lately haven't been able to log in there and get help with these issues because they haven't updated the forums on time.

Those who have been able to log in have reported bad lag especially on the North American servers. They are working on that too.

This is a beta test, it ends on Friday. Some problems are of course expected. But I'm very disappointed that I and many others that have a beta invite haven't been able to even log in.

However it does look like a great game and I hope these problems are fixed at launch if it is not I'll have to demand my money back for my pre purchase. One reason I got it was for the beta invite, however not the only reason luckily.