Come put your bet on the release date of Alpha 2 in 2024. Updated for A2 in Q3

Give your bet on a release date for the no NDA Alpha 2 and get the bragging rights when the real date is revealed.

Mine is Q2 - June the 21st.

Edit:
So that turned out awkward for me.. What so ever - 14 people guessed right for a release in Q3, with one person using his copium skills for a release date in July. Give it another shot within Q3.

Mine is August the 30th.

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Zuya

The optimist says Q2 April 20th, the realist Q3 Sept. no clue day wise.

Mastru

Q1 or Q2.
Q3 or Q4 makes no sense due to the risk of delays along with vacations and holidays.

Aszkalon

Tetterian wrote: »

Give your bet on a release date for the no NDA Alpha 2 and get the bragging rights when the real date is revealed.

Mine is Q2 - June the 21th.

Around or exactly -> 27th of May, 2024.

It would just feel right to start into the mighty Testings, when the Weather is nice and the Air is sweet and not to cold anymore.

Otherwise if People would like to enjoy the brightest Moments in the Year more outside instead of holed in, i am all for starting already around January, February or March,

but i have a Feeling that might not happen. Ashes of Creation is known for the " Good things take time "-kinda thingy, as it has like Four Years or more between Alpha One and now alone, hasn't it ?

Plus they only announced " 2024 " - indicating they might not be able to make it "early 2024".

But it would surely - kinda(?lol) - suck big time, if they already announced it -> and then we still need to wait like a whole Year - so to around October 2024.

This is why i personally - hope for around Middle of the Year, hopefully a little bit sooner. Just my gutfeeling.

Elwendryll

3rd week of August.

Galaturc

Q3 - I think Q1 and Q2 are too early and hopefully they'll polish the game to an impressive level with the spot testing which I hope will be in Q2 2024. Q4 is simply too late just in case they need to postpone. If Steven can confidently say 2024, there must have been a consideration for a possible 2-3 month delay at the minimum.

More specific date: August 29th - Thursday... it's before the long Labor Day weekend in the US when students are also back from their summer vacations and back on campus. Labor Day weekend is ideal for the opening weekend of a game for obvious reasons. The Thursday before this weekend is the best release date, because even the most anticipated games benefit from a built hype of a few days.

Stalwart

March 15th, my birthday.

Seriously thinking late Q2, early Q3. I won't complain if it's earlier.

Vaknar

👀

Harlow

May 25, 2024.

McShave

I'm going to guess mid to late August they drop the NDA. About the same time of the year they dropped the Alpha 1 NDA iirc.

Rexxy

Hello, I am from the future. Looking back at old internet records, AoC Alpha 2 was released on March 19th, 2024

Hinotori

1st of July for a2 start, with the date being announced on April 1st. Just so nobody believes it and everyone thinks Steven is trolling.

Balanz

Rexxy wrote: »

Hello, I am from the future. Looking back at old internet records, AoC Alpha 2 was released on March 19th, 2024

How far in the future?

Obviously before the Great Flare.

3Snap

April 1st 2024...... to keep us guessing haha

darthaden

Due to NDA I can only say so much but I'm a Braver of Worlds level Kickstarter backer. That level means I was part of the A1 testing and I'm pred

Fairest wrote: »

1st of July for a2 start, with the date being announced on April 1st. Just so nobody believes it and everyone thinks Steven is trolling.

April 1st would be a great day to announce A2 has been delayed. Pretty sure Steven doesn't have to guts to pull a joke like that atm. Someone would probably get so butthurt they'd burn down the studio

Fiddlez

Hartassen wrote: »

Q1 or Q2.
Q3 or Q4 makes no sense due to the risk of delays along with vacations and holidays.

Q3 and Q4 are the biggest launch months. September to November is always big for games. Including MMOs.

My prediction October 1st with a sept 24th stream.

My copium wants to say June 4th but I don't think there's any reason to launch A2 early

Mastru

Fiddlez wrote: »

Hartassen wrote: »

Q1 or Q2.
Q3 or Q4 makes no sense due to the risk of delays along with vacations and holidays.

Q3 and Q4 are the biggest launch months. September to November is always big for games. Including MMOs.

My prediction October 1st with a sept 24th stream.

My copium wants to say June 4th but I don't think there's any reason to launch A2 early

They don't need big launch months? They have over 100k users for alpha 2 already.

darthaden

A slow month would actually be preferred. Why wait until there's other games to distract people from testing? Let's see how the servers hold up when there's 10k players online at the same time and nodes start developing

Talents

Well let's say they forgo giving us a Ranger, Fighter, or Tank update stream like they did with Cleric. We still need Bard and Rogue before A2 drops so that's 2 streams there (Summoner isn't in at A2 start but the other archetypes are).

Then we know we're getting some sort of crafting update at some point per the April or May stream (which Steven said was soon even then) so that's another stream.

Then we know we're getting a Caravan update at some point in the next couple of months from what Steven said in the Village update stream.

Then Steven wrote in Discord that we should expect a "couple more node showcases before A2" so that's at least 2 more node showcases.

Then this months stream is an update involving "Rivers" so you could guess it's maybe something like Fishing or maybe a tiny naval update (even though naval won't be in A2 at the beginning).

And finally, maybe they do another "Year in review" stream in December like they did last year instead of an actual update.

So that alone is 7 or 8 streams before A2. They also need to do spot-testing with inviting PI > A1 > A2 backers in that order first.

So I'll say September or October next year for A2. I doubt Steven would want to launch A2 in December as that means he'd most likely need staff actively on call over Christmas to deal with any server outages that would almost certainly arise so it makes sense to launch A2 a couple months before Christmas to allow the playerbase to die down and stuff to stabilise.

nuri123

Alpha 2 Dec. 25 2024, Alpha 3 Sept. 2025,Closed beta Oct. 2026, Open beta July 2027, release Christmas 2028.

Mastru

nuri123 wrote: »

Alpha 2 Dec. 25 2024, Alpha 3 Sept. 2025,Closed beta Oct. 2026, Open beta July 2027, release Christmas 2028.

There is no alpha 3 or open beta.

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