Open Beta: September 4 (Friday)
Server and Character pre-selection: September 15 (Tuesday)
Head Start: September 20 (Sunday)

These are just rumours, but opening the servers 5 days ahead of the headstart for character creation would be a great idea!

5 days to create the most gorgeous babe for Head Start...mmmm...Great success.

Sept 4 would be perfect!

Only one Open Beta? Thought there was going to be two? But thats ok

And agreed the 5 days of Character Creation is awesome.

here's hoping its true!

W000t! jizz in my pants...ok now the big question, will the OB be for a weekend only or longer..

w000t!

I do hope this is all true!!
Source Bod?

Source: http://www.aionsource.com/forum/aion-discussion/40305-unconfirmed-open-beta-dates.html#post982086

It is all still unconfirmed, but it seems that an official announcement will be made today or tomorrow

about freaken time

those dates sound good, hope they stick to it.

Saw those dates last night, but was not sure what to think of them.. though, NCsoft did say they will confirm the Open Beta dates this week.

I seriously cant wait. Hopefully my brother will be able to pick up the client at OC lan this weekend and I'll just have to download the 1.5 patch (just?). And 5 days might just be enough for my obsessive character tweaking.

Here are the confirmed dates:

Open Beta Test ver 1.5: September 6-13
Pre-Select: September 18
Headstart: September 20

Source: http://ncsoft.gamespress.com/link.asp?i=331&p=0

Thanks Bod, we've already placed this in the official news section
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