While the game doesn't officially launch until tomorrow it looks like there have been a few pre-launch day issues for the US release of Aion. NCsoft's long awaited fantasy MMO opened up its servers for its Head Start program for everyone who pre-ordered the game (all 400,000 of them) on Sunday.

The Aion Tower web site reports that there have been long queue lines to join Aion's servers during the Head Start launch. The queue lines were several hours long at one point. There have also been reports of servers going down as well as long latency issues with the ones that are up. Aion's community manager made a post on another fan site, Aion Source, stating, "I'm going to disagree with anyone who is saying that we've had a 'bad launch'. It's been fantastic. So many players logging in at once, and our servers are going strong." The community manager did admit to long queue lines saying, "While it is ridiculous waiting for 8 hours in a queue, queues are a good thing." She added, "We don't want to see a scenario where we put too many servers online resulting in a barren wastelands of empty worlds once the initial rush settles down. We're dynamic in the way we manage our servers, and we want to be open about this."