AION 2 blasted past 271K concurrent Steam players in its first full week after the October 5 free-to-play launch, with tracker sites logging peaks near 268K as of October 17 and sustained averages above 240K across multiple platforms. The Korean MMORPG from NCSoft more than doubled its paid Early Access high of 171K, hitting a launch-day Steam record of 397K before settling into strong retention numbers that put it in Steam's top daily actives. Japanese streamer stylishnoob4 dominated the Twitch scene with over 15K average viewers on AION 2 streams, multiple sessions cracking 20K peaks, and leading the game's watch-time charts while the overall Twitch audience crested above 260K at launch.