AION 2’s EU maintenance crosses the clock change: read the window in UTC
The planned interruption begins at 00:30 UTC on October 25. Account restrictions are a separate notice, not an explanation for every failed login.
AION 2's European servers have a maintenance window scheduled for the night of October 24–25 as the service adjusts from Central European Summer Time to Central European Time. The announcement gives a start of 00:30 UTC on October 25 and an estimated duration of two hours and thirty minutes. Players will be disconnected when maintenance begins, and login will be unavailable during the work.
The official maintenance notice lists the start as October 24 at 17:30 PDT, or October 25 at 02:30 CEST. Converting both to UTC produces the same instant. The confusing part comes afterward: the European clock goes back during the window.
Two and a half hours, despite the clock face
If the stated duration holds, maintenance ends around 03:00 UTC, which is 04:00 CET. Subtracting 02:30 from 04:00 on a local clock makes the interruption look ninety minutes long. In elapsed time it is two and a half hours because the clock repeats an hour overnight.
The calculated end is not a separate guarantee from the operator. NCSoft says the schedule can change and updates will be posted in the notice. The practical consequence is to avoid starting a session that depends on uninterrupted access close to the announced start, rather than assuming that a local-clock calculation leaves more time.
This notice concerns the EU service. It is not evidence of a simultaneous interruption across all regions. AION 2's global launch announcement describes regional servers and PC access through Steam and PURPLE; regional service notices still determine which players are affected by a particular intervention.
A service interruption is not an account penalty
NCSoft has separately published an account-restriction notice, reporting action against 12,586 accounts for policy violations involving botting, gold farming, unauthorized programs and economy abuse. That is a different operation from the scheduled maintenance.
The same notice distinguishes disciplinary restrictions from temporary security locks, which can be applied when account access looks potentially compromised. NCSoft says normal play, including long grinding sessions, is not itself the target. An individual access problem should be taken to the official support service, rather than diagnosed from the mere existence of a ban announcement.
For players following PC games, the useful distinction is simple: a regional maintenance window explains a shared interruption at a stated time; it does not explain every account problem before or after it. Keep the UTC start handy, allow for the repeated hour, and check the service notice before treating a failed login as something wrong with your character or account.
