Remember Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds? One of its designers -- Jake Song -- eventually left Nexon to work for NCsoft, another South Korean game development company. Song headed up the development of Lineage, which launched in South Korea in 1998. Lineage achieved a kind of success that was unheard of in the North American or European markets until 2004's World of Warcraft. NCsoft proudly reported subscriber numbers in the millions.
The game utilizes a 2D interface very similar to that of Ultima Online. However, the gameplay is quite different. Lineage has a traditional, level-based character advancement system, but it becomes especially interesting when players join together in blood pledges to capture and maintain strongholds in PvP combat.
Neither Lineage nor any of NCsoft's other major titles have been smash hits in the United States or Europe, but to this day, no pay-to-play MMORPG has done a better job of absorbing the time and money of Koreans.
truthseekersbp.com
31/03/08
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