Official Site: Lineage
Studio: NCsoft
Launch Date: September 3, 1998 (US)
Sunset Date: June 29, 2011 (US; still in operation in Korea)
Genre: Isometric PvP Sandbox
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
See Also: Lineage II, Lineage Eternal
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Lineage II marks 21 years, counts over 19M characters, and opens celebratory events
Despite the past and future attempts to make a third entry in the franchise, Lineage II is still standing and has been for 21...
NCsoft is hiring for another next-generation UE5 Lineage MMORPG project
So let's start with a history lesson. NCsoft originally hit the MMO world with Lineage in South Korea, which was a huge hit there....
Lineage II reveals three PvE and PvP encounters coming in next week’s Project Wolf update
Lineage II has been gearing up for its big Project Wolf update for weeks already, and now NCsoft is teasing even more new content...
NCsoft addresses ‘relentless and destructive’ DDoS attacks on Lineage II and Blade & Soul NEO
It's been a trying week or so for NCsoft's games, as the MMORPG giant's been dealing with several severe DDoS attacks upon its infrastructure...
Lineage 2 discusses the new werewolf class and wolf server coming with Project Wolf’s launch
Lineage II is basking in its newly contracted lycanthropy as it hypes up the April 15th Project Wolf update with a quick video that...
Battle Bards: The Final Refrain
It’s been a very long while, but the Battle Bards haven’t fully abandoned you — at least not without a goodbye! In the grand...
Lineage 2’s Project Wolf launches April 15 with a new werewolf class
NCsoft's NC America has turned its gaze toward Lineage II this week with the announcement of a major April update. It's called Project Wolf,...
ArcheAge Chronicles luminary Jake Song leaves XLGames, the company he founded, to ‘recharge’
Jake Song, a name that many MMORPG fans are familiar with for his involvement with the ArcheAge and Lineage series and his founding of...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV is running out of Final Fantasy
It wasn't so long ago that I did a series of columns talking about the many, many references in Final Fantasy XIV to date,...
NCsoft Q4 2024: Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are doing great, with Aion 2 waiting in the wings
The MMO company financial news just keeps coming this week as now we've got NCsoft's Q4 2024 financial report, and no, this one isn't...
Blade & Soul, Lineage II, and Aion NA offer freebies for pre-registering to Blade & Soul NEO
Yesterday saw NCsoft take the wraps off of renewed plans to bring Blade & Soul NEO to the west, opening up both pre-registration for...
Interview: NCsoft America’s new CEO, Jeonghee Jin, on awakening the ‘sleeping giant in the West’
A few years ago, I attended Black Desert Online's Heidel Ball, one of the yearly events that Pearl Abyss holds to make major announcements for...
Vague Patch Notes: How Throne and Liberty actually got my attention
Leading up to the release of Throne and Liberty, I was not particularly enthusiastic about the game's prospects on a whole. The reasons for...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
Blade & Soul hosts a Silver Bells Christmas event, Lineage II hands out free holiday goodie boxes
Who's ready for some more free Christmas presents in a couple of NCsoft MMORPGs? Did you raise your hand, there, little Timothy? Then you're...
Lineage II releases new individual updates and a snowman hunt event for all three versions
Yep, there's another news update for Lineage II that effectively condenses four stories into one, as Live, Aden, and Classic have all received their...
NCsoft Q3 2024: NCsoft teases Aion 2 for 2025, says Throne & Liberty sales ‘surpassed internal projections’
It's been one hell of a quarter for NCsoft - and we mean that for every interpretation of the phrase.
As readers might recall, in...
Lineage II kicks off Halloween Festival events across all three versions of the MMO
The great thing about Lineage II having three different versions on our side of the globe (presumably) is that means there's three times the...
NCsoft Korea confirms restructure and layoffs, renames Throne & Liberty team to Studio X
Last night, we covered the disturbing industry news that NCsoft was planning a major restructure of its Korean branch owing to the long-obvious fact...
NCsoft Korea is reportedly restructuring after multiple weak revenue quarters
Korean media is reporting bad news for NCsoft, or at least fans of the company's developers and games.
Seoul-based Yonhap News has a long piece...
