lineage ii

Official Site: Lineage II
Studio: NCsoft
Launch Date: April 27, 2004 (US)
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
See Also: Lineage, Lineage Eternal

Oddly beautiful.

The MOP Up: Aion, Lineage 2, and Blade and Soul get ready for a new launcher

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Blade and Soul, Lineage II, and Aion are all preparing to migrate everyone from the old launcher to the new PLAYNC platform. NCsoft posted...

NCsoft Q4 2023: Guild Wars 2 is a bright spot for NCsoft as Throne & Liberty stumbles

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NCsoft's Q4 2023 financials weren't the perk-up that investors surely wanted to see: The Korean gaming giant reported a 31% drop in revenues in...

NCsoft updates EULAs for Lineage II, Aion, and Blade & Soul as part of move to Purple

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At the top of February we reported on NCsoft's decision to migrate many of its MMOs to its bespoke Purple platform, specifically affecting Blade...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two

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Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...

NCsoft announces plans to move Aion, Lineage II, and Blade & Soul to its Purple platform

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Readers might remember that back in 2019, NCsoft launched its own games platform known as Purple, which lets players enjoy the studio's mobile games...
Seriously, though, whatever.

Vague Patch Notes: The myth of the ‘first’ MMORPG

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One of the things I like to joke about every so often is various myths about the history of MMOs, and a lot of...

Lineage II’s Wish Hunt event offers buff-granting goodies for killing monsters under the full moon

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While Lineage II's latest event isn't called a Halloween event specifically, it certainly does have that grim kind of vibe: The Wish Hunt even...
Thrones and something, I guess?

Vague Patch Notes: I don’t know what the deal is with Throne & Liberty

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Let me just state this outright: What in the absolute heck is supposed to be going on with Throne & Liberty at this point?...
Darky dark dark dark.

Battle Bards Episode 227: NCsounds

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Syl and Syp return to the vast library of NCsoft’s MMO soundtracks, with games like Aion, Lineage, and Blade & Soul to keep our...

Lineage II brings back the Red Libra Merchants and their unique wares until September 12

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When is a merchant not just a merchant? When it looks like a cat bunny, of course. Also, it's when the merchant sells things...

NCsoft Q2 2023: Throne & Liberty delayed as revenues, mobile games, and MMOs decline

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While we've already covered the major delay to Throne & Liberty revealed during NCsoft's investor call this week, there was more to the financial...
What are you?

Lineage II posts patch notes for the August 1 Death Knight Reborn and Spellcaster Unleashed updates

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The beginning of August will not only herald the end to this hell season in our hemisphere of the world; it will also bring...

Lineage II announces updates that focus on Wizards, Summoners, and Death Knights on August 1

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Whether you're a spellcaster or a spooky knight, your ship is pulling in to port on August 1st, when Lineage II releases patches across...
Glitzy.

The MOP Up: Netmarble and Take-Two finances are powered by MMOs

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We have a couple more earnings reports to, er, report to you today. Netmarble's Q1 2023 financials reported $472.4M in revenue, with MMORPGs making...

NCsoft West restructures as NC America, with shared CM for Lineage II, Aion, and Blade & Soul

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Back in February, we reported on a wave of layoffs that struck NCsoft West, which saw 20% of its workforce handed their walking papers...
LADY YOU'RE SCARING US

Casually Classic: Eight legacy MMOs to satisfy that old school craving

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It was just five years ago in 2018 that MassivelyOP formally recognized an interesting and heartening trend in the MMO space: the rise of...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t

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A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...

NCsoft Q4 2022: Guild Wars 2 had a great 2022, Throne & Liberty is still launching by summer

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There's good news and bad news in the Q4 2022 and FY 2022 financial report, and the bad news might help explain why NCsoft...

Lineage II launches several events across all three versions of the ARPG

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The three flavors of Lineage II - that is to say the original game, Aden, and Classic - are all awash with events starting...

Korean MMO Project TS scored a global publisher – but it’s a blockchain purveyor

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As we recently demonstrated in our lengthy list of in-development MMOs, there's a whole lot coming down the pike. Now we can add another...

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