Steparu reports that a couple of big-name titles with MMO ties are no-shows at this week’s G-Star 2015 gaming megacon in Korea. NCsoft will forego new Lineage Eternal info in favor of Master X Master and Blade & Soul stuff, according to a company press release.
Similarly, the Nexon team responsible for anime sandbox MMO Peria Chronicles will be skipping G-Star. Steparu says that the dev team is purportedly focusing on the game itself instead of showcasing it to the public. You can click past the cut for a couple videos that introduce both Peria Chronicles and Lineage Eternal.
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LE looks like it is going to be amazing!
Peria Chronicles: Pink hair optional.
…well, that’s good start. <3
NcSoft will have some stiff competition for Lineage Eternal from Lost Ark – if the news that Tencent will be publishing Lost Ark in China is true. Tencent actually published Smilegates’ (Lost Ark team) mmofps Crossfire in China very very succesfully in past. I think it was 2013 that Crossfire made 300-400m in China alone.
Lineage 1 is actually still the cornerstone of Ncsoft with its dialo-type isometric gameplay. I suppose NcSoft is forced to try to move its L1 customers to Eternal since the competition on Isometric arpg area is getting BIG within few years.
Question remains to be asked – what if Ncsoft fails to move L1 customers to Eternal and Lost Ark grabs the win in this. How deep would NcSoft drop if this happens?
Thats a shame. Hopefully at least we see something new of Lost Ark
Yay Blade & Soul news!
Hopefully we finally get some better gameplay footage of the new KFM+FM class they teased. And some new story stuff too (I’m told it’s been ages since Korea last got new story content).Â
Yeah, that’s pretty much all I care about at this point.
LE was like the only reason G*Star exists…
LE not showing up implies it’s not in a state they want to show it in….that makes me sad.