Official Site: Lineage II
Studio:Â NCsoft
Launch Date: April 27, 2004Â (US)
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
See Also: Lineage, Lineage Eternal
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Battle Bards Episode 148: Composer spotlight on Inon Zur
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The Stream Team: Still celebrating Lineage II’s 15th birthday
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Battle Bards Episode 146: More vocals
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City of Heroes: Community harassment ramps up as Homecoming counts 91,000 players
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The MOP Up: Dauntless’ forums are down for a month as the game goes offline until Tuesday
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Lineage 2: Revolution goes mad as a hatter with its War in Wonderland update
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Lineage II is streamlining its early game and adding water dragon raid as Lineage II Classic gets multiple new dungeons
NCsoft's Lineage teams must be working overtime here: Both core Lineage II and Lineage II Classic are getting updates this month.
Over in Lineage II...
1998’s Lineage finally adopts free-to-play in Korea
It's one of the oldest continually running graphical MMORPGs -- and also one of the last free-to-play holdouts in the industry. That last part...
Lineage II shows off plenty of buffs and promotions for its 15-year anniversary
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The MOP Up: Warframe descends to Deck 12 on consoles
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"Now is the...
The MOP Up: Ring of Elysium gives out free adventure passes
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The MOP Up: Aion’s cherry blossoms signal the arrival of spring
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The MOP Up: Space Engineers jury-rigs a release
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Lineage II Classic releases the patch notes for the Saviors update
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Jukebox Heroes: Mabinogi’s six best music tracks
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Jukebox Heroes: The 10 greatest MMO soundtracks of all time (as voted by you)
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Lineage II Classic releases its Saviors update on February 27
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NCsoft 4Q 2018: Mobile made almost twice as much as all NCsoft’s other MMOs combined
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