NCsoft`s new Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) `Lineage M` is on its way to launch while Lineage uncles, who have been playing PC online game lineage for 18 years, have already begun recruiting for Blood Alliance (Guild Member). It is noteworthy that they are starting to dominate the game.

According to industry sources on May 8, NCsoft will hold a press conference on May 16 and plan to launch the Lineage M with concrete game launch information. Lineage M is able to achieve 1 million people within 8 hours of pre-subscription and 3 million pre-subscription over 15 days, achieving 4 million people. Netmarble Games` Lineage 2 Revolution, which was launched using Lineage 2 intellectual property (IP), collected 3.4 million pre-subscribers.

Lineage M is a game in which NCsoft`s PC online game `Lineage` IP is implemented in mobile. `Lineage` is a game first launched in 1998, which formed so-called `Lineage invalid`, and users frequently trade items or game money with cash. The game is also a longevity game with annual sales of KRW 375.5 billion last year thanks to its loyal customers in their 30s and 40s who are called "Lineage uncle".

As Lineage M is approaching its launch date, Lineage M on-line cafés and user communities have already been actively operated. On April 27, an internal trial version of Lineage M was leaked on the internet TV-afreecaTV.

In particular, users who charge for Lineage are moving to mobile games that are more accessible than PCs, and they are trying to control at least the atmosphere of early games by investing at least several million won in capital. In an online community, nine members posted a bill of KRW 1 billion in funding to purchase Lineage M items. The nine people with age 47 said that they planned to play games for the next 15 years, finding a "full-time" blood alliance member to take control of three servers and control the hunting grounds.

Meanwhile, a variety of users such as Charging user required blood alliance’ and `Blood alliance that is desired by 100 people’ open chat rooms for Kakao Talk (Kakao Talk chat room where users can participate if they know only online address) and Naver Band. Lineage, the original work, is a structure that builds and buys an economic system in the game, so it is expected that many of these Lineage uncles will emerge.

An industry expert mentioned, "We can feet the power of Lineage if we look at blood alliance member recruitment notifications on-line. In the mobile game market, which is known to have a shorter life span than PC online games, Lineage 2 Revolution has a long history of box office. It is noteworthy wheatear Lineage M will continue the same atmosphere. "

By Jin Hyun Jin 2jinhj@


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