Lineage II

Lineage II
Developer(s)NCSoft
E&G Studios
Publisher(s)NCSoft
SeriesLineage
EngineUnreal Engine 2.5
Platform(s)Windows
Release
  • KOR: October 1, 2003
  • NA: April 27, 2004
  • EU: November 19, 2004[1]
Genre(s)Massively multiplayer online role-playing
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Lineage II is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Windows and the second game in the Lineage series. It is a prequel to Lineage and is set 150 years before the first game.[2] It has become popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 40,027,918 unique users during the month of March 2007. To date, the game has been played by more than 94 million users from all over the world.[3]

Lineage II adopted a free-to-play model in Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction, with all game content being free except for "purchasable in-game store items and packs" in November 2011.[4] A prequel, Lineage 2: Revolution, was released as a mobile game in 2016.

Lineage 2M was launched for the first time in South Korea in November 2019.[5]

  1. ^ Bramwell, Tom (November 19, 2004). "What's New? [date mislabeled "June 10, 2005"]". Eurogamer. Retrieved July 23, 2024.
  2. ^ Aihoshi, Richard. "Lineage II Interview". Archived from the original on 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
  3. ^ "Lineage II: awesome views, rave reviews!". MCV. 26 June 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
  4. ^ "Goddess of Destruction Has Launched!". 30 November 2011. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  5. ^ "Lineage 2 M surpasses $152m in three months". gamesindustry. 2020-02-12.