Hi all

Lineage 3 was anounced a long time ago, and it apeared on NCSoft´s IR report.It was suposed to comme out in 2009.

The latests Reports dont talk about L3.

Does NCSoft gave up on L3?Or they will guive it another name?

L3 will take many players from L2, i hope they changed the name

Thx for your time

What about Aion?

According to an NCSoft interview 1 year ago, they have temporarily suspended the L3 development and assigned the L3 development team to help finish Aion faster. L3 development will resume when Aion is released.

In 2007 some NCsoft employees who worked with lineage 3 stole it code and coped to someone. So lineage 3 was stopped and had lost much money. But this year new Lineage 3 team was collected and they started to work. NCsoft said what Lineage 3 will be announced in 2011 to the public. 

Yeah L3 is sort of dead in the water right now. Since those jokers stole the code, NCSoft has put it on hold. I imagine once Aion launches (and no Aion is not part of the Lineage fanchise) they will get back on it. I believe they need to start from scratch.

What is the point of releasing Lineage 3? They could easily just keep updating Lineage 2.

Originally posted by Colt1945

What is the point of releasing Lineage 3? They could easily just keep updating Lineage 2.

umm having a game without an economy totally screwed over by bots and farmers (atleast for a few weeks :P)

By the time Lineage 3 will come out, Lineage 2 will be a very old game. It will be almost twice as old as it is now. They will also keep updating Lineage 2 as long as it is profitable, and it will be profitable for a long time to come.

Originally posted by FastTx

By the time Lineage 3 will come out, Lineage 2 will be a very old game. It will be almost twice as old as it is now. They will also keep updating Lineage 2 as long as it is profitable, and it will be profitable for a long time to come.

I diagree about Lineage 2 being a very old game.  MMOs are not your average 'run of the mill' computer game where you do what you are supposed to and you are finished.

An MMO is created to be around for sometime, unless there is a serious problem in the server vs. profit area and with subscribers as with Auto Assault.  I am not saying that the game can not be shutdown.  Lineage is one of NCSoft's standards in the market of the MMO paid service.

If you notice the first "Lineage" is a very old game and it is still around.  

'Aion' is the one I am not so sure about. Flight to Fight.   We will see I guess.

L3 would be a good bet to also be around for quite a while.

NcSoft's specialty is the MMO.  The Lineage series will be around, as will the Guild Wars and City Of X series.

Originally posted by Kalay

Originally posted by FastTx

By the time Lineage 3 will come out, Lineage 2 will be a very old game. It will be almost twice as old as it is now. They will also keep updating Lineage 2 as long as it is profitable, and it will be profitable for a long time to come.

 

I diagree about Lineage 2 being a very old game.  MMOs are not your average 'run of the mill' computer game where you do what you are supposed to and you are finished.

An MMO is created to be around for sometime, unless there is a serious problem in the server vs. profit area and with subscribers as with Auto Assault.  I am not saying that the game can not be shutdown.  Lineage is one of NCSoft's standards in the market of the MMO paid service.

If you notice the first "Lineage" is a very old game and it is still around.  

'Aion' is the one I am not so sure about. Flight to Fight.   We will see I guess.

L3 would be a good bet to also be around for quite a while.

NcSoft's specialty is the MMO.  The Lineage series will be around, as will the Guild Wars and City Of X series.

Why are you arguing with me? I never said Lineage 2 is an old game. It's been around for 4 years. It will be another 3-4 years before Lineage 3 releases in North America. It hasn't even run half of it's life cycle yet.

I think we are also moving away from the cycle where players play new unfinished games. There are so many quality MMO's whom have been around for years that a new unfinished game looks far more unappealing. Why play a new half finished game when there are games such as L2 and WoW which have been around and updating and making their game better for four years worth of additional content?

Originally posted by FastTx

Originally posted by Kalay

Originally posted by FastTx

By the time Lineage 3 will come out, Lineage 2 will be a very old game. It will be almost twice as old as it is now. They will also keep updating Lineage 2 as long as it is profitable, and it will be profitable for a long time to come.

 

I diagree about Lineage 2 being a very old game.  MMOs are not your average 'run of the mill' computer game where you do what you are supposed to and you are finished.

An MMO is created to be around for sometime, unless there is a serious problem in the server vs. profit area and with subscribers as with Auto Assault.  I am not saying that the game can not be shutdown.  Lineage is one of NCSoft's standards in the market of the MMO paid service.

If you notice the first "Lineage" is a very old game and it is still around.  

'Aion' is the one I am not so sure about. Flight to Fight.   We will see I guess.

L3 would be a good bet to also be around for quite a while.

NcSoft's specialty is the MMO.  The Lineage series will be around, as will the Guild Wars and City Of X series.

 

Why are you arguing with me? I never said Lineage 2 is an old game. It's been around for 4 years. It will be another 3-4 years before Lineage 3 releases in North America. It hasn't even run half of it's life cycle yet.

I think we are also moving away from the cycle where players play new unfinished games. There are so many quality MMO's whom have been around for years that a new unfinished game looks far more unappealing. Why play a new half finished game when there are games such as L2 and WoW which have been around and updating and making their game better for four years worth of additional content?

Excellent point and that is proving to be the case with most new releases. Hellgate is basically folded, Tabula Rasa is basically on its deathbed, Vanguard was a disaster they are still cleaning up, AoC looks to be following pretty close in VG footsteps... very few new MMO's are having any level of sucess and rightly so. (honestly, pick a game off the list on the right and more then likely you will see a game on its deathbed, there are under 10 that remain strong and most of those are older games)

LotR is really about the only recent success story out there and that is mainly because they had tons low and mid level content and filled inthe high level content very quickly and reacted to the PvP issue fast. On top of it they re-used the old AC2 engine (again) so technical issues were no issue at all.

Only companies that understand that a game not only needs to be able to run well on average PC's but provide an interesting and compelling game experience UP FRONT will be sucessful. Its not enough for devs to load a game with 1000 "go kill 10 rats" quest anymore then a few raids at level cap. The industry is up to its eyeballs with those type games.

IMHO, now that the post WoW crash has happened, you may see a return to a more grass roots type gaming and older successful games have longevity. Games with mechanics that allow players to have more impact on the game world may see a resurrence.

Targetting the WoW crowd by MMO devs was always a mistake as they are not core MMO players and they are not interested in other MMO's for the mostpart.

Its the same with L2 players. Why would an L2 player want to move to games like Vanguard (and I did for a while) or EQ2 or LotR's? None of these games offer anything like the intenses experiences you have in L2. Hardly any of those games have a world nearly as fleshed out as L2. Why would anyone want to move to game that main feature is kill task and raids and thats all? We have that already PLUS.

Whats funny is you see people on forums b*tching about how easy MMO's are now, How leveling is to fast, how death penalties have no meaning or dont exist, how players can not impact anything and everything is in instances and how MMOs shouldn't have an "endgame". We have all of that and more.

 L3 will eventually launch and more then likely it will be a replacement for L2 but in the meantime we have a lot more expansion planned and on the way.

L2 is by far a superior game experience to most MMO's out there and keeps getting better. Only EVE has been able to match L2 in that respect. I just wish I could still hunt bots for fun AND profit.  

Originally posted by Torak

 Why would an L2 player want to move to games like Vanguard (and I did for a while) or EQ2 or LotR's? None of these games offer anything like the intenses experiences you have in L2.

To be honest I play LOTRO and a VERY small bit of WoW precisely because they don't offer the intense gameplay that L2 has.

L2 is a more engaging game but I can't really enjoy it fully because a player has to always be "on" all the time.

It is my thought that players will require different types of games depending on the mood they are in. Sometimes just logging on and having some laid back fun is more enjoyable than constantly watching your back.