Lineage: North American Servers Closing in June
According to a new post from NCSoft on the Lineage site, the North American game servers will be closing permanently on June 29, 2011. NCSoft indicates that the 'franchise is no longer profitable', hence the server closure.
As of today, no new accounts can be created. We will no longer charge anyone whose account is set to recurring billing, and Time Cards can no longer be used to add additional game time. We have reactivated all existing accounts in good standing, and everyone can play for free* for the remaining time that the servers are open.
We are committed to refunding any unused game time that might have already been applied to your account. If you are due a refund, refunds will be made automatically back to the method of payment that was originally used in most cases. Please see our refund policy for details.
Nyx, Jetzen, and Unicycle plan to go out with a bang. We will not be making any additional content updates, but we do have US Ruleset changes and lots of great events planned for the next two months. We want to give you every opportunity to make all of your remaining Lineage dreams come true. We hope that everyone will stick around to have fun with the game you love in the time we have left.
Read more on the Lineage site.
I always hate to see them die. My condolences, Lineage folks.
This news wounds me.... Lineage 1 was my first MMORPG many years ago, wondered how long it could last here in the states, especially since I think I read somewhere that it didn't support 64 bit systems.
For such an early game it had some decent concepts, better than some of the MMORPG's being created today from my view.
Guess I could always learn Korean. Still going strong over there I hear
Another one down for NCSoft.
I'am still pissed i missed this game when it launched.. ah well, looks like i can chalk up another game i'll never get to play like Hellgate london, Tabula Rasa, and APB even tho i might still get a chance now that its F2P.
I thoroughly enjoyed Tabula Rasa even though most people didn't. I always thought it was NCSoft's best work slightly ahead of CoX.
Doesn't mean you can't play on Eastern servers, maybe someone will come up with a mod to transform the language to English or something. Closing down something that isn't making you money is a smart thing to do nonetheless.
The NC Soft axe strikes again!
grind fest.... good riddance!
I am a bit shocked with the news. I haven't played Linage myself, but now I'll never know what it will be like (don't speak Korean, so that's no option for me :p)
AAside from teh news of closure, I have to say that NCSoft once again gives a good refund to the current players (even betetr then when they closed down TR).
can i still play on my BETA account ? do i make a new account ?