{"id":679,"date":"2010-07-01T21:57:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-08-03T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:11:25","slug":"looking-back-at-six-years-of-lineage-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/looking-back-at-six-years-of-lineage-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at six years of Lineage II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Released in South Korea in 2003 and North America a year later, Lineage II<\/em><\/a> came out as an old-school hardcore grind just as MMOs like City of Heroes<\/em><\/a>, World of Warcraft<\/em><\/a> and Guild Wars<\/em><\/a> arrived on the scene and signaled a decisive shift toward more user-friendly, casual-accessible gameplay. Even so, Lineage II<\/em><\/a> charged ahead to capture an impressive amount of players — a reported 610,000 gamers<\/a> were playing the title three years after launch — and the game both endured and grew as time progressed.<\/p>\n

A six-year anniversary doesn’t have quite the gravitas as a five-<\/a> or ten-year one, yet it’s still an accomplishment that many of Lineage II’s<\/em> contemporaries failed to achieve before closing their doors. Travel with us then as we step back in time to an era when MMOs were the equivalent of a dangerous playground, with players leaping about despite rusty swings, harsh death penalties and a never-ending monkey bar grind. Join us as we examine Lineage II’s <\/em>history and seek to understand the secrets of this game’s popularity, and what it still has to offer for the contemporary gamer.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Fantasy, Lineage 2, Events, in-game Released in South Korea in 2003 and North America a year later, Lineage II came out as an old-school hardcore grind just as MMOs like City of Heroes, World of Warcraft and Guild Wars arrived on the scene and signaled a decisive shift toward more user-friendly, casual-accessible gameplay. Even so, Lineage II charged ahead to capture an impressive amount of players — a reported 610,000 gamers were … Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614],"tags":[290,622,639,640],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lineage-2","tag-back","tag-lineage","tag-looking","tag-years","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t