The release of Lineage W is also being viewed by many as being a strategic release to maintain the stronghold that NCSoft has on the market with the success of games like Lineage M. Lineage W is reported to be the company’s first game with the overseas users as primary targets,” said an industry official. “NCSoft previously launched their games first in Korea and later in overseas markets. The website is available in multiple languages, however, including Korean, Japanese, English, and Traditional Chinese, suggesting that the game might be released outside of Korea as well, once it is eventually out in the market. Unfortunately, there isn’t much gameplay detail available on the game’s official website, only a few cinematic trailers to give fans a taste of what is to come, in terms of setting and plot. This massive level of popularity means that there is a group of dedicated fans coveting as many details about the new game as possible. This suggests that the company has something planned for mobile users, and one can probably expect some tweaks to the gameplay to suit mobile users better than the previous games did.Īs mentioned, the Lineage series is one of the highest grossing mobile video game series of all time, with Lineage M, a mobile version of the original 1998 Lineage, grossing over $3.5 Billion in its lifetime. One major piece of information revealed about the game is that unlike the previous games in the series - Lineage and Lineage II - Lineage W will be released simultaneously for both mobile and PC users. Although details about the release of Lineage W have been kept under wraps, there are a few key details that have been released by the company so far, which will help us get a glimpse into what the latest iteration of the legendary series holds, and when we can expect to get our hands on it. Meanwhile, NCsoft also filed a civil suit against Kakao Games and its subsidiary XLGAMES in April, accusing them of plagiarizing Lineage 2M, a sequel of Lineage M, which was launched in 2019.NCSoft, the South Korean developer of the Lineage series and the Guild War games, has been busy this year, announcing the release of Aion 2 next year, in 2022, and also the release of Lineage W, the newest edition of the popular MMORPG series Lineage, which also happens to be one of the highest grossing mobile game franchises ever. R2M was launched by Webzen in August 2020 as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Lineage M is a widely popular game launched in 2017, and the game, along with its two other series, had placed among the top five in sales in the country's Google Play and Apple Store from February 2022 to 2023. The company plans to expand the scope of the claim subject to compensation. 'The ruling has significant meaning in that it recognized intellectual property rights, which are core assets of a company, and the copyright and creativity of game contents,' NCsoft said after the ruling. The court also banned the reproduction or distribution of the games and ads provided under the name of R2M, the game suspected of plagiarism in the case. The Seoul Central District Court sided with NCsoft and ordered Webzen to pay 1 billion won ($747,043) to the plaintiff. Webzen countered that having similar game rules does not equate to copyright infringement and that the Lineage game series had also borrowed the rules of 'Nethack,' an open source role-playing video game (RPG) that came out in 1987. The plaintiff argued that Webzen had not just borrowed a part of its system but copied the entire systematic connecting components that influence the game economy. NCsoft filed the intellectual property suit against the video game developer Webzen in June 2021, claiming it had imitated the contents and systems of its leading game. NCsoft's leading game Lineage M / Courtesy of NCsoftĪ Seoul court on Friday sided with NCsoft, one of the country's leading online game developers, over allegations that a smaller game company had plagiarized its leading game Lineage M.

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