Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Run a Massively Multiplayer Online Game
This was taken from a talk by Gordon Walton, who ran online games for Kesmai, helped to build Ultima Online, and recently launched The Sims Online. It should give you some insight on what it's like to be on the other side of the game and hopefully at least empathize with what some people put NC through. :)

Why is Korea the King of Multiplayer Gaming?
This was from a panel discussion with NCSoft-US CEO Robert Garriott, the Sony Online Entertainment VP of International Operations Cindy Armstrong, the Director of Business Development for Nexon (another successful Korean MMOG creator) Won Il Sue, and finally J.C. Herz, author of the book "Joystick Nation." Hopefully, reading this will give you some insight into why Lineage is designed the way it is, and why Korean players are more successful at it (it's because it was designed for the way games are played in Korea - socially)

Finally, GameSpy reports:

NCsoft announced that it has renamed Realm Interactive's Trade Wars: Dark Millennium to Exarch. Exarch (pronounced ex'-ark) is a online game that combines a sci-fi futuristic setting with fast-paced action RPG combat elements set in an virtual persistent world. Players explore, battle and take on quests in multiple environments including mystical forests and alien catacombs. The game also melds classic melee weapons and armor such as chain mail and long swords with futuristic armaments such as power armor and plasma guns. Set thousands of years in the future, Exarch follows the fall of the Empire that ruled it, leaving the surviving Exarchs (the ruling governors of the Empire) in a struggle for power in a universe where monsters such as mutants, undead, robots and dragons dwell together with terran races in imperfect disharmony. It should also be noted that Exarch will feature the input and creative concepts of comic book artist Joe Madureira, creator of the comic book series Battle Chasers and former artist of Marvel's Uncanny X-Men.