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January 20, 2003 08:18 pm ET - research by Lineage - US

Trial Period Update

New Lineage accounts created from this point forward are eligible for a seven day free trial period. After the free trial period expires, billing will be applied to your Lineage account.

Question: If I’m currently in my trial period, will it be cut down to 7 days?
Answer: No. When we change the trial period, it will only affect accounts created after 2:00 PM Central US time on January 20, 2003. Accounts created prior to that date and time will have 30-day trial periods.

Question: Why are you lowering the trial period to 7 days?
Answer: When we increased the free trial period to 30 days over a year ago, we did so because we felt that potential Lineage players needed that amount of time to understand and experience Lineage before making a purchase decision. However, we’ve spent the last year adjusting our new player experience by releasing and updating the Talking Island and Hidden Valley game areas, as well opening the Lands of Aden server – a server designed specifically for players new to the Lineage world. We feel that with these changes to the new player experience, the learning curve of the game is not nearly as steep and gamers can make a swift, informed decision over whether the game is suited to their entertainment needs.

January 20, 2003 08:23 pm ET (#2)

uselessmitch
Loyal Fan
132 posts
06-21-02

yea i say stay with 30 days..

They should work on ppl getting here....

January 20, 2003 08:26 pm ET (#3)

Omni
Loyal Fan
8 posts
09-22-02

that's weak... they should stay with 30; it takes a while to grow on you.

January 20, 2003 08:27 pm ET (#4)

Substance
Loyal Fan
186 posts
09-25-02

lol
cutting down to 7 days....
1 month free is not even enough..and now cut to 7 days..o.o

January 20, 2003 08:36 pm ET (#5)

xxwargodxx
Loyal Fan
47 posts
06-29-02

like as if the game was that good, lol, 7days lol thats not enough time... the newb areas arn't that good ive used them before basicaly your pampered till lvl0 then ur sent out on ur own....

January 20, 2003 08:36 pm ET (#6)

JamesonLee
Loyal Fan
posts
01-12-03

Blow up NC's Building~~ tell osama that the president lives over there
sigh...
LOA IS NOT A NEWBIE SERVER!!!
its designed for newbies but it ISN'T A N00BIE SERVER~~~~~~

January 20, 2003 08:40 pm ET (#7)

TeronElf
Loyal Fan
185 posts
09-21-02

hhahahaha I'm playing for 6 months still didn't learn the game ^^

January 20, 2003 08:43 pm ET (#8)

Pepper
Loyal Fan
135 posts
02-11-02

Sad to see how hard NC-Austin tries to make this game more newbie-friendly yet it does not prove to be successful. The amount of people playing on the US server barely increased...and now they are even lowering the trial period to 7 days...lol I personally wouldn't bother downloading such a huge file to just try for a week. Afterall, you would'nt get to know much about the game in a week anyways.

January 20, 2003 08:45 pm ET (#9)

Pepper
Loyal Fan
135 posts
02-11-02

Hahaha..and my posts stay at #123 for months -_-''
NVM c-emp just taught me how to fix it -_- now it's counting again wee..

January 20, 2003 08:46 pm ET (#10)

Cody
Loyal Fan
510 posts
09-10-02

I think what NC is trying to say is...you won't like this game so dun play it.

January 20, 2003 08:51 pm ET (#11)

Elric
Loyal Fan
337 posts
10-29-02

in 7 days ppl will not like lineage... u know what i mean, ^^*

7days so few...

January 20, 2003 08:51 pm ET (#12)

Ca1BeE
Loyal Fan
2 posts
11-29-02

-_-....
no more free test server -_-''

January 20, 2003 09:00 pm ET (#13)

Claymore
Loyal Fan
31 posts
12-13-01

This seems unethical to me.... It's all about $$ though... Whatever reason NC had for doing this can be directly attributed to cash flow -.-

January 20, 2003 09:02 pm ET (#14)

FlyZ
Loyal Fan
791 posts
11-11-01

U spamm0r o.o...
Their subscriber base has actually been dropping.

January 20, 2003 09:11 pm ET (#15)

DarkHand
Loyal Fan
30 posts
01-10-03

Well the reason they are doing this is obvious. They know 7 days is not enough for a new player to reach a good enough lvl to know all about the game so therefore they would have already been charged before they really found out about the game and in most cases quit.

January 20, 2003 09:27 pm ET (#16)

uselessmitch
Loyal Fan
132 posts
06-21-02

when giran came out (when lineage went commercial) it was only 5 days for a long time

January 20, 2003 09:32 pm ET (#17)

FreaX
Loyal Fan
158 posts
11-13-02

greedy nc

January 20, 2003 09:38 pm ET (#18)

Yeildarb
Loyal Fan
179 posts
01-19-02

Re: uselessmitch [#16]

When Giran came out isn't when pay to play started. Lin went commercial actually a little before. I remember, because I quit Lin when it went commercial, but then came back a little while later when Giran came out.

January 20, 2003 09:54 pm ET (#19)

Yammie
Loyal Fan
213 posts
11-14-01

shh, they are just exploring new ways to nerf.

January 20, 2003 09:56 pm ET (#20)

gigi
Loyal Fan
641 posts
05-01-02

lin went commercial in may 2001

decreasing the trial period probably wont affect much...
30days is still...only give new players a peek at the bloodpledge, the community, and the players, the major theme for a mmorpg....

the 7days probably can get u to get used to the game basics, how to use the interface...it took me 7 days to know how to use the OLD interface...and took me quite a while to learn what the STATS that u cant change do to ur character...

haha....yammie.....good idea haha...

January 20, 2003 10:03 pm ET (#21)

EvilAngel
Loyal Fan
38 posts
11-04-02

nc sux..

January 20, 2003 10:04 pm ET (#22)

FuTyOu
Loyal Fan
73 posts
07-01-02

You know what I did with my first 7 days?
1st day - Looked around, went to north, said hi to skel, said bye to me. Turned off Lineage.
2nd day - Didn't play
3rd day - Didn't play
4th day - Didn't play
5th day - Didn't play
6th day - Didn't play
7th day - Didn't play

I think it was after a month or two that i realized that the game was fun if you had friends and stuff.. Frankly I don't see how 7 days will let you appreciate the ugly graphics and still want to play because of gameplay and friends. And besides, I like getting that free month when you start over again o_O

January 20, 2003 10:04 pm ET (#23)

Chum
Loyal Fan
116 posts
10-17-02

7 days? thats crappy.. So now a newbie can get lvl 8 before trying to decide if he wants to pay or not.. Lets see, my first 7 days of Lineage involved being pked many times, running around screaming from orcs and such.. and dying many times. I definetely wouldn't of paid for Lineage after them 7 days if it wasnt free back then.. then again i didnt even pay for it after several months of playing during beta.

January 20, 2003 10:22 pm ET (#24)

xBlackShadowx
Loyal Fan
2 posts
01-16-03

I think 7 days is not enough for a new person to get the feeling of lineage in 7 days all u can really do is...die...die...die some more make a little bit of money hunt the newbie areas and not have a clue what ur doing...die again... talk to some npcs which dont help at all ,beg for some money for pots...die a few more times trying to get money after some ppl tell u to get it ur self...within a 7 day period most ppl in my opinion wouldnt pay to keep playing
with the difficulty of just starting which takes more than 7 days

January 20, 2003 10:30 pm ET (#25)

DragonX
Loyal Fan
65 posts
09-17-02

7 days is BS nc..and u saying that LOA server is for newbs..yea right its a PK server if u making a server for noobs then it would be non pvp...all pros will pk n00bs and alot of people moved to LOA so they arent all noobs

January 20, 2003 10:32 pm ET (#26)

droidbuilder
Loyal Fan
63 posts
10-11-02

7 days was the trial period pre-Lineage release (episode 10 or 11 I think). It does seem a bit bad to shorten it again though. Unless NCKorea allows NCAustin access to differ the Live US Servers (excluding LoA) they will get less customers now.

January 20, 2003 10:56 pm ET (#27)

uselessmitch
Loyal Fan
132 posts
06-21-02

Re: Yeildarb (#18)

so long ago =/

Anyways I left eruope about a week like august 2nd I left. before giran was coming out and was gone for a month. came back and gave my acc way. about a month after giran came in. Yea lineage went commercial about a month before giran

January 21, 2003 01:18 am ET (#28)

lordgohan
Loyal Fan
64 posts
01-20-02

Correct me if im wrong.. but I remember NC Korea having a trial period of 3 days when I played on Korean Servers.

January 21, 2003 02:24 am ET (#29)

draygourn
Loyal Fan
16 posts
10-14-02

in Japan it is 15 days. and they have a variety of paying methods. you can pay to play by days, like 30/60/90 days, or by hours, like 10/20/30 hours.
I think NC better make it count by playing time, like 30 hours, for free trial.

NC Japan now introduce Yahoo! IM as an alternative way to communicate. talking rather than typing.

January 21, 2003 03:36 am ET (#30)

K-ZS-M
Loyal Fan
925 posts
05-04-02

NC Japan is so high-tech @_@

ppl chill

7 days is enough

I think 30 days was too much
my friend usually created a lvl 48 knight in a week
then played and got better items
when it expired
got another credit card
and lvled another knight quickly to lvl 48 and continued playing lineage like normal
did it for 6 months
til he got bored of lineage and quit for good
some pros to the game do take advantage of the free 30 day trial

January 21, 2003 03:41 am ET (#31)

Arkaine
Loyal Fan
153 posts
04-23-02

I remeber 5 day trials tho i left Lineage for a bit when it went commercial
I think 7 days is too short for people who are new to tha game and havent learned the basics yet

January 21, 2003 04:09 am ET (#32)

TheBuster
Loyal Fan
17 posts
12-30-02

b000000h......weak...., at least remove the creditcard thingy for 7 days...my god

January 21, 2003 04:13 am ET (#33)

TheBuster
Loyal Fan
17 posts
12-30-02

Only 7 days of the [ old ] Talking Island is fun =)

January 21, 2003 12:46 pm ET (#34)

HoNam
Loyal Fan
57 posts
06-29-02

LOL, they have seen me making too many 30 days free trial acc :D keke~~ about 15 ones.. lol they look at it and see they loose much money --;
GOOD JOB NC!

January 21, 2003 02:58 pm ET (#35)

Circus
Loyal Fan
62 posts
11-06-02

The price to play this game should be only like 7 dollars month anyway. that would keep people from leaving a dying game.

January 21, 2003 03:05 pm ET (#36)

gigi
Loyal Fan
641 posts
05-01-02

plz dont suggest count by hours +.+

usa is the only servers that DONT count by hours...

and do u know how the count by hours work?..

LOG IN ACC
select char
in game (counting starts)
LAG (counting continue)
LOG OUT ACC (counting stops)
quit game

besides...counting by hours is SO '90s.......

January 21, 2003 03:23 pm ET (#37)

xLondonBroilx
Loyal Fan
200 posts
10-02-01

After my first 7 days I had ALMOST saved up enough metals (600@ each at the time) to afford a bone set. I thought I was god once I got my ac to -6.

January 22, 2003 12:33 am ET (#38)

TransElf
Loyal Fan
2 posts
06-04-02

Hi everyone i am an OLD player (.77 server) and i was almost ready to play again on the LoA server because i have many good memories of Lineage, but this has stopped me from doing so. I agree with the person that said decreasing the price to 7$ per month. That would come to around 11-14 dollars canadian which I would happily pay to play lineage. But at its current price of 15$ US for this game, I think it was way to overpriced compared to other games on the market like Asherons Call 2, and soon coming big hits like Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft.

If NC provides a sort of less complicated, lower costing MMORPGS like lineage, I think they may still stay in the market when the big hitters come. But at this price and the current level of the game, i dont think lineage will survive in the near future.

January 22, 2003 06:54 am ET (#39)

Rand
Loyal Fan
4 posts
01-22-03

Im so lucky i made a new account 1 day before! hehe:)

January 22, 2003 09:53 am ET (#40)

Yoshiki
Loyal Fan
667 posts
12-13-02

I played in beta for some day then quit, then go back when the old 7 [or 5 day i dont remember]days trial, and trust me in 7 days I was lvl 7 getting killed by everything with my stupid rolled mage, and near to quit every 10mins. Anyway those days game was kinda harder.
Lineage is dying? maybe. People that has been playing for years only stays if found really good friends in game or if they r near the goal [50-52] People that started one year b4 or less will not stay i think cause game is so unbalanced, what if u dont played on heine event, most of the people got like 20+ millions on that event, if u start right now, how the hell u gonna catch em?, if u cant catch other players...then there is no sense to play, no one likes to be weak forever. This game, intelligence has few to do against those who play 16-20 hours a day. Bah, im pretty pissed. >_<;;

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