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April 29, 2003 02:42 pm ET - research by amer
NCsoft Start Commercial Service of Lineage in China from April 28
Fully geared up for serving the Chinese market with building new facilities at Chengdu, Changsha and Nanjing

April 24, 2003 - NCsoft Corp. (President: Tack Jin Kim) announced it will launch commercial service of its online game, Lineage in the Chinese market from April 28. NCsoft and China’s biggest portal Sina.com have founded a joint venture, Shanghai NC-Sina Information Technology Co., LTD (NC-Sina) and have been currently providing beta services of Lineage for the Chinese users.

The Joint venture NC-Sina will operate the subscription-based Lineage service in China. NCsoft signed a service license contract with NC-Sina for Lineage’s commercial service on April 21.

Lineage service in China has now more than 20,000 concurrent users through eight servers in Shanghai and Chengdu. NCsoft plans to enhance its presence in the Chinese market by building new servers in the Information Data Center (IDC) in Chengdu (Sichuan sheng), Changsha (Hunan sheng) and Nanjing (Jiangsu sheng). NC-Sina aims to increase up to 100,000 concurrent users within this year.

Service Fee for Lineage Service in China

  • 25 hours: 10 RMB (about 1,550 Won) US$1.21 -amer
  • 72 hours: 25 RMB (about 3,850 Won) US$3.02 -amer

About NCsoft Corporation
NCsoft Corp. (President & CEO Tack Jin Kim, KOSDAQ:36570) is the world’s leading developer and publisher of online games. Established in 1997, NCsoft quickly turned its flagship product, Lineage™ (http://www.lineage.com), into a blockbuster hit. NCsoft has joint venture offices located in Tokyo, China, Hong Kong and operates its branch office in US for North American business. NCsoft is a public company and its stock is traded on the KOSDAQ Korean stock exchange. In fiscal year 2002, NCsoft posted revenues of KRW154.8 billion or approximately US$123.3 million. More information about NCsoft can be found at http://www.ncsoft.net.

April 29, 2003 02:43 pm ET (#1)
Alpines
Loyal Fan

48 posts
06-04-02

thats alot cheaper then US prices :@!!!!!!!!!!!!

April 29, 2003 03:02 pm ET (#2)
bigpeeler
Loyal Fan

129 posts
10-23-02

maybe cuz alot of US player'z play so dam much ^^ i kno a few ppl who play like gawd dam 16 hours a day easily... i don feel like doin da math but it seemz about rite

April 29, 2003 03:09 pm ET (#3)
deathskye
Loyal Fan

81 posts
01-09-02

well you can compare it to HK -_-;;
hong kong - prices are like 80HKD for 88 hours..
thats erm...16CAD
in us - i dunno.. -_-;; friggin expensive.

April 29, 2003 03:12 pm ET (#4)
PebDiGaetano
Loyal Fan

103 posts
10-12-02

wow 100,000 users >< wander if the chinese people on our servers will leave for the china ones? droping our 3000 players lol to like 2000 lol

April 29, 2003 03:33 pm ET (#5)
tamashii
Loyal Fan

77 posts
02-03-03

We only have around 3000 users in America? Wow... that seems so pathetic. This game needs more advertising in the U.S.

Are there any plans to further promote Lineage here?

-t

April 29, 2003 03:51 pm ET (#6)
cabroa-style
Loyal Fan

45 posts
10-07-02

not all users come from china and us...

April 29, 2003 03:57 pm ET (#7)
flip
Loyal Fan

118 posts
10-16-01

i'd rather pay $3 for 72hours then $15 a month lol

April 29, 2003 04:49 pm ET (#8)
LifeOrDeath
Loyal Fan

81 posts
04-15-02

darn i would pay like 6-9$ per month if we had that o.O
100k people playin ..... darn ......
need to do something about the american/european market (i know its lineage US but dont forget there r a lot of european players ....)
but mustnt forget that China is quite limited in games and MMORPGs....they dont have as much games as the western countries..... that would explain mainly why the US servers have the less people .....
why cant we have the same system of payment than China ??? a lot of people would be interested ...NC Austin should allow us to choose between 15$/month or 25 hours US$1.21/72 hours US$3.02

April 29, 2003 05:01 pm ET (#9)
EoLight
Loyal Fan

82 posts
07-03-02

i think its preety neat to only pay $3 for 72 hours, because i think the play time can roll over from month to month,

for example:: if one person plays 5 hours a day, for 30days thats 150 hours, = to about $6.30 per month, wow =)

April 29, 2003 05:17 pm ET (#10)
demonicarrow
Loyal Fan

10 posts
10-13-02

i think the reason they are doing it the way they are doing it is simple...think about, there are going to be a hell of a lot more people in China playing lineage, then there are in the US, so they are...well, trying to get more money from us due to our low numbers. Since they will most likley have higher numbers over in China, that new system befits both the consumer, and the server.

April 29, 2003 06:32 pm ET (#11)
TLFmaster
Loyal Fan

223 posts
12-02-01

They're probably also discouraging people from having their accounts played 24/7.
I think NC should concentrate more on getting more people in the US into the game.....

April 29, 2003 06:36 pm ET (#12)
TLFmaster
Loyal Fan

223 posts
12-02-01

BTW... what's RMB and WON? I thought the chinese currency is "yuen" or "mon".
$1 US money is like 8 yuen in China.

April 29, 2003 06:43 pm ET (#13)
Kaerid
LC Reporter

46 posts
09-06-02

man! with pricing like that, i wouldn't mind paying per hour (that's approx .04/hr) and I'd think there would be a bit more interest in Lineage here in the states if we had rates anywhere near that... (I'd be able to play for around $2-3/month)

April 29, 2003 06:48 pm ET (#14)
Kaerid
LC Reporter

46 posts
09-06-02

#11, 24/7 at those rates is only $30/month. not exactly a bank buster by our standards, but then again we don't know how much that rate is in comparison to their wages, might be quite a bit for them, then again it might be peanuts to them too...

April 29, 2003 07:00 pm ET (#15)
TLFmaster
Loyal Fan

223 posts
12-02-01

$30 dollars IS quite a bit in China. Wages aren't that good. If you had a Mercedes, they'll kill you for it. If you had a Rolex, the next thing you know, your hand is gone. (yes these have actually happened)

April 29, 2003 07:15 pm ET (#16)
wook_huk
Loyal Fan

posts
04-22-03

its 35rmb for 1month in China..
35rmb = about 4.235 USD per month..
and i have friends playing on the chinese server and he says the 8 present servers are all tests
but i dunno about now, he says 2 more servers were added. (real ones?)

April 29, 2003 07:31 pm ET (#17)
xIKARUSx
Loyal Fan

12 posts
04-10-03

answer to #12.. won is currency of Korea -.-;

April 29, 2003 07:33 pm ET (#18)
K-ZS-M
Loyal Fan

925 posts
05-04-02

china is a scary place to visit

better look like a poor person or u'll get your ass robbed when u least expect it

April 29, 2003 07:48 pm ET (#19)
SkyLin
Loyal Fan

82 posts
04-20-02

the deal is better for me since i only play like 1 hour a day -.-;
3 dollars for 3 months seems nice instead of 45.
im pretty sure if u gave the $15 a month for lineage china then their would be so many ppl would play nonstop.
i never knew china is such a bad place was so so little when i left china.

April 29, 2003 09:53 pm ET (#20)
deathskye
Loyal Fan

81 posts
01-09-02

TLFmaster - RMB is RMB
yuen - wtf?
rmb - ren men bi
if you want it totally translated
peoples republic money

April 29, 2003 10:16 pm ET (#21)
PinPointy
Loyal Fan

54 posts
05-02-02

Yeah commercials are gonna stop the unwanted massive spawnings of Valakas Fafurion and Antharas on theirs servers =/. Shows how NC are very brave but appear to be not too wise.

-IStrongI

April 29, 2003 11:16 pm ET (#22)
TLFmaster
Loyal Fan

223 posts
12-02-01

I'm not sure how to spell chinese ==> english. Yuen is mandarin for "dollar". Like "yi bai yuen" is one-hundred dollars.

April 30, 2003 12:38 am ET (#23)
WizSnake
Loyal Fan

260 posts
06-21-02

yea but what about those guys who play 24/7 (wiht friends help of course) thats like 30 bucks a month o.o

April 30, 2003 12:51 am ET (#24)
BowFenix5
Loyal Fan

3 posts
04-18-03

its easy... LINEAGE IS TOOF RIGGEN EXPENSIVe---- Lineage is an ok game... BUT TOO FRIGGEN EXPENSIVE... Those guys are just addicted- people like posedieon probably spent like 300$ on lineage. Thats why they play so much and share accs... If you ask me i rather make lineage 5 - 10$ and have like TONS more people play... Still better profit- Besides when they ask why the service isn't so great. Just say- Hey its 5 - 10$... Nothing that great :P

April 30, 2003 01:09 am ET (#25)
Mordreade
Loyal Fan

3 posts
10-13-02

tons more ppl playin in the U.S. ...... hmmmmmmm... can you say LAG!!!!...... NC would have to do something different server wise here to get those kinda numbers of ppl.... our net structure jus cant handle that many ppl goin to the same sever like they do in other countrys.... massive overload.... would b kewl to see though hehe *.*
and i know i couldnt stand waiting my turn for a mop like they do in say Korea..... would make the game boring.......... nah..... jus make the game so it works right NC... thats what we need.

April 30, 2003 09:19 am ET (#26)
PinPointy
Loyal Fan

54 posts
05-02-02

#23: Ok, u wanna play steriotype? From what i hear on the korean servers all US players are hopeless newbs who don't get past 48 without quitting and coming back a couple of times.

#24: If they made lineage 10 bucks an hour there would be not tons more people playing? Just the addicts with money, in china there are very few of those. Rumors in Korea servers going around that US players are alot more addicted to lineage then they are because when we (koreans) quit we quit and don't come back.

I wonder if you guys are racist against black people or hate certain religions because of how they worship their god. Because you sure seem to steriotype alot of Asian people, thats the main reason there is so much hate against the US on test server.

April 30, 2003 12:17 pm ET (#27)
Ramza
Loyal Fan

722 posts
01-11-02

#25 back in beta we had about 2k+ people playing at one time and the servers handled it pretty well. If i can rember(someone correct me if im wrong) but usally with more people on the server the better it gets lag wise. I beliveo.0

anyways thats pretty coo what they doin o.o

May 02, 2003 06:05 am ET (#28)
Darklight
Loyal Fan

35 posts
10-19-01

the thing is what i heard from my friend that hongkong peopel don't have to pay real money. they can use internetmoney to play or so.

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