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August 21, 2002 06:49 pm ET - research by amer
Bandwidth Capital of the World
When I was on the plane back from Cancun two weeks ago, I was reading Wired magazine, and I turn the page and freaked out because *the entire page* was a screenshot of Lineage -- I hadn't seen Lineage for a whole 7 days - not even Compendium, and while not playing isn't so big a deal, no playing and no Compendium is.

Anyway, it was this great (and long) article about Korea, why Lineage works so well there and why Americans just are not warming up to it as quickly (my take: our broadband technology sucks and Koreans use gaming as a social occasion, whereas we don't)

Check out the article:

The Bandwidth Capital of the World

You should buy the August 2002 issue of Wired. *Huge* picture. Very cool.

August 21, 2002 06:51 pm ET (#1)
GovernMent
Loyal Fan

137 posts
04-30-02

cool maybe soon everyone in us with have broadband so they can all love it :)

August 21, 2002 06:58 pm ET (#2)
Tweak
Loyal Fan

456 posts
10-21-01

we need in montreal a LINEAGE CAFE

August 21, 2002 07:03 pm ET (#3)
gigi
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641 posts
05-01-02

in one of the pics u'll see that the tv screen is broadcasting lineage action o.o

August 21, 2002 07:12 pm ET (#4)
Ramza
Loyal Fan

722 posts
01-11-02

in what they said to this right here: What makes Lineage a distinctively Korean experience is that when players assemble to take down a castle, they do so in person, commandeering a local PC baang for as long as it takes. In the middle of a battle, these people aren't text-chatting. They're yelling across the room. Platoons sit at adjacent computers, coordinating among themselves and taking orders from the Blood Pledge leader. Lineage has a fixed hierarchy, unlike American role-playing games, in which leadership structures emerge organically. At the outset, you choose to be either royalty or a commoner. If you're a prince or princess, your job is to put together an army and lead it. If you're a commoner, your job is to find a leader. You pledge loyalty and fight to take over castles, and no matter how great you are at it, you can never be in charge.

This kind of tightly defined clan structure, which mirrors the Confucian hierarchy of Korean society, would be anathema to American players, who generally want to be the hero-king Lone Ranger. "In Korea, everyone is very comfortable with taking on subordinate roles," says Richard Garriott, who created Ultima and now runs the US division of Lineage's developer, NCsoft. "Their groups are extremely well structured, to the point where they march in lines, attack in waves, and have a style of coordination that you could not possible match in the United States."

its like omg can u imagine something like this. Amer is there anyway u can get a video of a korean seige in waht they are describing at all or even show it in teh game rooms. when i read this i was like holy crap that is so awsome! Korea has it made in games like this. it is just to bad the US really dosent want this kinda stuff or cant do any of it =[

August 21, 2002 08:05 pm ET (#5)
ruben
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355 posts
10-07-01

the new comic is up O.o

jpg version:
http://usuarios.lycos.es/linfansite/comic13a.jpg
http://usuarios.lycos.es/linfansite/comic13b.jpg
http://usuarios.lycos.es/linfansite/comic13c.jpg

^_^

August 21, 2002 08:54 pm ET (#6)
EX-CON
Loyal Fan

597 posts
03-19-02

dam thnx amer that was good i havent read anything that long in a long time that answered a lot of question that is fucking amazing they yell out commands
is like a real war maybe if u pk someone the other dude goes to u and picks a rl fight rofl i wanna go there noone mess with me that ia amazing cool
toronto has a lot of lineage players so many famous ppl names brutus,pepper,pomme,most of gf,Knight,Blueheavenz,advanced,etc and more
we have a lot of cafes but as the article says they are tooo apart.i would like 1 large room like that i think one big room fits us all or for sure 2.
how they fight at siege with so many pots colours u cant c the ppl u can be dead
and not c it.

August 21, 2002 08:56 pm ET (#7)
EX-CON
Loyal Fan

597 posts
03-19-02

thnx for the comic ruben i c it but it is too small but from what i c as i said before the elf comes to help and shoots the arrow using his yumi bow.

August 21, 2002 09:49 pm ET (#8)
GovernMent
Loyal Fan

137 posts
04-30-02

kew kew hey amer any way u saved that pic :) so maybe u could upload?

August 21, 2002 09:57 pm ET (#9)
kingslei
Loyal Fan

146 posts
01-04-02

I knwo ppl alreayd read aobut this article , i came accross it and thoguht ppl alreayd read about it.

August 22, 2002 12:56 am ET (#10)
cruelgame
LC Reporter

290 posts
04-04-02

I could be subordinate o.o He's right though imagine a seige where you can just yell commands across the room.

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