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Guild Wars 2 is a free-to-play, [2] massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSoft.Set in the fantasy world of Tyria, the core game follows the re-emergence of Destiny's Edge, a disbanded guild dedicated to fighting Elder Dragons, colossal Lovecraftian-esque entities that have seized control of Tyria in the time since the original Guild Wars (2005 ...
NCSoft was founded in March 1997 by Kim Taek Jin. In September 1998, NCSoft launched its first game Lineage.In April 2001 the company created a US subsidiary under the name NC Interactive (based in Austin, Texas, and would later become NCSoft West) after acquiring Destination Games, headed by Richard Garriott and Robert Garriott. [5]
It is sometimes referred to as the second "chapter", with the first one being the released game itself, but then with the label Guild Wars: Prophecies to make a distinction between the chapters. The game is a stand-alone product instead of a true expansion, meaning that it does not require Guild Wars: Prophecies to play; though it integrates ...
Guild Wars was noted for being the "first major MMO to adopt a business model not based on monthly subscription fees", [7] its instanced approach to gameplay, [8] and the quality of the graphics and play for computers with low specifications. [9] In April 2009, NCSoft announced that 6 million units of games in the Guild Wars series had been ...
Lineage (Korean: 리니지) is a medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game franchise by the South Korean video game developer NCSoft. It has become highly popular in South Korea with subscriptions counting into the millions, but is also available in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English-language versions. It is also one ...
Pages in category "NCSoft games" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aion (video game)
On October 31, 2005, the game's first sequel, City of Villains (CoV), was launched, allowing players to play as supervillains. The stand-alone expansion pack did not require City of Heroes to run, but if the user had both games, content was added to the City of Heroes side of game play. On July 16, 2008, NCsoft merged the two games' content ...
To date, the game has been played by more than 94 million users from all over the world. [3] Lineage II adopted a free-to-play model in Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction, with all game content being free except for "purchasable in-game store items and packs" in November 2011. [4] A prequel, Lineage 2: Revolution, was released as a mobile game ...