Editing Lineage (video game) (section)

== Reception ==
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NCSoft reported that ''Lineage'' had at one point more than three million subscribers,<ref name="mmogchart">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html |title=MMOGChart Subscribers |access-date=2007-05-17}}</ref> most of them in Korea. The magnitude of the number Korean subscribers compared to other countries has sparked a number of theories. A ban on some [[Japan]]ese imports until 1998 has been cited for delayed growth in its [[video game console]] market.

As of April 2008, ''Lineage'' had a little under 1 million active subscriptions.<ref>[http://www.ncsoft.com/eng/nccompany/ir_data_report04.asp 1Q FY2007 Earnings Release(Consolidated)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510031759/http://www.ncsoft.com/eng/nccompany/ir_data_report04.asp |date=2007-05-10}}</ref>

In 2011, NC Interactive, the subsidiary of NCSoft in the United States began to shut down the ''Lineage'' servers (3 at that time) because of poor subscription revenues. Various events were scheduled to take place in the weeks remaining. Players were given free subscriptions to other NCSoft titles of their choice. As of June 2011, ''Lineage'' has shut down all servers in NA, permanently.

Between the start in 1998 and August 2012, NCSoft had accumulated {{US$|1.3 billion|long=no}} in sales revenue from ''Lineage''.<ref name="Lineage Oct 3 2012">{{cite web|title=K-game's spark in European market|url=http://www.dynamic-korea.com/culture/view_culture.php?uid=201200143062&main=ENT&sub=|publisher=Embassy of Republic of Korea to the United States of America|accessdate=October 3, 2012|date=August 24, 2012}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> By November 2013, the game made {{US$|1.8 billion|long=no}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/fifteen-years-in-and-lineage-has-made-the-equivalent-o-1472509844|title=Fifteen years in|last=Ashcraft|first=Brian|date=27 November 2013|work=[[Kotaku]]|publisher=[[Gawker Media]]|accessdate=2 December 2013|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227045741/https://kotaku.com/fifteen-years-in-and-lineage-has-made-the-equivalent-o-1472509844|url-status=live}}</ref>