G-Star 2011: NCsoft announces Lineage Eternal

@Ardwulf Haters gonna hate ...

@Mikkhail And sheep will always shovel out money to play crap supported by companies that cannot even police bots and farmers on their own servers.

@The Ogre
you can toggle and change camera angles, etc both with hotkeys and mouse, not to mention there's what they call a "Smart view" option which can automatically adjust camera depending on factors like the player and monster locations and movement directions, etc.

@alimantando

...well....they'll have to make the game first.

@(Unverified) ^^what he said ...i would bet money this comes out on Ipad/iphone/android ...oooor maybe Kinect/PS Move. The gesture thing plus the isometric view ..it's pretty obvious.

@Dukeun Short summary is that the devs of Blue Hole stole code of L3 when they worked at NCSoft East and then L3 had to be scrapped. Now NCSoft had this code that was no good, they are putting it toward this game.

@DemonXaphan

Wrong. Seriously Stop spreading the misinformation.

BlueHole consists of people who worked in NCSOFT. They took parts of unfinished game's code(unconfirmed to even have anything to do with Lineage) with themselves and reworked it to TERA.

Lineage Eternal has been in the works for last three years, it has NOTHING to do with the stolen project nor Tera nor bluehole. Its an entirelly new engine game in lineage franchise, set 200 years after Lineage I

@DemonXaphan I wasn't really saying TERA is Lineage 3, or how that mess of who did what; I was saying in a less obvious way that just because Lineage Eternal is the third game in the series does not make it Lineage 3, and yes there is a difference. People will get their hopes up/crushed because someone jumps to say it's one thing when it might be the other. That is why I put Lineage 1.8 Eternal (the point eight eternal in parentheses) because it looks like a complete revamped version of Lineage 1.

@Dukeun

It continues lineage world lore(L2 being prequel and LE being sequel), it is set after L1 and it improves upon both games, while being more similar to the first.

For all intents and purposes it is the "third game in the franchise". :)

Just because it is different from the second part of franchise, does not make it NOT the third part of franchise or "not L3". It is the practical "Lineage Three" even if it does not have the number in it.

@UnknownVoice - Wrong, or at least half right. 3 of Bluehole Studio's top people went to jail for trying to sell stolen Lineage 3 code to Japanese companies. That is a fact and they were prosecuted and convicted by the Korean government. As part of that trial Bluehole Studio was supposed to start over from scratch on the code for TERA (which is questionable if they did or didn't), and had to pay NCSoft several million dollars (US) in damages, which they have yet to do.

Last thing I've seen in translated reports about this from Korea is NCSoft may file further lawsuits against Bluehole Studio, or it might have meant the Korean government may take further action against them, the article wasn't real clear on who was doing what. With the Korean release, big initial interest, and then "crash and burn" of TERA in Korea, the big question is what happens now? If Bluehole can't pay up and didn't make enough to pay their development costs, perhaps NCSoft will end up owning them due to the damages owed and possible further legal action?