Netmarble Games announced on the 23rd that it will be releasing its mobile MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) called ‘Lineage 2 Revolution’ globally on the 15th of November.
It will be releasing this game through Google Play and Apple’s App Store in 54 countries from North America, Europe, Oceania, and Middle East. Number of preorders, which started on the 13th of September, surpassed one million just a month.
Netmarble carried out a localization process for global users. Primarily it newly designed a male character called ‘Human’ according to preferences of global users.
If Asian version of Human is a blonde young man, global version of Human is an imposing man with beard. In order to emphasize masculinity, global version of Human has a bigger body than Asian version of Human. Netmarble also changed design for certain equipment used by Elf and Dwarf.
Considering people who are not familiar with mobile MMORPG, Netmarble Games expanded virtual pad to half of the size of a screen so that controls are made easy.
Netmarble strengthened raid contentsthat are centered on parties for ‘community’, whish is the core of MMORPG. It also adjusted level of difficulty of plays so that many users can experience Lineage 2 Revolution and made the game more interesting when two more people are working together.
It is also going to provide an area where users can check game information and communicate with each other as a familiar forum to foreign users.
Lineage 2 Revolution recorded the best sale on Google Play and App Store in just 8 days removed from its release in Asia in June and it recorded the best sale on App Store in just 18 hours removed from its release in Japan in August.
Staff Reporter Kim, Siso | siso@etnews.com