Netmarble's Lineage 2: Revolution managed to successful reimagine the hugely successful Lineage PC title into a cell blockbuster -- but maybe more relevant is NCSoft's own Lineage M, a direct port of one of the most prosperous
RuneScape gold games in the region.It's worked well for NCSoft -- since its cellular release Lineage M has been the number one leading grosser in South Korea.
Lineage 2: Revolution meanwhile spends all its time at 2nd spot since Lineage M's launch, although the former match had a spectacular start to life generating $176 million in its initial month.There's no promise of success for RuneScape from the West, but it shows there might be desire out of fans past and present in a cell launch, and it lowers the barrier for entry to new players.
"We definitely think there's an increasing trend that we are able to see in the Eastern lands like China where traditional MMOs are being attracted from the PC on mobile," states McClarty, referencing NetEase's Fantasy Westward Journey, that has yet to really kick off at the West but has stormed the top grossing charts in China. "
We think that RuneScape is among the biggest free-to-play
buy RS gold games of its kind and we could be the first Western classic PC MMORPG coming into cellular that may maybe decode that for the West."Venezuelan 'Gold Farmers' Are Selling Runescape Items for Bitcoin
Netmarble's Lineage 2: Revolution managed to successful reimagine the hugely successful Lineage PC title into a cell blockbuster -- but maybe more relevant is NCSoft's own Lineage M, a direct port of one of the most prosperous RuneScape gold games in the region.It's worked well for NCSoft -- since its cellular release Lineage M has been the number one leading grosser in South Korea.
