{"id":5471,"date":"2011-11-02T21:55:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T04:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5471"},"modified":"2018-07-17T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:55:59","slug":"lineage-ii-taken-f2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/lineage-ii-taken-f2p\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineage II Taken Free-to-Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10759\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10759\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10759 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/L2-Teaser-S-e1427609526322.jpg\" alt=\"NCsoft is opening up Lineage II completely to free play.\" width=\"390\" height=\"239\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NCsoft is opening up Lineage II completely to free play.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOV. 2, 2011 \u2022 With the release of the Goddess of Destruction expansion, publisher NCsoft is transitioning\u00a0Lineage II free-to-play. No restrictions on content access will be placed on free players. NCsoft is also crafting a new starting experience for new players to get them into the game without a severe disadvantage compared to existing players. Virtual items for sale will be geared to enhanced convenience or cosmetics. The expansion also adds new character classes, skills and a level cap of 99.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Lineage II has been around for eight years and the most notable thing about the product has been how it was able to buck the movement to free-to-play for so long.\u00a0 Lineage II revenue has been down but it is still a major source of revenue for NCsoft.\u00a0 In the first nine months of 2011 revenue from Lineage II was $66.4 million, down 14% from revenue of $77.2 million in the first nine months of 2010.\u00a0 So this is a fairly significant move and can be considered one of the largest subscription games to try and transition to a free-to-play model.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 2, 2011 \u2022 With the release of the Goddess of Destruction expansion, publisher NCsoft is transitioning\u00a0Lineage II free-to-play. No restrictions on content access will be placed on free players. NCsoft is also crafting a new starting experience for new players to get them into the game without a severe disadvantage compared to existing players. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177,137,78],"tags":[388,88,216,245,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16531,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}