Lineage 3 the stolen project now called Tera

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-12-29/lineage3_code_stolen_issue_ends_te...
this is not lineage 3, this was going to be lineage 3 but some ncsoft employees stole the game code and with it did TERRA ONLINE which is this mmorpg game
but soul and blade will be way better than this or even AION

what happened to lineage
the project was stolen from the developer of lineage and they formed a new team bluehole and stole the lineage 3 project and made the game called tera wich was the lineage 3 game under development
so the real lineage 3 will come out in 2011
■ Bluehole Studio was found on March 2007 by a serial entrepreneur Byung-Gyu Chang and former core members of NCsoft.
■ Bluehole's development team includes the former development team members of Lineage II including Producer, Lead
Game Designer, Lead Programmer, and Art Director.
■ Currently Bluehole Studio has over 100 employees, mainly in the development side.

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[lord3imos]

Guys Search for Lineage Eternal enjoy ;'P

[Mihai092]

@hymdanghang indeed .. i wait for 3 damn years for Lineage 3 .. wen Interlude appered Lineage 2 got ruined off .. i WANT OLDSCHOOL times back like in c1-c3 with that community that makes you love Lineage world .

[Yeratel]

1. Developers dropped out of NC and tried to sell source code from L3.

2. There is no proof that the source code of L3 was actually used for Tera. However similar it may seem. Keep in mind the same people who 'used stolen code to create Tera', created the code in the first place. Just because you have to start from scratch doesn't mean you're going to do things differently, especially if it worked the first time. It may be they started over and since they made it before, they made a similar work

[Unf0rget]

@IFaZI

But on Tera being a threat to guild wars I dont see it. Guild wars is non subscription and has a huge following. Also they didn't make it so they have every right to have confidence in it. (arena net makes guild wars, they function under ncwest) The following and the non subscription make it a very guarented success. Many people like mmos but wont pay subscription. If anything the threat is to Blade and Soul which is likely to be bad luck enforced grind.

[Unf0rget]

@IFaZI

All in all I just want to see the game come out. Im not fond of ncsoft as the only game I have ever played that has been made by them, aion, the community was entirely ignored. No suggestion, no nothing got more than a nod from a community manager who had no influence. Its not so much a long game that is annoying as a game that is made long by terrible luck. If I know how long the grind is I dont care. But if its random... jesus. The horror stories of luck based crafting/drops.

[Unf0rget]

@IFaZI That incentive could be what I hope it is, terrible working conditions or the limited amount for change by ncsoft. But its only assumption. As far as I have seen in my limited searching only the ncsoft opinion is official. Bluehole doesn't talk about it. Teras concept art has no similarity to lineage 3, perhaps it was a creative boost but that isn't copy right violation in my artistic opinion. The stolen 5 million dollar engine is something that should be repaid.

[Unf0rget]

@IFaZI

Tera now is vastly different from lineage series for sure. The largest difference being Im considering to play Tera. My source was a guild wars 2 journal post. Search Bluehole vs Tera and it should pop up. It only considers things I believe to be officially stated by ncsoft. It seems I was under misconception that the project was scrapped before they left. But I figure there must be some incentive for one man to convince as many people as he did to leave their current job.

[IFaZI]

@IFaZI Might aswell state that everything I have said is based solely on my opinions and from what I have heard regarding this as afaik TERA was created as a direct cause of L3 being cancelled.

[IFaZI]

@IFaZI ...cont. If NCsoft is entitle to ANYTHING in my opinion at most they are entitled to the sum of wages paid during the development/planning (whatever, I have no idea how far it went) of L3. That's it.

[IFaZI]

@Unf0rget Could you give me a source? I still think it wasn't stolen at all. For starters the character design artwork NCsoft has show to compare to tera's look nothing like eachother to me. Also, I simply feel NCsoft are suing simply because a) they can or b) because (in their eyes) Tera poses as a threat to GW2.

If I was working on a game in which the company I worked for suddenly decided to scrap the whole thing I would feel entitled to finish what I had started off my own back...

[Unf0rget]

Well this is embarassing, but upon realising most of my information was from forums I dug around for a solid post about this stuff and found a pretty detailed article that proves ncsoft is in the right... I still dislike them as a game company but they were indeed robbed of the game system and concept art. I like Tera. I wouldn't have played lineage 3 do to how grindy the series is. But I hope tera is allowed to continue in the US with ncsoft being payed a large amount of continous money.

[Barrosy]

Cyber war, the end of the world is really in 2012. The end of the cyber world...