To give some idea of the popularity of online games, take a look at Lineage which is the most popular single interactive online game in the world right now, ahead of Sony's Everquest and Electronic Arts' Ultima Online. In Lineage, gamers playing princes, wizards and elves fight one another to the death in mini-armies or clans, headed by guild masters, to gain control of the castles that dot the virtual world
"Two million people, out of a population of 46 million, have active Lineage accounts. And when day turns to evening, close to 100,000 Koreans can be found glued to computer terminals around the country, playing the game simultaneously. School kids in Seoul routinely doze through classes after playing all night. Parents either don't know or can't stop them."
see "Where Does Fantasy End?", TIME Magazine, June 4, 2001, VOL.157 NO.22
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