MMORPGs And Coca-Cola - A Winning Combination?

Thanks to InsertCredit for pointing to a 4Gamer.net story including pictures of Coca-Cola cans featuring characters from PC MMORPG Lineage II. The promotion, due to start in South Korea next week, shows how relatively mainstream Lineage 2 and its prequel have become in that country, with a previous story noting "in [Lineage 2's] first five days in release, publisher NCsoft has tallied more than 130,000 paid users." The original Lineage's success in Asia, with "more than three million subscribers and more than three hundred thousand concurrent users", has enabled the company to expand into the U.S., where they are funding Richard Garriott's mysterious new MMO Tabula Rasa (of which there's previously unseen concept art available), as well as the superhero MMO title City Of Heroes and non-subscription MMO Guild Wars. The official Lineage II FAQ notes that "development on a North American version of the game is nearing beta testing stage", and the Unreal-engine title is likely to launch some time early in 2004.

Comments

I'd drink coke

[Zerth]

if the cans here looked like that. Especially the can on the far right. On the other hand, if they all looked like that, my wife might cut down on her consumption. Double bonus:)

Re:That is pretty zany...

[jermyjerm]

We'll work on your joke-telling ability later.

I guess I could take a few lessons from your amazing sarcastic wit.

Re:Nothing new

[Maserati]

You could probably sell Daikatana toilet paper in the States.