The new South Korean action MMORPG “Throne and Liberty” will be released for PlayStation 5. This has now been revealed in an interview with the developers at NCSoft. A release is officially planned for 2022. “Throne and Liberty” has been in development for 12 years and looks spectacular in the first trailers.
What kind of game is this?
- Throne and Liberty is the continuation of the MMORPG series “Lineage”. In South Korea, Lineage is what “World of Warcraft” is in the West: Simply huge. It is a series of games that everyone knows there and that almost everyone has played at some point.
- The MMORPG “Throne and Liberty” was announced back in 2011 and has been revised several times. It was previously called “Lineage Eternal”, later “Project TL”. The development is said to have cost more than 75 million euros. The game was a hopeful prospect for NCSoft for years but was repeatedly postponed. NCSoft’s communication has been disastrous over the years.
- The “latest version” of the MMORPG is an action MMORPG; the focus is on boss fights with dozens of players and castle sieges. However, due to the chaotic development, relatively little is known about this “latest version” of the MMORPG.
The trailer generated a lot of attention:
Journalists see gameplay of Throne and Liberty on PS5
The information is now new: It has been known since 2018 that NCSoft plans to bring its new PC games to “consoles” as well. Thus, Throne and Liberty was also announced as a “console release”. Until now, however, there have been no concrete statements about which platforms exactly the game would come to – besides the PC, which in South Korea is the dominant platform together with mobile.
In a long interview with the Korean site Inven, NCSoft has now announced a change in strategy, aiming to communicate more openly and turn more towards the West (via inven).
As confirmation of a port of Throne and Liberty to PlayStation 5, an image was published on Inven showing how Throne and Liberty runs on a PlayStation 5.
According to Inven, during the interview, the game was first seen on the PS5.
When is the release? The release of Throne and Liberty is still planned for 2022. There is no detailed information about the process yet.
More details are expected to be revealed in the summer. The game is also supposedly going to have public tests. How the game will be distributed, whether as a purchase title or a free-to-play MMORPG, still seems unclear.
Throne and Liberty has been a hopeful prospect for MMORPG fans for many years:
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