* The necromancer is available as a profession in the Guild Wars competitive online role-playing game series from NCsoft.

Lineage () is a medieval fantasy, massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) released in the United States in 1998 by the South Korean computer game developer NCsoft.

NCsoft () is a South Korea-based online video game company, which has published massively multiplayer online role-playing games including Lineage, City of Heroes, Wildstar, Exteel, Guild Wars, and Aion.

To date, NCsoft is the only MMORPG publisher to launch two products of this scale on the same day.

NCsoft is a developer and publisher of online computer games.

City of Heroes ( CoH ) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft.

Guild Wars is an episodic series of online 3D fantasy role-playing games developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft.

ArenaNet is a video game developer and subsidiary of NCsoft, founded in 2000 by Mike O ' Brien, Patrick Wyatt and Jeff Strain and located in Bellevue, Washington.

Worlds. com has filed suit in Texas claiming NCsoft has infringed on its patent for a " system and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space ," and are pushing for an injunction to stop all games covered in the suit along with seeking unspecified damages.

Later, he served as president of Fastlane Games, Inc., working on the development of a massively multiplayer online game for NCsoft before retiring again in 2006.

As NCsoft Austin, Destination has mainly focused on developing and supporting the North American version of NCsoft's Lineage games.

As of October 2009, NCsoft employs about 150 people in the former Destination Games office in Austin mainly working in server operations, quality assurance, and customer support for various NCSoft MMO titles, however development operations have moved completely to other NCSoft subsidiaries on the West Coast.

The game was launched in North America on April 27, 2004 and in Europe ( by NCsoft Europe ) on February 4, 2005 with English, German and French language servers.

On August 31, 2012, NCsoft terminated its Paragon Studios development team, ending all production on CoH with a planned end of services on November 30, 2012 .< ref name =" GameSpot shutdown ">

According to NCsoft, the potential damages may exceed.

While only NCsoft has been named in the suit, many sources have observed that the patent ( if upheld in this case ) could be used to draw royalties from basically every MMO currently running.

Worlds. com CEO Thom Kidrin has recently stated that if they win their suit against NCsoft that his company fully intends to pursue other companies such as Activision Blizzard ( for World of Warcraft ) and Linden Lab ( for Second Life ).

In April 2001 the company created a US subsidiary under the name NC Interactive ( based in Austin, Texas, and would later become NCsoft west.

The company formed NCsoft Europe in July 2004 as a wholly owned subsidiary with its main office in Brighton, England.

On April 27, 2007, Seoul Metropolitan Police said that seven former employees of NCsoft are suspected of selling the Lineage III source code to a major Japanese game company.

Richard Garriott, lead developer of Tabula Rasa, sued NCsoft for in damages concerning his termination from the company.

On August 31, 2012 NCSoft announced the closure of Paragon Studios and the sunsetting of City of Heroes " In a realignment of company focus and publishing support, NCsoft has made the decision to close Paragon Studios.

On February 17, 2006, Jennings left Mythic and began working at another MMO company, NCsoft in Austin, Texas.

The company was acquired by NCsoft in 2002.

NCsoft has reported that Lineage had at one point more than three million subscribers, most of them in Korea.

NCsoft has shown the next MMORPG before 2 weeks in Project name and release to Blade & Soul in NCsoft Media Day in Korea.

On July 8, 2011, NCsoft has started a contract with SK Telecom to acquire Ntreev Soft Co., Ltd.

At E3 2001, Richard Garriott announced a partnership making Destination the United States headquarters of South Korean MMORPG giant NCsoft.

The game did not sell as well as was hoped, Richard Garriott left NCsoft in 2008, and the game service closed in February 2009.

The Destination Games website was taken down when NCsoft moved its United States headquarters from Austin to Seattle — calling it NCsoft West — in 2008.

NCsoft Austin employed five people to run the casual MMOG Dungeon Runners, but announced in 2009 that support for this game will be ending in early 2010 due to low subscription numbers.

** Original homepage prior to forwarding to NCsoft websites can be found at this Internet Archive link: Destination Games, Inc.

NCsoft was originally founded in March 1997 by T. J. Kim, a business software developer and author of the Korean word processor Hangul.

In September 1998, NCsoft launched its first and most popular game, Lineage.

NCsoft programmer Jake Song also moved to Austin in order to stimulate development.

On April 24, 2009, NCsoft announced that Guild Wars had sold more than six million units.

It was announced at E3 2007 that NCsoft had become an exclusive third party Sony developer, and will be developing exclusive games for the PlayStation Network.

On July, 2007, NCsoft announced Blade & Soul, the next MMORPG after AION, in 2006.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

When suitable equipment is located by the SBA representative, the small business concern is contacted and advised on when, where, and how to bid on such property.

The Secretary of the Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State ( excluding any coal or lignite mine ), the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of this Act.

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;

To simplify the formulas a representative symbol is substituted for each of the factors.

Tone analysis will continue to be difficult and unsatisfactory until a more representative selection of systems is familar to every practicing field linguist.

A more official representative is the Secretary of the Interior.

It is hard, on the other hand, to blame the policeman, blank, good-natured, thoughtless, and insuperably innocent, for being such a perfect representative of the people he serves.

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

The form is completed by the appellant or by the appellant's legal representative.

The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.

The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the Sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a Governor-General to act as vice-regal representative in the nation.

Politics of Armenia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of government, and of a platform multi-party system.