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Lineage 2: New Philippine Servers
Szark
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AsianMedia announced today in a press release that they have launched a new Philippine server for Lineage II.
AsianMedia serves up great online gaming with Lineage II's Philippine servers
ASIAN MEDIA Development Group (AsianMedia®) jumps headlong into the big leagues with the much anticipated Triple-A online game, Lineage II™ on its new Philippine server.
AsianMedia® acquired distribution rights in South-East Asia for the medieval fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) from Korean gaming giant NCsoft®. With Lineage II™, regional gamers are finally getting what they have long been seeking - a challenging and immersive online game that delivers premium content.
As AsianMedia Chief Operating Officer, Ronald Allan Aquino comments, "Our extensive market research into local gaming behavior confirms that Pinoy gamers are ready, willing, and eager to experience a higher caliber of gaming content."
AsianMedia President, Felizardo de la Merced stated that "AsianMedia is committed to raising the bar for online games within the region by providing top-rate content with the IT infrastructure to back it up."
Building the foundation for great online gaming
AsianMedia has made substantial investments to house top-of-the-line gaming infrastructure for Lineage II in the Philippines, which will serve as the hub for the hundreds of thousands of gamers expected within the Southeast Asian region.
AsianMedia recently chose HP as its technology provider to ensure the highest satisfaction for Lineage II gamers in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia. HP will provide AsianMedia with an online gaming infrastructure solution consisting of ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, StorageWorks data and network storage solutions, networking products, and services.
Information and Communications Technology Head, Apol Salud points out that Lineage II will be the first MMORPG to use HP’s Blade Server in the Philippines. “HP blade servers will allow AsianMedia to provide virtually unlimited expansion for Lineage II in terms of capacity of gamers and game content, while minimizing the amount of downtime for maintenance and upgrades,” he says.
“The Lineage II servers are also tightly integrated with Telco grade network equipments from Cisco Systems to increase its efficiency in handling large amounts of data traffic,” continues Apol.
“This allows ‘direct peering’ with our partner telecommunication companies such as PLDT DSL, Globe DSL, Telekom Malaysia, and SingTel so, in effect, our servers’ capacity for high volume traffic matches that used by the telcos themselves,” he adds.
“We have a true ‘world server’ capable of maintaining the highest quality of service and performance, whether it is accommodating a single user or 100,000 concurrent users,” Mr. Salud states.
To complement its gaming infrastructure, AsianMedia has also set up a 24/7 customer service center using Dell servers to address regional and local gamers’ concerns.
Delivering the goods to gamers
AsianMedia Chief Operating Officer, Ronald Allan Aquino is confident that Lineage II will quickly win the hearts and minds of gamers throughout the South East Asian region. “We have a great product in Lineage II and we’ve done everything we can to ensure that we provide the best gaming experience possible to those who log in to our servers to play,” says Aquino.“This is the kind of game where you simply cannot afford to be lagged if you expect to get anywhere in PvP (Player versus Player) or PvE (Player versus Environment) scenarios. We are indeed fortunate to be working with only the best IT solution providers so our gamers can have the same great experience whether they’re in Malaysia, Singapore, or the Philippines,” he adds.
Lineage II has drawn millions of loyal fans worldwide with its combination of fantasy combat and the unique social/ political/economic power struggles developed through the community and by the in-game actions of individual gamers.
Gamers may play alone or as part of a group to fight monsters and complete quests for new skills, experience points, and items. Lineage II also features siege warfare; but to make sure PvP stays under control, the design includes a Karma system that provides negative consequences for killing other players when they do not fight back.
Lineage II features greatly improved third-person 3D graphics thanks to the Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games.
Read more about Lineage II here.
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Wee!! Lineage II! I think the Press Release meant "Lineage II South-East Asia"
Btw, I found their Pre-CBT webste here http://www.asianmedia.ph/lineage2/ They even have a forum already. It is interesting to note that the Australians and New Zealand players are interested with the new regional server, they are saying they are better off playing on a server where the timezone difference is only a few hours.
Oh, they are already accepting applications for their Closed Beta! Already signed-up myself.
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback! To answer your question, we have a direct connection to our partner ISPs across the three countries we are servicing - Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore. This means that connections between the end-users and our servers is direct, ie not hopping from one node to another as you would when surfing the web.
I hope this clarifies it ^_^
With the recent news of offical Lineage 2 servers in the South East Asia area I was over the moon!
Until I found out that these new servers will only be available to customers in Malaysia, Philippines & Singapore.
As an Australian gamer and Lineage 2 addict I had to stand up and voice my concern to Asian Media and NCSOFT.
Therefore, I would like to announce the OFFICAL "Oceania Community Petition" (OCP)
Please follow the link
http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/12931.html
Oceania players, SEA players, we now have an offical petition where you can go, sign and write comments about Oceania gamers being allowed to play on the new offical Lineage 2 Servers South East Asia!!!
Please forward this to anyone you think should know.
Lineage 2 needs a large player base to be used to its full potential. Bring the Oceania community to L2-SEA and we will have a gaming experience unlike ANYTHING SEEN BEFORE IN THIS AREA.
Thanks for your time,
Cheers
XRTillz
With the recent news of offical Lineage 2 servers in the South East Asia area I was over the moon!
Until I found out that these new servers will only be available to customers in Malaysia, Philippines & Singapore.
As an Australian gamer and Lineage 2 addict I had to stand up and voice my concern to Asian Media and NCSOFT.
Therefore, I would like to announce the OFFICAL "Oceania Community Petition" (OCP)
Please follow the link
http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/12931.html
Oceania players, SEA players, we now have an offical petition where you can go, sign and write comments about Oceania gamers being allowed to play on the new offical Lineage 2 Servers South East Asia!!!
Please forward this to anyone you think should know.
Lineage 2 needs a large player base to be used to its full potential. Bring the Oceania community to L2-SEA and we will have a gaming experience unlike ANYTHING SEEN BEFORE IN THIS AREA.
Thanks for your time,
Cheers
XRTillz