Multiplayer online RPGs dominate South Korea’s mobile game market

By Baek Byung-yeul

There are many kinds of video gaming genres, but South Korean gamers have a special love for massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG).

Ranging from Nexon’s “Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds,” which Guinness World Records recognized as the longest-running commercial graphical MMORPG, to NCSOFT’s popular MMORPG “Lineage,” Korean gamers have enjoyed numerous kinds of online RPGs.

Now, the gaming world has experienced a platform change due to the rise of the mobile device. But still Korean gamers are enjoying MMORPGs the most.

According to Google Play Store’s sales ranking for game apps, MMORPGs developed by Korean gaming firms swept the top five list.

In the list, NCSOFT’s “Lineage M,” the mobile version of its MMORPG “Lineage,” has topped the list for about a year. It is followed by Webzen’s “MU Origin 2,” which is the sequel to its 2015 mobile game “MU Origin.”