#5 Lineage
Developer: NCSoft
Released: 1998
Revenue: $4.75 billion
The oldest non-arcade game on the list, the MMORPG Lineage took South Korea by storm after its release in 1998 and continues to survive to this day, despite a sequel having been released in 2003 (a second sequel, Lineage Eternal, is stuck in development hell). Nor has the game slowed down over the past decade, continuing to pull in between $250 million and $350 million annually, despite the game’s North American servers being shut down back in 2011. It proudly takes 5th place on this list of highest grossing video games of all time!
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