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NCsoft just lost two key people in the West, but its business overall is going strong. Today the Korean MMO publisher announced its second-quarter and first-half earnings, noting that net income was up a whopping 451% in Q2, totaling 33.75 billion Korean won (US$27.3 million). Sales were up 70% to 137.77 billion Korean won. Operating profit was also way up, climbing 353% to 47.5 billion won
Aion, which launched last November in Korea and this July in Japan and Taiwan, brought in 40.6 billion Korean won. Lineage II wasn't far behind, generating 37.36 billion Korean won, followed by the first Lineage at 27.48 billion Korean won. City of Heroes, City of Villains, Guild Wars and others made up the remaining sales.
Thanks to the company's strong performances in the first couple quarters, NCsoft also raised its outlook for the full year to 586 billion Korean won ($470 million) in sales and 180 billion won ($144 million) in operating profit.
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I'm interested in the figures on the preorders they're getting.
Anyway looking forward trying this game. GG NCSoft
uhh... as far i know the team CURRENTLY working on Aion is bigger than any ncsoft team, even for blade and soul afaik.
1.5 was released in Korea not to long ago. I'm pretty sure they are spending plenty of money on Aion.
This is such a useless answer. Wtf do you think they are doing atm? Please generate useful input next time. TIA.
It was almost as useful as "I can has won?"
Now they can afford to give us an RP server :sparkles:
If they skydive to their own pile of crap it won't be that great :p
I however personally don't think that Garriot brothers were a loss at all, in fact they got b00ted.
Jeff Strain, a founder of Guild Wars developer ArenaNet who became a senior executive of NCsoft West in its reorganisation, has left the company, according to reports.
Strain's departure coincides with that of marketing man David Reid, although NCsoft has told MMORPG.com this was an "unrelated and separate event".
"Jeff Strain... has chosen to leave NCsoft under amicable terms and NCsoft wishes him the best in his new endeavour," said NCsoft West in a statement." This does not change our plans or negatively impact our upcoming launch of Aion... These changes do not influence any other teams, development schedules or other launches."
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