Guild Wars 2

If that interests somebody:

http://global.ncsoft.com/global/ir/quarterly.aspx#none

NCSoft doing well. Holding the course.

I’m really surprised that Wildstar didn’t do better than it did.

NCSoft doing well mostly because of Lineage. Good old times.

Wish they introduced Lineage 3… /dreams

Just glancing at the summary graphs, it looks like the last few months were the best sales/profits overall in the last year or so, mostly due to launching two new projects, GW in China and Wildstar. But certainly the company as a whole is doing well and I doubt they will need to revitalize their products with, say, announcements that they will develop a new boxed expansion to push sales.

Not that this will stop the “(game name) is dead and/or dying” crowd.

Corpus Christi.2057:

NCSoft doing well mostly because of Lineage. Good old times.

Wish they introduced Lineage 3… /dreams

i would sooo buy it

Lineage 3 is called Lineage Eternal and is being built on the UE4 engine. There are some preliminary screen shots out if you Google for them.

I mistakenly posted my thread on this in the Player Helping Player section. Here’s a repost.

Sorry if this is a repeat but NCSOFT’s 2nd quarter numbers were released on the 13th.
NA/EU GW2 brought in roughly $21.6 million for the quarter. Down a 23% from a year ago. We’ve dropped to 3rd after Lineage I and WildStar.

WildStar’s NA/EU numbers are a bit higher. It’s 1st month was roughly $27.3 million.

The report mentions revenues and profits up due to new releases including WildStar in NA/EU and GW2 in China. But Royalties, where I expect to find all of China’s revenue, is down from last quarter 15.7% but year over year it’s up nearly 190%.

Also of minor note B&S is now in Japan as well and are booked along side Korea’s income from the game. They primed the market there with an anime series. It’s on Crunchyroll if any cares to view it.

Year over year, total income is up at NCSOFT by 11% with corporate profits up 54.7%.

Since it’s WildStar’s 1st month, started at the beginning of June, we don’t know what kind of retention rate it has as a subscription based game. In contrast our first month was nearly $30 million. So maybe the notion it’s a subscription game blunted it’s sales.

Linagae Eternal will be an Diablo clone – not rly an Lineage 3

Vayne.8563:

I’m really surprised that Wildstar didn’t do better than it did.

I played it, I’m not.

Romek.4201:

Linagae Eternal will be an Diablo clone – not rly an Lineage 3

Isn’t Tera what was planned as Lineage 3 ?

And for Wildstar .. no surprise for me and i expect it to go downhill very fast.
And then all those people come back from WS again to GW2 and cry here
that we need all what makes WS out to save GW2 .. lol

Beldin.5498:

Romek.4201:

Linagae Eternal will be an Diablo clone – not rly an Lineage 3

Isn’t Tera what was planned as Lineage 3 ?

no – there was some rumour bout programmer left nc soft and has stolen alot lineage 3 code + alot other stuff and they made terra with this or atleast used it for this
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-04-17-tera-developers-guilty-of-stealing-lineage-iii-assets

after this they stopped the work on lineage 3 and started lineage eternal as an diablo like game cause it was the time where diablo 3 released and it looked like this genre is popular

Meh, im not sure if those reports factor in the 5billion yen wasted on the blade and soul anime.

Good way to lose approx 50mil usd.

Wildstar lost a lot of interest because Blizzard didn’t realize that people are tired of over saturated cartoony MMOs. Trion is doing a fairly good job with Archeage and at least because they have a much better response to bugs than Anet. It’s too bad they are hampered by relying on XL-Games though.

TexZero.7910:

Meh, im not sure if those reports factor in the 5billion yen wasted on the blade and soul anime.

Good way to lose approx 50mil usd.

Let me pause here and laugh. $50 mil USD for a 13 episode anime series. There is American live action TV series with smaller per episode budgets.

No you didn’t read that right. The MMO cost $50 million over 7 years to make, not the anime.

Conncept.7638:

Vayne.8563:

I’m really surprised that Wildstar didn’t do better than it did.

I played it, I’m not.

Same.

Behellagh.1468:

TexZero.7910:

Meh, im not sure if those reports factor in the 5billion yen wasted on the blade and soul anime.

Good way to lose approx 50mil usd.

Let me pause here and laugh. $50 mil USD for a 13 episode anime series. There is American live action TV series with smaller per episode budgets.

No you didn’t read that right. The MMO cost $50 million over 7 years to make, not the anime.

Does it matter when both products are utter kitten ?

It matters when you wondered if the cost of the anime was accounted for in the quarterly reports. NCSOFT also has a South Korean baseball team and it’s income and expenses are included as well, just not broken out since MMOs and other online games are NCSOFT’s bread and butter.

Yea, I get it, an MMO built around freakishly long legged, jello chested, scantly clad female character models isn’t your cup of tea. Probably one of the reasons any word of it coming to NA has stopped since the end of 2012.