NCSoft Financials Show Promise, Game Delays

Thanks to GameGossip for its story discussing Korea-originating MMO firm NCSoft's financial results for the first half of 2004. Along with an "operating profit [of] $23 million", specific sales/subscription numbers were announced, a rarity in the MMO world, as the company "reported that Lineage II and City Of Heroes are both doing well, with sales as of the end of June at 86,000 units (Lineage II) and 190,000 units (City Of Heroes) respectively. Meanwhile, as far as active players are concerned, NCsoft reported that Lineage II and [the soon to be cape-friendly] City Of Heroes have 76,000 and 170,000 active players respectively." However, delays to NCSoft's forthcoming titles were also announced, since "Guild Wars has been pushed from Q4 2004 to the first-half of 2005. Meanwhile, [recently re-organized Richard Garriott title] Tabula Rasa has fallen back from Q4 2004 to the second-half of 2005."

Comments

Re:caper! {the jumbles}

[AuMatar]

Lineage 2 is written with Korean gamers (the audience of Lineage 1) in mind. It does a lot of things we here in the states find to be very poor game design (the treadmill makes EQ look tame. I believe it took 2 people multui-playing an account for 20 hrs a day over a month to go level 70-75). It won't ever be very popular here in NA, and in Korea its competing with L1, the world's largest MMO.

guildwars

[Anonymous Coward]

I am happy that the statement about guild wars being pushed back is as far as arena.net knows is false.