NCSoft Financials Show Promise, Game Delays

Posted by simoniker on Monday August 2, 2004 @07:26AM from the real-subscription-numbers dept.

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."

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Or... by bluemeep · 2004-08-02 08:58 · Score: 2, Insightful

CoH for soloers and FFXI to social folks. I've spent 95% of my time in CoH doing things my own way, while FFXI forced me to either beg my friends to play or join up with often unreliable strangers. Or CoH for people with imagination that dig a healthy character generation and FFXI for folks that don't mind looking and performing exactly like someone else of the same class and level. To each his own, of course.