South Korean NCSOFT has decided to restructure. It plans to split its business into two companies: NC QA Company and NC IDS Company.

On July 7, the share price of the Korean company NCSOFT sank to 279.5 thousand won ($214.9) apiece. This happened after an unsuccessful beta test of the MMORPG Throne and Liberty, which has been in development for more than 11 years.

Sensor Tower analytical company has announced new successes of the Korean Lineage series of games. According to her, to date, users of mobile versions alone have spent over $7 billion.

Korean publisher NCSOFT has decided to conduct a global business reorganization. As part of it, the company will cut a fifth of the employees of the division that operates Lineage, Blade & Soul and its other games in Western countries.

Korean publisher NCSOFT has published a report for April-June 2022. During this period, the company’s sales increased by 17%, reaching $ 480 million. And its net profit immediately increased by 26% to $90.5 million.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF, aka Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund) continues to invest in video games. He invested $235 million in Korean NCSOFT, thereby becoming its second largest shareholder.

Today, the launch date of Lineage2M in Russia and the world has become known. The MMO blockbuster, which earned more than $800 million in Asia, will be available to a Western audience on December 2. In connection with the upcoming release, we took a short interview with Seoul-based NCSOFT.

Traffic exchange between mobile projects is a common story. It’s a completely different matter — “draining” the audience from a PC project to a mobile game. Today it became known how NCSOFT approached this case on the international market.

Korean NCSOFT has announced the launch of pre-registrations of the box office hit Lineage 2M outside the Asian market. In Russia, the project, which generated about $747 million in South Korea alone, will be launched through a local publisher, Innova.

On May 19, NCSOFT released a new free—to-play game Trickster M – a reinterpretation of the 2003 MMORPG Trickster Online. The project is currently available only in South Korea, but already earns about $ 1 million every day.According to AppMagic, Trickster M’s revenue on mobile devices from the release amounted to $10.46 million.

South Korea’s mobile market continues to grow. According to the local analytical company IGAWorks, in the first quarter of 2021, users spent a record $1.5 billion in games. The top projects in terms of revenue include various MMOs and, of course, Lineage M, which remains the highest—grossing mobile title in the country.Lineage 2M

Available exclusively in South Korea, the Lineage 2M mobile novelty is among the top 10 highest-grossing games in the world for the second month in a row. Since the release on November 25, her earnings have reached $152 million.

It is unknown how many studio developers have lost their positions.

The laws of Belgium forced ArenaNet to take extreme measures. She turned off the ability to buy gems for Guild Wars 2 in the country. Most likely, this happened because of the fear of receiving a fine of € 800 thousand.

The revenues of the mobile role-playing MMO game Lineage M from South Korean NCsoft exceeded $ 1.2 billion in the first year of its existence. This is reported by the business publication The Investor.

Two South Korean companies are simultaneously preparing global releases of mobile versions of their MMORPGs. Nexon will release multilingual MapleStory M, and NCsoft — Lineage M.

Korean developer and publisher of online games NCsoft reported for the 1st quarter of 2018. During this period, the company’s revenues increased by 98% compared to last year, and profits increased by as much as 585%.

The popularity and revenue of the mobile role-playing MMO Lineage M did not help the Korean publisher NCsoft cope with a 66% decrease in the company’s profit in the second quarter of this year.

The new mobile role-playing MMO game Lineage M from the Korean company NCsoft earned $233 million in the first month of its official release in South Korea.