Jaeho Lee, CFO of NCsoft, said, “In preparation for growth of the global online game market, NCsoft has set up a development system with the ability to launch more than one major MMO game and several casual game titles every year. To accomplish this goal and establish a strong product pipeline, we plan on 18% year to year increase in the development budget this year as well. After several years of spending on development costs, we believe the fruits of those labors will finally begin paying off soon. NCsoft is excited about the prospects for our gaming community at the end of this year when we expect to launch two highly anticipated products, Tabula Rasa™ from Richard Garriott and Aion™.”
Full service for Aion is expected to launch in Korea at the end of 2007.
NCsoft reports fourth quarter sales of KRW 90.2 billion, net profit of KRW 18.7 billion;
Plans to service major game titles including Aion and Tabula Rasa in 2007
Read full article here..
http://www.ncsoft.com/eng/NCPress/View.asp?hSeq=1
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It seems right now that NcSoft was expecting a bigger revenue from all the current game titles.
If Korea gets full service at end of 07 we should be able to play early February..which is still a long way >.<..
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either way, i'm looking forward to seeing both of these games soon.
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well just apply for beta for the korean one, you may get in. i know i usually do... considering i can make heads or tails of the websites...
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I agree. At least they have the Euro-webite up but still, the info on it seems might scarce.
NCSoft needs to learn a lesson from EA Mythic, their coverage of Warhammer Online during it's development has been great at keeping the hype up for that game. But I'll still be watching Aion, if only to see when they actually start telling us more about the game
Im gonna try keep my-self hyped up about AION and try not to loose my faith in it, but! NC need to keep us more updated and not to be rude but.....THEY NEED TO HURRY THE F**k UP i realy can wait untill the end of o7 i mean its only june now we got AGES TO WAIT and i dont want my mind to frift away from this game because it seems like quite a good one...lol plzzz nc hurry up with development!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for now ill play a little crappy game till due date and ill kepp checking ma emails!
O well.
But if the Korean version is to be released by the end of this year (which will most likely be Q1 2008 LOL), we should get betas starting in fall.
So we can at least watch that...
but, don't they usually attempt Korea and then China and then go global? That seems to be the pattern for korean MMO's.
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and we know Korean workers...they are definitely hard workers.
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Nice to hear some news on the game though.
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Yea, it would probably mean a longer Korean beta, which couldn't hurt too much.
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume they're still trying for a global release.
Anyway, here's the latest on beta:
"The 20th of June NCsoft Korea is inviting Korean press to join them in a conference at a Korean island called Jeju Island, where they will show several upcoming projects. However - Even though the Korean CB schedule is supposedly going to be announced (as written in the article on the Korean Aion website), as far as I know, it has not been announced anywhere that the Korean Closed Beta or even sign-ups for such will begin at the given date."