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The company is adopting a more open communication process in the coming year, with apparently more transparency both for customers and investors and more focus on actually listening to the market. NCSoft cannot legally sell NFT games in Korea. The release of Lineage W in second regions is where NCSoft is focusing NFT launch. Lineage W is expected in the early days of the third quarter with Project TL coming at the middle to later end of the fourth quarter. NFT investors and crypto investors will not be part of the intended audience. They stated very directly that the intended outcome will not be to advertise NFTs to NFT investors. There was push in the investor call to clarify how NFTs will be implemented, with NCSoft stating that the intention is not to create a play to earn game. It should be noted that NCSoft’s mobile games are currently being overrun with gold farmers to the point where the servers are barely functioning. Now here’s the topic nobody wants to hear NCSoft is planning on launching NFT incentives into their games in 2022. NCSoft is also looking into Steam releases, acknowledging the platform’s power in the west. Project TL will see more PvE content as well as fleshed out characters and plot while NCSoft admitted its business strategy in dealing with the western markets has been lacking. The investor call specifically mentions Project TL (Lineage Eternal) and Lineage W as preparing for launch in the second half of 2022. It is worth noting that Lineage W essentially saved NCSoft from massive financial losses this quarter, as the game composed 357 billion Won of a total of 691 billion Won, or 51% of the total sales. A 2022 initiative is aiming at making these processes more efficient. Presumably this is marketing around their new and upcoming slate of titles. Marketing costs were also a major factor in NCSoft’s moolah making a beeline for the door, increasing 119% quarterly and 122% annually. It’s not doing great.įourth quarter operating costs are up 60% quarterly, 22% year over year while Q4 labor costs increased 47% due to Lineage W incentives. Little was mentioned about Blade & Soul 2 other than it being consistently in the top 10 on Google Play. NCSoft referred to Lineage2M’s worldwide launch as having a “limited impact” in the investor call. Lineage 2M, despite launching in more territories, has fallen off 25% year over year. LineageM meanwhile has seen its revenue fall off 58% over last year. For the first quarter on record, the game pulled in 357 billion Won. Lineage W meanwhile has achieved higher numbers than any NCSoft game in the company’s history. Aion saw a 64% increase in sales annually attributed to the classic server. Mobile games now make up 70% of NCSoft sales, with Lineage W saving the company from major drop-offs in sales.

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The PC side saw a drop in sales by 27% over last year.

On the video game side, virtually everything in NCSoft’s library suffered in Q4. Operating profit dropped 30%.įor the fiscal year overall, sales dropped 4% with operating profit down a whopping 55%, pre-tax income down 39%, and net income down 33%.

For the fourth quarter, sales are up 35% year over year, along with a 25% boost to pre-tax income, and a 52% boost to net income over the same period. And if you’re an investor, you’re probably feeling very mixed emotions right now. Watch the showcase event and first footage below.NCSoft has posted their fiscal year results for 2021 and the numbers may shock and surprise you. Cross-play on consoles, including PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, is also being prepared. Players can enjoy the game on PCs through NCSOFT’s cross-play service ‘PURPLE’. Lineage W also supports a cross-platform play. It also supports ‘ AI translation‘ enabling real-time communication among players speaking different languages, ‘ Voice-to-text‘ function converting speech to text. Players from different countries can cooperate and compete in a single battleground (server). Lineage W introduces a single build for the global market to create ‘a global battle community’.

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The game features a dark fantasy world presented with full 3D graphics and quarter view various visual aspects transforming imagination to reality a battle system succeeding the originality of the Lineage intellectual property with enhanced strike feedback immersive storylines and diverse narratives improved content for pledges and alliances.Ī single build for the global market, real-time AI translation, cross-platform play on PC and consoles Sung-Gu Lee, head of Lineage W Group, and Hong-Young Choi, head of Lineage W Development, uncovered Lineage W‘s main features and service plans.