Comments on: NCsoft: Follow The Bouncing Money

By: Richard Love you

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By: Michael Pearson

Michael Pearson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:30:14 +0000

Oh, good! GW has generally been a great success.

By: etherealwolf

etherealwolf — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:35:45 +0000

GW franchise makes money, not suprising that they get preferred status.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:45:41 +0000

This (http://www.guildwars.com/events/tradeshows/gc2007/gcspeech.php) gives me hope.

By: Klaitu

Klaitu — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:26:09 +0000

I have to admit, I really have no interest in anything that NCsoft is doing.

By: Abalieno

Abalieno — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:18:30 +0000

If you read the numerous financial reports these days you’ll see that EVERY ONE repeats the same pattern: “focus on sequels and sure-bets”.

Crisis = uncertainty.

Right now big companies aren’t and won’t dare to found risky or unproven projects. Nor they’ll waste money on minor products. It’s big blockbuster sequels or nothing.

On the other side I think this opens a big opportunity for smaller studios that stick to one project and do it well. Plenty of opportunity for innovation, as long it is focused and done without requiring big budgets/foundings.

I think this is also a very long term reward for those companies that don’t sell out and just scale up accordingly to what they achieve, sticking to what they do best (and without doing everything and nothing).

By: DrewC

DrewC — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:53:55 +0000

When the Mythic layoff news broke, I immediately contacted my friend there to see if he still had a job (thankfully, he did). I also have friends at Carbine and Arena.Net. When the NCSoft layoffs were announced, even before I read the article stating it was NCSoft Austin and Europe, I wasn’t worried for them. It’s pretty clear what NCSoft is doing in North America.

By: EpicSquirt

EpicSquirt — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:42:59 +0000

Aren’t those the peeps behind Starcraft, Diablo and Guild Wars?

Good. GW2 could become a success.