The Dear Leader Will Save Us In Raids

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 12 Comments

Apparently NCsoft, according to this well-written and fact checked piece in gamesindustry.biz, is blazing a trail in opening new markets to MMOs.

Sales in North Korea accounted for the largest chunk of sales profit – 57 per cent in total.

North Korea’s highly militaristic “army first” state ideology should work well in a full-PvP environment. It’s less clear how well they would be able to handle crafting.

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  • Lerm

    typos are funny

  • YelloBird

    Lol.
    Yes, this north-and-south thing is always so confusing … someone should make a computer game to help.

  • yunk

    Lag is a real problem when you’re on a bicycle-powered computer.

  • Tremayne

    Errm – so are you going to find “asshole raid leader rocket surgery with nuclear weapons” in your next search terms list?

  • ikew

    Look at photos of that part of the world, made from orbit. The only place with electricity at night is the goddamn capital. And it’s a fake city.
    This news is… strange.

  • Votan

    LOL a day later and it still has not been fixed.

    Aion is to carebare for NK, they need Darkfall, the development team would fit right in :P

  • UnSub

    The fact that NCsoft West accounts for about 11% of sales profit really needs to be pointed out to anyone who thinks that NCsoft won’t just abandon the whole area if it doesn’t have a hit there soon.

  • 8on2

    When you lay off tons of people and basically shut down entire studios your profits might be effected.

  • Angelworks

    They corrected the story ;) .

  • UnSub

    @8on2: Yeah, they might go up! ;-)

    NCsoft West needs a hit and although Aion might provide a stopgap, it needs a hit that was developed purely under NCsoft West’s watch. But there doesn’t appear to be much on the horizon from them.

  • Wilwabbit

    The fact that their Korean CFO is now head of the whole western operation strikes me as a clear sign that they’re preparing for a shutdown strategy in the west. A CFO’s role is cost containment. Jaeho Lee’s a smart guy; he knows how to save S. Korean money.

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    @Wilwabbit
    Of course, it all makes sense now.

    South Korean plan for world domination:

    Step 1: Invite the entirety of Blizzard over to demo Starcraft 2.
    Step 2: Close the country borders
    Step 3: Force Blizzard to turn out Starcraft games as the new national religion.
    Step 4: Savor Shangri-La