NCsoft Q1 profits jump 315%

wow

mmmmm hey every1... as an oldschool,ex-hardcore player of wow.. i need to inform all of u that the game.. isnt just " another smt" to hit blizzard's mmo (WoW). I preordered the game and i had access to closed and open beta of Aion . Rly the game is ... beyond the looks , no matter how good it the sourroundings seem to be the game has ****loads more to give except the excellent visuals ;). As for the graphics.. that i saw few ppl talking about it ... hmmm if u actually play the game and and wonder around... ull see that what u saw in the trailer was on low-med;p or at least i believe so.. . In fact the plants and most of the " amazing " sourundings are pseudo-3D made ,so i rly dont think the game will require THAT strong machines to play on low (low= insanely good visuals to believe its just low ;p ) . PS. cu in beta or ingame after its out :D

looks very promising. :)

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"Hmmm Fantastic i cannot wait for Aion ^.^ finally people will see there are actually better quality mmo's out there than WoW." Heh, I wish. You know as well as I do what will happen. "It sure looks nice, but all my friends play WoW." "Oh no, my computer could NEVER handle graphics like that." Sigh. fps_d0minat0r - good point, Sony and NCSoft did have some sort of agreement to make MMOs on the PS3. No idea what happened after that.

@Sayomi I agree,not that WoW is bad or anything,but is not the only MMO out there. I just find find Aion appealing.

Hmmm Fantastic i cannot wait for Aion ^.^ finally people will see there are actually better quality mmo's out there than WoW

looking forward to the Aion US beta,the game looks promising indeed.

i aggree with babykid 160 how the hell are they making a 51% leap over im not very good a maths but that tells me alot of people must be buying their stuff

dbpvivi Poor Gameplay (Normally down to spell knowledge and lvl char) Poor Animations Poor Environments Poor Story (Or at least translates poorly) Just a level Grindfest. What makes these so popular and how can the Korean's afford to play these things. Do they favour them because: a) Monthly Prices are cheap in their country? b) Its made is Korea? c) They don't, they just play them because everyone else does and reasons from (b) apply? These games suck so much and cost a 100 times their worth. Why western gamers are stupid enough to pay monthly for these things I will never know. if you think you can do better then go for it. if you dont like mmorpg dont look at them

Awesome news. NCSoft is dedicated to AAA MMO and Aion looks fantastic.

didnt NCsoft make a contract with sony??? where are all their console rpg's???

I hate Korean games!

good to see that there still going good

wow.. people still play lineage 1? not to shabby. Can't wait for Lineage 3 and GW2.

so when does gw 2 come out!! omg i cant wait. Oh yeah is Aion good>??

Hurray! Aion is basically prettier L2 on wings lol, can't wait till they have a US release!

Now that's impressive

You know damn well that the vast majority of free-to-play games are a total mess, ultra cookie cutters of better games that are retrofitted with awful grinding mechanisms to justify micro-transaction revenue - so they can make a buck. You 'save' money just to lose lots and lots of time grinding poorly balanced content. Yes, Aion has a monthly fee, locked to a frequent update/event schedule, apparently of a quality that only a 'premium' model can offer. If you can't afford 50 cents a day (that's the breakdown) for a better quality MMO, you have bigger life problems to solve than showing up at tonight's raid. Time in beta was pretty cool. Yes, very Korean, but also very artful and high quality. The 'triple A' boast is accurate - obviously lots of cash spent making this game. Some beautiful sights and music. Different enough to stand on its own in North America? Not as a real WoW competitor, but yes, absolutely.

Looks pretty interesting, but I've put too much time into wow to quit now.

Oh Yippy another Korean, Chinese type MMO. I can just imagine the art work will look nothing like other Korean made games and I'm sure there won't be endless grinding. (sarcasim off)

I can say confidently that Aion is better than WoW as I have played it myself. The fact that it uses the Cryengine is pretty amazing in itself.

well...perhaps this money will allow them to FINISH GUILD WARS 2,DAMMIT!I think I heard somewhere that this will,in fact,have a monthly fee,so I've kinda lost interest in this.

I guess this means they can still keep GW2 without a monthly fee. Right NC? RIIIGHT!!!

This news is boring. God, I can't wait for E3.

I cant wait to play this MMO...

Either the Korean government is protecting its locally developed MMO from WoW, or this game is really damn good.If the latter is true in this WoW-dominated era...good for them. Very good for them.

is it free? cause i don't want to buy another mmo :P

hooray. now they have some money to keep makin GW2

Poor Guild Wars... :( We need GW2!

daaaaaaaayuuummmmm

i wonder how much they are making off dungeon runners?

looks really good :)

This game uses the crytek engine .. so it should be good :D

Yes, Aion will have a monthly fee. All the best MMOs have monthly fees.

I want to try this game out can't wait for it to come state side. Anyone know if it will have a monthly fee?

315% is quite a jump. o_O