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Originally Posted by Arilou
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Babs posted this in answer to this rumor:
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My money is on GW2.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=1#post4366209 They want everyone going to their new toy. |
Honestly, if you download and look at the NCSoft corporate info, it's pretty clear that CoH is a tiny, almost meaningless piece of the pie. The reduction in sales (worldwide) on Aion from Q1 to Q2 this year is 5x the entire revenue from CoH for the quarter. Yes, that's what I said. Not Aion's sales, just the margin of lower sales...
For better or worse, Paragon Studios and CoH are rounding errors in NCSoft's math. I don't plan on giving them any more money to round off. |
Aion cost them too much, but the Asian mentality in business prevents them from saying it was a bad idea, after they had bigged it up so much.
So yeah Aion can't die.
And since Asians hate the west, can you guess what would have to die instead?
That's not reason to kill the game so suddenly. If the game was in the negative, perhaps. But the game was, for all I understand, profitable. Not a huge money maker, but still profitable. Basically: it was in a position where should they want to switch strategies, you slowly move the team to other projects and slow down development.
Killing the game the way they did just does not click unless some legal or accounting hurdle forced their hand. At first I thought it was accounting, now I'm starting to think it's indeed was negotiations going sour. |
I'm not well versed in business, so excuse the ignorance, but couldn't PWE/Cryptic buy back the IP? In that case, CoH wouldn't be in competition with CO as the money's all going to the same place, and PWE/Cryptic would have two SH games to SOE's one (and Marvel's rumored one).
If the lease on the engine was the issue, then why shut down the whole studio that's also working on a second different project?
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Aion cost them too much, but the Asian mentality in business prevents them from saying it was a bad idea, after they had bigged it up so much.
So yeah Aion can't die. And since Asians hate the west, can you guess what would have to die instead? |
Well, they better explain it if it was someone else's fault because...
I'm not well versed in business, so excuse the ignorance, but couldn't PWE/Cryptic buy back the IP? In that case, CoH wouldn't be in competition with CO as the money's all going to the same place, and PWE/Cryptic would have two SH games to SOE's one (and Marvel's rumored one).
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All I can say is that if this is true, that's *two* companies who aren't getting a nickel of my money.
Which companies?
If the rumor is true, wouldn't it mean Perfect World was unwilling to sell the license back to them or at least at a reasonable rate in order to drive NCSoft out of the superhero genre? In other words, meaning it's not NCSoft's fault, really?
If the rumor is true, wouldn't it mean Perfect World was unwilling to sell the license back to them or at least at a reasonable rate in order to drive NCSoft out of the superhero genre? In other words, meaning it's not NCSoft's fault, really?
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Wait, if PS had another, non Cryptic-engine game in development, why did they get the axe? I don't care about PWE now, NCsoft is where my ire is going to be.