Posts Tagged ‘Aion’

League of Legends to Hit 200,000 CCU Soon

February 17th, 2012

Riot Games’ <League of Legends> is about to hit 200,000 concurrent use(CCU) in Korea after three months of the local service.

According to a game ranking website Gametrics the AOS game has hit top 20 online games last December and is recording 8.98% market share of internet cafe following FPS game <Sudden Attack> and MMORPG <Aion>.

Once an e-Sports league ‘LoL Invitational’ hosted by OnGameNet kicked off on the 21st of January, the internet cafe has revved up even more.

A graph of internet cafe ranking(yellow&right) and playtime(blue&left) of League of Legends

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Hangame Overestimated TERA

May 19th, 2011

Hangame reduced the expected revenue from AAA MMORPG <TERA> in 2011 by about US$9.2m. Balance issues and slow updates are the cause.

NHN reported its 2011 Q1 earning on 19th. Game business contributed 33%(US$154m) of the total revenue of NHN.

Most of the game revenue are from <TERA> in Korea and <Dragon Nest> <El Sword> in Japan. <TERA> was, of course, the main driver which boosted the online game revenue up to 33.8% in the early year.

Nonetheless <TERA> could not meet the expected revenue. Wook Jung the CEO proxy of Hangame said “As massive updates are being late, the revenue is decreasing. It started like <Aion> at the beginning but it became <WoW> now.”

In Feburary, Hangame was expecting minimum US$73m and maximum US$92m from <TERA> but it lowered it down to about US$60m. Due to this adjustment, Hangame’s expecting growth for this year also decreased to 10~15% from 15~20%.

“Every three months a big update of <TERA> will be done and we will make 50:50 of web/board game to online game by encouraging revenue from new games until the end of the year,” said Mr. Jung.

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Preview Video of Aion 2.5

January 6th, 2011

▶ Click to watch the video.

The preview video of <Aion> 2.5 update is recorded at the headquarter of NCsoft on Jaunary 6.

As you can watch, the most outstanding update is its improved graphic. It is much brighter and more beautiful than today’s <Aion>. Especially the texture rendering is much improved without changing the game engine thanks to adding shader and shadow effect in real time to the objects.

More character and motion customizing, various clothings like legion uniform, interaction with pets, and new dungeons are also updated.

“New stage style applies to the new dungeon. It will let players to experience excitement from battle not from moving. Such new excitement as bonus stages in the middle of the entire stage awaits players,” said JiYoung Min the director of game design team 1 of NCsoft.

At the end of the video, you can watch new mounts like dragon and magic carpet which will be updated in version 3.0.

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When Aion Meets Wonder Girls.

August 20th, 2010

NCsoft and JYP announced the creative collaboration at NCsoft R&D center on Aug. 19.

The creative collaboration is an agreement for developing new content and marketing together in game and popular music.

They have already worked last May together on marketing JYP’s famous girl group singer Wonder Girls’ new music and dance in <Aion> first.

“The marketing Wonder Girls in <Aion> last May had shown amazing ripple effect. So we will work similar marketing in other countries, and will create more creative content affiliation model with JYP,” said TaekHyun Kim, director of global business of NCsoft.

“No fear in entering global market is what both companies have in common, I believe. JYP’s artists and producers will do our best to achieve fruitful result in the global market not limited in Japan, China, or US.,” said Wook Jung, CEO of ?JYP.

JinYoung Park, a.k.a JYP

JinYoung Park, producer of JYP, attended the place with rookie group ‘miss A’ as well.

“I have learned that a virtual world called ‘game’ is a place where many emotional behaviors that cannot be done in real world can be done while doing the joint promotion of Wonder Girls with NCsoft. For example, disabled people can dance and play with other gamers in <Aion>. I would like to thank NCsoft for letting me know this emotional world,” said JinYoung Park.

miss A

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Next Train Is… Aion Express.

August 11th, 2010

A train of line number 2 metro in Seoul became an <Aion> 3D PC express.

LG 3D notebooks and 3D digital cameras are available in the train in order for the passengers to play <Aion>, developed by NCsoft, or to watch <Aion> trailer, movies, and educational clips in 3D.

Exterior?of the train is wrapped up with <Aion> and LG 3D notebook?artworks. This train will be run for 7 hours from 11am to 6pm every day until Aug. 15.

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