{"id":736,"date":"2010-02-11T17:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=736"},"modified":"2010-08-03T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:13:00","slug":"ncsoft-shows-record-profits-in-latest-quarterly-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/ncsoft-shows-record-profits-in-latest-quarterly-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NCsoft shows record profits in latest quarterly report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/aion\/\">Aion<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/lineage\/\">Lineage<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/lineage-2\/\">Lineage 2<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/news-items\/\">News items<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsoft.com\/global\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.massively.com\/media\/2010\/02\/ncsoft-rb-210-1265849614.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" \/>NCsoft<\/a> has released information on the latest fiscal quarter, and the numbers presumably made some happy faces at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsoft.com\">NCsoft<\/a> according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/27185\/NCsoft_Reports_Record_Earnings_On_Aion_Lineage_Gains.php\">report at Gamasutra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few short months after the September launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/na.aiononline.com\/\"><em>Aion<\/em><\/a> for North America and Europe, NCsoft reports record profits in its fiscal fourth quarter. Sales were up 99% year-on-year, thanks in large part to the hugely hyped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/aion\"><em>Aion<\/em><\/a>, which sold over 300,000 copies through pre-order alone.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Aion<\/em> is responsible for 48% of the sales numbers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lineage.com\/\"><em>Lineage<\/em><\/a> IP held its own easily, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/lineage\"><em>Lineage<\/em><\/a> accounting for 27% of sales and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lineage2.com\/\"><em>Lineage 2<\/em><\/a> holding 20%. <em>Lineage<\/em> has been around and performing steadily since 1998, but the recently revitalized franchise was a big factor in NCsoft&#8217;s success over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/27185\/NCsoft_Reports_Record_Earnings_On_Aion_Lineage_Gains.php\">can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 5px; background: #ffffcc; border: 1px solid #ffff99; clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding: 0 5px 5px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/media\/feedlogo.gif\" alt=\"Massively\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/02\/11\/ncsoft-shows-record-profits-in-latest-quarterly-report\/\">NCsoft shows record profits in latest quarterly report<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\">Massively<\/a> on Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/27185\/NCsoft_Reports_Record_Earnings_On_Aion_Lineage_Gains.php\">Read<\/a> |\u00a0<a title=\"Permanent link to this entry\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/02\/11\/ncsoft-shows-record-profits-in-latest-quarterly-report\/\">Permalink<\/a> |\u00a0<a title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/forward\/19352762\/\">Email this<\/a> |\u00a0<a title=\"View reader comments on this entry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/02\/11\/ncsoft-shows-record-profits-in-latest-quarterly-report\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/02\/11\/ncsoft-shows-record-profits-in-latest-quarterly-report\/\">Massively<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, Lineage, Lineage 2, News items NCsoft has released information on the latest fiscal quarter, and the numbers presumably made some happy faces at NCsoft according to a report at Gamasutra. Just a few short months after the September launch of Aion for North America and Europe, NCsoft reports record profits in its fiscal fourth quarter. Sales were up 99% year-on-year, thanks in large part to the hugely hyped Aion, which &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/ncsoft-shows-record-profits-in-latest-quarterly-report\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[614],"tags":[512,681,683,684,682,324,302],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}