[MUD-Dev] [News] NCSoft + Richard Garriott

[Dave Rickey]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Song <jake at ncinteractive.com>

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Corey Crawford [mailto:myrddin at seventh.net]

>> I'm thinking maybe we should look at total amount of dollars
>> incoming per month.

>> Anyone have these figures for Lineage? Obviously, we can figure
>> UO/EQ/AC's from subscription numbers.

> NCsoft is a public company listed on KOSDAQ, so you can ask about it
> to your stock trading company. Its ticker number is 36570.

> For your convenience, our revenue of last quarter(2001.1 to 2001.3)
> is 25470 million Won (19.6 million USD, 1300 Won = 1 USD)

Whereas EQ's subscription revenues for the last quarter could not have
been more than 12 million USD, probably closer to 10.  And EQ is
bigger than UO and AC combined, so it's clear that Lineage is bringing
in about as much money as all of the "Big Three".  On the other hand,
EQ did have the revenues from the Scars of Velious expansion (as well
as any money from new sales of the RoK package), but SOE can't be
seeing all that much from it.  Ditto for the AC expansion.

Oh, BTW, as near as I can figure EQ's total gross revenues exceed
those of Diablo II (and profit margins are probably higher).  With
this big a pie to carve up, even if the MMOG market *was* full (I
don't think it's anywhere near close) there'd be room for a lot more
titles.

--Dave Rickey

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