The quarterly report for 2014 from NCSoft has now been published and provides a rare insight into the numbers behind the MMOs. It becomes clear that GW 2, the western MMORPG in the portfolio of the Korean software giant, had to make sacrifices.
Most publishers keep their actual subscription and player numbers under wraps, so financial reports, which companies are obligated to provide, are one of the rare opportunities to conclude on the actual success of a game.
Compared to January, February, and March of 2013, Guild Wars 2 has generated almost one third less worldwide. In the first quarter of 2013, the fantasy MMORPG made 36,382,000,000 South Korean Won, which is equivalent to about 26 million Euros at today’s exchange rate. In the same period this year, it is just shy of 18 million Euros. It’s also interesting how small the European market appears in NCSoft’s offerings. In Europe, all titles of the company together generated 3.6 million Euros. A year ago, it was a little over ten million Euros in the same period.
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Besides the well-known Guild Wars 2 in Europe, other titles from NCSoft lead a shadowy existence. Lineage 1, which is still successful in Asia, or Lineage 2 have never been able to establish themselves here, and Aion has also never really arrived. Behind the successful Blade & Soul in China, a question mark has loomed in the West for many years. Whether and when it will appear here is unclear.
However, this quarter also marks the introduction of Guild Wars 2 in the Chinese market, and at the moment the numbers look good for that. Already half a million units of GW2 are said to have been sold.
Guild Wars 2 is one of the few MMORPGs that uses a buy-to-play model, requiring a one-time purchase price, but there are no monthly fees like with pay-to-play titles. The game relies on microtransactions in the cash shop and resales of the game to generate revenue. It cannot rely on fixed monthly income.[/intense_testimony_text][intense_testimony_author image=”https://images.mein-mmo.de/magazin/medien/2014/01/Logo-022.png”][/intense_testimony_author]
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