Comment on NCSOFT - Q3 2023 Earnings Release
necropola@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months agoI like this/your illustration with colors indicating the exxpansion releases:
It’s also very interesting to look at the quarter after each release which I would read as follows:
- HoT was hyped very much, but wasn’t very well received. Many players probably found it too hard (before nerfs and power creep from later expansions) and told their friends about it.
- PoF wasn’t hyped very much, but was very well received. People loved their mounts and spread the word.
- EoD+Steam was … I don’t know.
lulztard@lemmy.wtf 7 months ago
Yeah, it’s much more interesting that way and a curious thing that you don’t find those numbers anywhere anymore. It’s also from interest that almost the entire 2014 numbers are during a complete and utter stop of content deployment. Almost 12 month of absolute 0 content updates in favour to rush out HoT. And it still had better numbers than everything that came afterwards up to EoD.
Though it’s revenue . Squeezing more out of less players can highten the revenue as well, and Anet got nuked from orbit by NCSoft pre-EoD.