NCSOFT - Q3 2023 Earnings Release

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• lulztard@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Compared to pre-HoT numbers: i.imgur.com/Vgd7ejp.png

  It’s sad to see GW2 being barely able to scratch even the pre-HoT numbers of twelve month of content drought. Never mind the pre-HoT numbers during active content deployment. Took them almost ten years after their bait-and-switch.

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  • necropola@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like this/your illustration with colors indicating the exxpansion releases:

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    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.

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    • lulztard@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • brogrum@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • lulztard@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • halfapage@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you mean by “their bait-and-switch”?

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    • lulztard@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Switching from big social open world bosses to strict coordinated instanced content. Drastic spike in difficulty in favour of a shift away from chill casual content. General WoWification like trinity and quests quest-like achievement-structure. Didn’t go over well with the playerbase, and took them almost ten years to barely recover from it, if one is desperate enough to use the drought numbers as a bar instead of the pre-drought ones.

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