Rumor: NCsoft to Suspend Lineage 3's Development

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Joker wrote on 2012-06-20 04:05

Recently, Nexon becomes the major holder of Korean giant NCsoft and since then Nexon has laid off hundreds of employees. There is a rumor said that several MMORPGs under development including Lineage 3 (Lineage 3 and Lineage Eternal are two different games) is forced to suspend its development.

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According to some Korean gaming insiders, about 200 to 800 employees will be forced to quit. Currently, NCsoft are encouraging employees to quit with "honour" and as compensation, those employees will be rewarded semi-annual salary.

The employees who are confirmed to leave NCsoft said that the revenue of Aion glided sharply due to the launch of League of Legends, Diablo 3 and so on. And Nexon became NCsoft's biggest shareholder which means a recombination is necessary.

Seems to me that it's possible Nexon now has more power than anyone previously thought, However it's still a rumor

Source

EDIT: WHY THE HELL DID I POST THIS HERE? god I must be really tired (sorry admins can someone move this to basic Nexon Forum section?)
TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-06-20 16:55

Quote from Joker;890202:
Seems to me that it's possible Nexon now has more power than anyone previously thought, However it's still a rumor

Source

EDIT: WHY THE HELL DID I POST THIS HERE? god I must be really tired (sorry admins can someone move this to basic Nexon Forum section?)

shouldn't they pay a severance package anyway?
Joker wrote on 2012-06-20 16:57

Quote from TLCBonaparte;890495:
shouldn't they pay a severance package anyway?

Of course they should but whether or not that's what their doing that here is still unclear as a semi annual salary isn't exactly a severance... but its not far off...
paladin wrote on 2012-06-20 17:21

as long as they dont screw up guild wars 2 I wont be pissy
But thats sad to see such a long running seris
Claudia wrote on 2012-06-20 17:22

Heh, almost seems like a monopoly of sorts...
Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-06-20 17:34

They have no shame.

Quote from paladin;890527:
as long as they dont screw up guild wars 2 I wont be pissy

Yeah that's totally more important than the fact that Nexon is apparently trying to disintegrate NCsoft's workforce instead of incorporating it.
Joker wrote on 2012-06-20 17:41

the only other company I can think of that could Takeover nexon would maybe* be Google though maybe not..
paladin wrote on 2012-06-20 20:15

Quote from Sumpfkraut;890542:
They have no shame.

Yeah that's totally more important than the fact that Nexon is apparently trying to disintegrate NCsoft's workforce instead of incorporating it.

I didnt think of it that way
Its not like nexon wants to comepetely destory ncsoft right?

Joker- we dont need nexon posion spreading to google when it handles so many services and creates so much new stuff with only medium amounts of greed
Joker wrote on 2012-06-20 21:10

Quote from paladin;890648:
I didnt think of it that way
Its not like nexon wants to comepetely destory ncsoft right?

Joker- we dont need nexon posion spreading to google when it handles so many services and creates so much new stuff with only medium amounts of greed

Sir.. I think it's time we had a talk....
paladin wrote on 2012-06-20 23:18

Me no get it