NCsoft: We still make video games
2007/11/28 21:41A recent Korea Times article raised some questions over the future business plans for NCsoft after they reported that the company was looking at the Openmaru subsidiary and social networking applications as the new growth engine for the company.
On Wired Blog's gaming site, NCsoft responded with a rebuttal of the Korea Times article:
For its story, the Times drew from comments made by NCsoft CEO Kim Taek-jin at a university lecture to suggest that the company, facing dwindling profits from its games, was looking to shift its focus into social networking sites.
The Times "got its facts wrong," said Swofford, who claims that the reporter did not attend the lecture himself, and misunderstood the remarks.
Taek-jin, Swofford says, is "interested in what's out there in terms of social networking and the Internet and new technologies we can use to get our content out to the players. There's lots of new and innovative things out there."
GameIndustry.Biz has a similar article with comments from NCsoft, but they also mention that the Korea Times has modified the article so it's unknown what the original version looked like.
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