NCsoft’s CFO Hong Heo commented, “Our company was able to maintain favorable growth last year amid the systematic slump of the local industry thanks to the breakthrough expansion of the online game market. This year we will strengthen our internal capabilities and give added momentum to our current ongoing projects to set the stage for a second growth spurt. We have set our projected revenue at a conservative KRW 180 billion.”

By the second half of next month, NCsoft will open “Lineage Tournament”, the world’s first MMORPG-based combat game on regular servers, followed by a rollout of a new series of Lineage episodes sometime in summer, as part of ambitious plans to continue the flagship Lineage game’s immense popularity. Moreover, as this year will see a serious advance into the Chinese market as well as the launch of local commercial services for the prequel Lineage II, the growth potential of NCsoft is expected to emerge at a heightened level.