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NCSoft Doubles Down on Mobile MMOs & Sequels - Aion 2, Blade & Soul 2 and More - MMORPG.com News

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited November 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imageNCSoft Doubles Down on Mobile MMOs & Sequels - Aion 2, Blade & Soul 2 and More - MMORPG.com News

NCSoft has conducted a South Korean media day to announce a number of new games including the much-rumored Aion 2 as well as Blade & Soul 2. While many of the announced titles are MMOs, they are all mobile titles. NCSoft announced Aion 2, Blade & Soul 2, Blade & Soul M, Blade & Soul S, and Lineage 2M. No word was mentioned about "Project TL", a game that MMOCulture likened to a reboot of Lineage Eternal.

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  • SplitStream13SplitStream13 Member UncommonPosts: 253
    edited November 2018
    Lineage 2 M doesn't even look like Lineage 2.

    Though you sorta gotta understand the mobile push. The devices are getting incredibly powerful. The latest announced iPad Pro is as powerful as Xbox One and in some benchmark tops out the 2018 15" MacBook Pro ... which rocks a solid i7 CPU. And the iPad beats that. And with the Metal graphics API, developers can squeeze every last bit of performance out of those devices. The SoCs are so powerful that Apple is about to release an Apple-CPU laptops starting next year. Apple-CPU is basically their ARM SoC.
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  • WarlyxWarlyx Member EpicPosts: 3,368
    $!$! u ncsoft
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  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,178
    So they are all doing it going mobile. So PC games fucked.
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  • d_20d_20 Member RarePosts: 1,878

    kitarad said:

    So they are all doing it going mobile. So PC games fucked.



    It'll be ok. The big corps will go off chasing the mobile game mtx money, which is what they do. But nature abhors a vacuum and there will be new developers coming in to PC. The cycle of life.
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  • MedownMedown Member UncommonPosts: 17
    Pls give Aion 2 to mobile
    alkarionlogpsychosiz1PartieplayinWesleyLvr
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    Medown said:
    Pls give Aion 2 to mobile
    It is.
    Mensur


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  • necrolocknecrolock Member UncommonPosts: 48
    Guild Wars 3 mobile.
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  • azarhalazarhal Member RarePosts: 1,402

    kitarad said:

    So they are all doing it going mobile. So PC games fucked.



    You mean saved. I'm not going to cry over the lack of F2P mtx filled games coming to PC personally. That crap should have stayed on mobile where it started.

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  • IkedaIkeda Member RarePosts: 2,751
    Whelp that pretty much confirms they're going out of business.  They'll lose my business.  Don't let the door hitcha on the way out.
  • Truvidien88Truvidien88 Member UncommonPosts: 462
    Wanted more information about "Project TL" Oh well.. Damn.
  • alkarionlogalkarionlog Member EpicPosts: 3,584
    meh mobile can be big on korea but not much around here, cahnces are or they will make a pc version, to money grag people, or they will not sell a much as they hoped
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  • JeffSpicoliJeffSpicoli Member EpicPosts: 2,849
    kitarad said:
    So they are all doing it going mobile. So PC games fucked.

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  • kjempffkjempff Member RarePosts: 1,760
    Yippee the great news keep coming, what glorious times of gaming we live in.
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  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,846
    edited November 2018
    See what you guys did? You complain too much now you spooked them away!

    Doooon't you guyyysss haaaavee phooonneess?
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  • ChildoftheShadowsChildoftheShadows Member EpicPosts: 2,193
    MaxBacon said:
    See what you guys did? You complain too much now you spooked them away!

    Doooon't you guyyysss haaaavee phooonneess?
    Project TL?
  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,846
    MaxBacon said:
    See what you guys did? You complain too much now you spooked them away!

    Doooon't you guyyysss haaaavee phooonneess?
    Project TL?
    NCSoft's sequel to lineage, that one is PC.


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  • ChildoftheShadowsChildoftheShadows Member EpicPosts: 2,193
    MaxBacon said:
    MaxBacon said:
    See what you guys did? You complain too much now you spooked them away!

    Doooon't you guyyysss haaaavee phooonneess?
    Project TL?
    NCSoft's sequel to lineage, that one is PC.


    Oh right. Not my cup of tea. 
  • UnbinoUnbino Member UncommonPosts: 34
    edited November 2018
    Was Aion 2 confirmed for Pc?

    https://forums.aiononline.com/topic/2747-aion-2-confirmed-to-be-pc-console-mmorpg/
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,455
    edited November 2018
    kitarad said:
    So they are all doing it going mobile. So PC games fucked.
    This is the future for PC and console, they will become the minor player to smartphone games, in money terms they already are. Maybe in a year or two gaming journalist will talk about that. :)
  • PhaserlightPhaserlight Member EpicPosts: 3,078
    azarhal said:

    kitarad said:

    So they are all doing it going mobile. So PC games fucked.



    You mean saved. I'm not going to cry over the lack of F2P mtx filled games coming to PC personally. That crap should have stayed on mobile where it started.

    Eh?  You may be interested in a history of free-to-play games and mtx (spoiler alert: it didn't begin with mobile).

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  • KabulozoKabulozo Member RarePosts: 932
    kitarad said:
    So they are all doing it going mobile. So PC games fucked.
    They said last year Project TL was 100% developed for PC.
  • hikaru77hikaru77 Member UncommonPosts: 1,123
    Mobile games are where the money is, at least on Korea right now or till the next Gen of consoles come out, or Korean players get bored of Mobiles games. This is not an announcement for the western market.
  • PartieplayinPartieplayin Member UncommonPosts: 93
    edited November 2018
    I don't understand why there making mobile mmorpg's. The money they get from there PC gamers are being spent on mobile games and the mich needes sequels aren't even coming the the same platform. Sounds like a kick in the nuts to anyone who supported there games in the past. I second the FU NCSoft. I will not be supporting your mobile garbage.
  • KabulozoKabulozo Member RarePosts: 932
    edited November 2018
    I don't understand why there making mobile mmorpg's. The money they get from there PC gamers are being spent on mobile games and the mich needes sequels aren't even coming the the same platform. Sounds like a kick in the nuts to anyone who supported there games in the past. I second the FU NCSoft. I will not be supporting your mobile garbage.
    The money they generated with their current mobile games right now far overshadows their PC titles (mainly Lineage M - Lineage 1 for mobiles).

    In the entire year of 2017, mobile games brought NCSoft a revenue of 995 billion Korean Won:


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  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,846
    Kabulozo said:
    I don't understand why there making mobile mmorpg's. The money they get from there PC gamers are being spent on mobile games and the mich needes sequels aren't even coming the the same platform. Sounds like a kick in the nuts to anyone who supported there games in the past. I second the FU NCSoft. I will not be supporting your mobile garbage.
    The money they generated with their current mobile games right now far overshadows their PC titles (mainly Lineage M - Lineage 1 for mobiles).

    In the entire year of 2017, mobile games brought NCSoft a revenue of 995 billion Korean Won:


    Yep.

    Companies go where the money is, and the PC market is harder to please with fewer revenue prospects, it becomes more obvious there was going to be a point the big companies put main focus on mobile.

    They most likely a lot cheaper to develop for mobile than PC. So the hopes on proper new MMO's lie heavily on crowdfunded ones and one or the other new PC ones by the main MMO devs.



    KyleranScot
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