Riders of Icarus Receives New Publisher VALOFE, Launches New Website - MMORPG.com

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• Thomas2006 Member RarePosts: 1,152

  August 2019

  Hmm.
  
  From there facebook page.
  "VALOFE Philippines was initially established as Ndoors Philippines (NDP), a Nexon company in 2008. "
  and then "VALOFE Co., Ltd was founded in May of 2007 in Korea. "
  
  So to me it just seems like a sub company of Nexon where they send games that they no longer want to showup as with the main Nexon brand. I would say they just send them to VALOFE to die but atleast VALOFE is providing some level of support / development / updates to the games it keeps running.

  
• Theocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,020

  August 2019

  Valofe took over Atlantica Online....I remember trying it with them but it felt very uninspired. I dont even know if it is still up and running anymore.
  

  
• rojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  i don't think these games will live much longer. Valofe's main focus seems to be mobile games so i wouldn't be surprised if they port them to mobile then shut down the PC version.

  

  
  
  
  
  
• Octagon7711 Member LegendaryPosts: 9,004

  August 2019

  Had a lot of fun with start and mid-game content, lost interest after that as it became too much of a grind or buy stuff.

  "We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa      "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."  SR Covey
• Ionoxi Newbie CommonPosts: 1

  August 2019

  all these comments are a little off. Valofe is still running Luminary, Atlantica Online and now ROI. The Support of Valofe is pretty on and off but they are at least trying. Atlantica Online had a tournament and they have both EU and NA servers.
• Grasshoppa2000 Member UncommonPosts: 18

  September 2019

  
  

  Thomas2006 said:

  
  

  Hmm.
  
  
  
  From there facebook page.
  
  "VALOFE Philippines was initially established as Ndoors Philippines (NDP), a Nexon company in 2008. "
  
  and then "VALOFE Co., Ltd was founded in May of 2007 in Korea. "
  
  
  
  So to me it just seems like a sub company of Nexon where they send games that they no longer want to showup as with the main Nexon brand. I would say they just send them to VALOFE to die but atleast VALOFE is providing some level of support / development / updates to the games it keeps running.

  
  

  
  Valofe is not an actual subsidiary of Nexon. As per their FB page, the parent company was established in South Korea in 2007. The subsidiary (valofe.com) which handles global publishing in the west was established in Hong Kong in 2010. Ndoors was originally an independent dev studio and publisher (previous known as Intizen that was established in 1999) in South Korea that developed and published games like Atlantica Online. Some other games they developed and partnered with Nexon Korea on were Luminary Online and Combat Arms. Nexon acquired Ndoors in 2010 and took over publishing for the games Ndoor was developing. Ndoors corporate history is sort of lost because Nexon redirected the main site to an internal Nexon site. Valofe Philippines was established in 2012 but probably absorbed this Ndoors Philippines that was established in 2008 before Nexon acquired Ndoors in 2010. Dates taken from their own site.
  
  https://www.valofe.com/about?country=en
  
  Some of these Ndoors developed games, Nexon Korea (and other regional subsidiaries) eventually decided to stop publishing (even though the studio was now their own acquired subsidiary). Valofe picked up the publishing rights for most of them creating a working partnership with Nexon. When Nexon decided not to renew the publishing contract with WeMade for Icarus/Riders of Icarus, Valofe was the natural to pick it up due to this somewhat interesting relationship they've developed.