Hi all

With the recent news about NcSoft Closing City of Heroes and many other games they closed (Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault, Dungeon Runners, Draconica, Exteel, Point Blank) any one is afraid that they do the same with guild wars if it is not profitable? Or they cant do it because the game belongs to ArenaNet?

Regards

Originally posted by WARCRYtm

Hi all

With the recent news about NcSoft Closing City of Heroes and many other games they closed (Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault, Dungeon Runners, Draconica, Exteel, Point Blank) any one is afraid that they do the same with guild wars if it is not profitable? Or they cant do it because the game belongs to ArenaNet?

Regards

Just as much a chance as any other company closing a game once it's not profitable, possibly less since NCSoft has a track record of keeping a game open far longer than most others would.

Draconica is GPotato, and Point Blank didn't do well in either Korea or China, which is why both NCSoft and Shanda dropped it. If you liked Point Blank, check out Project Blackout as it is the same game just re-released under another name.

Actually NCSoft drops games like a hot rock compared to other major companies (SOE kept Matrix Online up for far too long and they still have Vanguard up). Tabula Rasa lasted only a year, but that was something NCSoft did themselves to get out of the deal with Garriot (read up on it), Auto Assault went pretty fast and so did Exteel.

ARENAnet is a studio in ownership of NCSoft,but that doesn't mean ANet does what NCSoft tells them to. I kinda got the idea that NCsoft just takes a bit of profits and let ANet do what they want, they were doing really a great job so far.

Since ANet had GW1 running for really a long time now and it was profitable enough just with its few million copies sold over all those years I doubt GW2 would even come under consideration of being "shut down". The game sold over 2 million copies IN FIRST WEEK! It has A LOT of players, add to that they're making an e-sport out of it - and you got a game with a lot of pvp players alone. 

Hell, they're still runing GW1 servers! I have no fear :D

Originally posted by WARCRYtm

Hi all

With the recent news about NcSoft Closing City of Heroes and many other games they closed (Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault, Dungeon Runners, Draconica, Exteel, Point Blank) any one is afraid that they do the same with guild wars if it is not profitable? Or they cant do it because the game belongs to ArenaNet?

Regards

NCSoft hasn't closed down GW1 and I would think GW1 would be closed down before GW2 and A.Net has already said that as long as people wer eplaying the servers won't be closed down.

Originally posted by TeknoBug

Actually NCSoft drops games like a hot rock compared to other major companies (SOE kept Matrix Online up for far too long and they still have Vanguard up). Tabula Rasa lasted only a year, but that was something NCSoft did themselves to get out of the deal with Garriot (read up on it), Auto Assault went pretty fast and so did Exteel.

Three years for Exteel is 'pretty fast'?

Also, Auto Assault was bleeding money from the minute the servers went up, yet they still kept it running for a year and a half to try to make it work.

A company is going to shut down a game once it's no longer profitable. some companies faster than others, but NCSoft is one with a history of giving it every chance before going that route. I get it - you're jaded over TR and CoH. No one is looking to deprive you of your rsentment, but to make claims like the one above is silly as history and fact say otherwise. 

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Originally posted by Loktofeit

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Originally posted by TeknoBug Actually NCSoft drops games like a hot rock compared to other major companies (SOE kept Matrix Online up for far too long and they still have Vanguard up). Tabula Rasa lasted only a year, but that was something NCSoft did themselves to get out of the deal with Garriot (read up on it), Auto Assault went pretty fast and so did Exteel.

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Three years for Exteel is 'pretty fast'?

Also, Auto Assault was bleeding money from the minute the servers went up, yet they still kept it running for a year and a half to try to make it work.

A company is going to shut down a game once it's no longer profitable. some companies faster than others, but NCSoft is one with a history of giving it every chance before going that route. I get it - you're jaded over TR and CoH. No one is looking to deprive you of your rsentment, but to make claims like the one above is silly as history and fact say otherwise. 

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But those don't even compare to Hellgate: London that didn't even have a proper launch and All Points Bulletin that went down a month and half later but was lucky to be revived again.

Lineage1 is still running in korea.
Shutting down games that are not profitable isn't exactly the purest evil possible. It's quite understandable.

For clarification, if you want to call a devil by it's name, it's NCWEST <not> NCSOFT :)