General Discussion

Chris Chung, the new president of NCSoft North America, recently posted a few words about taking on his new position, his management philosophy, and plans for NCsoft's future.

In any organization, when you get a new person at the helm, there are bound to be questions as to what he or she is going to do. Rumors can start in the break room and quickly spread throughout the organization and beyond. It doesn’t matter what the change is. Change makes people nervous. Although it helps that I’ve been around as a part of NCsoft in one capacity or another for the last five years, there are still a lot people in the company that don’t know me very well. It can also be a burden coming behind someone so well known and respected, both within and outside of the company, as Robert Garriott. While I don’t think “filling the shoes” of someone with decades of experience and a sharp sense of business like Robert is possible, it will be a wonderful challenge trying.

Someone recently asked me what my job as a president of this company would entail. My response was that one of the reasons I believe I got the job is because I don’t have a special talent. If I did, I’d probably rather be a famous designer, programmer or artistic genius. I wasn’t blessed with any of those talents so I have to be satisfied with having the privilege to work beside these talented people every day and help them to bring their creations to the customers.

Read the full article here.

Well then...

I would like to thank Chris for introducing himself as well as providing some insight as to what he does and how he can make NC's projects better.

I would also like to extend to him the invitation to come to the Lineage 2 forums and address the criticisms and concerns of many players who are, to be quite blunt, a bit pissed off at the moment.

If he was to look at our forums then he would get a better idea as to why so many people are holding a grudge against NC and its Korean Lineage 2  Dev's.

S

I already like this guy. 

These are very nice sentiments, but I get the impression that the readers of MMORPG are not the real audience here. He's writing to his own staff. I'd be willing to bet his promotion caused a lot more panic than he lets on to in the first paragraph.

Damage control, innit?

Standard "hi, I'm the new guy, and coincidentally your boss speech."

It doesn't matter what he says at this point. Let's hope he has the right skills to do a good job. Good luck.

D.