A New Direction for NCSOFT?

The CEO for Pearl Abyss NA, Jeonghee "JJ" Jin, leaves Pearl Abyss to join NCSOFT as the new CEO of NCSOFT America. Kanon shares the news and his thoughts

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[KanonXO]

What do you guys think of the news? I'll be reading the comments! Catch me LIVE @ twitch.tv/kanonxo

[Paisen]

Blade and soul died because devs focused on the blade there was no soul 😢

[DrIcarus-lr]

It's crazy how that NCsoft dev told you they wouldn't make a business model that it was bound to fail, yet all of their games besides gw2 are ghost towns

[Trikeree]

Maybe JJ can teah AGS how to treat the fans of their games. I feel this could be a great move.

[epictcg]

He is right, Black Desert Online have significantly got better after pearly abyss took things into their own hands.Cant wait for how NCS will change because of them cause I do love their game but it becomes pay to win and lack of creativity for events etc.

[julioperez]

As a veteran player of BDO i can tell that most part of BDO community is really piss and really angry with J cause all of the changes they have being implementing during the past years till now ( Every single region even Korea are really piss with the direction the game is going). For what BlueSquadron said ( BDO NA content creator) said JJ is really good in caring for the community ( All community Knows and say that J Dont care about us the community even Korea sais that is not only me) and asking the people what they think the game need to improve so if that is true this is a huge W for NCSOFT if they hire people who care to the community and they actually listen to the community i think that TL will be a really success on the West imo. Also i want TL to success because that is good for BDO cause the game really need a reality hit on the game to wake up and start listen the BDO community but knows. So with this said wish the best for TL on the west

[gsczo]

I need a remaster/remake of Lineage 2, that's all. Best MMO of all time during its golden age. The open world, the zone, the classes, the grind (for the ones who love it), it's just exceptional. Privates try to keep it up but you know... and NC just obliterated it, even its Classic version started out with so much hope until... you know.

[ai_baggs]

Numbers don't mean everything, if they did, you'd be playing World of Warcraft Kanon 😉 I don't know her, we'll see what happens & how she'll affect TL.

[JLMPB]

I don't think this is going to affect the predatory business model NCSoft likes to push on his playerbase. The only thing that really matter imo, sorry.

[MrUnlimax]

PS : i'm excited for Blade & Soul Neo classic .. they need to hurry up with the release tho :P

[DeathMist]

as someone who's played aion for 15 years now, we'll have to wait and see if anything really comes out of this change, the western servers ared near dead because of the horrendous p2w and ncsofts neglect to respond to botting issues. if you manage to score an interview i'd like to ask a few questions myself

[TeddyTwighlite]

As a bdo player, we can all agree JJ was a HUGE loss and J was who everyone wanted gone lol

[Ofdimaelr]

Can we get old node wars back in BDO, thank you Jay.

[BAYDADDY]

Are we soon getting the combat/skill overhaul video with Throne? You said you would do a deep dive standalone video with the new combat/skill and skill buff system?

[matiastolosah]

With all do respect my guy, you look tired! This TL grind been hard tho 😅

[karzoid]

I have invested WAY too much for Lineage IP, namely Lineage M and the recent Lineage W. It is a good news to western market that there would be changes for NCSoft shifting from heavily greedy monetisation to a more sustainable and community cared business. Gald that I left Asian market and be an EU player now lol

[GlorpShakey]

If only NCSoft had any good game worth to talk about. 😂

[zenwilds]

Black Desert Online had some ridiculous game choices.
Even for things like housing.

They came out with the best looking furniture in the game (Manor Olvian)... and then they decided we can't place the furniture in any home.

Locked to Manors. We have 3 Manors.

More small furniture came out that was classified as Manor-only for no reason.

On top of everything, instead of selling us that Olvian furniture in the cash shop... they locked a wooden furniture set behind Hunting rare mobs.

A lot of players loathe Hunting or have gun PTSD.

Furniture is also not worth crafting and selling to other players because prices are fixed at a price way below what the furniture is worth.

All awful decisions.

I left BDO for ESO. Way better housing.

[YuIivee]

uhm "west" is a tad stretched? ya know theres a PA Europe as well right? :p also didnt they nuke NC Murica last year or so? :o

[Xambaloris]

One is six and the other one is half a dozen, nice!