L3 – Interview: NCsoft president and CEO TJ Kim!

Tack jin Kim (NCsoft President)

12/2005

For now, what’s the most important region for NCsoft to develop?

I think every country is important to NCsoft. We don’t have a special country that we’re focusing on today. Every online game player is important to NCsoft. That’s why our developers suffer from supporting many languages right now!

- NCsoft is now starting to develop Lineage III, and I believe that next month the Lineage III team will go to some important place in Europe to develop their ideas, so that it will be a great product. That’s one way for us to develop our games. Lineage III will be developed in Korea, but we are going to other countries to make the world enjoyable for worldwide game players.

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So you’ll be running all three games side by side?

- Right. When NCsoft launched Lineage II, everybody worried about Lineage I, but after the launch of Lineage II, the Lineage I business grew more. Like that, Lineage III is an independent game from Lineage II and Lineage I, but having the same philosophy and same world story.

It’ll be launched in around three years time. The company’s goal is to make Lineage III within two and a half years, but every developer is always late, so I think three years is a safer estimate!

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NCsoft Acquires Unreal Engine 3 License!

05/2005

- South Korean MMORPG giant NCsoft today revealed that it has inked a license agreement with Epic Games regarding the use of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3. NCsoft was the first company to use the Unreal Engine in an MMORPG, and its current flagship title Lineage 2 also employs the predecessor of Epic’s newest engine.

- In an interview with a South Korean media outlet NCsoft president T.J. Kim confirmed that the company had already began drawing up plans for
Lineage 3.
Hence, odds are the new Unreal Engine 3 will power the third installment of the highly successful MMORPG franchise.

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