The new logo also resembles the Nexon logo in many ways.Įnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.A South Korean Navy's Type 209-class submarine surfaces during the international fleet review near Busan, October 7, 2008. Another change that came is the change of the Gamehi logo to a much better designed one in my opinion. The job cuts were not only as a result of the cancellation of Dekaron 2, but also were also due to the sale of Gamehi child company Hope Island to CJ E&M. This was a huge shock to all Dekaron fans who were patiently awaiting Dekaron 2. The development of MMORPG Dekaron 2 has been canceled as Nexon slashed Gamehi’s development team from 600 to just 200 in a move they describe as “strategic” and “conservative”. It’s not just game transfers that have come as a result of Nexon’s acquisition of Gamehi. Therefore, unless Nexon can negotiate quickly with CJ E&M, no character data will be transferred between the two companies and all Sudden Attack players from CJ E&M will be forced to start over from scratch under Nexon. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the original publishing contract that CJ E&M would have to handover the game’s database in the case of a service transfer. Well Gamehi’s publishing contract with CJ E&M for Sudden Attack expires on July 14 and Nexon will take over publishing of the game on that day.
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Sudden Attack has been published by CJ E&M on their Netmarble portal since its launch in July 2004. Sudden Attack has truly done well in Korea where it holds the fifth highest concurrent user mark of 250,000.
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Gamehi is the developer of the first free online first-person shooter to enter the Korean market, Sudden Attack. Of course, this number should increase to four by the end of the year as both Nexon Europe and Nexon Japan take on Vindictus. Atlantica will become third game to be published by all four publishing branches of Nexon, after MapleStory and Mabinogi. Starting this Summer Nexon will take over the publishing of Atlantica Online in Korea. It has been announced that Nexon will take over another game from NHN (after DFO in 2008). The results of the takeover of Ndoors is likely the most obvious to North American gamers as Atlantica Online has transferred publishers from Ndoors Interactive to Nexon America. Nexon continued their pattern of strategic acquisitions last year as they acquired three companies, Atlantica Online developer Ndoors, Sudden Attack developer Gamehi and Everplanet developer Nclipse.
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However, with Neople, DFO was being published by NHN on their Hangame portal from its launch in 2005 to Nexon’s takeover in 2008.īoth of these takeovers have proved extremely profitable for Nexon as MapleStory is one of the world’s most revenue-making games and DFO has grown to have over 300 million players worldwide and set a recently eclipsed world record of 2.2 million concurrent users. In the case of Wizet, Nexon was actually working with them since 2003 as Nexon published MapleStory in Korea and Japan and was at the time preparing the game for a global release. Past examples of this include Nexon’s 2005 acquisition of Wizet, the creators of MapleStory, and in 2008 when Nexon acquired Dungeon Fighter Online (DFO) developer Neople.
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This has surely worked for Nexon as they remain Korea’s largest online game publisher by revenue and will likely become Korea’s first gaming company to generate of 1 trillion Won in revenues in 2011. This is because Nexon has acquired at least one successful company in each of the past several years and has taken over the service of at least one of their new subsidiary’s successful games from another publisher. Nexon is known by some Korean companies as the “cancer of the Korean gaming industry”.