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NCSOFT

Develops and publishes massively multiplayer online games

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About NCSOFT

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Why NCSOFT is rated
B+
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated A on Growth Potential
Rated B on Differentiation

Industries

Consumer Software

Entertainment

Gaming

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seoul, South Korea

Founded

1997

Overview

NCSOFT is a major player in the gaming industry, specializing in massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) where many players interact in a shared virtual environment. The company, founded in 1997 and based in Seoul, South Korea, operates globally, with its American branch, NC America, managing its services across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. NCSOFT targets a wide range of gamers, from casual players to dedicated enthusiasts, and generates revenue through game sales, in-game purchases, and subscription fees. This business model allows players to buy virtual items or access premium content. NCSOFT distinguishes itself from competitors by focusing on immersive online experiences and maintaining a diverse portfolio of successful games, aiming to enhance the digital entertainment landscape.

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What believers are saying

  • Investment in AI-driven tools can enhance game design and player engagement.
  • Cloud gaming platforms offer NCSOFT expansion without high-end hardware requirements.
  • Cross-platform play can increase player retention and engagement across devices.

What critics are saying

  • Emerging indie studios like emptyvessel increase competition in the gaming market.
  • Market saturation in the MMO genre could limit growth opportunities for NCSOFT.
  • Advancements in holographic displays may shift consumer expectations in gaming.

What makes NCSOFT unique

  • NCSOFT is a pioneer in massively multiplayer online games since 1997.
  • The company has a strong global presence, especially in the Americas and Europe.
  • NCSOFT's diverse revenue streams include game sales, in-game purchases, and subscriptions.

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Funding

Total Funding

$240M

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Company News

Benton Courier
Jun 3rd, 2025
emptyvessel Secures $11M for DEFECT Expansion

Independent game studio emptyvessel has closed a Series A funding round led by NCSOFT, raising a total of $11 million, including a previous seed round. The funds will support the development of their game DEFECT, enabling single-player support and console expansion. The investment will also enhance the studio's remote work infrastructure. DEFECT is a cyberpunk, squad-based shooter set in a dystopian world, currently available for wishlisting on Steam and Epic Games Store.

AP News
Aug 5th, 2024
์—”์”จ, ์‹ ๊ทœ IP ํ™•๋ณด ์•ฝ์† '์ฐฉ์ฐฉ'โ€ฆ๋น…๊ฒŒ์ž„์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค์— 370์–ต ํˆฌ์ž

[AP์‹ ๋ฌธ = ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜์—ฐ ๊ธฐ์ž] ์—”์”จ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ(๊ณต๋™๋Œ€ํ‘œ ๊น€ํƒ์ง„ยท๋ฐ•๋ณ‘๋ฌด, 036570)๋Š” ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ์„œ๋ธŒ์ปฌ์ฒ˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ์ „๋ฌธ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ โ€˜๋น…๊ฒŒ์ž„์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค'์— 370์–ต์› ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ง€๋ถ„ ๋ฐ ํŒ๊ถŒ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  5์ผ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค. ์—”์”จ(NC)๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋น…๊ฒŒ์ž„์ด ์ถœ์‹œํ•  ์„œ๋ธŒ์ปฌ์ฒ˜ ์žฅ๋ฅด ์‹ ์ž‘ '๋ธŒ๋ ˆ์ด์ปค์Šค: ์–ธ๋ฝ ๋” ์›”๋“œ(BREAKERS: Unlock The World, ์ดํ•˜ ๋ธŒ๋ ˆ์ด์ปค์Šค)โ€™์˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํผ๋ธ”๋ฆฌ์‹ฑ ํŒ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ๋น…๊ฒŒ์ž„ ์ง€๋ถ„์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์–‘์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๋งบ๊ณ  ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์„ ์ถ”์ง„

AFJV
Jul 15th, 2024
Moon Rover Games secures $3.5M funding

Moon Rover Games, based in Stockholm, has raised $3.5 million from Korean game publisher Ncsoft to fund the development of an ambitious cooperative FPS, codenamed "Project Aldous," for PC and consoles. This strategic investment marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between the two companies. Ncsoft's co-CEO, Byungmoo Park, highlighted Moon Rover Games' expertise in the FPS genre and its innovative approaches as key factors in the investment.

Silicon Valley Journals
Feb 8th, 2023
LIGHT FIELD LAB CLOSES $50 MILLION SERIES B

Light Field Labยฎ, the creators of the SolidLightTM holographic display platform, announced today a $50 million Series B round led by global game developer

Game Toc
Sep 2nd, 2021
์—”์”จ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ, K-POP ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ์ปค๋„ฅํŠธ 30์–ต ํˆฌ์ž

K-POP, ๋ฎค์ง€์ปฌ ๋“ฑ ์˜จํƒํŠธ ๊ณต์—ฐ์˜ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ œ๊ณต์—…์ฒด ใˆœ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ์ปค๋„ฅํŠธ(๋Œ€ํ‘œ ์‹ ํฌ์šฉ)๊ฐ€ ใˆœ์—”์”จ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 30์–ต์›์˜ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ ์น˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.์–‘์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „๋žต์  ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์žฅ๊ธฐ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.2020๋…„ 4์›” ์ฐฝ์—…ํ•œ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ์ปค๋„ฅํŠธ๋Š” ๊ตญ๋‚ด์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ์˜จํƒํŠธ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ์ „๋ฌธ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์•„์ด์ฆˆ์›, ๋”๋ณด์ด์ฆˆ, ๊ฐ•๋‹ค๋‹ˆ์—˜, 27ํšŒ ๋“œ๋ฆผ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์˜จํƒํŠธ ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์•ˆ์ •์  ์†ก์ถœ ๋ ˆํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์™€ ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ์‹œ์  ๊ฐ์ƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ๋ทฐ, ์–ธ์–ด๋ณ„ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์ž๋ง‰,

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