Have a look at the NC Interactive figures... went from a $7million loss for Q2 to just a $400K loss....
Mr.G, you yourself have stated that half that of Paragon Studios was working on non-CoH projects - and when you destroy an entire studio, you also destroy all expenses that studio incurred. A single figure for all says nothing about what part of NCI itself may have been in the black and what may have been in the red.
But that's by-the-by to an extent - my major concern is that prior to this release, the red figures for NCI were very little different from what they have been for many Qs now...so why the decision to close CoH
NOW? There's nothing in the report that indicates a sudden need to change the running of NCI. Remember the closure came as a shock to everyone, players and devs alike.
And if NCsoft HQ knew profits were going to rise the moment B&S and GW2 hit the shelves, that means there's even
less reason to close something they'd been happy to keep in an apparent red column for years.
That's what I mean by questioning what they stood to gain. Once again, the only logic comes from a notion of "quietly burying something old and small while there's a big clamour going on to cover it" (which they could've done during any previous game launch while CoH was running tbh, should they have
needed to) or else some bizarre personal reason known only to TJKim himself. Personally, I'm more and more favouring the latter explanation.
