NCSoft Stockwatch

[Victoria Victrix]

Yeah I heard what this 80 million price tag was supposed to entail.

But sounds like there is really no known source of this information is what I'm getting from your statement? It's all just all floating rumor?

I was NEVER able to find a reliable source for that number.  Brian's number was the much-more-reasonable one that was 1/8 of that price.

[JaguarX]

I was NEVER able to find a reliable source for that number.

Same here.

[Terwyn]

Where did it come from, then?

I'm disappointed in myself for reporting on it if it wasn't as reliable a number as I had thought.

I suppose everyone makes such failures of confirmation of evidence on occasion.

[Golden Girl]

This would be ideal.

Example: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/24/court-approves-thq-asset-sales/

[JaguarX]

Where did it come from, then?

I'm disappointed in myself for reporting on it if it wasn't as reliable a number as I had thought.

I suppose everyone makes such failures of confirmation of evidence on occasion.

Hey we are all only human.

[FatherXmas]

I was NEVER able to find a reliable source for that number.  Brian's number was the much-more-reasonable one that was 1/8 of that price.

But you were the one who first mentioned it.

Well now, you have to remember that what is LEGAL and what is INTERESTING are two different things.  For instance, apparently it is not fraudulent for NCSoft to value all their IPs together at about $3m for tax purposes, yet tell their stockholders that CoH itself is worth $80m.  It's not fraudulent...but it's not ethical, and I bet their stockholders don't know that little tidbit of information.  And that is the sort of thing they would find very difficult to explain to a CNN business reporter.

And later.

Let me say I very recently got the $80 million figure from a third-party source I consider trustworthy, along with some other information that would probably send blood pressures soaring, but I need to get confirmation of that figure from the parties directly involved.

I assume you meant you couldn't get another independent source to confirm it.  So your trustworthy source was giving you a number that when shared would naturally outrage us all and thus be perpetuated throughout the MMO media as we spread the story?

[Taceus Jiwede]

Brian's number was the much-more-reasonable one that was 1/8 of that price.

Excellent if this is true I can put my complicated yet brilliant plan into motion!

Now for step 1:  Win Mega Millions and buy CoH from NCSoft with literally Wheelbarrows full of won, I would use American currency but you can fill more Wheelbarrows with won

[Victoria Victrix]

But you were the one who first mentioned it.

And later.

I assume you meant you couldn't get another independent source to confirm it.  So your trustworthy source was giving you a number that when shared would naturally outrage us all and thus be perpetuated throughout the MMO media as we spread the story?

You have made a fundamental error in conflating two very different numbers.  You are mistaking the number pulled from the stockholder's report on the value of the CoH IP for a number that NCSoft was ASKING for the CoH IP.  The 80 million figure is right there in the stockholder's report for anyone to see, including you.  I was never able to confirm that NCSoft ever ASKED 80 million.

[FatherXmas]

You have made a fundamental error in conflating two very different numbers.  You are mistaking the number pulled from the stockholder's report on the value of the CoH IP for a number that NCSoft was ASKING for the CoH IP.  The 80 million figure is right there in the stockholder's report for anyone to see, including you.  I was never able to confirm that NCSoft ever ASKED 80 million.

Link please because I believe I have all of their stockholder reports and I don't remember seeing either the $3 million or $80 million number.

[UruzSix]

... Popcorn, anyone?

[malonkey1]

...Okay, well It looks like NCSoft's bump was just that. Their stocks could still rise, but it looks like this was a normal fluctuation in what looks like a brief plateau. Would you call a flat spot after a drop a plateau? A valley? A meadow?

[Quinch]

Usually a valley, I think.

[FatherXmas]

...Okay, well It looks like NCSoft's bump was just that. Their stocks could still rise, but it looks like this was a normal fluctuation in what looks like a brief plateau. Would you call a flat spot after a drop a plateau? A valley? A meadow?

Yes, because being up 6% for the week is a plateau and dropping 0.33% from the closing high for the week is a downturn.

Anyways the big date to remember is Feburary 5th is when the 4Q and annual numbers come out.  The next big move is then.

[General Idiot]

I'll keep hoping it'll be a move downward then. Because I'm not bitter about CoH, not at all.

[Hyperstrike]

It keeps bouncing like someone who's been hung with a bungee cord...

[JaguarX]

It keeps bouncing like someone who's been hung with a bungee cord...

sounds like average stock.

Like one of those heart monitor things.

[Quinch]

It keeps bouncing like someone who's been hung with a bungee cord...

Maybe it needs to be tied around the neck instead.

[Taceus Jiwede]

It keeps bouncing like someone who's been hung with a bungee cord...

Lol, that is a seriously morbid joke.

[Colette]

"Anyway, the big date to remember is February 5th, when the fourth quarter and annual numbers come out.  The next big move is then."

I'll take some of that popcorn, Uruzsix.

[UruzSix]

I'll take some of that popcorn, Uruzsix.

Let's see, they had two million boxes of GW2 sold within a week or two of launch, didn't get their third million until the holidays...