{"id":4436,"date":"2008-04-11T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4436"},"modified":"2013-03-11T19:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:44:23","slug":"hellgate-takes-off-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/hellgate-takes-off-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellgate Takes Off In Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5974\" alt=\"Hellgate Korean Wallpaper-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Hellgate-Korean-Wallpaper-S.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" \/>APRIL 11, 2008 \u2022 Hellgate: London became the most successful online game launch in South Korea in three years. The title was launched online at PC Bangs on Jan. 15, with retail sales commencing on Feb. 22. The game, released by Korean publisher Hanbitsoft, has already amassed more than 1 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact:\u00a0A big online game in South Korea can be a true cash cow.\u00a0 The success of StarCraft in Korea is what helped build Blizzard Entertainment&#8217;s online game business.\u00a0 NCsoft launched the online game Lineage in Korea in 1998 and it is still going strong.\u00a0 In the fourth quarter 2007, Lineage sales were up 37% over the fourth quarter 2006.\u00a0 For 2007 the original Lineage earned over $100 million in revenue in Korea and its 2003 sequel Lineage II made even more money. \u00a0So having a proven success in Korea is big news.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 11, 2008 \u2022 Hellgate: London became the most successful online game launch in South Korea in three years. The title was launched online at PC Bangs on Jan. 15, with retail sales commencing on Feb. 22. The game, released by Korean publisher Hanbitsoft, has already amassed more than 1 million subscribers. Impact:\u00a0A big online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}