NCSoft Addresses Rumors and States "We're Not Leaving Gaming"

"Uh, no. No, we're NCSoft. We make games, guys."

NCSoft debunked the recent rumors that it might be getting out of the gaming business in a discussion with Wired's Game|Life. They maintain that their core competency is gaming and state that that won't be changing anytime soon. How did all this hullabaloo happen in the first place, then? According to NCSoft, it was sloppy reporting:

For its story, the Times drew from comments made by NCsoft CEO Kim Taek-jin at a university lecture to suggest that the company, facing dwindling profits from its games, was looking to shift its focus into social networking sites.

The Times "got its facts wrong," said Swofford, who claims that the reporter did not attend the lecture himself, and misunderstood the remarks.

Taek-jin, Swofford says, is "interested in what's out there in terms of social networking and the Internet and new technologies we can use to get our content out to the players. There's lots of new and innovative things out there."

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