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Among the mobile games with a global revenue of more than $1 billion announced earlier, Chinese and European and American games are the mainstays, but South Korea's RPG games are missing. The development of Netmarble (Netmarble), the leader of the Korean mobile game industry, in 2021, seems to show the development of Korean mobile games.
Netmarble, a game company that is unfamiliar but familiar to everyone, a Korean game company founded in 2000, is now the largest mobile game company in South Korea. There are many well-known mobile games, among which the "Seven Knights" series, "Heaven 2" mobile games, "Sword Spirit" mobile games and so on are the most well-known to the public. Several mobile games are also popular in the past two years, and the action of Magome in 2021 can be said to be frequent.
Today the little brother will come to talk to everyone about the things that Netstone will do in 2021!
I. "Two Kingdoms" and "Marvel: Future Revolution"
When it comes to what Netstone has done in 2021, it is natural to avoid Netstone's two new works - "Two Kingdoms" and "Marvel: Future Revolution".
Judging from the financial report of Q3, because of the launch of "Two Countries" and "Marvel: Future Revolution", the sales of Q3 have risen sharply, an increase of 5.2% over the previous quarter.
Of course, these two games are also very competitive, as a game that was only launched in August, these two games can be said to provide super high income to Netstone. In just 11 days of listing, Nino kuni brought in $100 million (640 million yuan) in revenue, and is said to be the fastest mobile game in the history of games to achieve $100 million in revenue. And "Marvel: Future Revolution" also reached $30 million in revenue in a month, which can be said to be a full pot.
"Nichinomiku" mobile game before the launch can be said to be full of players' expectations, after all, this Japanese national treasure-level studio Ghibli as the game's screen creation, so that the game's art directly reached the two-dimensional ceiling, I believe that many players rushed to the name of Ghibli and Miyazaki Hayao this game.
Although the game graphics are excellent, for the game, only the picture is definitely not enough, the gameplay is the core of the game. And "Two Kingdoms" failed in the gameplay of the game.
If you have paid attention to the little brother before, you may remember that the little brother also criticized this game, automatic pathfinding, automatic monster fighting, automatic drinking medicine, large and small monthly cards all plus combat power, equipment, fashion, espers must be smoked! And the game is very serious krypton, according to unknown netizens commented, the game played to level 21 3 times pop up kryptonite interface, but the way to obtain diamonds is almost not touched.
Although "Two Kingdoms" has added a lot of new gameplay of MMORPG games, such as the kingdom system and the esper system, etc., the game content looks like a skinning game for the "Paradise" and "Sword Spirit" mobile games.
If you use a sentence to describe it, it is a pile of Japanese seafood from Ghibli, but mesh has made it into a Korean army hot pot with a permanent taste. Netizens complained that the point of the game is also like this, so the rating of "Two Kingdoms" has not been very high.
However, players scolded, Krypton returned to Krypton, "Two Kingdoms" in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as Japan and South Korea has always been good, 2021 Netstone's most profitable game is "Two Kingdoms" is no other.
"Marvel: Future Revolution" is also the main product of 2021 Netstone, if the target user of "Two Kingdoms" is a two-dimensional player, then "Marvel: Future Revolution" is to attract fans who like open-world RPGs and superheroes, and the initial slogan also played the banner of "AAA masterpiece in mobile games".
As an open-world game, Marvel: Future Revolution also has a variety of game modes such as Blitzkrieg (direct group fight boss), special combat (protection of civilians), crusade (many-on-one confrontation, similar to Dawn Kill), and Omega war (multiplayer team confrontation).
And the 2021 Apple conference also specially used "Marvel: Future Revolution" as a game that introduces the 20Hz refresh rate screen and the A15 bionic chip with stronger performance, and "Marvel: Future Revolution" can be said to be full of cards!
Of course, everyone understands, there is no national uniform.
As Marvel's first open-world RPG mobile game, it is reasonable to say that sales should be good. However, the younger brother checked the iOS best-seller list of "Marvel: Future Revolution", when it was just on the shelves, it was probably still in the game best-seller list or so, and then the ranking fell all the way, and now it is almost gone on the game best-seller list, although it still accounts for 13% of the sales in the Q3 financial report of The Netstone, but the follow-up income should be general.
So it seems that the same is open world, or is "Original God" more ok?
However, the irony is that although Netstone is the largest mobile game company in South Korea, the most profitable Korean mobile game in 2021 is not his home, and the "Odin: Divine Judgment" that came to the Kakao family has continuously dominated the Korean mobile game best-seller list for 100 days, and the netstone does not know how far.
Second, engage in casual games and enter the NTF
Of course, the power point of Netstone in 2021 cannot rely on the two axes of "Two Kingdoms" and "Marvel: Future Revolution" to rely on the two axes to dominate the mobile game industry.
People trapped at home by the epidemic always have an energy catharsis point, and the number of players and consumption levels in the game industry in the past two years has risen, and the influx of the elderly and children has also made casual games a hot topic. Netstone will also use casual games as a point of strength in 2021.
In August 2021, Netstone officially announced a $2.19 billion acquisition of SpinX Games, the world's third-largest social spinach game developer, a 2014-based game company based in Hong Kong, China, whose casual games include Cash Frenzy, Lotsa Slots and Jackpot World.
The acquisition cost almost all of Netstone's full-year 2020 revenue, but considering that SpinX Games' 2020 revenue is about $432 million, which means that even if the scale of casual games does not expand, it will only take about 5 years for Netstone to return to its costs, so the deal is still very cost-effective.
Then the actual income, according to the financial report of Netstone Q3, the income can be reflected in the fourth quarter of the financial report, may wish to look forward to it.
There is also a new money-making weapon is NTF, just in 2021, the success of South Korea's "Legend 4" game made the concept of NTF (non-homogeneous currency) sought after by players for a time, the game generated virtual currency and can be freely traded also let many game manufacturers see the economic potential.
Netstone is no exception, and in 2021, Netstone's North American subsidiary, Jam City, said it was about to launch an NFT mobile game. The character in this game will appear in the form of NTF, which players can acquire through, for example, combat, and can be profitable by reselling the character.
However, this NTF is closely related to concepts such as metaversity and blockchain, and whether it is a sensational gimmick or a real frontier in the game industry, it can only allow time to identify.
The younger brother and you say: Although there are many mobile games under the umbrella of Mesh, the game homogenization of the main MMORPG and RPG gameplay is serious, and it is difficult to produce highlights, especially the high-profile "Two Kingdoms". Although there are many games in the Korean mobile game market today, there are very few revenues and word-of-mouth that seem to be really famous. Netstone is a brother in the Korean mobile game industry, not to mention other game manufacturers.
One final question: Which game do you think is the most fun for Meshstone?