Nexon acquires Atlantica Online creators, NDOORS

In a stunning move that cements Nexon as one of the
biggest Korean MMO corporations, Nexon has acquired NDOORS

Interesting
news for Nexon and NDOORS fans (here!), as Nexon, the gigantic Korean
MMO development / publishing team behind many successful F2P MMOs like
Dungeon Fighter Online, Mabinogi, MapleStory and their upcoming MMO
Vindictus, has just announced that they have acquired NDOORS. For those
of you who don't know, NDOORS is the company that created Atlantica
Online, an incredibly innovative turn-based F2P MMORPG, where players
manage up to 8 mercenaries and a main character in fast, turn-based
combat. NDOORS is also fairly well known for their original work on
GoonZu Online and, more recently, their side-scrolling F2P MMO,
WonderKing Online.
What this means for fans of both companies, or fans who play games
under both companies, nobody really knows, although it is obviously
expected that this could just be shuffling behind the screens, with no
real problems on the main stage. Either way, this is huge news for the
Korean MMORPG industry! We'll keep you posted as this develops, and you
can read the full press release after the jump!

NEXON acquired 67percent of NDOORS’ quota, added as a subsidiary of
NEXON

May 3th, NEXON announced the acquisition of NDOORS Corp.
management rights. NDOORS is well-known for developing “Atlantica”,
“GoonZu”.

NEXON will acquire 67 percent stake of NDOORS
including the shares of the former chairman, Seong-Mun Kwon the largest
shareholders and has secured management rights as the largest
shareholder. NDOORS is incorporated as a subsidiary of NEXON.

Through
the acquisition of NDOORS, NEXON is able to increase the enterprise
value and to strengthen its core capabilities by adding the outstanding
development efforts of NDOORS.

“NEXON has been carrying out
ongoing investment in the companies with outstanding development
efforts” said Su-Min, CEO of NEXON. “NDOORS, as well as an excellent
development capability with domestic and international publishing
capabilities would be a big help to expand NEXON’s portfolio and to
carry out a global expansion policy” he added.

NDOORS was first
established in 1999 with the accumulated technical and game development
experience in the internet and gaming business. The main MMORPG titles
are “Atlantica”, “GoonZu”

Atlantica was awarded “Korea Games
Award First Prize” in 2008, and being a big cash cow in domestic and
overseas sales. In 2009, the consolidate revenue of NDOORS is 40.5
billion won / operating profit is 15.6 billion and its overseas sales
portion has accounted for 72% in its entire sales.

fat nubcakes... xD i wish they go bankrupt

lol Nexxus also go buy GameHi ^^ creators of Dekaron

game company merging is a good trend.more big titles ^^

Shu wrote:

game company merging is a good trend.more big titles ^^

beter Dekaron FTW we want action 7 lol

oh hi shu i missed you
you stil doing ok i hope

so far you no i play dekaron again and i never lvl so far now but its geting beter and beter
so i hope i can show you pics that i made it to 102 and have my wings ^^

for the rest i hope to play a new game with you guys but for now most are boring try them all but meh not for me what i want

so do take care and hope to see you soon