The release of the global version of the Mmorpg Throne and Liberty took place on October 1, 2024 and for the first three months there was a peak of interest in the game and profit. Amazon Games does not comment on the profit from the published games, and NCSoft is not shown TL in quarterly financial reports. However, there is a way to find out the approximate figure.
To do this, we need to pay attention to the Royalty indicator from the financial report of NCSoft for the fourth quarter of 2024. Here all the deductions from third -party publishers and developers are shown: all localizations from Innova, the Chinese version of Blade & Soul 2, Lineage 2: Revolution from Netmarble, and so on. In the fourth quarter, only one game was added to this item – the global version of Throne and Liberty.
The first three quarters of 2024, the amount of deductions grew from 1.3 to 3.4 million dollars, and the fourth quarter showed an increase of 24.3 million. Suppose that the tendency to increase royalties has been preserved in the fourth quarter, which means that the global version of Throne and Liberty brought NCSOFT in the region of $ 23 million.
Unfortunately, we do not know what percentage of sales to Amazon Games pays NCSoft partners. However, it can be assumed that this can be 20-30%. Why so? The publisher has already paid money for the publication of the game, so we exclude the option with 50% and above, and less than 20% seem too modest. As a result, it turns out that the revenue of the global version of TL is: at 30% of the deductions – 77 million, and at 20% of deductions – $ 115 million. But these are only assumptions based on indirect data, and, perhaps, once we learn real numbers.
Be that as it may, the game will no longer show such a profit – the audience decreased by 90%, and the peak online only during the siege reaches 40 thousand players. The output of Wilds of Talandre in March 2025 will return part of the past audience to the game, but you should not count on starting records of 336 thousand.
