Saturday, March 19, 2011

Wow, I need to support this game company

I'm really encouraged by how many in the gaming community are coming together to support Japan and the Japanese in its crisis. Square-Enix is giving 100 million yen to support the recovery effort in Japan, in addition to shutting down its massive reveneue generating online game servers in Japan for Final Fantasy 11 and 14. I just can't picture very many american or european companies shutting down their ability to make money for the greater good of the country. Nexon is also donating millions to the cause of japanese relief.

But the most impressive to me was NCSoft who is donating 500 million yen, about 1 months revenue to them to aid with the Japanese recovery. More importantly, NCsoft is a Korean company and Korea and Japan do not have a friendly history towards each other. Many older Japanese and Koreans still bear major grudges towards each other. Japan occupied Korea prior to WW1 and held onto it until the end of WW2. So for NCSoft to send a huge some of money of say their thoughts and prayers are with them is a huge deal.

Way to go NCSoft, guess I'm definitely going to have to buy Guild Wars 2 and give it a try. Because that is the type of company I want to support.

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