Another Nexon America interview

http://www.mmogamer.com/10/07/2009/nexon...est-divide

I noticed that he cusses once.

Not really any new information, except perhaps the statistic of 92 million people playing Maplestory worldwide...

Hmm, couple things i noticed
1) that interview is a gramatical nightmare
2) Kim kept refering to global as localized for NA vs. being the main version for countries without their own version
3) lol @

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people were just copying the pomegranate out of them, and that basically killed that market.

Not really any new information, except perhaps the statistic of 92 million people playing Maplestory worldwide...

Nah, the "92 million" statistic was in one of their ads, it isn't new info.

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And it makes it seems very hardcore and we try to avoid that. All the localization actually happens here. That’s one of our key strengths here in the Los Angeles office, is that translation happens here. All the localization, UI, all that stuff is handled here and we work with our developers on that, versus just letting the developers be free with it which is a big problem. Culturally they just wouldn’t understand stuff.

Can they really believe that translations are one of their strong points?

I didn't really see aything noteworthy, just your typical bullpomegranateting w/o saying anything of importance

Well, to be fair, they did reveal their master plan:

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Once they grow out of that, and they’re already used to asking their parents to subscribe to something like Club Penguin, and then you’ve got these kids whose parents won’t let them subscribe, and they have this pent up urge to play something online… those kids are going to turn into teens.

Hook 'em young and then make everyone else jealous so you can get them later down the road aswell

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made you look?

Least now we know the obvious, that each version translates stuff in their own office instead of having nexon korea do it all.

-points to latest SEA extraction thread-