GGL Digs Into NCsoft, Sony Partnership

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As most of you know, last Wednesday we announced a new exclusive game development deal with NCSoft, the company behind big MMO games like Lineage and City of Heroes. We’ve been getting a lot of questions about it and thought you might be interested in checking out this interview our friends at Global Gaming League and Epileptic Gaming did with NCSoft’s President of North America.

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  • *checks Blog*

    – No Sony comment about anything

    *yawn*

    *leaves with sad face*

  • I want Lair or Heavenly Sword, not a some weak sauce demo of a game that I can already go out and buy.

    What’s the deal Sony? Think fresh! Like Massengill!

  • So nothing is up yet! I’m at work so I can’t exactly log in. They better not act this isn’t an update day.

  • Sounds good, hope they make some addicting/fun rpg online games.

  • Looks like someone is trying to get more customers but not taking care of the people that already bought it.

    Great customer satisfaction so far!

  • I wonder if there’s something else going on as to why we aren’t getting very many demos on PSN, especially third-party one. Look at the amount of game released for the PS3 that have no demo yet:

    All Pro Football 2k8
    Rainbow Six Vegas
    The Darkness
    The Bigs
    NCAA 08
    Transformer
    Harry Potter
    Fantastic Four
    Enchanted Arms
    Virtua Fighter 5
    F.E.A.R.
    Fight Night Round 3
    Spider-Man 3
    Def Jam Icon
    NBA Street Homecourt
    Sonic The Hedgehog
    Splinter Cell Double Agent
    Tiger Woods 07
    Surf’s Up
    Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
    Stuntman Ignition
    Blacksite: Area 51
    Need For Speed Carbon

    I would say easily 75% of these games have demos on xbox live! Granted, Xbox live! has been out longer but c’mon, how about some of the new stuff!? Dark Kingdoms, Blacksite, Need For Speed, Virtua Fighter 5, FEAR… these are no-brainers.

    I can’t imagine what excuse Sony has for not having these demos up on PSN.

  • Kratos_ate_Snake

    I sure wish they told us why we don’t get demos from those games.

    And I hate when people say that it is not up to them, because you know that if they wanted to, they could make it mandatory to have demos for every game released on the PS3. How cool would that be.

  • Hey I just got back from Wal-Mart, had to go get Premonition on Blu-Ray and some drink for the weekend.

    Anyways the Blu-Ray section was empty I got the last copy of Premonition while the HD DVD section looked like it had not been touched in weeks.

    Still no Heavenly Sword demo. I was hoping by the time I got back it would be up. Oh well only an hour and a half left of work today.

  • You people aren’t gonna get an update until you learn to behave yourselves!!! Sit up straight while you’re at it

  • GIVE ME AN UPDATE ALREADY. IN A PERFECT WORLD THEY WOULD BE THERE RIGHT WHEN I WOKE UP!!!

  • You know what would be cool? If people from people from SONY actually posted on THEIR OWN BLOG! Sad seeing 200+ comment/questions unreplied/unanswered…

  • @TMadd

    I agree.

  • @TMadd

    I also agree

  • OKAY ANY PS3 OWNERS… NO UPDATES TODAY SO FAR???????

  • uk ps store got an update

  • @TMadd

    I agree too.

    Don’t have time for the Blog? Hire a person to be here and read posts. Come on, I work and have a life and still read almost all the comments. How hard could this be?

  • @blizzard182

    Same here. I work from 8a.m. to 6p.m. Eastern Time and I stay glued to this blog. The least I could ask for is a response from someone at Sony to whatever topic we may be on.

  • SCEA’s water cooler must sure see a lot of action…

    “Demos? When we feel like it!”

  • Patrick was doing a good job at first. I dont know if he got put on another project?

  • Oh, and if THQ can stand behind there upcoming Jucied 2 title with a demo that hit Poorbox Live today surely we can get the Heavenly Sword demo this week. Both games come out in Sept.

  • Yeah, he was answering quite often.

    Developers also answered a couple of times in their posts.

    But Sony people have not been around much. With answer of course. I think that if someone come to say “Hi, what’s up?” I would be pissed. Even if it is Phil Harrison himself.

  • How do you change your avatar for this site?

  • So is there any secret budget titles comin out 4 my sweet ps3. Cause im poor and demos not coming anytime soon. DEMOS rock, cuz it FREE.

  • Kratos_ate_Snake

    if the us store doesn’t get an update today I am going to laugh my ballls off. then I will be pissed of course.

  • @TMadd

    Click on your (for now empty) avatar. It will lead you to the website so you could create it. Then wait like 24hs or so until it shows up here.

  • I’m all for letting Sony know something is wrong but if you expect an answer to all your personal questions, forget about it.

  • Naaah. Forget about personal questions. How about my next firmware update? Or why all I hear since I bought the PS3 is “We are working on that!”

    Don’t do all together because it leads to this. A lot of time between some real update. Concentrate on one thing. Release it. Move on = People happy.

  • sony probably waitin til after TGS to giv us everything we’ve been begging for. i hope

  • THERE BETTER NOT BE ANTOHER WEEKEND WITH NO UPDATES. THIS WILL FORCE ME TO GET A 360 SINCE THEY KNOW HOW TO KEEP LIVE FANS HAPPY…

  • @ blizzard182

    thanks :)

  • is LIVE free?
    if so den dat kinda cool.

  • @blizzard182

    I wouldn’t want to come on to a board just to be yelled at anyway. If they don’t have an official answer to give, then they can’t say anything.

    Personally, I just want more posts overall. When work is slow and this site doesn’t update all day, it forces me to read comments… and most the comments are just people begging for demos, so it gets old.

  • More posts would be a good thing!

  • Kratos_ate_Snake

    WOW… look at all the cool videos in teh store today…..wow that will keep me entertained all weekend long..

  • @234
    no demos?

  • Off topic: Wow, good thursday update. I was not expecting Castlevania SOTN in it. You got yourself a purchase. Keep it up Sony, I can’t wait for the Heavenly Sword demo next week ;).

  • Kratos_ate_Snake

    YES Fiaz, of course there are no demos, what did you expect heavenly sword?

    btw, yes I was being sarcastic…although there are some good trailers infamous & GT.

  • ATTN SONY!

    You dropped the ball once again on coming through with the demos, but I’m willing to forgive you (THIS WEEK!!!) since you were nice enough to upload the two GT5 Prologue. :)

  • @Xoonaka

    I did not mean to be rude.

    I know that begging for Demos is getting kinda old but I am saying posts, just posts. They posted when firmware 1.82 was almost done. So why are not they doing the same now?

    If they have no official things to say here, then why is this Blog official? Sorry to tell this again but I have more info in IGN. I enter here to have some inside info coming directly from Sony.

  • ANTHING NEW TO BUY ON THE PSN NETWORK.. PLEASE SOMEBODY…ANYBODY..RESPOND

  • @237
    anything to play

  • Today’s update in PS Store or those who want to know>

    Castlevania (For PSP and PS3)
    GT Prologue: 2 vids
    Ratchet & Clank: 1 vid
    Infamous E3 trailer
    Heavenly Sword: Making off Video.
    The brothers solomo, Resident Evil, I am a Legend (All Trailers)

    I think some of these were part of the last update. Can not remember

  • @BLIZZARD
    THANKS FOR HELPING A BROTHER OUT WHILE IM AT WORK. WONDER IF THAT CASTLEVANIA IS A PSONE GAME

  • Yeah I believe it is. I just got home from work and saw all of that.

    It is a nice update nevertheless.

  • What a super weak update. If you can call it an update. The ps1 games shouldn’t even count as content. The funny think is that they put one classic game up. Damm, put like 3 at least. Very weak. I love Sony and I have supported them from the very begining, but I ‘am starting to wonder if they even care about their online community. LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • THANK YOU SONY. Great stuff, I got everything downloading right now.

    Again thank you.

  • SONY YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    GAY TRAILERS FOR GAY MOVIES!!

    UK & Australia get the Darkness demo and yet once again…YUP ONCE AGAIN WE GET NOTHING BUT TRAILERS!!!

    LIKE I SAID IN A PREVIOUS POSTS MAYBE BY REPEATING MYSELF WILL SOMEONE AT SONY FINALLY LISTEN (YEA RIGHT WHO THE HELL AM I KIDDING)

    YOU HAVE TO COMPETE TO BEAT!!!!

    HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY COMPETE WITH THE AMOUNT OF DEMOS AND CONTENT XBOX HAS???

    IM A REALIST I DONT CARE WHAT YOU DID IN THE PAST OR WHAT YOU HAVE IN STORE FOR THE UNFORSEEABLE FUTURE…RIGHT HERE IN THE NOW…YOU HAVE NOTHING TO COMPETE WITH!!!!

    SAD!!! VERY SAD!!! AND YOU CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE THOUSANDS OF HOPEFULS AND FAITHFULS DYING TO HAVE A GOOD GAME OR A GOOD DEMO…YOU TRY TO BLOW SMOKE UP OUR A** WITH A CHEAP TRAILER…

    LAST I CHECKED SONY I BOUGHT A VIDEOGAME CONSOLE!!!!!!!!!!

    NOT A G**DAMN MOVIE PLAYER!!!

  • AND ONE MORE THING…STOP EXPECTING SONY TO REPLY!!!!!!

    THEY HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO LIKE PUT TOGETHER THE NEXT UPDATE OF TRAILERS FOR NEXT WEEKS PSN UPDATE

    SONY WILL NOT RESPOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO ITS NOT WORTH ASKING FOR IT…JUST LIKE IT NOT WORTH ASKING FOR DEMOS/GAMES/PRICE CUTS OR EVEN ANSWERS

  • Wow, some of you people need to grow the hell up. They’re obviously working on getting content to the store, but it’s not going to happen instantly. It takes time to prepare demos and what not. If you’re that impatient, then you really need to find something else to occupy your time and not waste every moment crying about the demos you didn’t receive.

  • THIS BLOG IS A JOKE!!! A P.R. JOKE AND MARKETING SCAM!!!

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