NCsoft CEO Stands at Crossroads

Things don’t seem to be going well for NCsoft Korea as of late, with much angst towards CEO, Kim Taek-jin. The past few months in particular haven’t been smooth sailing, as many employees are leaving and internal scandals occurring, but Tabula Rasa’s release may be able to bring them out of the ditch they are beginning to fall into. That game might be the reason it’s happening at all though, according to Korea Times.

Other than the financial overload, the “Tabula Rasa” project was one of the big reasons many employees of NCsoft lost their confidence in CEO Kim. He hired Richard Garriott and his brother Robert Garriott in 2001 by allegedly paying 16 billion won ($17 million) in cash and 1.5 million shares in stock options, worth 50 billion won. But the brothers failed to deliver the product as promised, and the project has been protracted for six years.

Source: Kotaku