NCsoft Dev Corner Launched

NCsoft has begun a new column on their PlayNC website designed to allow developers to contribute their perspective on the MMORPG market, what games the company is working on, and more. NCsoft’s Chris Mayer kicks it off:

You can expect NCsoft to continue to produce different games with unusual business models and genres for the foreseeable future. Our strategy of being different continued with Auto Assault in 2006, and will be the same in 2007 with Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa and Dungeon Runners. Tabula Rasa will be the first high budget MMOG to bring exhilarating, action-oriented game play fused with traditional RPG mechanics to the market. The game blows me away with its high intensity action and exciting game mechanics. This will be another great game created by one of the industry’s legendary game designers, Richard Garriott. Dungeon Runners is free-to-download and free-to-play, and may remind everyone of some fast-paced, fantasy, action RPGs they’ve played before, but we’re delivering it with the quality stamp that NCsoft brings to all its products. Other free-to-play and download games will simply not be able to stand up in comparison to Dungeon Runners, and in many ways we see this game as a gift to our fans. You can expect more free-to-play MMO and MMO-lite products from NCsoft in the future to continue our dominance of this market.