We’ve heard of CEOs, CFOs, and COOs, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard of a CDO. That’s the new title for industry veteran Chris Corry, who was announced yesterday as NCSoft’s Chief Development Officer, a newly created role that will see him “responsible for overseeing all development in the west.”
That’s a pretty all-encompassing role, one which might mean Corry will have an influence on Blade & Soul, Aion, Guild Wars 2, and WildStar, as well as the Lineage franchise. While his most recent jobs were at Kabam and Zynga, he’s got a strong non-mobile, non-social media gaming background, judging by this biographical profile:
At EA Los Angeles, he was the development director of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, senior development director of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, and executive producer of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.
That said, given the outstanding success of Lineage M in Korea, it wouldn’t be surprising at all for Corry’s main task to be replicating that success in the West.
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Join discussionYo Dawg, I heard NCSoft likes loot boxes so I will put loot boxes in your loot boxes so we can loot boxes
So basically going to cash grab every future title.
Basically just don’t make poor decisions like the previous team to sabotage yourself. MxM might have actually lived but they just kept making poor decisions over and over and over….