NCsoft Product Launches Pull Eye-Popping Numbers in North America

City of Heroes Already at 100,000 Plus Subscribers, Lineage Service Hits More Than 60K

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004--NCsoft® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS), the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today revealed that its two recent releases, City of Heroes™ and Lineage® II, already have reached more than 160,000 subscribers combined since they launched simultaneously in North America on April 28. City of Heroes has more than 100,000 subscribers and the Lineage service has moved past 60,000 subscribers. The numbers were reached in less than two weeks and were attained with what some are calling one of the smoothest commercial service launches in the history of massively multiplayer online games.