NCsoft Earnings. The main issue with HoT’s earnings is that, on the quarter after release, they fell back down to the falling pattern seen before the expansion was released. In other words, it looked like the expansion didn’t bring long term gain to ArenaNet; if anything, it gave the impression that units were sold to the current players, and that was it. Now, the earnings from PoF appear to be less than those from HoT, but looks can be deceiving. I’m more interested on what will happen on the long term — if the following quarters will return to a falling pattern from 13, or if there will be sustained gain with the new expansion. I personally think we will have to wait for the Q4 earnings report to conclude things. Q3 is only 1 and a half week of Pof from release. Hot had a longer hype period before the expac released, and many prepurchased blindly and got disappointed because hkw game was the opposite of casual friendly. It could be that people where more critic...