And now for my number crunching with the new IR report numbers. As before, this should not be used to make any interpretation of the financials or business viability of NC. Their profit numbers are a totally different story. :) These numbers are just to see how many people are playing the game.

This time, these US numbers *do* include LoA server. If you recall in February, I expected the LoA numbers to significantly increase the total monthly subscriber base, but it didn't exactly do that :(

1. Good ^^: Between Dec 2002 and Mar 2003, the Lineage World has gained 2 servers (1 in Korea and our LoA).
2. Bad T_T: Total Global Mar 2003 Monthly Access is 2,713,413 down from 2,875,853 in Sep 2002 (down 6.0%). This loss is despite the growth of the Hong Kong customers (+17.7%) and the Japanese customers (+14.3%).
3. Neutral o.o: There are 1 million less monthly subscribers in Mar 2003 vs Sep 2001 in Korea. However, registered IPs have been steadily on the rise (increase of ~30,000) since Dec 2002.
4. Good ^^: On the US servers, the ratio of daily access to monthly access has gone up from 0.506 to 0.592 (but the total number of subscribers has gone down). This means that people are playing more on average.
5. Bad T_T: Based on these numbers, 0.344% of NC's Lineage customers play on US servers, down from 0.346% in December 2002. Insignificant change, really.

Conclusion: On a scale of 0-10, where 10 is "Looks like Lineage is going to be the only game in the world!" and 0 is "Bail! Bail!", I would rate this report as 5.