Nexon picks up Unity enterprise license

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2012-01-17, 05:00 PM
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http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/ima...9691/nexon.jpgNewsbrief: Korean online game developer and publisher Nexon has licensed Unity Technologies' game engine with the intent of adopting the platform "on a massive scale" across all of its global subsidiaries. With this broad agreement, Nexon -- which has over 1.2 billion registered users playing its tremendously popular free-to-play games like MapleStory, Kart Rider, and Dungeon Fighter Online -- can access and modify all of Unity's products, including its source code. The publisher employs more ...
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2012-01-17, 05:10 PM
Nion

... we don't have Kart Rider anymore in the American version. :(
2012-01-17, 05:59 PM
MuscleWizard

Isn't Unity used a lot on iOS games?
2012-01-17, 06:23 PM
Zelkova

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Originally Posted by MuscleWizard

Isn't Unity used a lot on iOS games?

Unity is a cross platform game engine. It is mostly utilized with inbrowser games and i suppose iOS games as well. It can even be used on consoles such as the Wii. I looked into the usage of it quite some time ago (year and a half?) when I first joined SP.
2012-01-17, 06:44 PM
MuscleWizard

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Originally Posted by Zelkova

Unity is a cross platform game engine. It is mostly utilized with inbrowser games and i suppose iOS games as well. It can even be used on consoles such as the Wii. I looked into the usage of it quite some time ago (year and a half?) when I first joined SP.

Huh, learn something new every day. Reason I asked is because a lot of the games on my phone run on unity.
2012-01-18, 01:17 PM
iamflip

Oh this is interesting, considering that the Unity game engine does have quite a bit of potential as demonstrated here.

Hmm, maybe they can port Kart Rider to the Unity game engine...
2012-01-18, 02:40 PM
Evilince

1.2 billion? I really doubt that but I'm probably wrong
2012-01-18, 03:05 PM
Sewil

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Originally Posted by Evilince

1.2 billion? I really doubt that but I'm probably wrong

Nexon isn't just Global, Nexon is merged with Wizet, so they probably calculates all of maplestory's servers, and all the other games.
2012-01-18, 03:21 PM
Raul

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Originally Posted by Sewil

Nexon isn't just Global, Nexon is merged with Wizet, so they probably calculates all of maplestory's servers, and all the other games.

And it's based on ACCOUNTS.
Anyone wanna guess how many of those accounts are botters/hackers/mults for even legits?
I know I have 2 accounts, I've heard people say they have 7 or 8.