**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
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5* to rest all
Regardless, I won't complain about a free gift. Looking forward to seeing what we get!
Cavalier: 15000 5 star shards and 2000 6 star shards.
Uncollected: 10000 5 star shards and 1500 6 star shards.
Conqueror: 5000 5 star shards and 1 4 star crystal.
Proven and Below: 1000 5 star shards and 4 star crystal.
If you were as knowledgeable as you're trying to present yourself, you wouldn't post those. Instead, you'd do the homework and read the financials. Marvel Contest of Champions typically represents about 14-15% of Netmarbles gross revenue as reported in their financial statements. In the last full year of information Netmarble made about 2000 billion in 2018. That's Korean Wan, not dollars. At average exchange rates, that is about 1.7 billion dollars. They are on track to do somewhat better this year, as they did last year. Let's say they do similar in the full fiscal year 2019 as they did in 2017, which would be about 2500 billion krw, or about 2.2 billion dollars. MCOC would account for about 330 million dollars of gross revenue.
Typical profitability rates for a game like this are in the range of 15% or so (Netmarble's overall profitability is around 12%). Let's say MCOC is a super gangbusters profit engine and is 30% profitable. That means it actually makes about 100 million dollars a year. Netmarble bought Kabam (or most of it) for a reported 700-800 million dollars back in 2017. Remember: MCOC is a licensed property. Even 30% profitability might be a stretch, because Marvel/Disney is almost certainly getting a very good cut of this game.
Of course, Netmarble got other games besides MCOC in that deal, so it isn't just MCOC that has to pay that bill. But we can guestimate the share of the profits between Kabam and the preexisting properties because profits per share roughly doubled from 2016 and 2017 when Kabam was acquired. Which means of the roughly 260 million dollars that Netmarble made on average between 2017 and 2018, about half or 130 million is probably due to Kabam (which also, incidentally, places limits on how profitable MCOC can be alone). At that rate, the break even return on investment is about 5-6 years. So roughly between 2022 and 2023 Netmarble should break even on what they paid for Kabam.
Sure, things like performance bonuses and profit sharing programs still happen, but the vast overwhelming majority of MCOC (and all other Kabam property) revenue is almost certainly going towards giving Netmarble a return on their expense.
And if you knew anything about profit sharing programs, you'd know they are almost never proportional to actual net profits: they are a venue to share the profits of the company with employees, but they don't necessarily go up and down year by year with the magnitude of the company's profits. I say this as the plan administrator for my company, as well as the person that calculates performance bonuses for the company. We did not do as well this year as last year, but we've done well enough overall recently that everyone's performance based compensation went up a little as a result.
This is worth stating, although no person who runs a company needs to have this mentioned to them. My employees' job is not to make money for the company. Their job is to do what I tell them to do. My job is to make sure we make money while they do it.
Also.. be careful about asking questions on these forums.. it might just get you "banned" from making new posts..
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