The free-to-play industry received yet another ‘we must be doing something right’ confirmation yesterday when it was announced that gaming portal ijji.com has now topped over 9 million registered players since launch in 2006. Ijji.com is the Irvine, California based subsidiary of South Korean ISP NHN.
Demonstrating compounded growth, 9 million users indicates that the portal has upped it’s user count by 40 percent in the last year alone. Focused mainly on ‘hardcore’ gaming titles, ijji.com offers a wide range of free-to-play titles including first person shooters, MMORPG’s, and racers to name a few. Most popular at ijji.com? Lunia, GunZ, The Fuel, Soldier Front, and Drift City.
“Gamers have made ijji.com their destination of choice because we dared to be committed to fast action, intense online games,” says Philip Yun, CEO of ijji.com’s host NHN USA. “The recent flood of new memberships serves as an amazing validation that we are on the right track, offering an unequaled collection of quality, hardcore games in one place.”
While ijji.com is now counting over 9 million registered users, they’re now only building on this success. Over the coming months, ijji has four new titles on tap. Soul of the Ultimate Nation is a fantasy based MMORPG, Alliance of Valiant Arms, a first person shooter based on the successful Unreal Engine 3, which is set in “the deserted urban streets of a modern day world war”, KARMA: Operation Barbarossa, an alternate reality FPS set in Europe under German control, and perhaps the most anticipate ijji release, Huxley, Webzen’s MMO that has strong FPS action and elements mixed in with a character advancement system.
Ijji.com features free to play gaming, both traditional Action and RPG games, along with a host of Card/Board games, flash based games, and wide variety of mini (casual) games. Titles are supported through various in-game customizations via the companies proprietary g-coin RMT system.
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