WeMade announced on the 3rd that its consolidated sales for the third quarter of 2021 increased by 166.9% to 63.345 billion won. During the same period, operating profit turned to black, recording 17.4 billion won and net profit of 17.866 billion won.
Wemade recorded good results in the third quarter of this year along with the steady popularity of ‘Mir 4’ global. Based on domestic success, ‘Mir 4’, which was released in more than 170 countries in 12 languages in August, has broken records every day with about 180 servers and 1 million concurrent users.
In particular, ‘Mir 4’ is leading the ‘play-to-one’ (P2E) concept where blockchain-based non-fungible token (NFT) technology is applied to make money while playing games.
Wemade plans to continue the company’s growth by pouring its company-wide capabilities into new businesses such as metaverse and blockchain. To this end, Wemade made strategic investments in Metascale, which was established by Kwon Seung-jo, a former chief IP officer (CIPO) of Kakao. Furthermore, in October, it was decided to merge with WeMadetree, a blockchain subsidiary.
WeMade CEO Jang Hyun-guk plans to release 100 blockchain games using the cryptocurrency ‘Wemix’ as the key currency by the end of next year, and plans to focus on related businesses. CEO Jang said, “‘Mir 4’ has achieved huge global success, and its growth is currently ongoing. “He said.
On the other hand, WeMade released a teaser site for the new mobile ‘Mir M’ following ‘Mir 4’ and is spurring the final development work for the domestic official service in the first quarter of next year.
In addition, Longtu Korea and NT Games are preparing to release a number of block-chain games, such as ‘Fire-Blood Power’ and ‘Galaxy Tornado’, and the affiliated company WeMade Plus, casual games ‘Aqua Tornado’ and ‘Fishing Tornado’, with the goal of releasing a number of blockchain games in the first quarter of next year. .
