{"id":509203,"date":"2026-04-02T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:12:09","slug":"nexon-says-the-first-descendant-has-retention-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509203\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexon says The First Descendant has \u2018retention issues\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent financial presentation, Nexon President, Junghun Lee, commented on the recent successes and failures with its online games over the past year. Interestingly, The First Descendant <a style=\"color: #980000;\" href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/the-first-descendant-no-staying-power-nexon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">was named as<\/a> a struggling title, despite its initially strong launch.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexon.co.jp\/uploads\/CMB%202026%20Deck_EN_for%20Upload_v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was commenting on<\/a> Nexon&#8217;s ability to \u201csustain relationships with players\u201d. When assessing titles that didn&#8217;t hit the mark, The First Descendant and Dungeon&amp;Fighter Mobile were listed as games with retention challenges, going as far as to say that The First Descendant had \u201cno staying power\u201d after its strong launch.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/first-descendant.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[733056] nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-664383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/first-descendant-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>While these titles struggled, Lee also listed a number of significant wins for Nexon. For starters, the MapleStory franchise has achieved 43% year-on-year growth, and the Dungeon&amp;Fighter PC game has also been a hit in China and Korea.\n<\/p>\n<p>As you would expect, Arc Raiders is also listed amongst the publisher&#8217;s biggest achievements, enabling Nexon to become a more \u201cglobally competitive\u201d company.\n<\/p>\n<p>KitGuru Says: Have you played The First Descendant at all since launch?\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=17187616\" data-patreon-widget-type=\"become-patron-button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a Patron!<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent financial presentation, Nexon President, Junghun Lee, commented on the recent successes and failures with its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87808,59,50,32948,86,38887,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-arc-raiders","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nexon","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-the-first-descendant","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}