Chen: Grand do not take the Eternal Tower and Warcraft do comparison

June 3 Morning News, Shanda chairman and CEO Chen today in the first quarter earnings call, said the company's South Korean online games "Tower of the Eternal" performance in line with the grand expectations of its future development is full of hope, but not it with "World of Warcraft" ("Warcraft") to do comparison. "We have confidence in the development of the Tower of Eternity, and we'll push ahead with a few new versions and big marketing campaigns." We are most concerned about the user experience in the game and quality service, for other games, we do not compare.　　"Chen Tianqiao made the case that the eternal tower that the analyst proposed would be as successful as Warcraft." "The Tower of Eternity" is a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) game developed by South Korean NCsoft, which won the exclusive right to operate the game in China. The game in the picture, plot and other production style and Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" very similar to the player as "Korean version of Warcraft."　　The game began commercial operation on April 16. Shanda today released the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 as of March 31 without the audit earnings. The report showed that net revenue for the first quarter was 1.1071 billion yuan (about 162 million U.S. dollars), an increase of 42%, a 9.1% increase from the previous quarter, and a net profit of 361 million yuan (about 52.8 million US dollars), up 25% per cent, up 10.6% from the previous quarter. (Kangzhi Shimin)