RF Online Mobile gets new life with Netmarble acquiring developer CCR

We’d reported on RF Online Mobile back in 2017 (!) and much like apparently everything else getting raised from the depths of the forgotten, the project is back on the table. Netmarble has acquired the game’s developer, CCR Inc, announced on 28 September 2020. Under the deal, that means Netmarble now has all the rights to RF Online, and development on a mobile version will be done by Netmarble’s subsidiary, Netmarble N2, according to Korea IT Times. No plans were mentioned regarding the still active servers for the PC releases.

With RF Online being handled by Netmarble, it would appear that it leaves CCR free to do their own projects, with its CEO, Yun Sukho, supposedly going to utilize the funds from the deal to work on a “Project Nz“. With nothing else to go on at present, we’ll have to see if this will be a sequel to the original RF Online, or something completely original. Going by current trends, we might be able to expect Nz to have mobile support right from the beginning.

For the uninitiated, RF Online, originally known as Rising Force, is a free to play sci-fi 3D MMORPG launched back in 2004 for Korean, before eventually opening up servers in North America and Europe. A trademark for a sequel known as RF 2 was filed in 2016, but nothing has come of it yet.

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