https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-ncsoft-korean-studio-working-on-a-horizon-mmo.652308/

NCsoft is developing a new game utilizing the IP of Sony's flagship game franchise 'Horizon'. NC and Sony are promoting IP (intellectual property) collaboration to target the global game market, and the collaboration between the two companies is finally completed, drawing attention to whether NC will succeed in targeting the global market by removing its focus on 'Lineage' IP.

On the 8th, a source familiar with Sony and NC said, "NC and NC have tentatively agreed to promote a business partnership to create a new game using Sony's promising game IP. NCsoft's internal development team is making it," he said

The source said, "After starting game development, discussions are underway in the form of 'pre-development and post-negotiation' in which the two companies discuss collaboration and business partnership. There is a possibility that it will lead to a comprehensive partnership such as development," he added.

Some of their previous work:

H Seed is known to have created a new project using the IP of the box office 'Guild Wars' produced by Arenanet, NC's North American development corporation. At that time, it was organized as one of the new development organizations under the name of 'GW' Seed, but as the development of new projects using the 'Guild Wars' IP stopped, it was organized as the Lineage IP Business Headquarters.

The Lineage IP Business Headquarters is an organization composed of the 'Lineage' PC game and the 'Lineage M' and 'Lineage W' development teams. He is in charge of development and service of games using IP of NCsoft's flagship franchise 'Lineage'. Vice President Lee Seong-gu, known as the 'Lineage Artisan', is in charge of the headquarters. Choi Hong-young, who was in charge of the development of 'Lineage W', is in charge of the development of 'Project H'.

Wraps up by saying:

NCsoft has oligopolized the MMRORPG market in Korea and Taiwan based on the 'Lineage' IP. Although it is forming a fandom with high cohesive power, new works other than 'Lineage' IP did not live up to expectations, and there was a limit that it could not use its power except in the domestic market and some overseas markets such as Taiwan.

Unlike the original plan, the new 'TL' was decided to be presented as a purely creative IP that does not use the 'Lineage' IP. have. Collaboration with Sony is also accepted in the same context.