NCSoft shares rose sharply in early trading on October 1 after strong initial demand for Aion 2, the company’s new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). At 9:54 a.m. KST, the stock was trading at 234,500 Korean won, up 25,500 won, or 12.2%, from the previous session on the KOSPI market. Aion 2 entered global early access at 10 p.m. on September 30, then ranked first on Steam’s global top-selling games chart and led sales rankings in 12 countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Spain and Brazil. SteamDB recorded 171,530 peak concurrent users about three hours after release.