EA acquires J2M, a South Korean free-to-play MMO studio

by Samuel Axon Dec 4th 2008 at 11:00AM

EA has made another move in what looks like an overall strategy to ramp up its MMO efforts by acquiring J2M, a South Korean game development studio known for making top notch free-to-play MMOs for the Asian market. The company is 50 employees strong, so it has the potential to crank out some quality products.

Just what will those products be? Your guess is as good as ours. EA Asia president Jon Niermann was quoted saying that the studio will work on both "new properties and powerful EA franchises." This is not the first time EA has set up shop in Korea. Back in January the company announced plans to open a studio there to work on online versions of the NBA Street and Battlefield franchises.

Add that to the big western MMO products from the company (Warhammer Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic), and it looks like EA is pretty keen on the genre these days.

Tags: acquisition, business, ea, electronic-arts, f2p, free-to-play, industry, j2m, journey-2-media, korea, south-korea, star-wars-the-old-republic, swtor, war, warhammer-online