I still don't understand why nobody at NC foresaw the financial consequences of shutting down CoH. Do they think that B&S will make up for it or are they intentially commiting financia suicide?
What "financial consequences"? Their sales are up, their profits are at an all time high for a quarter.
Yes their stock price is down but that doesn't affect them directly or even indirectly by much. Sure their CEO owns about 10% of the stock but he sold 60% of what he had to Nexon back when the stock was 100,000 KrW higher than where it is now so he made out.
Higher profits third quarter and lower stock prices have made a number of analyst indexes more favorable for NCSoft. Over the short term NCSoft is more attractive now than it was pre-Freedom.