Pretty sure NCWestMuricaWhatever, at this point, just does "community management" or whatever posting once a week in forums is called
The rest is 100% Korea. We are moving to a cookie cutter version of L2 , same as korea/export so Korea doesn't have to maintain 5 different versions of the game
Personally, not too optimistic. Korea has a mold of what a gamer is, and they don't really understand someone in Seoul and someone in Florida, France, Greece, Russia, whatever don't really game the same way. Cultural differences etc, NCSoft Korea never really grasped those.
Not that NCWest was particularly successful at adapting the game to its audience, but in past at least some people tried. Now ... we 'll be Korea, just 3-4 months behind.