CyberAgent's Q3 operating profit falls 44.2% Q-over-Q to $43.5M on kompu gacha ban

Japanese media company CyberAgent has reported its third quarter sales rose 15.9 percent year-on-year to 33.7 billion yen ($431.2 million) but the affects of Japan’s recent ban on the kompu gacha sales tactic was very clear. The company’s third quarter operating profit was 3.4 billion yen ($43.5 million), an increase of 8.3 percent year-on-year, but down 44.2 percent from Q2’s record operating profit of 6.1 billion yen ($78 million).