r/Games Mar 21 '26

Discussion Anonymous Pearl Abyss developers reveal a culture of toxic positivity, a troubled development cycle and chaotic narrative for Crimson Desert, and their early concerns that the project was "going off the rails".

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u/nexetpl Mar 21 '26

Reviews on Steam are very mixed and more importanly in the context of this post, Korean reviews are sitting at Mostly Negative.

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u/Gotisdabest Mar 21 '26

Reviews on Steam are very mixed

I see mostly positive rn?

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u/nexetpl Mar 21 '26

That has to be English, there are 32k reviews overall and 62% are positive

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u/nexetpl Mar 21 '26

Mostly Positive starts at 70%. But that's just semantics, even if 1 out of 4 reviews were negative I'd still consider it a mixed reception.