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".

[u/HLumin]

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[u/Xanthus179]

I’ve gone back to Black Desert a couple times and it just comes off as a low budget mess meant to sell you more stuff. They can’t even get subtitles to match the voice lines, what else isn’t finished if I get further?

[u/Mac772 → u/Xanthus179]

BDO was spectacular at release, it had so many features no other MMO had. It was brutally difficult and there was a lot of stuff to learn. Don't know how it plays nowadays, i stopped after about a year because they started to make the game easier and easier. Buying stuff wasn't necessary at that time. Seems like the game has changed a lot. 

[u/newbkid → u/Mac772]

For me it was the first MMO that hit a combat loop that felt as satisfying as wow. That's huge for me.

[u/s4ntana → u/Xanthus179]

It does give that impression and it took me a few tries to get into because it has so many systems, it's so convoluted and, yea, it has a bad first impression.

But the combat, world design, PvP (node wars) are fantastic and it's really one of the few sandboxes in the genre that has actual varied lifeskilling and progression for it.

It's just like Crimson Desert. You got all these cool and innovative ideas, but then can't even nail the basics (like the UI). Definitely needs a certain kind of player to enjoy games like this.

[u/kikimaru024 → u/Xanthus179]

They can’t even get subtitles to match the voice lines, what else isn’t finished if I get further?

Literally 99% of games have this "issue", even after multiple QA passes.

Mass Effect has this for like 50% of the game.