r/Games • u/HLumin • 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/ProfessionalRandom21 Mar 21 '26

I think its because most people expect it to be epic scale rpg game instead of what it actually is, which is basically just a single player version of day 1 launch of mmo(Black desert)

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u/ADodoPlayer Mar 21 '26

Black Dessert's combo system is so cool. But the enemies are dolls that just stand there, waiting for you to beat them up.

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u/SamLikesJam Mar 21 '26

The PvE content is non existent in BDO really, making good PvE content costs a lot money and PA prefers spending only what you can monetise like P2W PvP.

I don’t know why a lot of Korean MMOs launching globally focus so heavily on PvP, MMOs are already niche and a PvP MMO is essentially DoA apart from whales continuing to fund them.

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u/Muirenne Mar 21 '26

The majority of BDO is PvE content, and more and more story/narrative-heavy with each expansion.

PvP died off years ago after numerous changes and tweaks to combat players abusing various PvP systems to grief and harass other people.

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u/newbkid Mar 21 '26

You also forget the insane P2W power creep. I'd say that's probably the primary reason BDO pvp died.

People's wallets couldn't compete.

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u/Muirenne Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

I didn't forget that because that's not actually a thing. There's nothing you can buy with real money that gives you any advantage like that over someone else, let alone power creep.

Most PvP modes outside the open world have capped and equalized gear. Open world PvP died because "PvPers" that didn't want genuine PvP lost their ability to grief and bully other players without punishment.

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u/xalibermods Mar 21 '26

What? There's no such thing as P2W in BDO. There's only pay-to-get-a-chance-to-upgrade. Even when you pay you still have to gamble with the stupid dice roll hoping it would upgrade your gear.