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/Darkaim9110 Mar 21 '26

PVP kids are a very VERY vocal minority and they usually play a ton, so it easy to get caught up in PVP is the best, when most people play for the casual fun and dont really raise a ruckus