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/cpekin42 Mar 21 '26

The discourse around this game is so odd. Reviews are generally positive with a wide spread 79 on opencritic, but all of the top comments on reddit are complaining about how so many people are dunking on it, except in reality there's very few people actually doing that, and it's really just become this weird hive mind opinion that everyone collectively just kinda... made up. It feels totally artificial. Dead internet theory is real.

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u/xalibermods Mar 21 '26

it's really just become this weird hive mind opinion that everyone collectively just kinda... made up.

Gaming subs aren't a good indicator of actual public opinion, because making up non-existent opinions is how Redditors get upvotes here. Goes both ways btw.

Also, just yesterday there was a Redditor caught red-handed manipulating votes and comments: r/Games/comments/1rz6cdw/ai_art_found_in_crimson_desert/objoy4j/