# Dev blog: Black Desert Online makers Pearl Abyss to acquire CCP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev Blogs\ **Tags:** official, devblog\ **Created:** [September 6, 2018, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942 "2018-09-06T07:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Smuff\_Gallente](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smuff_gallente/32/374511_2.png) [@Smuff\_Gallente](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smuff_Gallente)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/344 "2018-09-06T11:43:34Z")
i feel this way to ---
**Author:** ![zluq\_zabaa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zluq_zabaa/32/19011_2.png) [@zluq\_zabaa](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zluq_zabaa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/345 "2018-09-06T11:43:40Z")
> [@Smartislarti](#): > > Donald’s little Heavy Assault Missile Launcher Boy? Yeah Donalds best Buddy with an even better haircut. ---
**Author:** ![Smuff\_Gallente](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smuff_gallente/32/374511_2.png) [@Smuff\_Gallente](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smuff_Gallente)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/346 "2018-09-06T11:44:31Z")
this must be some terrible Mistake. CCP are you just telling us this to make it better when you surprise us and say we were actually bought by EA i could live with that ---
**Author:** ![zluq\_zabaa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zluq_zabaa/32/19011_2.png) [@zluq\_zabaa](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zluq_zabaa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/347 "2018-09-06T11:44:31Z")
One thing that is funny about this thread is the perception that CCP was owned by CCP staff before. It was already largely owned by venture capital. ---
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/348 "2018-09-06T11:45:15Z")
> [@Ima\_Wreckyou](#): > > I predict that this will change nothing. I think Pearl Abysses interest is mostly in expanding EVE and derivatives into Asian markets. Unfortunately, that comes with substantial consumer/gamer/social changes. The East does not play games like the West, and have a very different value system as to what they will tolerate from a developer than we over here. Serenity is a point in case, on exactly that, as is the success of Black Desert in Asia, despite its very grindy and arguably P2W format. ---
**Author:** ![Zachri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zachri/32/69948_2.png) [@Zachri](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zachri)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/349 "2018-09-06T11:46:09Z")
> [@Smartislarti](#): > > As far as I understand it was Novator that sold CCP. Hilmar’s share was below 10 % afaik Hush … ---
**Author:** ![Smuff\_Gallente](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smuff_gallente/32/374511_2.png) [@Smuff\_Gallente](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smuff_Gallente)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/350 "2018-09-06T11:46:45Z")
assemble the lawyers come together as a community make an offer for 500million dollars outbid them ---
**Author:** ![JC\_Mieyli](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jc_mieyli/32/242789_2.png) [@JC\_Mieyli](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/JC_Mieyli)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/351 "2018-09-06T11:46:51Z")
> [@zluq\_zabaa](#): > > Kim Jong Un nah he plays world of tanks true story ---
**Author:** ![LordOdysseus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lordodysseus/32/422627_2.png) [@LordOdysseus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/LordOdysseus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/352 "2018-09-06T11:47:17Z")
Have you guys already forgot what Hilmar said at one of the fanfests(I think)? > “CCP is like a ship,with a hole in the bottom,leaking water and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.” - Hilmar Veigar Pétursson ---
**Author:** ![Zachri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zachri/32/69948_2.png) [@Zachri](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zachri)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/353 "2018-09-06T11:47:19Z")
> [@Salvos\_Rhoska](#): > > I think Pearl Abysses interest is mostly in expanding EVE and derivatives into Asian markets. Actually, when you look at their timeline of business development and decisions, their primary interest is applying their formats to western markets using their asian market core as force multiplier. ---
**Author:** ![zluq\_zabaa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zluq_zabaa/32/19011_2.png) [@zluq\_zabaa](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zluq_zabaa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/354 "2018-09-06T11:47:35Z")
> [@JC\_Mieyli](#): > > nah he plays world of tanks suppose that’s where he met Trump the first time ---
**Author:** ![Warrior\_Xena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/warrior_xena/32/173536_2.png) [@Warrior\_Xena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Warrior_Xena)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/355 "2018-09-06T11:47:50Z")
> **[EVE Online studio CCP Games has been acquired by Pearl Abyss](https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-online-studio-ccp-games-has-been-acquired-by-pearl-abyss/)** > > The Black Desert Online developer says CCP will continue to operate independently. “CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson said, describing himself as “an avid player” of Black Desert Online” If the CEO of a game is an avid player of another game, that says a lot about Eve Online… “There’s also the concern that this partnership could lead to increased monetization” ---
**Author:** ![Mikhem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mikhem/32/257344_2.png) [@Mikhem](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mikhem)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/356 "2018-09-06T11:47:59Z")
It came from the desert! ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Zee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lady_zee/32/262119_2.png) [@Lady\_Zee](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lady_Zee)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/357 "2018-09-06T11:48:03Z")
BDO was a good game before PearlAbyss abused the P2W … Each time the Devs said they could not do anything because it was a decision imposed by the high management in korea blabla… If you think that Skill Injectors is P2W, lets see with this Korean “EA games like” will impose… ---
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/358 "2018-09-06T11:48:46Z")
> [@Zachri](#): > > > [@Salvos\_Rhoska](#): > > > > I think Pearl Abysses interest is mostly in expanding EVE and derivatives into Asian markets. > > Actually, when you look at their timeline of business development and decisions, their primary interest is applying their formats to western markets using their asian market core as force multiplier. Touche. But CCPs marketing is a long list of failure, and Western players will not tolerate grinding/P2W the way Eastern players do. Western EVE players lost their minds just cos of a cosmetic monocle. ---
**Author:** ![Zachri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zachri/32/69948_2.png) [@Zachri](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zachri)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/359 "2018-09-06T11:49:31Z")
> [@Predvodnica\_LSG](#): > > well see how long falcon will stay ??? I’m sure Falcon will love what CCP can do with PA’s avatar concepts in reincarnating old dreams. Probably shouldn’t say more on this. ---
**Author:** ![Predvodnica\_LSG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/predvodnica_lsg/32/63657_2.png) [@Predvodnica\_LSG](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Predvodnica_LSG)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/360 "2018-09-06T11:50:12Z")
> [@zluq\_zabaa](#): > > CCP Falcon and CCP Guard. If need be, you can show how to salvosh a thread. ccp clown and ccp other clown … it will be damage control and many beautiful promises but a new company will not have to keep these promises when they fire these two clowns ---
**Author:** ![Smuff\_Gallente](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smuff_gallente/32/374511_2.png) [@Smuff\_Gallente](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smuff_Gallente)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/361 "2018-09-06T11:50:17Z")
that cosmetic monocle cost 70 US dollars ---
**Author:** ![Dawny\_Star](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dawny_star/32/379694_2.png) [@Dawny\_Star](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dawny_Star)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/362 "2018-09-06T11:50:24Z")
Hilmar’s pulled off a full blown Jita Contract scam at $425 million it has to be said. In true EvE style. ---
**Author:** ![Smartislarti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smartislarti/32/267736_2.png) [@Smartislarti](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smartislarti)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/363 "2018-09-06T11:50:29Z")
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