# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![Ria\_Denas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ria_denas/32/189920_2.png) [@Ria\_Denas](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ria_Denas)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/469 "2018-09-06T12:47:02Z")
CCP has always had a great sense of humour… They named the latest expansion “Into the Abyss”, then sold their company to Pearl Abyss ! Priceless ! 😃 _pinched from another forum_ , but love it. ---
**Author:** ![Brisc\_Rubal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/brisc_rubal/32/374307_2.png) [@Brisc\_Rubal](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Brisc_Rubal)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/470 "2018-09-06T12:47:23Z")
> [@zluq\_zabaa](#): > > Can you go into details? I mean, are there any specifics in the contract that guarantee a certain amount of autonomy? Pearl Abyss will want to see profits rising and CCP will be forced to deliver. How is this going to happen and what happens if it doesn’t work out? Are you sure, you aren’t just used to calm us down? I can’t go into details as to what we discussed directly or any facts we were given, I can simply give you my impression and my understanding based on my RL experience. This looks to me as an up and coming asian MMO company that is public and has cash to make acquisitions recognized that CCP is a stable, profitable company and they are diversifying. That means, at least to me, that CCP will continue to have control for the foreseeable future. ---
**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, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/471 "2018-09-06T12:47:27Z")
> [@Darkstone\_One](#): > > Yeah but they have so much they don’t generate cash … and if you want to make cash … you don’t like there big autosufficient corp … > > So, Korean will find a way to transform that for sure … not CCP anymore whit their powerful friend . > > Just a though … Increase stimuli for multiple accounts Increase stimuli for compensating for time requirements Increase stimuli for shortcuts on ability requirements Increase stimuli for shortcuts on economies of scale requirements And so forth. This is PA’s forte. They map out this kind of stuff, it’s behavioural psychology, they identity the trigger points and provide commercial stimuli for exactly those triggers while upping the requirements for alternative approaches like grind or time. In null most of this has already been internalised. Want a super? Got to have a FAX. Neither can be used for making ISK reliably so got to have a farm for either resources or skillpoints. Rinse, repeat. ---
**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, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/472 "2018-09-06T12:47:39Z")
> [@Darkstone\_One](#): > > I wonder how the big faction guys are reacting to that news … ? > End of their monopol ? An additional tier will now exist above CCP, as PA. How much they interfere/influence in CCPs development/deliberation on EVE remains to be seen. Hell, might even turn out that Goons or others find a way to work together with PA, past CCP, if they can offer some guarantee of them buying P2W or delivering on grind content for example, thus leaving CCP crunched inbetween a rock and a hard place. Goons in particular would probably love P2W to further cement their control in EVE. ---
**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, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/474 "2018-09-06T12:48:32Z")
/me pointed at that 3 or 4 hrs ago never mind ---
**Author:** ![Sho\_Riagl\_Khardula](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sho_riagl_khardula/32/292422_2.png) [@Sho\_Riagl\_Khardula](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sho_Riagl_Khardula)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/475 "2018-09-06T12:50:23Z")
> [@Predvodnica\_LSG](#): > > > [@CCP\_Falcon](#): > > > > We’ll also have an AMA right here on the official forums tomorrow at 16:30 UTC to answer all your questions > > We want atractive hostes and real presenters not two old ugly clowns, we are sick of their faces , byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee … What I’m failing to understand Pred’, judging by your post history, is why you’re here at all… You seem to have a negative opinion on absolutely everything Eve. Me? I’ve recently returned after years of absence, and was sorely disappointed to read the news of the buy-out - in which it’s clear that CCP will exist in spirit alone after October. [Edit for typo] ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Reinhart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/markus_reinhart/32/133706_2.png) [@Markus\_Reinhart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Markus_Reinhart)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/477 "2018-09-06T12:50:59Z")
IF you say something, don’t lie. Otherwise just stay silent. ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/479 "2018-09-06T12:52:11Z")
The goons, all of them lost this game. Hilmar won, drops mic and is leaving the stage with milllllllions. His shares, they were just bought. ---
**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, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/482 "2018-09-06T12:53:57Z")
Heck, they should have just sold Delve with everyone and everything in it. ---
**Author:** ![Jeremiah\_Saken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jeremiah_saken/32/266740_2.png) [@Jeremiah\_Saken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jeremiah_Saken)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/483 "2018-09-06T12:54:03Z")
> [@Brisc\_Rubal](#): > > That means, at least to me, that CCP will continue to have control for the foreseeable future. ehm what control? 100% sold. You know what that means, right? They have zero control now. New owner will evaluate what he bought and will improve where he think he can do better. If they want to act like with their own player base then CCP have nothing to do with it. For me it’s simple why it is not for you? EA bought most gaming developers in the world, bought devs have “control” on something, they just ask “how high” when they told to “jump”? ---
**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, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/484 "2018-09-06T12:54:15Z")
> [@Nana\_Skalski](#): > > The goons, all of them lost this game. Hilmar won, drops mic and is leaving the stage with milllllllions. > His shares, they were just bought. He sold his shares? Source? ---
**Author:** ![Drigo\_Segvian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/drigo_segvian/32/325541_2.png) [@Drigo\_Segvian](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Drigo_Segvian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/485 "2018-09-06T12:54:28Z")
All chicken little can send their stuff to me. That is all. 😀 Drigo ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/486 "2018-09-06T12:55:04Z")
Sold all CCP, 100%, he said that already when asked. The sorce is in this thread. By me. > [@Dev blog: Black Desert Online makers Pearl Abyss to acquire CCP!](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/387): > > GamesBeat: And Pearl Abyss is buying everything, right? 100 percent of the company? Petursson: Yes. They’re buying 100 percent of CCP. Sold entirely. ---
**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, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/487 "2018-09-06T12:55:30Z")
> [@Brisc\_Rubal](#): > > I can’t go into details as to what we discussed directly or any facts we were given, I can simply give you my impression and my understanding based on my RL experience. > > This looks to me as an up and coming asian MMO company that is public and has cash to make acquisitions recognized that CCP is a stable, profitable company and they are diversifying. That means, at least to me, that CCP will continue to have control for the foreseeable future. PA doesn’t buy because a company is stable 🙂 They buy because a company has something interesting but has been stumbling. You didn’t wonder why the pricetag is so much lower than the valuations pre-F2P and the VR issues? CCP made what, roughly 2.6 mil or so from four different ventures with a lot of creative bookkeeping and writing off costs while still getting most of the funding from third parties. That’s not stable. That’s the hallmark of a company which has a good thing but is unable to branch out. Now keep in mind that impression follows from exposure which is designed to create a required effect. You’re not addressed as equals or variables. You are addressed as instruments. Purpose defines everything. We probably should not go into CCP’s bookkeeping on this forum, but I’m sure at least one or two people on the current CSM can get their hands on CCP’s publications of the past few fiscal years. Suffice to say that there are very good reasons beyond personal wants, age and investor relations for why CCP decided to go F2P and starting shopping for a buyer. Then consider how long it actually took to find a serious one. Then consider why CCP had to combine different commercial planning segments for a single match rapid timeline. 40 mil in the bank after so many hoops of restructuring and cost cutting (to name but two things) isn’t a grand result of liquidity. It’s a sign of crunch. Anyway, that doesn’t really matter. It’s just less than subtle signs which indicate that you are dealing with marketing, not with information, and not with personal relations. So just don’t bank on it. And maybe, consider that CSM is CCP’s instrument. Not yours, not that of customers 🙂 ---
**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, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/489 "2018-09-06T12:56:27Z")
> [@Nana\_Skalski](#): > > Sold all CCP, 100%, he said that already when asked. Where? Is it in the article on dev blog? Didnt see that there. ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Chieve](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/peta_chieve/32/260061_2.png) [@Peta\_Chieve](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Peta_Chieve)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/490 "2018-09-06T12:56:45Z")
**BRING OUT YOUR FREE STUFF** ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/491 "2018-09-06T12:57:44Z")
Look, the reply again, you unbeliever… ---
**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, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/492 "2018-09-06T12:57:46Z")
> [@Jeremiah\_Saken](#): > > ehm what control? 100% sold. You know what that means, right? They have zero control now. New owner will evaluate what he bought and will improve where he think he can do better. If they want to act like with their own player base then CCP have nothing to do with it. For me it’s simple why it is not for you? EA bought most gaming developers in the world, bought devs have “control” on something, they just ask “how high” when they told to “jump”? Aww come one. It’ll be awesome! They can do amazing things! CCP and PA are a perfect match. The DNA is there! They can revive old ideas and spend available liquidity on those while shifting tech between them! It’ll be awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Tovh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tovh/32/171818_2.png) [@Tovh](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tovh)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/493 "2018-09-06T12:57:57Z")
Peta, you, shush, you _points finger_ ---
**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, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/495 "2018-09-06T12:58:37Z")
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