# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Davy\_Jhones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/davy_jhones/32/94916_2.png) [@Davy\_Jhones](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Davy_Jhones)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/693 "2018-09-06T14:47:40Z")
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**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, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/694 "2018-09-06T14:47:44Z")
This. CCP is now 100% owned by PA. PA and its owners now call the shots. ---
**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, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/695 "2018-09-06T14:48:45Z")
> [@Luigi\_mon-de-sound](#): > > Another big question is how will this change the subscription model, will it still be based on characters or will it turn to accounts instead??? In BDO I learned they have account (family) subscription model more than 3 toons, also have lots of AFK earning activities and now planing to have missions for non active toons, like followers in wow garisons. 👍 ---
**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, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/697 "2018-09-06T14:52:02Z")
Yes that is biggest scam ccp will talk what they masters will do, tell mi about it, when servants talkig for their masters. LOL !!! PA AMA will be the real thing, this tomorrow is just wishful thinking ! ---
**Author:** ![lilsteel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lilsteel/32/272085_2.png) [@lilsteel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/lilsteel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/698 "2018-09-06T14:53:04Z")
Seems they get a deal with > **[Novator Partners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novator_Partners)** > > Novator Partners LLP is an English private corporation, specialising in telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and financial services. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund. The company is based in London and led by Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson from Iceland. > The owner or owners of Novator are hiding behind a web of companies which includes companies in places such as Cyprus, Cayman Islands, Delaware, Gibraltar, Tortola (British Virgin Islands), and Luxe... and > **[General Catalyst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Catalyst)** > > General Catalyst is an American venture capital firm focused on early stage and growth investments. The firm was founded in 2000 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto and New York City. > It has invested in companies such as The Honest Company, Outdoor Voices, Grammarly, Snapchat, Neverware, Stripe, Airbnb, Deliveroo, HubSpot, Datalogix, and Warby Parker. General Catalyst also helps to incubate companies, examples including KAYAK, Naturebox, Altiscale and Hi... ---
**Author:** ![Aurilae\_Ardenta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aurilae_ardenta/32/94993_2.png) [@Aurilae\_Ardenta](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aurilae_Ardenta)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/699 "2018-09-06T14:54:35Z")
Recently came back to the game (played for 12 years) but you know what
 so long and thanks for all the fish CCP. Okay, time I looked for a new MMO. ---
**Author:** ![Davy\_Jhones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/davy_jhones/32/94916_2.png) [@Davy\_Jhones](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Davy_Jhones)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/700 "2018-09-06T14:55:12Z")
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**Author:** ![lilsteel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lilsteel/32/272085_2.png) [@lilsteel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/lilsteel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/701 "2018-09-06T14:55:18Z")
Seems Hilmar’s still there, but eh, the marketing and 
 is going to be dealt with by an additional capital. ---
**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, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/702 "2018-09-06T14:55:22Z")
CCP just hoarding numbers of players. PA do not want cheap bastards, they want fat whales. ---
**Author:** ![Pookie\_McPook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/pookie_mcpook/32/289877_2.png) [@Pookie\_McPook](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Pookie_McPook)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/703 "2018-09-06T14:55:28Z")
How many people I wonder today looked up BDO on YouTube and thought, “Mmmm Bewbs”. I know I did. ---
**Author:** ![lilsteel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lilsteel/32/272085_2.png) [@lilsteel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/lilsteel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/704 "2018-09-06T14:56:09Z")
Right, publishing, which means , all the copyright work, as well as the releases until September 7 , 2018 or after ---
**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, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/705 "2018-09-06T14:57:50Z")
> [@Zachri](#): > > So yeah, the amount of humans matters very little. The amount of profit matters purely. It’s not mutually exclusive. With the $425M assumbed to be true, there is a lot of milking to be done. Let’s try to be realistic with this number. This _must_ mean that they either want to drastically change EVE in order to acquire many more paying customers _or_ a large part of their interest is not in the game EVE Online, but in either using CCP in some way, using its IP, using NOVA or all of it combined. EVE may change anyway, but even with that it’s hard to believe that this game is the only revenue stream PA sees in the acquisition. ---
**Author:** ![Sebat\_Hadah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sebat_hadah/32/248462_2.png) [@Sebat\_Hadah](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sebat_Hadah)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/706 "2018-09-06T14:58:03Z")
Good luck. Ill be watching this with great interest. However I dont think ill resub until after the new owners of CCP announce their plans. ---
**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, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/707 "2018-09-06T14:58:28Z")
> [@Salvos\_Rhoska](#): > > Guys. > > Hilmar pulled off the greatest awox/scam in EVE history, by selling CCP to Pearl Abyss for more than twice of what its worth, and pulling out his stake for $29.75mil. > > **If there was a fitting way for EVE to die, it was exactly this.** > > Founder and CEO AWOXed his own Corp (CCP), and managed to scam a buyer (Pearl Abyss) into paying more than twice its value, and ran off with almost $30mil. > > o7 > o7 > o7 Right on !!! ---
**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, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/708 "2018-09-06T14:58:28Z")
lock, stock and barrel. Can’t wait until we have to pay for developer access / esi 😛 And have to deal with an entirely different copyright framework. ---
**Author:** ![lilsteel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lilsteel/32/272085_2.png) [@lilsteel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/lilsteel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/709 "2018-09-06T14:59:51Z")
> [@Zachri](#): > > lock, stock and barrel. > > Can’t wait until we have to pay for developer access / esi 😛 And have to deal with an entirely different copyright framework. Good deal, the best I can do with that for now, is to develop some test data because most of the analysis that I can do with the data would not be integrated for final release. Although, I could do some very important and useful work for that, with that, and for part of that. ---
**Author:** ![Kiera\_Oramara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kiera_oramara/32/456080_2.png) [@Kiera\_Oramara](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kiera_Oramara)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/710 "2018-09-06T14:59:55Z")
I have said this before and its time to say it again “Hilmar you make me slightly worried from time to time” @Hilmar 1 Do you still play the game ? @Hilmar 2 I really hope we dont get any South Korean style pay to win in Eve ![viking](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/7/1/714eb26a1b89df07fb977d7eea6d704a43aa6885.gif) I could not resist messing a little with a certain eve wallpaper 😛 ![pearlabyss2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/d/3/d3ae6e11eb92c3c436d288214ded584951eeddef.jpeg) K ---
**Author:** ![Hazen\_Koraka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/hazen_koraka/32/395218_2.png) [@Hazen\_Koraka](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Hazen_Koraka)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/711 "2018-09-06T15:00:53Z")
> [@Pookie\_McPook](#): > > How many people I wonder today looked up BDO on YouTube and thought, “Mmmm Bewbs”. > > I know I did. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/9/9/1/99153a125f8854430c00941f210f6992d8b7213e.jpeg "Black Desert Biggest Breast Size and Boob Physics Bounce - NA/EU (BDO)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHXuRHmq_50) ---
**Author:** ![Alundil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alundil/32/307802_2.png) [@Alundil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Alundil)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/712 "2018-09-06T15:00:53Z")
This is, imo, a sad day for the player base of Eve Online. BDO (and Peal Abyss) has been successful in a niche market just like EVE. However, the manner in which they have accomplished this is very different from the way in which CCP has generally done things. So, my gut on this is that greatly increased mtx is incoming. It’s also very likely to result in a real entry point for actual P2W content over and above the already P2W-lite that is Skill Injectors. This is the long slow decline that I’ve feared CCP was taking for quite some time. It’s unfortunate. It also means that I’ve less interest and incentive to consider “un-winning Eve”. Signing off. ---
**Author:** ![lilsteel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lilsteel/32/272085_2.png) [@lilsteel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/lilsteel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/713 "2018-09-06T15:00:59Z")
zematter of fact, I don’t see why CCP Falcon would leave now. Maybe CCPA Falcon or something
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