# 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:** 55
**Author:** ![Empanada](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/empanada/32/79506_2.png) [@Empanada](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Empanada)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1124 "2018-09-06T19:34:18Z")
mmm, hope this dev was evolved from his black desert bush…t, 😣 beautiful game horrible monetization tactics… still eve it’s awesome and hope for all the time and effort invest that only get better and bigger. best of luck to all CCP staff, you are doing awesome and hope these new owners protect your jobs and give you even more tools to improve the game. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Teckos\_Pech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/teckos_pech/32/375283_2.png) [@Teckos\_Pech](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Teckos_Pech)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1125 "2018-09-06T19:35:45Z")
> [@Cromartie\_McCaal](#): > > If Pearl Abyss attempts to change the fundamentals of the game so much in a short time, that it alienates the player base and we leave en mass, the only way Pearl Abyss comes out on top, is to: > > 1. Shut the servers down > 2. liquidate all assets > 3. Purge the employee pool > They are going to kill your game and many jobs of many CCP employees. All because you decided to become a subsidiary. To make some money. If you truly believed in the dream, owning your own game and having a loyal player base, you essentially just put yourself, all your employees and your players, in jeopardy. First off CCP was not independent in that they were owned by 2 venture capital firms. Second, there is no way for PA to come out on top, IMO, with doing to EVE what they did to BDO. My guess is the EVE community is much more sensitive to that sort of stuff. I know I’d quick pretty darn quickly if they started monkeying around with hangars and cargo bays for example. And your steps 1-3 won’t work. My guess is the value of the assets is nowhere near $425 million. That figure is based on a stream of income. Now maybe PA is just that dumb and they’ll kill EVE quickly and thoroughly…but they just placed a $425 million bet…they’d have to be extremely dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Circumstantial\_Evidence](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/circumstantial_evidence/32/399551_2.png) [@Circumstantial\_Evidence](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Circumstantial_Evidence)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1126 "2018-09-06T19:35:51Z")
How does BDO have so many millions (claimed) of players, if the frustrated complaints about P2W are so numerous? Is that “millions” figure based on _“I tried BDO for a month about 2 years ago and quit” ?_ ---
**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, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1127 "2018-09-06T19:36:02Z")
great citation from Eve Reddit: **Poetic that the game about space capitalism will die because of capitalism** > **[r/Eve - Black Desert Online Creators Pearl Abyss to Acquire CCP Games](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/9dg8ma/black_desert_online_creators_pearl_abyss_to/e5igx9a)** > > 1,485 votes and 1,726 comments so far on Reddit ---
**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, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1128 "2018-09-06T19:36:38Z")
LOL and people actually play that? Save your money for Witcher 3 with all dlcs or Cyberpunk 2077, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Teckos\_Pech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/teckos_pech/32/375283_2.png) [@Teckos\_Pech](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Teckos_Pech)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1129 "2018-09-06T19:37:59Z")
Firms die in a capitalist system all the time. That is a feature not a bug for crying out loud. ---
**Author:** ![ChironCHN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chironchn/32/91751_2.png) [@ChironCHN](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ChironCHN)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1130 "2018-09-06T19:39:55Z")
Okay mate, I bet pearls success on black desert is based on local community, as Korean based, and with huge amount of subscriptions, the total gross amount is not hard to imagine, its Asian community and its a localised company, we can’t judge anything about game development upon that, simply they served well locally, there’s much more examples to that, There’s a Chinese movie last year just locally broke the record of cinematical history, it grossed around 1billion in total and seems over than any hobbit movies, but we can’t judge on any quality of film industry upon that, its not about filming in that case, its about their own community developed right at timing to spike a outcome to serve their own. ---
**Author:** ![zander\_exvirus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zander_exvirus/32/189470_2.png) [@zander\_exvirus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zander_exvirus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1131 "2018-09-06T19:43:20Z")
Rip EVE, we hardly knew ye. ---
**Author:** ![ChironCHN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chironchn/32/91751_2.png) [@ChironCHN](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ChironCHN)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1132 "2018-09-06T19:45:08Z")
Okay mate, it’s ok, just too much typing at the moment tho ---
**Author:** ![zander\_exvirus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zander_exvirus/32/189470_2.png) [@zander\_exvirus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zander_exvirus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1133 "2018-09-06T19:47:15Z")
You actually can, just you will be kicked afterwards, but by the time your kicked you have your money. You win. ---
**Author:** ![Spacing\_Cowboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/spacing_cowboy/32/317007_2.png) [@Spacing\_Cowboy](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Spacing_Cowboy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1134 "2018-09-06T19:47:36Z")
Thanks for letting us know fast, However… i do predict : A monument or 2 gonne “have it” , soon or late… There will be player discontent… soon However, i do see a rise of: Chance for our hello kitty skins, this… at a steep price, of course… I am afraid , in not to long… its going to be GF to the server when the last few leave ---
**Author:** ![ChironCHN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chironchn/32/91751_2.png) [@ChironCHN](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ChironCHN)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1136 "2018-09-06T19:48:13Z")
Mate they serve local community, and its pool of it outscaled the portion of global gaming community tho, similar an explosion effect that happen too fast and we have to take a look at it as seriously, due to its large scale of gross ---
**Author:** ![Eager\_Fusillade](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/eager_fusillade/32/286778_2.png) [@Eager\_Fusillade](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Eager_Fusillade)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1137 "2018-09-06T19:48:38Z")
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**Author:** ![ChironCHN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chironchn/32/91751_2.png) [@ChironCHN](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ChironCHN)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1138 "2018-09-06T19:50:57Z")
Yeah right? mate they did well in Korea but didn’t guarantee those working globally, as mature community towards eve, if it goes like childhood, we couldn’t simply stand to remain it isn’t it? We need something that has to work, ---
**Author:** ![Zakish](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zakish/32/95089_2.png) [@Zakish](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zakish)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1139 "2018-09-06T19:55:02Z")
Don’t kid yourself, Plex for Isk is P2W, you can try and tell yourself it isn’t but it doesn’t get much more P2W, real money for in game money where you can literally buy anything the game offers, EVERYTHING even skill points, that is the very definition of pay to win. It’s just been accepted by the player base as “in game money for game time”. Heck, even kill boards and news articles do the real money conversion for kills and battles. Keep telling yourself it’s not P2W. ---
**Author:** ![Dimitri\_Morvaine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dimitri_morvaine/32/46624_2.png) [@Dimitri\_Morvaine](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dimitri_Morvaine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1140 "2018-09-06T19:56:26Z")
I sense the Paul Revere of EVE, going at warp speed in a Leopard, going thru every system, screaming “The Pearl Abyssers are COMING! The Pearl Abyssers are COMING! Evacuate!” ---
**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, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1141 "2018-09-06T19:56:57Z")
> [@Zakish](#): > > real money for in game money where you can literally buy anything the game offers, EVERYTHING it cant buy my love ehehe jk it can ---
**Author:** ![Dimitri\_Morvaine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dimitri_morvaine/32/46624_2.png) [@Dimitri\_Morvaine](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dimitri_Morvaine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1142 "2018-09-06T19:56:59Z")
Its not P2W, you can get plex via isk. ---
**Author:** ![Zakish](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zakish/32/95089_2.png) [@Zakish](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zakish)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1143 "2018-09-06T19:58:57Z")
but the plex was bought by a player with real money, just because you buy it second hand doesn’t mean it’s not pay to win. now if plex could be bought from ccp with isk then you might have a point, but it cannot, it must be purchased with real money by someone. ---
**Author:** ![ZombieFX](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zombiefx/32/378632_2.png) [@ZombieFX](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ZombieFX)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1144 "2018-09-06T18:17:14Z")
Hello folks, used to play eve for many years and at some point the steam was just out and never looked back… seeing that its going down with Eve is such a shame… but no big surprise. Its just to slow for modern gamers and the pay models rather weak… HOWEVER… being bought by some amateurs doing shovelware? … thats more then sad! You know - why didn’t you forget that freaking attempts on FPS … and rather done SEE SOURCE 2 SPACE- BATTLE - SHIPS… in ““3D”” on a 2D field… - i mean thats for the WORLD WAR fans… ANNND THE SCI FI ONES… space pirates are tits… warhammer 40k also got a giant base you could swallow … Free to play like WOWs… - premium ships and whatnot… and done! Simple as that. Your polish- which is one of a kind - and such a solid gameplay… i wish so bad that has been it. Instead wargaming did this freaking space ship mode for a few days for april fools and thats that. Now we lose CCP and that concept ☹ Source (german) > **[CCP Games: Eve-Entwickler für 425 Millionen US-Dollar verkauft - Golem.de](https://www.golem.de/news/ccp-games-eve-entwickler-fuer-425-millionen-us-doller-verkauft-1809-136431.html)** > > Das bislang unabhängige Entwicklerstudio CCP Games aus Island hat einen neuen Eigner: Der südkoreanische Publisher Pearl Abyss (Black Desert Online) gibt 425 Millionen US-Dollar Source (wows/youtube) RIP CCP ~ farewell… hope the devs do go on their own path and create a NEW STUDIO … with THIS CONCEPT. Just a smaller scale… and go from there! ❤ Kickstart it ;p [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942.md?page=54) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942.md?page=56)