# 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:** 72
**Author:** ![Sugar\_Smacks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sugar_smacks/32/430124_2.png) [@Sugar\_Smacks](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sugar_Smacks)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1473 "2018-09-07T06:01:06Z")
Ultima Online continues to make decisions that will negatively effect their overall population numbers. Change for the sake of change is not good change. Just because someone is “in business” doesn’t mean they aren’t ready to “go out of business”. ---
**Author:** ![Cyber\_Fight\_r](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cyber_fight_r/32/167707_2.png) [@Cyber\_Fight\_r](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cyber_Fight_r)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1474 "2018-09-07T06:09:27Z")
Well what a ride… As i dont plan to support a loot box wonderland and i never let an asian company install an ransomware like client on my Computer all i have to say… Thank you CCP for 12 years eve online. Good bye to my ingame friends and respect to my enemys (with the exception of PIRAT). Regards, Cyber fight’r / Doc Know / Freitag von Clausewitz / Zx 37 / Morus Certa / and many more characters i used to run in the past… ---
**Author:** ![Sassiee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sassiee/32/420510_2.png) [@Sassiee](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sassiee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1475 "2018-09-07T06:10:41Z")
I was a huge success when it first came out now it’s a total failure, it’s a AFK game, They claim 10mil registered users but they don’t break it down to the 7 mil that left the game and the remaining that just AFK fish 24/7 the customer support sucks, the gremlins that plague the game are never addressed, pretty much every maint has to have another 1 or 2 extra maint to fix the first one, anyone thinking this will not bleed over to EVE in the next 6 to 12 months obviously isn’t paying attention to the industry. ---
**Author:** ![Ima\_Wreckyou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ima_wreckyou/32/235531_2.png) [@Ima\_Wreckyou](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ima_Wreckyou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1476 "2018-09-07T06:11:16Z")
> [@Predvodnica\_LSG](#): > > True, “Old” players are main obstacle and hve to be eliminated, how? New EU only server, new USA only server, new Russian only server, new Australian only server, all packed in lots of legal BS … The only thing that will happen is you making more chars to cry about the game for another 15 years while hopeing the game will finally change into something you enjoy. 🤪 ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1477 "2018-09-07T06:12:17Z")
> [@Sassiee](#): > > now it’s a total failure May be so, but they raised 425mil, and have now bought 100% of CCP. Begs the question whom is the failure in this equation. ---
**Author:** ![Rivr\_Luzade](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rivr_luzade/32/311061_2.png) [@Rivr\_Luzade](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rivr_Luzade)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1478 "2018-09-07T06:13:22Z")
Yes, it can grow. With the stupid, illeducated, lazy, dumb, inconvenienced contemporary excuses of gamers who have no idea what EVE is about and do not want to know what it is about. That’s why we have huge groups like CONDI or TEST, who are filled with individuals who are just interested in safe ISK farming and blobbing. Just like all these zergers in Star Craft. If even more of these meat sacks join EVE, there won’t be any EVE left. There will only be EVE Farmville Online. ---
**Author:** ![Osaka\_Takawaki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/osaka_takawaki/32/410307_2.png) [@Osaka\_Takawaki](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Osaka_Takawaki)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1479 "2018-09-07T06:13:32Z")
Wasn’t it a New York based holding company that owned CCP before the Koreans bought it? And what was the buy price (not that I’m holding my breath for an official answer) ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1480 "2018-09-07T06:15:03Z")
> [@Osaka\_Takawaki](#): > > Wasn’t it a New York based holding company that owned CCP before the Koreans bought it? Novatar, afaik, which iirc is an Icelandic company (perhaps based in NY) with branches in just about every tax haven in the world. ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1481 "2018-09-07T06:17:42Z")
Well the worst has not happened yet. God forbid they make Black EVE Online, or EVE Dessert Online. The latter actually is possible if everyone stops playing EVE though. ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1482 "2018-09-07T06:20:01Z")
Translate for Eve-fanboy population: Eve will be no longer sanbox, it will be theme park cash producing machine … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sethyrh\_Nakrar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sethyrh_nakrar/32/12695_2.png) [@Sethyrh\_Nakrar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sethyrh_Nakrar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1483 "2018-09-07T06:21:17Z")
> [@Rivr\_Luzade](#): > > That’s why we have huge groups like CONDI or TEST, who are filled with individuals who are just interested in save ISK farming and blobbing. Actually, our only interest is to have fun in this game. We aren´t good at this game, tho. ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1484 "2018-09-07T06:22:34Z")
Me too. I’m bad at this game too. With Pearl Abyss, this game is probably going to get a lot harder now. ---
**Author:** ![Rivr\_Luzade](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rivr_luzade/32/311061_2.png) [@Rivr\_Luzade](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rivr_Luzade)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1485 "2018-09-07T06:22:42Z")
You are doing everything you can to make it not fun, just saying. And by doing so, help people like PA and Predvodnica\_LSG to achieve what they want to achieve. ---
**Author:** ![Sassiee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sassiee/32/420510_2.png) [@Sassiee](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sassiee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1487 "2018-09-07T06:25:26Z")
In the MMO world 425 mil is chump change ---
**Author:** ![Sethyrh\_Nakrar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sethyrh_nakrar/32/12695_2.png) [@Sethyrh\_Nakrar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sethyrh_Nakrar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1488 "2018-09-07T06:25:59Z")
Yes. Ask EA and their SWOTOR-fiasco. ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1489 "2018-09-07T06:26:46Z")
> [@Teckos\_Pech](#): > > what I’ve read it is quite sandboxy. You are just stupid, do not read, try it ! ---
**Author:** ![Ima\_Wreckyou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ima_wreckyou/32/235531_2.png) [@Ima\_Wreckyou](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ima_Wreckyou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1490 "2018-09-07T06:27:25Z")
> [@Predvodnica\_LSG](#): > > Eve will be no longer sanbox, it will be theme park cash producing machine … BDO is also a sandbox from what I read. If they have any business sense they will tap into the vast research CCP has done in player retention and add a suicide ganking mechanic to BDO to improve the NPE. They are now owned by a company that cares about gaming and shares a lot of the same mindset instead of a venture capitalist that is only interested in profit. I expect more HTFU and more PvP centered expansions to expand on the one thing EVE excels at: PvP… And also more tears from your ilk because your dreams of an online farming simulator is once again shattered. Get gud 🤣 ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1491 "2018-09-07T06:27:46Z")
I do not see the need to put big breasts anywhere in the game. There is no where in the game where a body is displayed. Only head portraits. The only time a body is seen is when you die in space, and there is a 360 view of your corpse before you get sent back to your home station. ---
**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 7, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1492 "2018-09-07T06:29:24Z")
Where did you read that Pearl Abyss is not money hungry? Their own website does not count. ---
**Author:** ![Sethyrh\_Nakrar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sethyrh_nakrar/32/12695_2.png) [@Sethyrh\_Nakrar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sethyrh_Nakrar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1493 "2018-09-07T06:29:26Z")
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