# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1751
**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 7, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942/1751 "2018-09-07T17:00:53Z")
> [@Whitehound](#): > > If making games is what devs want then they can always make a new game and create a new company. Don’t act as if we didn’t have free will. Ofcourse we have free will. So do staff, they are humans too! 🙂 But look at this: > [@AMA - CCP Acquisiton by Pearl Abyss! Starts at 16:30 UTC!](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ama-ccp-acquisiton-by-pearl-abyss-starts-at-16-30-utc/104473/214): > > Not being owned by financial investors is great - being owned by a GAMING company PA is a [publicly traded](https://quotes.wsj.com/KR/263750/financials) investment management agency … As I said, they are human. They are just like their customers. Koolaid, exposure, repetition, frogs, etc. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp/103942)._