Crimson Desert Dev Says It Will 'Work to Make Improvements Quickly,' as Sales Hit 2 Million in Just a Day

Crimson Desert has deed 2 cardinal copies sold conscionable a time aft launch, though it has suffered a mixed effect from critics and players.

Pearl Abyss’ hotly anticipated unfastened satellite enactment crippled launched crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S yesterday, March 19, and today, the Korean institution announced that 2 cardinal copies had been sold worldwide.

In its announcement, Pearl Abyss said it was alert of feedback from players, and would “work to marque improvements quickly.”

"We are incredibly humbled to stock that Crimson Desert has sold done 2 cardinal copies worldwide," reads Pearl Abyss' statement. "Thank you truthful overmuch to our fans, community, and everyone who has joined america successful Pywel. We volition perceive intimately to the wide scope of feedback shared by the assemblage and enactment to marque improvements quickly, doing our utmost to marque the travel up adjacent much enjoyable for our players."

As IGN has reported, Crimson Desert launched large connected Steam with astir 250,000 concurrent players, but it presently has a "mixed" idiosyncratic reappraisal rating. Much of the disapproval from players revolves astir the controls, which immoderate person called clunky and unnecessarily complicated. There are immoderate show complaints too. For example, PS5 owners person travel unneurotic to enactment retired the origin of blurry visuals — an contented that’s besides connected the PC version.

Pearl Abyss volition beryllium keen to code the main complaints with Crimson Desert sooner alternatively than aboriginal successful a bid to amended its Steam reappraisal rating. Yesterday, IGN reported connected however Pearl Abyss saw its banal terms plunge astir 30% successful what was seen arsenic a absorption to reappraisal scores from critics. Today, the institution banal fell a further 9.78%. According to the Korean concern press, Pearl Abyss reportedly spent 7 years processing Crimson Desert, with improvement costs coming successful astatine 200 cardinal won (approx. $133 million). It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if this income announcement boosts the stock price.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Crimson Desert, including spot notes for its time 1 update, IGN's Crimson Desert Review So Far, and our motorboat interrogation with Will Powers. We've besides got a Crimson Desert PC show review.

And if you’re jumping into Crimson Desert’s immense unfastened world, we urge you instrumentality a look astatine our usher to Things to Do First successful Crimson Desert, positive Things Crimson Desert Doesn’t Tell You (we’ve got 28 and counting!). We’ve besides got a usher to the Best Early Weapons we urge picking up, the Best Skills to Get First (including a useful explainer of the skills system), and 34 Essential Tips and Tricks to assistance you win successful Pywel.

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