Black Desert Has Earned Over $1B in Just Under Four Years

SBFord · April 2019

Black Desert Has Earned Over $1B in Just Under Four Years

According to a press announcement from Pearl Abyss, the company has raked in over $1B in gross sales of Black Desert Online in just under four years. In addition, Pearl Abyss CEO Robin Jung also reported that over 10M players from 150 countries had played Black Desert across PC, XBox One and mobile.

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Cryomatrix · April 2019

And this is why companies do lame p2w . . . Cuz it works.

Greatness · April 2019

Not that I play this game but good to hear some business occurring in MMOs. Any win for an MMO is good for the community.

Varking · April 2019

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

SBFord · April 2019

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

Varking · April 2019

SBFord said:

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

Not blaming them at all. I was going to comment about how impressive that is. When you think about it they are crossing one billion in 4 years. The game on mobile has done 30% of that in like 13 months? 300 million off of a non global release on mobile. Seems clear to me they will cross 500m after releasing for NA/EU on phones in the first half of 2019. Hopefully they use that to pump funds into both versions.

Amathe · April 2019

This is great news. Maybe some other companies will start making mmorpgs again.

Bloodaxes · April 2019

Hope they use the same combat in a more pve oriented mmo in the future.

ConstantineMerus · April 2019

SBFord said:

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

No one should be blamed for trying to make money legally. Depending on the situation, sometimes even illegally is fine in my opinion but let's not go there

How you been btw? I missed you!

Sovrath · April 2019

Bloodaxes said:

Hope they use the same combat in a more pve oriented mmo in the future.

Well, asian game so pvp is usually a part of the package.

they "could" bolster the pve experience and make a pve server.

3dom · April 2019

That's ~$50/user i.e. cost of base game + 1 costume. Happens when characters aren't ugly as sin.

TheDarkrayne · April 2019

Their mobile version is like the best ever mobile game made so far, in a technical sense, so.. there's that.

Sovrath · April 2019

3dom said:

That's ~$50/user i.e. cost of base game + 1 costume. Happens when characters aren't ugly as sin.

That's the thing, the game itself is amazingly beautiful, bar their solution for loading far assets with pop-ins.

It's compelling to be in the world. I wish more western mmorpg's got this.

Bloodaxes · April 2019

Sovrath said:

Bloodaxes said:

Hope they use the same combat in a more pve oriented mmo in the future.

Well, asian game so pvp is usually a part of the package.

they "could" bolster the pve experience and make a pve server.

Well, I'd love to have dungeons and whatnot besides BDO as a pve game. While I can stomach some grinding, I don't want to only do it for 24/7 which is why I said maybe a new mmo (or mmo light) in the future.

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Sovrath · April 2019

Bloodaxes said:

Sovrath said:

Bloodaxes said:

Hope they use the same combat in a more pve oriented mmo in the future.

Well, asian game so pvp is usually a part of the package.

they "could" bolster the pve experience and make a pve server.

Well, I'd love to have dungeons and whatnot besides BDO as a pve game. While I can stomach some grinding, I don't want to only do it for 24/7 which is why I said maybe a new mmo (or mmo light) in the future.

hmmm, I wonder if there will be more mmorpg's of that magnitude in the future? Also, it would be easier to add "dungeons" (though for me dungeons are grinding, like Lineage 2 dungeons, not World of Warcraft things) and a pve server than make a new game.

They already have a game. What they choose to do with it is the thing.

But to make an all new game? I don't see many companies making new, large mmorpg's for quite some time.

MadFrenchie · April 2019

ConstantineMerus said:

SBFord said:

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

No one should be blamed for trying to make money legally. Depending on the situation, sometimes even illegally is fine in my opinion but let's not go there

How you been btw? I missed you!

Hey! Where have YOU been, sir?

I feel like this is the first post I've seen you make in weeks. I may have just overlooked some posts though.

Viper482 · April 2019

This sucks for mmos....all it does is confirm p2w makes $$$$$$. Don't hate the game...hate the player.

ConstantineMerus · April 2019

MadFrenchie said:

ConstantineMerus said:

SBFord said:

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

No one should be blamed for trying to make money legally. Depending on the situation, sometimes even illegally is fine in my opinion but let's not go there

How you been btw? I missed you!

Hey! Where have YOU been, sir?

I feel like this is the first post I've seen you make in weeks. I may have just overlooked some posts though.

Hey mate

yes I haven't been around for a couple of months I believe. I had some health issues but all is well now, relatively.

Sovrath · April 2019

Viper482 said:

This sucks for mmos....all it does is confirm p2w makes $$$$$$. Don't hate the game...hate the player.

Whenever you have a competitive game and a way to become more competitive by spending money you will find this. And cheating.

Bloodaxes · April 2019

Sovrath said:

Bloodaxes said:

Sovrath said:

Bloodaxes said:

Hope they use the same combat in a more pve oriented mmo in the future.

Well, asian game so pvp is usually a part of the package.

they "could" bolster the pve experience and make a pve server.

Well, I'd love to have dungeons and whatnot besides BDO as a pve game. While I can stomach some grinding, I don't want to only do it for 24/7 which is why I said maybe a new mmo (or mmo light) in the future.

hmmm, I wonder if there will be more mmorpg's of that magnitude in the future? Also, it would be easier to add "dungeons" (though for me dungeons are grinding, like Lineage 2 dungeons, not World of Warcraft things) and a pve server than make a new game.

They already have a game. What they choose to do with it is the thing.

But to make an all new game? I don't see many companies making new, large mmorpg's for quite some time.

I'd be fine with a smaller scale, even hybrid lobby style game to be honest. They have the combat on check already, their issue atm is handling too many players fighting on screen.

Scot · April 2019

SBFord said:

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

But will you continue to fund long term more risky AAA games with the easy money in the long term? Or go with the easy money and leave AAA to the birds? I can't see what's stopping them from saying "Ok with all this mobile money coming in we can start developing the new MMO in a year or two, why bother now, just knock out some more mobile content."

TheDarkrayne · April 2019

Scot said:

SBFord said:

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

But will you continue to fund long term more risky AAA games with the easy money in the long term? Or go with the easy money and leave AAA to the birds? I can't see what's stopping them from saying "Ok with all this mobile money coming in we can start developing the new MMO in a year or two, why bother now, just knock out some more mobile content."

Ah, come on, they don't 'only' think about the money. There's plenty of execs who do things because they think it's cool and they enjoy it... or are proud of it.

I know it's common on this site to just claim they only care about milking our wallets but it's not true. Loads of developers are passionate and proud and want to do a good job.. want to be liked or respected too. Loads of publishers are like that too. Money is factor, a big one, but it's not the only factor. The people making these games want us to be impressed with their work because they love what they do and there will be plenty of devs and pubs that think mobile games are as crappy as a lot of us do.

WarWitch · April 2019

Its the top ptw whale heavy game that's out now. With accounts selling for 6 -11k it's kinda wild.
Its also the best afk mmo.

Dune the MMO is in the works but way off.

MadFrenchie · April 2019

ConstantineMerus said:

MadFrenchie said:

ConstantineMerus said:

SBFord said:

Varking said:

30% of their money made came from mobile where its not even a world-wide release yet?

That's exactly what I thought too. Who can blame big house developers for wanting to go after mobile dollars? Quick, easy money that ostensibly will fun AAA game development.

No one should be blamed for trying to make money legally. Depending on the situation, sometimes even illegally is fine in my opinion but let's not go there

How you been btw? I missed you!

Hey! Where have YOU been, sir?

I feel like this is the first post I've seen you make in weeks. I may have just overlooked some posts though.

Hey mate yes I haven't been around for a couple of months I believe. I had some health issues but all is well now, relatively.

Well hell, I hope things have been completely resolved and you're not experiencing any ongoing issues! Welcome back, you'll be happy to know we're all still here bickering with one another- the only thing that changed was the topic at hand.

Hefaistos · April 2019

they had 25 mils or so after 1 year and now its 1.000.000.000 ?

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