Today, South Korean developer Pearl Abyss announced that Crimson Desert has surpassed 3 million units sold across all platforms in less than a week. This follows the game's previous milestone of two million units sold in the first day, largely due to pre-orders.
The strong pre-release hype wave isn't being significantly diminished by the less-than-stellar reviews (which, however, caused the stock to lose 30% on Thursday, 10% on Friday, and another 2.51% today), the AI generated art controversy, the anonymous reports of development issues, and the fact that the game didn't even run on Intel Arc GPUs at launch (though that should be fixed shortly). Even the average user review score on Steam has improved, now sitting around 80%.
Just yesterday, Pearl Abyss released Patch 1.003, which added storage at the Howling Hill camp and introduced improvements to keyboard and mouse controls, as well as lots of balance tweaks and bug fixes across Crimson Desert. Having maintained the MMO Black Desert for over ten years across PC, consoles, and mobile platforms, the studio is no stranger to post-launch updates. Given the commercial success, it's easy to imagine there might be premium DLC, although no official confirmation has been given so far.
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