The studio announced the latest milestone through a social media post thanking players for having spent so much time with the game.
"Expect a lot more of this in premium and free-to-play. There is less risk in it," says Michael Douse regarding the open-world title.
Alec Newman of Still Wakes the Deep and Cyberpunk 2077 fame says there were “various periods of low and then very high intensity.”
Heo Jin-young said that the team can now "pick up the pace," and that it will take two to three years for "completion and polishing."
Pearl Abyss's open-world title peaked at 276,261 concurrent players on the platform after a new patch added more mounts and other fixes.
Refinement Tokens have also been added to upgrade equipment to Stage 4 and crimes no longer lower Contribution if there are no witnesses.
The campaign is really only the beginning of this massive open-world title. Check out a bunch of other things to do afterwards.
As far as open worlds that have you spending hours uncovering everything they have to offer go, Crimson Desert certainly manages to measure up pretty well against some of the best ones out there.
Pearl Abyss's Heo Jin-young also said that the "top priority" is "expanding sales of the base game" when asked about potential DLC.
"All employees will work hard to achieve the best possible results by the end of the year," said Pearl Abyss CEO Heo Jin-young.
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A storage chest, keyboard shortcuts and nerfs to bosses are a strong start, but there's still plenty of room for improvement.
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