Pearl Abyss, the developers of the sandbox MMO Black Desert Online, have four more games, possibly MMOs, in development. Black Desert currently has over 7 million players.
The Black Desert developers Pearl Abyss from South Korea are serious about it: On September 14, the company is going public and will offer 1.8 million shares. As part of the announcement of the IPO, there were a few interesting news. On one hand, Black Desert Online is extremely successful and on the other hand, four new games are already in development at Pearl Abyss.
Black Desert Online Successful – Player Numbers of the MMORPG
To impress potential shareholders, Kyung In Jung – CEO of Pearl Abyss – shared some impressive numbers:
- Black Desert Online has 7.65 million registered players (as of July 2017)
- Total revenues from sales are $301 million
- By July 2017, 530,000 copies of BDO have been sold on Steam
- BDO is the best-selling game of the company internationally and is available in over 100 countries
- 87 percent of the employees are developers actively working on the studio’s games
Are 4 new MMOs coming with Black Desert graphics?
But in addition to the planned launch of Black Desert Online on Xbox One and the mobile version Black Desert M, there are supposed to be more games from Pearl Abyss.
By the second half of 2018, two new games that are already in development are expected to be released. Another new game will come in 2019, and in 2021 another title from Pearl Abyss is set to be released.
All four of these games are said to utilize the in-house Black Desert engine, and correspondingly look good. Kyung In Jung did not explicitly refer to the upcoming games as MMOs but mentioned that the games could contain this keyword.
At least they would be high-quality, network-based games
Also interesting: Black Desert Online – Studio is growing – 300 employees are at work!
