Crimson Desert is clawing its way back from its fairly controversial launch, proving itself an unambiguous critical and commercial success after two weeks of meaningful updates and improvements.
Pearl Abyss dropped its new open-world RPG on March 19 to largely positive critical reviews but "Mixed" user reviews on Steam, with widespread criticism going toward its story and controls. There were also some early controversies around most of its mounts not being permanent, but Pearl Abyss quickly addressed both of those issues by adding five new permanent mounts and removing and apologizing for the AI art thing. Even more crucially, it's been continuously working in updates to improve the game's clunky controls, which have been the community's biggest pain point since launch.
