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Mollie Taylor

It's been a month since release and I'm still not sure if Pearl Abyss knows what it wants Crimson Desert to be

Damiane in Crimson Desert.

Nothing has made it more obvious that Crimson Desert is a singleplayer game created by an MMO developer than its patch cadence and rapid evolution. The game has changed so much in little under a month, as Pearl Abyss has pumped out an absurd number of updates.

Quality-of-life changes, bug fixes, implementing new features—stuff that I would expect to arrive weeks or months post-launch have instead been patched into the game within mere days. I complained in my Crimson Desert review about a lack of storage, and four days after releasing? Boom. Private storage chest. Players complained about the chest's location, and it only took a few more days after that for it to move somewhere else.

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