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Black Desert Online Russian Player Data Lost as Pearl Abyss Takes Over Publication - MMORPG.com
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Black Desert Online Russian Player Data Lost as Pearl Abyss Takes Over Publication - MMORPG.com
Black Desert Online in Russia is no longer published by GameNet, the company that has held the reins for the past three years. Publication will be assumed by Pearl Abyss in CiS nations. However, after negotiations fell through regarding the migration of account databases, it appears that players will have to start from scratch on the newly created Pearl Abyss servers.
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If Pearl Abyss would actually honor their players instead of trying to milk them, then they would renew the status quo with that Publisher so that noone looses their money/time.
I can bet that PA will not refund any single pearl item but refers to say buy it again! And obviously blames the publisher who just fulfilled their contract. After all it was PA who did not want to renew it.
All those endless hours lost...
Guys just a question does this mean there will be no more IP block, for example for Baltic countries like Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia?
Pearl Abyss can lift that off, no?
Thanks.
"So sorry, you'll have pay us all over again, because the evil GameNet won't give us your player data for free !"
Aloha Mr Hand !
Well considering PA couldn't acquire the database, they don't have the player financial data to even tell them who purchased anything. So they couldn't offer refunds even if they wanted to. GameNet holds everything and until they're willing to make a reasonable deal, PA is forced to start from scratch.
Did you actually read any of the article? PA doesn't have the information to restore any CiS player's items, or refund them. That data is held by GameNet.
PA is well within their rights to cut out the middle man between them and their CiS customers. GameNet doesn't want to play ball and would rather fuck their customers over than help make the transition as smooth as possible. Trying to use player data to extort more money out of PA is about one the lowest things I've seen in gaming.
We all know PA could very easy give all the accounts affected something like 100 dollars worth of "pearls" as huge good-will gesture and to apologize for any inconvenience they are going though due to this mess, and it would not cost them a cent, as it's all digital vapor anyway, maybe even toss them all a custom cosmetic crown, like some kind of "We survived The Transfer" type of deal. And this would build sold rock faith in PA to stand by their players and be there for them under any and all circumstances.
But they won't, and we all know this, they would rather fight with GameNet while leaving their players high and dry, as I said before, Game Companies do not respect their players investments and then we wonder why communities within games are getting worse.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You tell me how they would give anything to anybody with no data. They don't have customer data.
GameNet works like the Russian Government, by extortion. They extorted their player base and now the license holder.
Pearl Abyss is simply cutting ties to a terrible company, said company is proving how bad they really are.
In the Intern the new accounts would get 100 dollars in Pearls to buy stuff, maybe a pile (20) exp pots, to allow them to catch up, and a special "Welcome back to PA Pet" that looked like a Bright Bouncy Pearl.
Once things settled, transfer over Progress to their main account (Again, ISP/CC Tracked) at the players request, they would receive +EXP/+gold/+loot potions for every level their "New Account" earned, and transfer over "Base Materials" for all gear, as well as the 100 dollars in Pearls and the Special Pet.. and the "Temp Account" would get deleted.
If they were worried about abuse, they could lock the accounts so they cannot trade any Store Items, Pears. or other "rewards" to other players.
Really it's not hard to make people feel like "You got their back" if you want to make people feel like you got their back.
I doubt handing out an equal compensation to everyone will make people happy. Imagine spending $100 on a game and then everyone gets a $100 compensation. You'd still be upset regardless in my opinion.
They would have to hand out a crazy high compensation, so that most of the spenders would feel they're getting a lot more than they spent. You'd still be upsetting the high spenders though, who might represent large proportion of the overall income.
Is there any numbers on the spending distribution? How much money is coming from the top 5% of the spenders?
This isn't a good look for GameNet, or PA. I know I would be really unlikely to play any game hosted by either one in the future.
This is what GameNet wants. Pearl Abyss moving to take their CiS game from GameNet means GameNet doesn't get to sit back and cash the checks. So this situation has become a crapfest for PA because GameNet gets either A. a massive payday for the player data to compensate for them not being able to reap the rewards on BDO anymore, or B. pressure PA into accepting their "solution," when player backlash pops up from them having to start all over in a holy hell levels of grindy game.
Black Desert was PA's first monumental achievement. The russian server came out three months after KOR came out in 2015 so odds are GameNet with contract in hand came to them saying "We'll publish in Russia. You get money, we get money, they play your game, everything will be good." And PA being fresh off their high of just releasing the game signed the deal with the devil and now they are finding the contract was probably a giant mess against them.
I hate PA as much as the next guy, but in this case I feel like it's another case of gross publisher taking advantage of a new talent at the time.