A few days ago, "Black Desert" developer PearlAbyss announced that the cumulative sales of "Black Desert" IP has exceeded 1 billion US dollars (about 6.7 billion yuan equivalent).
Currently, the "Black Desert" IP has 18 million players in more than 150 countries around the world, and has achieved good results. In December 2014, when "Black Desert" was first launched, the company's annual sales were only 1.1 billion won (equivalent to approximately 6.49 million yuan). By 2018, it had reached 404.7 billion won (equivalent to approximately 2.4 billion yuan). , An increase of 360 times.
At the same time, the company has also developed into a multi-platform game company with PC, mobile games, and video games. At present, the regional sales of "Black Desert" IP account for 17.6% in the Americas, including North and South America, 15.8% in Europe, and 66.6% in Asia.
The source of the explosive growth of "Black Desert" IP lies in technology. PearlAbyss breaks the convention that most game companies use commercial engines and insists on using the engines developed by the company. It is reported that the company not only increased the development speed through its own engine, but also facilitated the expansion to other platforms. The game engine department of
PearlAbyss currently has 50 employees. In order to meet the upcoming changes in the technological environment, it is developing the next-generation game engine. In addition, the company also has 3D scanning studios, model interception rooms, sound effects rooms and other professional workshops.
On the other hand, PearlAbyss is developing "Project K" and "Project V", and plans to release the "Black Desert" mobile game in North America and Europe within the year.
