'This Is a Premium Experience. That Is the Transaction. Full Stop' — Crimson Desert Dev Rules Out Microtransactions or a Cosmetic Cash Shop

The developer of Crimson Desert has confirmed that the upcoming unfastened satellite enactment escapade crippled does not person a cosmetic currency store oregon microtransactions of immoderate kind.

Crimson Desert, owed retired March 19 priced $69.99, is acceptable successful a immense and seamless unfastened satellite packed with enemies, NPCs, and each sorts of things to do. But 1 happening players won’t person to contend with is simply a cosmetic currency shop.

“I tin accidental that definitively: determination is not a cosmetic currency shop,” Will Powers, manager of selling astatine Pearl Abyss America, told play speech amusement Dropped Frames (via @Okami13_). “This is made to beryllium a premium acquisition that you bargain and you bask the world, and not thing for microtransactions.

“It’s a monetization model. If you bash free-to-play past you request to marque up the gross successful a antithetic way. This is simply a premium experience. That is the transaction. Full stop.”

So, that’s microtransactions ruled out, which is definite to spell down good with gamers who are hoping for a accepted single-player acquisition from Crimson Desert. The crippled has been dilatory gaining hype implicit caller years, but that’s ramped up importantly successful the past fewer months arsenic Pearl Abyss shared much gameplay footage.

Crimson Desert’s immense unfastened satellite has been a taxable of statement recently. Pywel is divided into 5 chiseled regions: Hernand; Pailune; Demeniss; Delesyia; and the Crimson Desert itself. The main quest revolves astir protagonist Kliff’s journey, but you’re escaped to research the satellite successful immoderate order, taking faction-driven quests, large-scale battles, fortress sieges and smaller, character-focused missions.

Pearl Abyss confirmed that arsenic the communicative progresses, 2 further playable characters go available, each with unsocial combat styles, skills and weapons. Exploration is simply a large portion of the crippled — you question connected horseback, ascent terrain, glide crossed distances, and aboriginal entree precocious traversal options specified arsenic a missile-firing mech and a dragon. You tin adjacent thrust a bear.

Pearl Abyss said the satellite is filled with hidden treasures, past mechanisms, puzzles and points of involvement “designed to reward curiosity and discovery.” As for combat, expect to look force soldiers, sorcerers, beasts and machines.

Powers has called Crimson Desert’s unfastened satellite “absolutely massive,” bigger adjacent than that of Bethesda’s Skyrim and Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2.

Speaking connected the Gaming Interviews YouTube channel, Powers said that describing the size of Crimson Desert’s satellite successful presumption of numbers doesn’t bash it justice, due to the fact that doing truthful fails to seizure the scope and standard of the game. But helium did spell arsenic acold arsenic to comparison it to 2 of the biggest open-world games around.

"I don't deliberation numbers truly bash it justness because, however large is that successful presumption of scope and scale?” helium said. “But what we tin accidental is that the world's astatine slightest doubly arsenic large arsenic the unfastened world, the playable area, of Skyrim. It's larger than the representation of Red Dead Redemption 2."

Powers went connected to importune that the size of Crimson Desert’s unfastened satellite wouldn't find its quality. Rather, what you really bash successful it is the cardinal factor. "The continent of Pywel is perfectly massive, but size doesn't truly substance if there's thing to do,” helium said. “Open-world games are astir doing things, having activities, having distractions. So we wanted to make a satellite that's not lone massive, but is besides incredibly interactive."

Last month, Powers said the developers were doubling down connected the "optimization phase” successful a bid to get show arsenic creaseless arsenic imaginable crossed each platforms up of Crimson Desert's merchandise date.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].