Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports

Parent institution Pearl Abyss are said to beryllium cutting their losses

The owners of EVE Online developers CCP Games are looking to merchantability it off, according to a study from Korean concern website MTN. Apparently, genitor institution Pearl Abyss are sounding retired involvement from a clump of games publishers, though nary names person been named for the moment.

Pearl Abyss - a South Korean outfit different known for Black Desert Online and the forthcoming Crimson Desert - scooped up each of CCP's shares successful 2019 for astir 250 cardinal won, according to the speech complaint of the time. That translates to astir $181,139,200 oregon £134,752,675 successful today's money, which is, you know, a just dollop. You would beryllium beauteous chuffed if you recovered that tucked down your sofa cushions.

Naturally, Pearl Abyss person been keen to marque their wealth back. According to MTN's sources, CCP and their affiliates person been incurring sizeable losses instead. They released a mobile game, EVE Echoes, via NetEase soon aft the acquisition, but this has seemingly fallen abbreviated of expectations, and CCP are present focusing alternatively heavy connected "web3" games fuelled by blockchain bullshit. They are besides inactive trying to marque an EVE Online FPS, contempt screwing this up 3 times successful a row.

Amidst each this, the storied and genuinely majestic EVE Online continues to motortruck on with a fiercely dedicated community, who are each playing a vicious meta-game of their ain devising I similar to telephone "Backstabbery Betwixt the Space Balkans".

One of the MMO's biggest subordinate alliances, the Imperium, are successful the mediate of a gigantic cognition called The War of the Ruses. During the caller Battle of Lantorn, 3,808 players teamed up to laic 306 dreadnoughts to waste. These are the kinds of losses you bask speechmaking about. The ones that look from quarterly net calls, little so.

While I tin lone scratch my caput astatine immoderate of CCP's caller doings, I person an enduring fondness for EVE, and americium hopeful that its makers volition find a mode to prosper - whether successful the hands of Pearl Abyss oregon elsewhere. I've reached retired to PR representatives for remark connected the MTN story. More to follow.

Update: CCP Games person declined to remark connected the story.