Pearl Abyss has announced it's bringing back its in-person celebration of Black Desert, the Calpheon Ball. This year's event will take place in the developer's home country of Korea and cover both the mainline MMO and its Mobile version.
Interview: Black Desert Online Devs' Community Efforts Show Its Passion For Its Players
25.10.2023 - 19:45 / mmorpg.com / Pearl Abyss
Community is the lifeblood of an MMORPG. The strength of a community can retain players during content droughts and attract new ones. Part of helping that community along is on the developers, engaging with them in meaningful ways.
For some, this is down to in-game events, while some host regular live streams with familiar community team members to interact with community members. Other developers host player gatherings or support player-created ones, from small events to large affairs like EVE Fanfest, TennoCon, or BlizzCon.
Since the pandemic lifted across the globe, Pearl Abyss has supported community events wherever there is a community to support. From small gatherings like the Adventurer’s Oasis gatherings that have taken place across the states this year to larger events such as the Calpheon Ball last December, Pearl Abyss is engaging their community in meaningful ways.
During TwitchCon Las Vegas over the weekend, Pearl Abyss held the first community event focused on content creators. Makes sense, with the deluge of content creators making the pilgrimage to the Las Vegas Valley for TwitchCon proper. Thus, under the lights of the nearby Las Vegas Strip, creators gathered at TopGolf Las Vegas for some food, drinks, and conversation with each other and the developers — as well as some golf, of course.
Content creators have become an integral part of engaging a community over the years, especially with live service games like MMOs and ARPGs. Through content creators, new players learn about a game, existing players stay engaged with a game, and the developers have another avenue to reach players of all levels by working with the creators themselves.
When Pearl Abyss America CEO Jeonghee Jin (JJ) joined the company back in 2018, the company had also just acquired Icelandic developer CCP Games, known for building EVE Online. At the time, CCP Games hosted its annual Fanfest in Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik every year, as well as supported player gatherings around the world, taking over one in North America, EVE Vegas. JJ went to EVE Fanfest that year, the MMO’s 15th anniversary, and was blown away by what she saw there.
“I was shocked; I was so impressed,” JJ told me in an interview during the Creator’s Night event last weekend. “I kept saying, ‘Oh my god, we should do something like this.”
That first Fanfest for JJ was transformative, it seems, as she met with EVE players and the community at large throughout the weekend. As someone who has attended multiple EVE Fanfest and EVE events worldwide, I can understand this, too. There is something special about those events that really energize you, whether you’re a newbro learning your way through space or a hardened space lord intent on
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