Pearl Abyss shares fell almost 29% after the scores

On 19 March, Pearl Abyss shares were down 19,000 won, or 28.96 percent, to 46,600 won by 11:27 local time. The trigger was the first Crimson Desert scores and a Metacritic of 78 out of 100.

Game Informer, IGN, GameSpot and Eurogamer landed in the 60–70 range and criticized the story, the controls and an overloaded structure. The market, in this note, had expected 85–87. Formally 78 is still above the green band that starts at 75, but the gap with the expectation moved the stock.

The game was in development for about seven years. The production budget was 200 billion won, about 134 million dollars. Launch is the next day, 20 March, on Steam, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and GeForce Now.