Crimson Desert Confirms No Microtransactions, Players Will Need To Buy It Though

As Crimson Desert barrels towards its March release, the dev team has shot down rumours of microtransactions and stated it’s “a premium experience that you buy and enjoy the world.”

Crimson Desert continues to build steam as it heads towards its March 19 release date, and this time, the developers have confirmed that there will be no microtransactions at launch and the whole game will release at once (there will be no day-one DLC). The developers at Pearl Abyss confirmed this today, in an X (formerly Twitter) thread where the PR and Marketing Director for Pearl Abyss, Will Powers, responded to fans concerned about microtransactions.

In a previous appearance on episode 457 of the Dropped Frames podcast (found by GamesRadar), Will Powers detailed what titles should receive microtransactions, and detailed what kind of model Crimson Desert (a single-player RPG) would deploy. While Black Desert Online (another Pearl Abyss development) uses the... Read more