Black Desert Online’s Remastered campaign brings in a huge surge of players

Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games said that Black Desert Online has seen a surge of returning and new users from their Remastered campaign in the past week. Black Desert Online returning users are up 103.6 percent in the past week, and new players are up 24.2 percent in the North American and European markets. That’s a big result for a game that originally launched in 2014, after four years of development at Seoul, South Korea -based Pearl Abyss.

Black Desert Online debuted in North America and Europe in 2016, and the Remastered version of the fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game debuted last week with better visuals and a new orchestral score. Kakao Games serves as the publisher in major regions in Asia, Europe and the U.S., while others handle South America and Russia. It’s another sign of how time-consuming MMORPGs, like World of Warcraft and its launch-day record for its Battle for Azeroth expansion, continue to do well in the age of mobile games and nanosecond attention spans.