Crimson Desert Release Times: When Can You Start Playing?

Pre-ordering a game where the developer is continuously obtuse about a lot of reasonable questions is madness, especially digitally.

I sincerely hope this is a good game, but people need to stop rewarding developers for such lousy practices.

The Hype is Real.

@MrPeanutbutterz 60fps 1080 is perfect for me.

Not being able to play until 6PM on release day digitally in America is so strange. I don’t get that one at all just release it at either midnight or even noon in each individual time zone like every other game in history.

@Number09 It's perfect for me too. Now can the game hold that? Is it buggy? Is it too ambitious and just a mess of ideas that it doesn't nail fully? Is the gameplay actually any good?

10pm / 11pm on a Thursday night for the UK/Europe?
JAIL! To the person who thought that was a good idea.

@MrPeanutbutterz I don’t get it, what’s the big controversy? That they haven’t shown PS5/Xbox gameplay? That they haven’t disclosed the whole game before reviews come out?

It’s not unheard of that a game that’s clearly prioritized PC isn’t promoting console gameplay, the Digital Foundry video on PS5 Pro is impressive to say the least and that alone convinced me to preorder a physical copy, if you still feel unsure about it just wait for reviews or gameplays to come out, don't let it bother you that someone else has pre-ordered it lol.

@Colour they want a world wide launch, everybody gets to play at the same time,i suspect it has something to do with fact that some people have the game early but they've implemented a lock on it until your countries release date , probably to much hassle to unlock it at different times for everyone , rockstar should do this to stop spoilers.

It’s going to be a 7/10. But I genuinely do hope it is a good game.

@MrPeanutbutterz what lousy practice are you reffering?
How much more information you need? If you dont like that you have seen till now, then ofxourse, dont pre order. I watched all stuff they posted, I am satisfied with what I saw, I have preorder. They have been pretty open and transparent. Because game is so massive and "complicated" it is very hard to show everything in even 30min overview

Popcorn out for the base-PS5 Launch!

Wait....so the games release date s 19th March but I can't start playing it until 10pm that day?? Wtf is up with that? That's ridiculous.

Looking on the plus side, even if this game is a disaster it will hopefully serve as a salutary lesson for game developers about over-promising and under delivering and for consumers about the perils of pre-ordering and falling for yet more *****. It will be referred to in the same way as No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk 2042 and...oh. bugger. Yeah. Nothing will be learnt.

” The rumour is that no console review codes have been distributed, with access only offered on PC”

Yes, I know DF have had access to PS5 Pro code, but the lack of ANY base console codes being sent out is a 🚩to me. Don't get me wrong, I really hope the game turns out to be great, but I’m definitely waiting for reviews being ordering.

I've preloaded the physical deluxe steelbook edition.

@REALAIS @IOI It's like you guys don't remember the Cyberpunk or No Man's Sky launches...

@Nightcrawler71 I'm hoping it turns out to be fine too, but with some of the oddball stuff surrounding it idk something just feels off. No console footage being shown, no console review codes being distributed, their PR guy getting overly defensive about people asking questions. But if there is indeed something wrong with the console version, I'm hoping they put the blame on nondescript "saboteurs" 😂

@MrPeanutbutterz Oh I do remember and it’s why I only preordered it after watching Digital Foundry’s PS5 Pro gameplay, ironically what impressed me the most wasn’t the technical side (which does looks impressive) but the game itself, the systems, interactions, openness that resembles BoTW or TOTK, that alone is worth a try for me even if performance isn’t perfect.

Again, if you don’t got the Pro and are still concerned about performance on base PS5 it’s perfectly understandable to wait and see, but this “controversy” is being overblown, I remember same thing happened with Black Myth Wukong as they only kept showing the PC version and it turned out fine, but now some people even seem to be actively rooting for this game to fail which I don’t get at all, didn’t we say we wanted more single-player games?

This whole map time zone thing seems very free-to-start for a $70 game. If you're paying $70 to own a game you shouldn't have to wait until late in the day to play it. Free to start games can do whatever they want, it's free.

@IOI Oh people rooting for any game to fail is just bizarre. I'm rooting for this to be great; on paper at least it's very much my jam. Call me cynical or a bit burnt out by how the industry operates in general, I just can't get hyped for this until it's out in the wild and regular people have had proper time with it.

Funnily enough, the Pro footage is what has made me even more suspicious - it's probably the console with the smallest install base, yet this is what they chose to show it off on when pressured for console footage. To me it feels like they're being obtuse, deliberately so. The last line of this article is a massive red flag too. Pearl Abyss know fine well people are hungry for base console footage, but have yet to furnish any.

No BASE PS5 performance yet?

@MrPeanutbutterz I'm confused by this comment. You're asking if the game is any good or not, and developers don't typically provide reviews of their own games. Do you really expect them to tell you, "Yeah, our game sucks, please don't buy it!". That's what reviews from gaming outlets (or users) are for.