Pearl Abyss Ends 'Black Desert Mobile' Service in China After 3 Years

Pearl Abyss will terminate the service of 'Black Desert Mobile,' which had entered the Chinese market, after about three years.

On the 27th, Pearl Abyss announced that it had agreed to an early termination of the Black Desert Mobile China publishing contract with Tencent, signed in 2019, effective January 27 next year. At that time, the total contract amount with Tencent was estimated to be about 36.7 billion KRW. A Pearl Abyss official stated, "With the termination of the service contract with Tencent, we plan to end the Black Desert Mobile service in China in January next year."

Black Desert Mobile is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) first introduced by Pearl Abyss in 2018, and it is the mobile version of the PC game 'Black Desert.' Black Desert Mobile obtained the game service license (panho) in China and was launched in April 2022.

Meanwhile, Pearl Abyss officially launched the PC version of Black Desert in China last October. A Pearl Abyss official explained, "Black Desert, now in its fourth week since the Chinese launch, is doing well, maintaining a recommendation rate in the high 70% range on Tencent's game platform WeGame. Based on the operational know-how accumulated so far, we are focusing on expanding the user base without rushing."