It was recently announced that Pearl Abyss has relinquished control of CCP Games back to the leadership team for about 25% of the original purchase price. While details of the move are scant, I suspect we will be hearing more about this in the coming weeks. This is huge news for us Eve Online players.
What it means long-term for on-going development of Frontier and Vanguard remains to be seen. I would be slightly concerned about such development baggage on the books, but that doesn't mean there isn't a solution already in the works. Again, we don't know much of anything. The article linked above is a pretty standard boilerplate and is devoid of any significant details, or any real comment from other parties. Which is what you would expect at this stage - so nothing unusual there.
If I had to guess, and that is all this is, I would expect some news regarding third-party investment - such as a capital group, or bank, or like-minded money behind the purchase. Or new investment being welcomed into the mix. That would also be normal and, based on past activity before the PA acquisition, that was pretty much how CCP survived in the past. While PA often bemoaned and whined about CCP on their earning reports, this move is not really a surprise.
I recommend checking out Nosy's blog if you are super into those reports.
All in all at this point, I am happy to see Eve return to invested ownership. The Korean connection always worried me and it never seemed to be a natural fit. But we crossed our fingers and hoped everything would work out - and they did manage to survive another seven years under that umbrella - so it wasn't all bad.
So we forge onward and hope for the best. Eve Forever takes a lot of money to make happen.
Onward & Upward.
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