{"id":1806660,"date":"2026-03-04T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1806660"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:33:04","slug":"im-sick-of-having-to-repeat-myself-crimson-desert-pr-shuts-down-accusations-its-hiding-console-footage-ahead-of-imminent-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1806660","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of having to repeat myself&#8221; &#8211; Crimson Desert PR shuts down accusations it&#8217;s &#8220;hiding&#8221; console footage ahead of imminent launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/crimson-desert\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Crimson Desert<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of having to repeat myself&#8221; &#8211; Crimson Desert PR shuts down accusations it&#8217;s &#8220;hiding&#8221; console footage ahead of imminent launch<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">&#8220;We&#8217;re saying this openly&#8230; Let us cook?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Crimson-Desert-screenshot-showing-a-male-human-and-large-deer-like-creature-battling-it-out.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Crimson Desert screenshot showing a male human and large deer-like creature battling it out\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Crimson-Desert-screenshot-showing-a-male-human-and-large-deer-like-creature-battling-it-out.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Pearl Abyss<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1644925423.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1644925423.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/victoria-kennedy\">Victoria Phillips Kennedy<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      News Reporter<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"updated_at\">\nUpdated on <time datetime=\"2026-03-04T14:33:04+00:00\">March 4, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/im-sick-of-having-to-repeat-myself-crimson-desert-pr-shuts-down-accusations-its-hiding-console-footage-ahead-of-immanent-launch?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          15 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"10cf2e53-bea5-44e6-bc6c-98d8a341d473\" data-name=\"Crimson Desert\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Crimson Desert\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Crimson Desert\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Crimson Desert\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Crimson Desert\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Crimson Desert\" title=\"Follow Crimson Desert\"><br \/>\n  Follow Crimson Desert<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Crimson Desert&#8217;s marketing director is &#8220;sick of having to repeat&#8221; himself, as some express concern Pearl Abyss is &#8220;hiding&#8221; console footage of the open-world action adventure game.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Pearl Abyss&#8217;s PR and Marketing Director Will Powers took it upon himself to shut down a social media user who claimed the team was deliberately keeping console footage under wraps. &#8220;We&#8217;re not hiding anything, and I&#8217;m sick of having to repeat myself,&#8221; Powers responded, adding that Pearl Abyss will &#8220;reveal things ahead of launch to give people adequate time to still preorder the game for themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is something Powers said he has had to repeat &#8220;100s of times&#8221; already.<\/p>\n<p><!-- code from Primis - Eurogamer.net - eurogamer.net --><\/p>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- code from Primis --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re saying this openly&#8230; Let us cook? Please and thank you. \/rant,&#8221; Powers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillJPowers\/status\/2029072355855933930?s=20\">post on X closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, many were quick to draw comparisons to developer CDPR, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/cd-projekt-co-founder-addresses-botched-cyberpunk-2077-console-release-in-new-video\">ahead of Cyberpunk 2077&#8217;s less than stellar launch back in 2020<\/a> also kept its console footage out of the public eye. &#8220;I think being transparent and giving reviewers keys to the console version would show some confidence,&#8221; came one such reply from known Rockstar insider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/videotechuk_\">@videotechuk_.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Powers shared a follow up post over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CrimsonDesert\/comments\/1rke3xn\/marketing_director_pearl_abyss_responds_to_person\/\">reddit<\/a>, stating: &#8220;People have the right to information to make an informed purchase. Simply put, that&#8217;s transparency, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re promising. But people demanding information on their timeline is entitlement, and that needs to end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Again, many remained somewhat sceptical about Crimson Desert&#8217;s lack of console showing. &#8220;Is he trying to Cyberpunk console players?&#8221; asked one reply, while others said they were putting off pre-ordering on consoles until they see something more concrete on either Xbox or PlayStation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sympathise with his position but also we are not even three weeks away from launch and we don&#8217;t even know a \/target framerate\/,&#8221; one commenter noted. &#8220;Literally just a bit of footage would help unless you&#8217;re REALLY cutting that optimisation period down to the wire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Crimson Desert is set for release across Xbox Series X\/S, PS5 and PC later this month, on 19th March.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crimson Desert screenshot showing bearded male protagonist squaring up against orc with crown\" height=\"958\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Crimson-Desert_Screenshot_10.png?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.6701461377870563\" width=\"1600\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Crimson Desert screenshot showing bearded male protagonist squaring up against orc with crown\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Crimson-Desert_Screenshot_10.png\" height=\"958\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.6701461377870563\" width=\"1600\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Pearl Abyss<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/crimson-desert-passes-3-million-wishlists-as-excitement-around-the-single-player-rpg-builds\">Pearl Abyss announced Crimson Desert had surpassed 3m Wishlists over on Steam<\/a>. The team also added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/crimson-desert-is-fully-voiced-by-actual-human-people\">no AI voice acting would be used for the NPCs in the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Crimson Desert&#8217;s marketing director is &#8220;sick of having to repeat&#8221; himself, as some express concern Pearl Abyss is &#8220;hiding&#8221; console footage of the open-world action adventure game.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Pearl Abyss&#8217;s PR and Marketing Director Will Powers took it upon himself to shut down a social media user who claimed the team was deliberately keeping console footage under wraps. &#8220;We&#8217;re not hiding anything, and I&#8217;m sick of having to repeat myself,&#8221; Powers responded, adding that Pearl Abyss will &#8220;reveal things ahead of launch to give people adequate time to still preorder the game for themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is something Powers said he has had to repeat &#8220;100s of times&#8221; already.<\/p>\n<p><!-- code from Primis - Eurogamer.net - eurogamer.net --><\/p>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- code from Primis --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re saying this openly&#8230; Let us cook? Please and thank you. \/rant,&#8221; Powers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillJPowers\/status\/2029072355855933930?s=20\">post on X closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, many were quick to draw comparisons to developer CDPR, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/cd-projekt-co-founder-addresses-botched-cyberpunk-2077-console-release-in-new-video\">ahead of Cyberpunk 2077&#8217;s less than stellar launch back in 2020<\/a> also kept its console footage out of the public eye. &#8220;I think being transparent and giving reviewers keys to the console version would show some confidence,&#8221; came one such reply from known Rockstar insider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/videotechuk_\">@videotechuk_.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Powers shared a follow up post over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CrimsonDesert\/comments\/1rke3xn\/marketing_director_pearl_abyss_responds_to_person\/\">reddit<\/a>, stating: &#8220;People have the right to information to make an informed purchase. Simply put, that&#8217;s transparency, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re promising. But people demanding information on their timeline is entitlement, and that needs to end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Again, many remained somewhat sceptical about Crimson Desert&#8217;s lack of console showing. &#8220;Is he trying to Cyberpunk console players?&#8221; asked one reply, while others said they were putting off pre-ordering on consoles until they see something more concrete on either Xbox or PlayStation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sympathise with his position but also we are not even three weeks away from launch and we don&#8217;t even know a \/target framerate\/,&#8221; one commenter noted. &#8220;Literally just a bit of footage would help unless you&#8217;re REALLY cutting that optimisation period down to the wire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Crimson Desert is set for release across Xbox Series X\/S, PS5 and PC later this month, on 19th March.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crimson Desert screenshot showing bearded male protagonist squaring up against orc with crown\" height=\"958\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Crimson-Desert_Screenshot_10.png?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.6701461377870563\" width=\"1600\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Crimson Desert screenshot showing bearded male protagonist squaring up against orc with crown\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Crimson-Desert_Screenshot_10.png\" height=\"958\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.6701461377870563\" width=\"1600\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Pearl Abyss<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/crimson-desert-passes-3-million-wishlists-as-excitement-around-the-single-player-rpg-builds\">Pearl Abyss announced Crimson Desert had surpassed 3m Wishlists over on Steam<\/a>. The team also added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/crimson-desert-is-fully-voiced-by-actual-human-people\">no AI voice acting would be used for the NPCs in the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Crimson Desert &#8220;I&#8217;m sick of having to repeat myself&#8221; &#8211; Crimson Desert PR shuts down accusations it&#8217;s &#8220;hiding&#8221; console footage ahead of imminent launch &#8220;We&#8217;re saying this openly&#8230; Let us cook?&#8221; Image credit: Pearl Abyss News by Victoria Phillips Kennedy News Reporter Updated on March 4, 2026 15 comments Follow Crimson Desert Crimson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-1806660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}