On September 6, 2018, South Korean game developer Pearl Abyss (Black Desert) acquired CCP Games and the MMORPG EVE Online, the flagship product of the Icelandic studio, for around $425 million.

Nearly seven years later, Pearl Abyss might be reconsidering their stake in CCP Games. At least, that’s what a new report by Korean website MTN alleges today: PA has reportedly reached out to multiple game companies to gauge their potential interest in acquiring CCP Games.

We don’t have public visibility on the sales performance of CCP’s games, but we do know that there were several missteps along the way, both prior and after the acquisition by Pearl Abyss. Over its nearly thirty-year history, CCP canceled at least four games (an MMO set in the World of Darkness, Project Legion, Eve: The Second Genesis, and Project Nova), while other projects notoriously fizzled too early, such as Dust 514. For a while, CCP even released several Virtual Reality games (EVE: Valkyrie, Gunjack, Gunjack 2: End of Shift, and Sparc), although eventually it gave up once it became crystal clear that the VR market was too small.

More recently, CCP launched EVE: Frontier, a survival spin-off of EVE Online, in ‘Founder Access’. Perhaps Pearl Abyss isn’t thrilled with the direction of Frontier and the other new project, Vanguard, CCP’s umpteenth at a shooter game connected with its MMORPG.

Whatever the case, the MTN report alleges that the Korean company would be glad to be rid of this subsidiary and focus on its own games, such as Crimson Desert and DokeV. This is the same source that shared a tentative internal release date for Crimson Desert, by the way, to which Pearl Abyss only referred back to official announcements coming from its own social channels.

Needless to say, we’ll update this article if PA chooses to comment in any way. Stay tuned.