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"Ever since I've been following what goes on in Korea. I have always discovered that what occurs in Korea becomes our truth five decades after, and I have 20 decades of observational data to support that." Pearl Abyss' struck MMO Dark Desert Online motivated similar feelings in Petursson; a complex game, a technical achievement, and a huge success all at once. In reality, last week Pearl Abyss revealed that it has earned more than $1 billion in revenue from the Dark Desert franchise. "You need to see the mobile edition," he added. "That boggles the mind -- it is like an artefact from the future"

Petursson estimated, once the purchase went through, EVE's Korean player-base was,"just a few thousand -- not quite significant." Now, with a major player in the national market at its rear, CCP is prepared to tap into what might become a huge market for its 16 year-old game. The exact same is true with China, where CCP first opened an EVE server in 2006. However, the company recently stepped up its efforts in the nation through two bargains with NetEase, which caused the publisher carrying over EVE's Chinese host, and also the development of a mobile game, EVE: Echoes, with China firmly in your mind.

"A big portion of our strategy going forward had to do with Asia overall," Petursson said. "The reason we're pushing on it today is that, historically, science fiction hasn't been a big topic in Korea and China. But ever since China put its eyes on distance, building a huge space programme. And then there was a pretty profound moment together with the novel The Three Body Problem -- an amazing science fiction book written by a Chinese writer [Liu Cixin] -- when you read this book it is like, yes, that's relevant to our times right now.

A movie based on a second Liu Cixin book, '' The Wandering Earth, was released in China in the beginning of February this year, and it earned more than $650 million in the box-office within fourteen days. "Everything concerning sci-fi, space, it is all spiking in interest in China, and I think that'll continue in the long run," Petursson said. "And that is why we're stepping it up on all arenas in China, Korea, and I think at some stage Japan."

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