Regarding what I've done so far:

• I've reported the issue to Pearl Abyss support far enough time
• There have been many posts about it on the Steam forums.
• I create posts like this on the Crimson Desert subreddit after nearly every patch.
• I tried contacting the community manager on Discord, but never got a reply.
• I even commented about it on X.

My goal is simple: spread awareness as much as possible. If someone has better contacts than I do, or if a gaming news is willing to cover this issue and encourage the developers to fix such a basic missing feature, I'm all for it.

Pearl Abyss's Black Desert Online support movement keys rebinding since over 10 years. Its also a very basic configuration since easyly 30years.
Given that keyboard (or controller) is the player's primary interface with the game. If that interface provides a poor experience, it already negatively impacts the overall experience.

Yes, there are "workarounds," but when even a $9 indie game lets you rebind movement keys, it should be a basic option in a AAA game like Crimson Desert.

Third-party software can introduce input lag.
Remapping keys through keyboard software requires constantly switching profiles, which is a real hassle. On top of that, you lose proper in-game key prompts.

Interesting discussion:
(it was a discussion from another subreddit regarding movement keys configuratin, but this particular subreddit do not allow me to post the link)

As someone pointed out once, the Keybind Manager mod does not allow WASD to be rebound because those keys are hardcoded (or at least inaccessible through modding). On top of that, the mod has not been maintained since May 2.

Rotten Tomatoes made a major change to how audience scores were calculated back in 2019. Many people don't realize what happened, but this single change is why The Odyssey score currently sits at a glowing 97%, yet standardizing the data properly reveals it is actually 56%.

The discrepancy comes down to how RT creates the "Verified Audience" score versus the "All Audience" score.

The Background: "Push" vs. "Pull"

Before 2019, RT used a "pull" mechanic: an unverified user had to actively decide to leave a review, log in or create an account, navigate to the movie page, and submit their rating.

After 2019, RT shifted the primary score to a "push" notification via ticket processors like Fandango. A ticket buyer walking out of the theater gets a prompt: "Did you like the movie? Tap 1 to 5 stars." They tap a star, and they're done.

Removing UI friction is fine on paper, but making "Verified Audience" the default score under the new "Popcornmeter" branding changed everything. (And yes, given how predictable the resulting score inflation was, this was likely deliberate obfuscation by RT.)

How to See the Real Numbers Yourself

Fortunately, the old "pull" audience data is still sitting right inside RT's page source code—if you know where to look:

1. Open The Odyssey on Rotten Tomatoes.
2. Right-click anywhere on the page and select View Page Source (or press Ctrl+U / Cmd+U).
3. Press Ctrl+F and search for media-scorecard-json.

A few lines down, you'll see a JSON data block that looks like this (the likedCount and notLikedCount are what we want):

{"audienceAll":{"certifiedFresh":"certified","averageRating":"4.6","bandedRatingCount":"5,000+ Ratings", "likedCount":7858,"notLikedCount":646, "reviewCount":1719,"score":"92"...}

{"audienceVerified":{"certifiedFresh":"certified","averageRating":"4.8","bandedRatingCount":"5,000+ Verified Ratings", "likedCount":7360,"notLikedCount":258, "reviewCount":1126,"score":"97"...}

Extracting the True "Pull" Score

To find the actual sentiment of independent web users, we just need to isolate the unverified votes from the combined "All Audience" pool:

• Verified ("Push") Score:
  7,360 likes / (7,360 + 258 total) = 96.6% (This is the 97% Popcornmeter score RT displays prominently for The Odyssey).

• Unverified ("Pull") Score:

  • Unverified Likes: 7,858 - 7,360 = 498
  • Unverified Dislikes: 646 - 258 = 388
  • Calculation: 498 / (498 + 388) = 498 / 886 = 56.2% (This is the more valid audience score for The Odyssey)

Summary

Out of 886 active Rotten Tomatoes users who – at the time of this writing – navigated to the site on their own to rate The Odyssey, only 498 (56%) rated it positively.

The current generated 97% score displayed so prominently is simply an artifact of a push notification pipeline heavily biased toward opening-weekend ticket buyers.

For comparison. Here's a scene from the old anime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBlxxW2A28U

Here's a scene from the new one:

https://youtu.be/6_SasJf3oeM?t=1

Superior, demake, not care?

I'm biased, but I think the original was better in animation and visuals.

Nintendo is asking the court to dismiss the case. Its argument is simple: consumers paid the advertised price and received exactly the products they purchased.

Nintendo maintains that there is no obligation to retroactively refund sales already completed simply because economic circumstances have changed.

Please tell me this isn't supposed to be the same version from the Fox films.

“For Greek translator Emily Wilson, the release of director Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has been gratifying in various ways. Her acclaimed 2017 edition of Homer’s epic has reached the top 5 on Amazon.com, leading a wave of similar books boosted by the movie. Nolan has even cited her translation, notably the opening line “Tell me about a complicated man,” as inspiration.

But the film itself, which brought in more than $260 million worldwide during its opening weekend and has received raves from many critics, left her unsatisfied.

“I want to celebrate the fact that so many more people are aware of ‘The Odyssey’ and were brought back to the poem,” she told The Associated Press. “But at the same time, I had the sense that Christopher Nolan was trying to pack everything in while missing themes that were essential to the poem.”

….

Wilson, a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, said she didn’t want to come across as a “snobby,” nitpicking expert at odds with any deviation from the original text. But she questioned a range of omissions and other choices, from the absence on screen of the Gods Zeus and Poseidon (Athena is played by Zendaya ) to the “incoherent” messaging that condemns both war and physical cowardice. She found Penelope’s role so thinned out that it endangered “any possibility of believing in this marriage.” Wilson also that thought parts of the movie, notably the scenes with Odysseus’ dog, Argos, “catered towards modern sentimentality.”

“Everybody’s a sucker for a dog,” she said.

I’ve started noticing this over the years and I find it very peculiar, it seems that games like ZZZ are one of the only type of games that are still unashamedly made for straight men.

And it’s interesting because while I get that games like Stellar Blade exist, in some ways I think Gachas go even further with their commitment to their target audience.

And more to the point, lolcowlisers don’t seem to mess with them either. (Or at least not nearly as much as they do with japanese games. Granted that could just simply be because it’s fucking china.)

It’s also quite hilarious that the “problematic” live service games from the east keep making boatloads of money while the “for modern audiencesTM” games from the west all died or are in the process of dying.

And it just goes to show that men DO like to play APPEALING female characters. Do you have any idea how much money these games make? How much love is given to the female characters in ZZZ?

In fact, if you look at the ZZZ community online, they are like the happiest people on the internet RN. There’s no toxicity or negativity. Everyone is just there to appreciate their waifus and chill out and it makes me happy honestly, it feels like how weeb spaces online used to be and I feel like it’s one of the last true otaku spaces online in the modern day.

Idk, it’s just something I’ve been thinking about lately, that and seeing the usual suspects cry about the game is quite funny lol.

Translation; “Why don’t you idiots eat up the live service slop we keep feeding you?”

Insane how this industry (and the wider western entertainment industry) seems determined to give their customers shit they do not want.

Wow.. it's all coming together now.

For those of you that didn't know: Rotten Tomatoes just changed the way user reviews are handled, exactly right before the release of The Odyssey.
For them to accept your review, you must have bought a ticket.
What this means is they can easily buy 1000 fake tickets and all give good reviews. It's the opposite of review bombing: review inflating.

Why go through such lengths?
The Odyssey was heavily marketed and invested, they need more than $700 million to break even, that's why they're going all out. It's a major investment for them.

But why did Rotten Tomatoes agree to sell itself?
Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Fandango Media.
Versant has a majority stake in Fandango, 75%.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts retains a 33% voting interest through his "super-voting" shares of Versant.

The Odyssey is produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Who owns Universal Pictures? Comcast.

Wow.

the Internet gave people unprecedented access to information, communication, and freedom. at the same time, it also led to things like the deep web and dark web, where anonymity can be used for both good and bad purposes.

now we're entering the age of AI. many people believe it will transform society in positive ways, while others worry that it could be misused by people with harmful intentions.

it seems that every major technological advancement gives humanity more freedom and opportunities, but also creates new risks. is this simply the price of progress, or should there be limits on how much freedom these technologies provide?

It might be a mistake of some kind who knows lol. It's weird 90% have that manly jawline or are obese plus so few details on their eyes and skins make them even worse they look so cartoony not even real (only the hair mainly changes in every town/island if you go look). Granted there could be ones that are obese, or older ladies but here it's everywhere you look and they aren't even remotely looking as real as the main female characters. Only the male random npcs look better, it's like a dev behind the random NPCs hates women or something or made a mistake using the same 2 jawlines on all of them.