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Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

Awesome. Game Freak needed some competition, they've been coasting for at least a decade.

[-] Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 42 points 7 months ago

I mean, it's more competition for ARK than Pokemon. I doubt Game Freak learns anything from all this unfortunately.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Game Freak will learn absolutely nothing from this, except "People like Pokemon, lets crank out one every 6 months instead of yearly and make them even shittier!"

[-] danthehutt@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I heard cassette beasts is providing some direct competition but it wasn't nearly as successful.

[-] Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that one is real competition - at least gameplay wise - and a wonderful example of taking inspiration from Pokemon while still making something their own. It really deserves more attention than it got.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Instead we get plagiarism simulator 9000 because it made for great YouTube clickbait.

Cassette Beasts has so much soul put into it, it's a fucking crime that it ain't more popular

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe. Maybe not. Pokémon isn't successful because it's good. It's successful because people want to play Pokémon. If they can have the same experience of capturing and training Pokémon in a different format and name, it may compete with them. Admittedly, PalWorld is missing a lot of the higher level Pokémon things, but I don't think that matters to the vast majority of players, and hunting for perfect traits may make up for it.

I don't think it's a particularly great game, but I also don't think Pokémon is.