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Palworld’s success is partially born from Pokémon fans’ discontent (www.polygon.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mike591@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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Palworld is an alternate take on Pokémon at a time when the colossal franchise feels stagnant and slow

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[–] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell The Day Before was overhyped early and people bought it because of the marketing

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDayBefore/comments/lwaach/people_keep_saying_its_a_scam_whats_the_scam/

That's a 3 years old post. Everybody knew it was a scam back then. to the point the studio released "We are not a scam, trust me bro" statements (which made it more obvious it was a scam)

I don't remember hearing about it before

Internet has been talking about "pokemon with guns" for 2 years or so since the developers were already famous because they launched a "Breath of the Wild" knock off (Craftopia) that also sold well (not at the same level of palworld, but for being the first title of a brand new indie studio it sold really well)

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently not everyone knew the day before was a scam or it wouldn't have sold millions of units. Just because some people predicted it does not mean that the general population had any awareness of that expectation.

[–] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

it wouldn't have sold millions of units

People started to sell their steam accounts that owned the game and keys for the game for hundreds of dollars when it was announced the game was some bad that it was going to be removed from steam

If something is popular it will sell, the quality does not matter. You have the best example in Pokemon itself