Palworld has shown me something I never expected.

[playezr]

I am a fan of pokemon and a fan of this game, I assume so are many people playing this. From all the articles,videos, and postings even just in this board I was surprised to see how toxic the pokemon community is. I had always thought Nintendo and pokemon players were pretty laid back and having fun with the adventures while being mostly nice people. However I've seen so much hate pour from this group over this game I'm almost ashamed to say I'm a fan of pokemon. I expected better of us. Just let palworld do its thing they could careless about gamefreak, they aren't trying to take your games away like you are trying to get them closed. Most of the requests for Nintendo to take legal action were from emails and letters sent from pokemon fans asking them to sue palworld as if Nintendo hasn't already looked into if they can. If it was possible it would be done by now.

Both games can exist and both can be enjoyed by their fans. Be better pokemon community stop embarrassing us -_-

[Xenomorph]

to protect the world from devastation to unite all peoples within our nation. words well spoken

[Kindred Spirit]

Pokemon fans want everyone to be as miserable as they have been since the last decent Pokemon game was Shin Megami Tensei in 1992.

This is a joke arising from how my nephew went from being a devout Pokekid to finding out how much of a dumbed-down ripoff Pokemon was - if we're to honor today's Pokemon fans mewling about Palworld. He just grew out of Pokemon, as did many others.

Despite the Salazzle/Salandit parody of Lovander, Palworld isn't doing anything over the top like, say, Mara...

[Dexaldem]

Originally posted by playezr:

I am a fan of pokemon and a fan of this game, I assume so are many people playing this. From all the articles,videos, and postings even just in this board I was surprised to see how toxic the pokemon community is. I had always thought Nintendo and pokemon players were pretty laid back and having fun with the adventures while being mostly nice people. However I've seen so much hate pour from this group over this game I'm almost ashamed to say I'm a fan of pokemon. I expected better of us. Just let palworld do its thing they could careless about gamefreak, they aren't trying to take your games away like you are trying to get them closed. Most of the requests for Nintendo to take legal action were from emails and letters sent from pokemon fans asking them to sue palworld as if Nintendo hasn't already looked into if they can. If it was possible it would be done by now.

Both games can exist and both can be enjoyed by their fans. Be better pokemon community stop embarrassing us -_-

You are too wholesome for these discussions forums, sir. I respect that.

[WonderSparks]

I'm glad to hear that OP is a sensible person, at least.
And while I'm sure there have been some genuine fans of Pokemon spouting bile here and elsewhere, I'm equally certain that a not-insignificant number of supposed "fans" are completely unrelated to that fan base and are simply trolls out to stir the pot, so to speak.

It's still disappointing to see so much negativity, but eh, you learn to live with it. Would be nice if everyone could just get along, but we don't live in a perfect world.

[Casual Amateur]

Hmm..... I remember some thing about Pokemon fan try really hard to get local government to force change on pokemon shield/sword to get all the pokemon into the game.

Well I don't need to tell you full detail what happen. Pokemon fan didn't get what they want it.

I don't get why they going after this game. When people were whining about gamefreak being lazy on quality. Let not forget about Pokemon fan trying to make Temtem look better and trying to get all pokemon fan to play that game instead. But some time later that game kind a forgotten from pokemon fans and pokemon fans just went playing another new pokemon game any way.

When Palworld have nothing to do with pokemon any way. Other then being another pokemon clone and that it.

[Wynters]

Originally posted by playezr:

I am a fan of pokemon and a fan of this game, I assume so are many people playing this. From all the articles,videos, and postings even just in this board I was surprised to see how toxic the pokemon community is. I had always thought Nintendo and pokemon players were pretty laid back and having fun with the adventures while being mostly nice people. However I've seen so much hate pour from this group over this game I'm almost ashamed to say I'm a fan of pokemon. I expected better of us. Just let palworld do its thing they could careless about gamefreak, they aren't trying to take your games away like you are trying to get them closed. Most of the requests for Nintendo to take legal action were from emails and letters sent from pokemon fans asking them to sue palworld as if Nintendo hasn't already looked into if they can. If it was possible it would be done by now.

Both games can exist and both can be enjoyed by their fans. Be better pokemon community stop embarrassing us -_-

Bro 5 people on the internet dont represent fans of a product. Most of us just don't go online to critique another game cos we got real lives to attend to and don't live on Reddit. Both can co-exist, Palworld has obviously gotten tropes from Pokémon that's why the critters are appealing to people, but that's fine. To deny it is silly, but to admit it and accept it for what it is, is sensible.

TLDR; Game is game. Internet is internet. But life is temporary, live outside of the PC and don't listen to the 5 people you saw on Reddit that one time.

[playezr]

It was more than 5 but I don't blame all pokemon fans as I said I'm one as well. It was just out of all communities I didn't expect this lvl of hate from of all things pokemon.

[hypehype]

You have only just discovered that gamers are toxic, that's like finding out your poop smells.

[jeetrix]

im not sure about this, i think its cynical to assume that the 2% toxic yellers are a general characterisation of the playerbase as a whole.

Also, satire can be genuinly offensive to people, and since pals are flirting with this, a certain degree of controversy is perfectly normal.

[Sagebrush]

Originally posted by wynters:

Bro 5 people on the internet dont represent fans of a product. Most of us just don't go online to critique another game cos we got real lives to attend to and don't live on Reddit. Both can co-exist, Palworld has obviously gotten tropes from Pokémon that's why the critters are appealing to people, but that's fine. To deny it is silly, but to admit it and accept it for what it is, is sensible.

TLDR; Game is game. Internet is internet. But life is temporary, live outside of the PC and don't listen to the 5 people you saw on Reddit that one time.

This isn't said enough. Fanbases are simply too large, fragmented and varied to really be considered 'communities' given to particular behavioral patterns. The most reliable trend is that the publically-visible portion of any fanbase gets overrun with hordes of tourists that allow sociopathic moderation cliques to shape and possibly direct their behavior, sometimes as desired by media/other organizations for one reason or another.

[DirtyMick]

Lol I've watched many of those Pokémon showdown videos where the guy plays off meta ♥♥♥♥ and just gets flamed all the time. I don't even play Pokémon but it's funny seeing all the raging people in those videos. So yeah, I'm not surprised at all. I'm more surprised that someone could be so shallow to lump an entire playerbase into one description. That's how stereotypes are created and I learned in elementary school that stereotypes are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It's like saying league of legends players are toxic. No they're not. Some are. Pokémon players are laid back and chill. No they're not. Some are. People are people, you will always get a variety of personalities, regardless of what category you put them in.

[Rena]

Every fandom has some percentage of toxic people. The bigger the fandom, the more people that percentage is.

[Kai]

Oh man, if you thought the Pokemon fandom was chill you definitely did not pay attention to the competitive battle league spheres, those people go hard core to a scary degree sometimes. Sucks you had to find out about that side of the fandom this way.

[jonathanqaz]

true i enjoy both never really reallised how toxic the fandom is then again it could be the loud minority

[WonderSparks]

Originally posted by Rena:

Every fandom has some percentage of toxic people. The bigger the fandom, the more people that percentage is.

Exactly that. Even a small percentage can lead to a rather large (and oftentimes loud) minority that can paint a very bad picture for that community as a whole, which then results in outsiders judging them more harshly.

You really can't judge an entire community from a few bad eggs, that just causes a whole heap of misunderstandings and misplaced animosity... and you know what the say about stuff rolling downhill.