i seriously don't understand the Palsworld hate.

[FallenShaw]

if they stopped all updates took the money they made and ran right now, I'd be slightly pissed but still think I got my money worth. I've played the top AAA games, Including pokemons, ark SE & acended as well as other similar survival craft or capture games ect....
This is already worth the money, the only reason I'd be pissed is because we never got to the tree JS, thats it.
I'm not a fan boy of any title, and played every major hit since Duck hunt hit the Nintendo. I'm that old. This is truely one of the Gems of games out there. Can some things been better sure, But think of this since 2012, the amount of good games put out, can be counted before you run out of fingers and toes and this is already one of them.

[Nicodemous52]

I'm with you. I already think this is my favorite game, as is. There aren't many games I call my favorite. Azure Dreams, OG Legend of Zelda, Gladiator Guild Manager, Dreamscaper... and now, Palworld.

I guess FarCry 5 deserves an honorable mention.

[Xaelon]

A lot of the hate was people yelling about how "Palworld copied pokemon!" and other similar things. Other people will claim to hate something because hating on a popular thing is a great way to farm outrage and attention from others.

The more popular something is the more 'critics' it will draw and considering how popular this game was at launch it drew a large crowd of haters too.

The best thing you can do is ignore them. The majority of them don't care what you have to say anyway.

[Vielwyn]

At EA release, I had thought that I would run out of things to do in 40 Hours. Almost 200 hours later, and I've yet to explore everything - and the Sakurajima update is coming Tomorrow. Way more than got my money's worth.

[TheDongsmasher]

Originally posted by Xaelon:

A lot of the hate was people yelling about how "Palworld copied pokemon!" and other similar things. Other people will claim to hate something because hating on a popular thing is a great way to farm outrage and attention from others.

The more popular something is the more 'critics' it will draw and considering how popular this game was at launch it drew a large crowd of haters too.

The best thing you can do is ignore them. The majority of them don't care what you have to say anyway.

I love to hate palworld because of it's community's inclination to rabidly defend an extremely derivative game that can only be best described by the community itself as "pokemon with guns", and an online game that lost 98% of it's players after their favorite "content creator" stopped playing it. I'm happy for the devs that they've gotten a huge payday for this little effort, but the community goes kinda crazy and a bit parasocial.

P.S. Never was into pokemon or any of the nintendo stuff for that matter and this game looked like an unfunny edgy ♥♥♥♥ post from the very beginning. I suppose that's what the nintendo fans are into.

[Nicodemous52]

Originally posted by TheDongsmasher:

Originally posted by Xaelon:

A lot of the hate was people yelling about how "Palworld copied pokemon!" and other similar things. Other people will claim to hate something because hating on a popular thing is a great way to farm outrage and attention from others.

The more popular something is the more 'critics' it will draw and considering how popular this game was at launch it drew a large crowd of haters too.

The best thing you can do is ignore them. The majority of them don't care what you have to say anyway.

I love to hate palworld because of it's community's inclination to rabidly defend an extremely derivative game that can only be best described by the community itself as "pokemon with guns", and an online game that lost 98% of it's players after their favorite "content creator" stopped playing it. I'm happy for the devs that they've gotten a huge payday for this little effort, but the community goes kinda crazy and a bit parasocial.

P.S. Never was into pokemon or any of the nintendo stuff for that matter and this game looked like an unfunny edgy ♥♥♥♥ post from the very beginning. I suppose that's what the nintendo fans are into.

People calling it pokemon with guns were riddig a wave. It was never an apt discription. Comparing this game to Pokemon is only surface level. Get past that, and it's like comparing Monopoly to chess. They are so fundamentally different at their core, there is nothing to compare, and nothing to be gained by analyzing their similarities, as there are no similarities. Beyond the superficial surface level like, they both have a board and players and rule sets.

EDIT: That is by the way why Nintendo hasn't sued. They can't. Because any similarities are just that, surface level. They are smart enough to realize that, or they'd have gone in on it, as they are often want to do.

Similar =/= same

[hotaru251]

palworld became a craze & many ppl hate that. you get haters who don't want them succeeding (be it they disliek it overshadowing their game or they just dont like the type of game)

People who do like it but arent use to EA games can whine about content/bugs/etc (they dont understand what EA entails)

The people who actually like game and udnerstadn what they got into love the game even if there are ofc some issues (part of EA and they know it'll get betetr in time) these people will come and go as content updates come and thats normal.

[Sagebrush]

I got back into it recently after having to set it aside for months (time, other stuff going on.) Still comfy fun. The early guns are fun and satisfying, and the QoL implemented in my absence are nice (storage filters, tweaked pal condensing mechanics, mercy ring/attribute.)

It was rabidly-defended by players because the initial wave of trolling was immense, and likely at least partially paid-for by unseemly elements in the industry.

I do kind of wish there was something more like a campaign mode with missions, but I didn't really expect the game to be much different from what it is. If anything, I expected way more jank and worse controls/physics, but it feels nice to play.

[Knee]

It’s not hate but attention

[wildbill]

Not hate for Palworld, these people just hate everything in general (or they just love to say that they do for various reasons). Has nothing to do with Palworld.

[Grobi]

I had a great time in Palworld, I don't care for the rest.

[Hemiptera]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

Originally posted by TheDongsmasher:

I love to hate palworld because of it's community's inclination to rabidly defend an extremely derivative game that can only be best described by the community itself as "pokemon with guns", and an online game that lost 98% of it's players after their favorite "content creator" stopped playing it. I'm happy for the devs that they've gotten a huge payday for this little effort, but the community goes kinda crazy and a bit parasocial.

P.S. Never was into pokemon or any of the nintendo stuff for that matter and this game looked like an unfunny edgy ♥♥♥♥ post from the very beginning. I suppose that's what the nintendo fans are into.

People calling it pokemon with guns were riddig a wave. It was never an apt discription. Comparing this game to Pokemon is only surface level. Get past that, and it's like comparing Monopoly to chess. They are so fundamentally different at their core, there is nothing to compare, and nothing to be gained by analyzing their similarities, as there are no similarities. Beyond the superficial surface level like, they both have a board and players and rule sets.

EDIT: That is by the way why Nintendo hasn't sued. They can't. Because any similarities are just that, surface level. They are smart enough to realize that, or they'd have gone in on it, as they are often want to do.

Similar =/= same

"Pokemon with guns" rolls off the tongue nicely, but I think you're right; granted, I've never played any pokemon games, but calling it "Ark with Monster Catching" or "Ark with Pokemons" seems a more apt description.

[なかの31]

The hate on Palworld is mostly people thinking it's a Pokémon clone, which anyone that plays the game can find out that it isn't.
They only hate it because you can capture monsters with spheres, have a box to store the monsters and have them in battles, which this game isn't the only game that has such a thing as feature.
Alongside the fact the art style remembers the Pokémon designs from Nintendo Switch (but with more animations).

Things got bad to a degree that there were content creators making videos and news articles calling the game a Pokémon rip off, and the npcs following the content creators were also hurling lies about the game to get more people to hate it, saying that the game stole models from Pokémon, saying that the art of the game was generated by AI and much more.

Now adays, I think the hate train pretty much cooled down, but maybe with Sakurajima release it might hype up again for a while.

Meanwhile, I think that the truth is that a number of those people that hate Palworld are so invested on Pokémon, that think this game will make Pokémon go into obscurity, which is absurd.

[Azure Fang]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

I'm with you. I already think this is my favorite game, as is. There aren't many games I call my favorite. Azure Dreams, OG Legend of Zelda, Gladiator Guild Manager, Dreamscaper... and now, Palworld.

I guess FarCry 5 deserves an honorable mention.

My avatar should be a clear indicator of one of my favorites, but I just wanted to say it's not often I see Azure Dreams mentioned. Totally underrated game from an era of truly stellar RPGs.

[Scar]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

Originally posted by TheDongsmasher:

I love to hate palworld because of it's community's inclination to rabidly defend an extremely derivative game that can only be best described by the community itself as "pokemon with guns", and an online game that lost 98% of it's players after their favorite "content creator" stopped playing it. I'm happy for the devs that they've gotten a huge payday for this little effort, but the community goes kinda crazy and a bit parasocial.

P.S. Never was into pokemon or any of the nintendo stuff for that matter and this game looked like an unfunny edgy ♥♥♥♥ post from the very beginning. I suppose that's what the nintendo fans are into.

People calling it pokemon with guns were riddig a wave. It was never an apt discription. Comparing this game to Pokemon is only surface level. Get past that, and it's like comparing Monopoly to chess. They are so fundamentally different at their core, there is nothing to compare, and nothing to be gained by analyzing their similarities, as there are no similarities. Beyond the superficial surface level like, they both have a board and players and rule sets.

EDIT: That is by the way why Nintendo hasn't sued. They can't. Because any similarities are just that, surface level. They are smart enough to realize that, or they'd have gone in on it, as they are often want to do.

Similar =/= same

I mean people generally called it pokemon with guns due to.....

1) Capture with ball
2) Paldex (Pokedex)
3) 4 moves for the pal (and pokemon)
4) Element types

I mean generally labelling it pokemon is technically a good thing since it was a popular game for a few decades, generally means that this is a good game however people keep labelling it that because the pal-fanbase refuses to acknowledge such things.

[None]

game was worth in february imo, yeah a little janky but so wild and ambitious

funny when people call it a pokemon rip off like pokemon wasn't just the one in its genre to go crazy popular itself