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Palworld has the highest concurrent player count of any paid game in the history of Steam

Fredrik

Fredrik

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HeisenbergFX4 said:
Its a stupid fucking game that I deleted 5 minutes after starting it

Then I wanted to try something else so I tried it then wanted to try something else...

Almost 8 hours in now and restarting another character for a better base location

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I’m still at that first phase, basically the tutorial. And tbh right now I’m just thankful I didn’t have to pay for it. But I guess I should try it some more, it’s a slow-starter perhaps.
What’s the pull for you? Base building?
 
Illo

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Hugare said:
Is it a legit good game or its just the meme game of the moment?
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It's a survival game at its heart. But mixed in with elements from Breath of Wild / Tears of the Kingdom crafting, durability and stamina meter. Combined with Pokémon Legends Arceus catching mechanics and enemy pals attacking you. Combined with building elements like Minecraft/Fortnite that you can build things at any time and the structures stay there pernamently. There is also online play up to (I don't even know how many people). People are running servers with their own rules, playstyles and so on.

The game is a slow starter, but it has a lot to do, a lot of upkeep and a lot of grinding to get resources and having you catch more Pals (and more powerful ones) to really get the game rolling. Once you got one Home Base settled you are off on a Zelda-Pokemon-Esque Adventure.

Just fun notes:
There is a hookshot item
The map is HUUUGE and despite only being 100 or so pals and some variants, you never really feel underwhelmed.
Egg mechanics can help you obtain late game mons early by hatching them if you find their eggs.
You really need to explore caves, get keys and unlock loot to get better weapons/gear. Pretty much all high rarity weapons and gear are obtain via dungeon treasure chests.
There are a lot of nook and crannies with powerful pals hiding that takes some running around to find.
Yes you can catch humans. (They are awful pals though. I did managed to find a level 50 Human whose name is reincarnated human and states he was isekai'd into the world. I somehow managed to catch. He gives me pizza whenever I talk to him. I just have him chill at my base.

At the end of the day, if you enjoy one or two of these games: Pokémon, Zelda, Minecraft, Fortnite, Cult of the Lamb, and so on. Then Palworld for you.

I will easily spend hundreds of hours doing playthroughs like I did with Baldurs Gate. It has that limitless potential feeling to it. And it's only in open beta yet feels like a fairly complete game as it is.

I'm sure the mod scene will be going crazy with this game too.

Start of the year, but already my game of the year and it feels weird saying that.
 
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jufonuk

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thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:
Wait so that means this game isn't actually the highest concurrent for a paid game on Steam after all?



That's almost always the case when things go viral like this. But I'm just waiting for the eventual Nintendo lawsuit. Some of the stuff I've seen from this game is a little too close to Pokemon for Nintendo's lawyers to be happy.

Imagine the hysteria if millions of people suddenly couldn't hop online or play the game because the devs had to take it down to make changes or else. Or at the very least, they'd be forced to give refunds or rebates or something like that if they lost in court.

Ironically Game Pass players might have the safest means of playing the game; if it gets removed they only 'rented' the game out through the service. Also NGL potential litigation aside this was a good get for Xbox & Game Pass; well played Sarah Bond.



Weren't PETA found guilty of animal cruelty and abuse? They don't have much room to talk.

They also forced the WWF to rename itself to the WWE and I'll never forgive them for that.
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Nope that was the WWF that forced the WWF to change names.
 
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polybius80

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KXVXII9X said:
The game is addicting and fun, but it also has a TON of bugs and isn't anywhere near finished. For all the crap Pokémon Scarlet and Violet got, I had multiple game breaking glitches through PC GamePass and some mechanics wouldn't even work properly like raids.
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I heard the GP(PC) version is not the same as the steam version, I played 12+ hours(steam on linux) yesterday and raids worked perfectly fine and there was no game breaking bug, I was running the game and hosting and didnt interrupt or restart the session during all that time
 
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Dynasty8

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Interfectum said:
The next big story on this game is how quickly the player count plummeted. Just wait…
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It's bound to happen.

Regardless, they hit a homerun with the game. It came out of nowhere and broke records. I don't even like Pokemon and have been enjoying this...but I also can't see myself playing it past February.
 
March Climber

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Dynasty8 said:
I don't even like Pokemon and have been enjoying this...but I also can't see myself playing it past February.
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…and that’s okay. Too many people treat games like a ‘forever’ game when most of them don’t ever need to be played this way.
 
Mephisto40

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Played it last night for an hour, I just don't get the appeal tbh

If you thought the base building and crafting in No Mans Sky was janky, this just takes it to a whole new level of jank and pointless button prompts

I don't see the point in silly things like going to the crafting bench, then selecting the item i want to craft and quantity, then sitting thorugh a holding button animation, then picking the items up of the crafting bench, why can't you just select what you want to craft and it appears in your inventory?

Also why the hell can't you pick the pokeballs back up after you throw and miss, going back to camp to make more pokeballs over and over is so tedious
 
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DeltaPolarBear

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Mephisto40 said:
I don't see the point in silly things like going to the crafting bench, then selecting the item i want to craft and quantity, then sitting thorugh a holding button animation, then picking the items up of the crafting bench, why can't you just select what you want to craft and it appears in your inventory?
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You shouldn't even be building things yourself after 10 levels. You should have an entire workforce building everything for you. If you are building things alone you are literally playing it wrong.
 
Mephisto40

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DeltaPolarBear said:
You shouldn't even be building things yourself after 10 levels. You should have an entire workforce building everything for you. If you are building things alone you are literally playing it wrong.
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If the game doesnt tell you that it's not me doing anything wrong, it's the game failing at explaining anything properly
 
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DenchDeckard

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FFS, I hate these games. Sat at work and just want to be at home binging it.

They've done a good job with this. I hope they get the xbox patch out ASAP.
 
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DeltaPolarBear

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Mephisto40 said:
If the game doesnt tell you that it's not me doing anything wrong, it's the game failing at explaining anything properly
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The game has missions telling you to put your Pals to work, and how every pal has different skills. There is also an entire encyclopedia in-game. If you do all the missions you would learn all that.
 
Mephisto40

Mephisto40

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DeltaPolarBear said:
The game has missions telling you to put your Pals to work, and how every pal has different skills. There is also an entire encyclopedia in-game. If you do all the missions you would learn all that.
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Not really interested in playing "it gets good once you play it for 10 hours" games tbh

Games should grab you in the first hour of play, this one just didnt, it just feels dry of content and ultimatley pointless tbh
 
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DeltaPolarBear

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Mephisto40 said:
Not really interested in playing "it gets good once you play it for 10 hours" games tbh

Games should grab you in the first hour of play, this one just didnt, it just feels dry of content and ultimatley pointless tbh
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It shouldn't take you 30 minutes to automate the labor. i am not interested in changing your mind, your loss. it's not liker the game needed your contribution, it is a single player game with no micro-transactions. The developers are already well-compensated. And there is always a chance that you are not into base management.
 
Mephisto40

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DeltaPolarBear said:
It shouldn't take you 30 minutes to automate the labor. i am not interested in changing your mind, your loss. it's not liker the game needed your contribution, it is a single player game with no micro-transactions. The developers are already well-compensated. And there is always a chance that you are not into base management.
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Chill out, people are allowed opinions

I can see from your post history you've spent the past weekend doing nothing other than trying to defend this game against any sort of criticism on here, so i'll leave you to it, enjoy your mission
 
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KuraiShidosha

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HeisenbergFX4 said:
And PUBG hit over 3 million players at that time, goes to show how big of a monster that game was

I looked forward to my crew getting home and us playing that game every night
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Game was so big that when I bought a couple monitors for my wife and I, the UPS guy asked me what I was planning on playing on them and when I told him PUBG, he said he played too.
 
Roman Empire

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CuNi said:
It's all the fun we could have had with Pokémon if game freak cared to make a good game...

That and human rights violations.
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I'm still amazed how we don't have a proper Pokemon racing spin-off. It's the most braindead thing that Gamefreak could come up with and not even that.

Now I'm pondering how long it'll take for Nintendo to take action on this. We know for sure they are with their lawyers right now, they are just that petty.
 
HeisenbergFX4

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Fredrik said:
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I’m still at that first phase, basically the tutorial. And tbh right now I’m just thankful I didn’t have to pay for it. But I guess I should try it some more, it’s a slow-starter perhaps.
What’s the pull for you? Base building?
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I love base building games and so far enjoying the twist here though not sure how long it will keep me

Side note, it keeps climbing

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SmokedMeat

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Interfectum

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SmokedMeat said:
Player counts plummet in every game. No different than single player games where everyone rushes out at launch, and then it’s forgotten.
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I wish nothing but success for this game. I'm just expecting the inverse hype for this game if/when the player count starts really dropping.

Bottom line though, this is truly a rags to riches story for the dev team. The question now is, what will they do with this new found success.
 
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DeltaPolarBear

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Interfectum said:
I wish nothing but success for this game. I'm just expecting the inverse hype for this game if/when the player count starts really dropping.

Bottom line though, this is truly a rags to riches story for the dev team. The question now is, what will they do with this new found success.
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Frankly, i didn't even think much about Epic for years until Fortnite happened. i wish Epic used that money for good instead of evil, but there it is.

The company being Japanese hopefully means they would try to stay calm and act rationally. I remember how often such rags to riches story accidentally cause Tax scandals in Japan, what with people never had a real accountant and suddenly needing one overnight. Living hand to mouth means they never thought about paying much taxes, and then suddenly forgetting to report the earnings properly.
 
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