DeltaPolarBear
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It can be played OFFLINE.
There, have you given up yet? Is a single player offline game, not good enough for you?
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Palworld has sold over 5 million copies in only 3 days | Momentum continues with latest sales figures reaching 86k units per hour
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There, have you given up yet? Is a single player offline game, not good enough for you?
Do you remember when Blair Witch project sold a lot of movie tickets?
GHG
Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
How is Palworld a "game as a service" in its current form? There are no microtransactions. There are no subscriptions. No season passes. It's a one-time purchase.
en.wikipedia.org
You could categorize "early access" as a "live game" since by nature it will be continuously updated, but those updates are free post-purchase.
Games as a service - Wikipedia
You could categorize "early access" as a "live game" since by nature it will be continuously updated, but those updates are free post-purchase.
geary
Member
BG3 got like 17 patches with fixes and new content....It might be GAAS aswell.GAAS is any game that recieves steady support from the developer after launch. Palworld is clearly GAAS.
Palworld update roadmap: all upcoming features and content updates - Video Games on Sports Illustrated
Launch was only the beginning of the journey.videogames.si.com
I now see the new strategy. Try to narrowly define what is GAAS as GAAS grows in popularity to obfuscate its dominance.
Guilty_AI
Member
How is Palworld a "game as a service" in its current form? There are no microtransactions. There are no subscriptions. No season passes. It's a one-time purchase.
Games as a service - Wikipedia
You could categorize "early access" as a "live game" since by nature it will be continuously updated, but those updates are free post-purchase.
Men_in_Boxes
is just coping because his "GAAS is the future" narrative keeps crumbling down.
Mister Wolf
Member
Palworld is ahead of its time.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
I have a few questions:
1. Is this playable on Steam Deck?
2. Playable solo?
3. Is there a campaign/ story?
I sort of liked Pokemon Arceus and played some of the others but they were so dated and graphics looked like ass. (How can Game Freak be so inept at crafting a Pokemon game that looks and plays like a game from the 21st century)?
1. Is this playable on Steam Deck?
2. Playable solo?
3. Is there a campaign/ story?
I sort of liked Pokemon Arceus and played some of the others but they were so dated and graphics looked like ass. (How can Game Freak be so inept at crafting a Pokemon game that looks and plays like a game from the 21st century)?
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
I saw the pictures and comparisons. They are not pallet swaps. Some vague similarities but that it it.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
The developer is staying with the game post launch.
Complete Palworld Year 1 Roadmap Detailed: New Pals, PvP, and Events Schedule Revealed
Pocketpair has big things planned for Palworld detailed in the roadmap of year one.
www.gameskinny.com
That's GAAS.
One major reason why GAAS is exploding is because developers can build bigger, more complex games. Disney World is bigger than the County Fair because they don't need to start from scratch every 6 years. GAAS builds upon itself.
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Guilty_AI
Member
So.... are BG3 and Cyberpunk GAAS? Elden Ring? Armored Core 6?The developer is staying with the game post launch.
Complete Palworld Year 1 Roadmap Detailed: New Pals, PvP, and Events Schedule Revealed
Pocketpair has big things planned for Palworld detailed in the roadmap of year one.
That's GAAS.
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ManaByte
Gold Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The developer is staying with the game post launch.
Complete Palworld Year 1 Roadmap Detailed: New Pals, PvP, and Events Schedule Revealed
Pocketpair has big things planned for Palworld detailed in the roadmap of year one.
That's GAAS.
One major reason why GAAS is exploding is because developers can build bigger, more complex games. Disney World is bigger than the County Fair because they don't need to start from scratch every 6 years. GAAS builds upon itself.
By your definition, that encompasses almost every game out there. Which makes it a bad definition. The wikipedia article I quoted has a much more robust definition of what a GAAS is considered to be among the general public.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
It’s not a Pokémon game. It shares more in common with Minecraft than Pokemon.
sendit
Member
Nah. Nintendo just needs to copy the survival sand box formula for Pokemon and this game would immediately be left behind. Pokemon has a cult like following.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
That's kind of preposterous though isn't it?
Do we really not see a distinction between Epic Games staying with Fortnite post launch and From Softs relationship with Armored Core 6?
This feels like arguing in bad faith does it not?
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Fabieter
Member
Well I would totally call no man sky gaas and they never charged anything for their updates. But the support helped keep selling it for years and years. So imo that's totally gaas too.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It would be nice if you address the actual points, please.
Okay, but why? What is the distinction that makes No Man's Sky a GAAS, in your opinion, compared to the other countless games with free updates that existed before the term GAAS was even coined?
Fabieter
Member
Scale! ou cant tell me one example which had free updates like no man sky even if it didn't cost anything. Big constant updates kept them in the news cycle.
Guilty_AI
Member
What about Larian staying post Early Access launch with BG3 until release and post-release?
Guilty_AI
Member
Beamng, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Factorio, Satisfactory, Dwarf Fortress, Project Zomboid, Dyson Sphere Program, Gedonia.... its not all that uncommon, especially among early access titles that keep regular updates even post-1.0.
A few like Grim Dawn may even charge for some expansions whilst still giving out free-updates for the base game. In the digital world you do need a strict definition of what a GAAS is supposed to look like. Just "gets updates/DLC" isn't enough as that emcompasses a far too large number of titles, even from before the term was coined.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Cyberpunk, Vampire Survivors, Stardew Valley, Portal, etc.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Exactly.
And running with an overly general definition of GAAS takes away why GAAS was coined in the first place.
March Climber
Member
Yes
Yes
Kind of. At the beginning they point you in the general direction of what to accomplish to beat the game, sort of like a souls game. But from there it's mainly open.
Read the |OT| For a breakdown and more info about the game's mechanics and difficulty systems.
Fabieter
Member
That's nothing like no man sky. Vampire survivors even charge for the updates.
Guilty_AI
Member
Stardew Valley most certainly is, along some of the examples i gave like Terraria.
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Baki
Member
Palworld is exactly the type of GAAS game that Sony should be developing. It’s a new, fun, fresh gameplay loop that isn’t served on their console. However, it’s only the type of game that gets made by a FP if they’re allowed to take real risks and are open to something more janky under a AA budget. It doesn’t happen by being safe. Fun game, I played it on GP, it would really benefit from a bigger budget.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Playstation doesn't allow early-access games. That's probably why.....but $$$$$ may change that.
March Climber
Member
For curiousity's sake, where is everyone constantly getting the info that's stating this is a gaas game? I'm trying to figure out which outlets are either not doing enough research or giving out false information.
R6Rider
Gold Member
I think it looks awful, but it's popular to a point where people are playing it for that reason alone.just watched some gamplay of this, one of the worst things I've ever seenis this popular?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yes, all 3 of their paid DLC that aren't more than two fifty. Not to mention all of the huge updates and patches that came out a year before the first DLC even came out, and that are still continuing to come out.
How are my examples nothing like No Man's Sky? Your criteria was lots of free updates. Let me remind you.
All of my examples have loads of free updates.
amigastar
Member
The game looks so unappealing to me like it's really made by AI.Found the era poster:
I've installed it but yet have to play it.
Fabieter
Member
You are right. Vampire survivor is gaas as well. The thing is all those dlcs and free updates help keep sell the game. A game doesn't need mtx to be gaas.
My brother is big on 7 days to die and thats constant updates for like 10 years and it will never leave early access. Hows that not games as a service? If they stopped updating the game it would have stopped selling years ago.
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Oddvintagechap
Member
Pokemon is ass, and sells. This one has guns.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Do you think BG3 is GAAS?
Must we defile ourselves by moving the GAAS goalposts because GAAS is dominating? Let's not.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Runs great on rog ally. Thing always surprises me.
Gideon
Member
How did this game turn out so good and fun? This is the definition of brute forcing lmaoo the whole project was saved by 1 guy who knew how to rig.
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Fabieter
Member
I dont even know why people see a problem in calling it gaas. Is it because they hate gaas or something.
Guilty_AI
Member
By your definition it is apparently, since all it needs is post launch support and new content. Game had and has both for the last +3 years.
More like you're stretching the net as thin as you can because the actual GAAS models are crumbling. Even that The Finals game you kept simping as the next new thing is slowly flopping.
BG3 isn't GAAS
Lethal Company isn't GAAS
Palworld isn't GAAS.
But i suppose if calling anything successful GAAS makes you feel better, go ahead. Doesn't change that they aren't tho.
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Guilty_AI
Member
Because it isn't. If someone kept saying this is a racing game or a f2p game, they'd be corrected by others too.
As we mentioned earlier, a definition so wide that covers 50-70% of game releases is no definition. You'd have to be willing to call any Early Access game a GAAS at minimum.
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MirageMew2
Member
What’s with PC players catapulting dogshit into stardom every other week?
I bought GPU to try this and my ears are fucking bleeding at the compression. Nevermind the garbage art design.
I bought GPU to try this and my ears are fucking bleeding at the compression. Nevermind the garbage art design.
Saber
Gold Member
Doubt.
They still launch patchs slows as snail saying things like "we will launch patch...perhaps later this month? I dunno, stay tuned". They took ages to fix the bad egg glitch, a critical glitch that corrupts your save.
Meanwhile the fanbase is using and abusing of a clone glitch that let you obtain any pokemon as if you captured on the game.
Oh yeah and apparently joining forces to denounce this game for plagarism, because apparently Pokemon is the only one allowed to create monsters. Any other is a clone, even DQ that came first.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
The anti GAAS crowd are hanging on for dear life as the GAAS market continues growing. They want the market to be saturated and huge GAAS hits suggest its not.
Fabieter
Member
The anti gaas crowd hates that they love gaas as well.