Palworld passes 40 million players ahead of its July 10 exit from Early Access, with Pocketpair recapping two and a half years of updates.
  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2 hours

    I am figuring on playing Palworld again about a month after launch. Modders will have some work to do to bring their stuff up to date, dealing with the influx of players, week 1 super-patching, and so forth. Gotta let such teething issues of a launch to be ironed out.

    In particular, I want to have gliding pals and pokeball throwing back again.

  • Space Sloth@feddit.dkEnglish
    10 hours

    Had honestly expected the game to have been nuked to the ground by Nintendo by now. Glad it survived! May have to revisit it!

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 hour

      Not for lack of trying. But a few judges have decided some of Nintendo’s patents are bullshit.

  • LemmyTellYou@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1 day

    I’m not disputing that Palworld isn’t popular, but I hate when companies advertise with “40M players”

    40M purchases is fine, which is very impressive for a paid game. If I buy a game, never play it or play it once, then I’m not ‘playing’ that game.

    • tomi000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      Well they cant say 40M owners because that would be a lie as well.

      • LemmyTellYou@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1 day

        “Copies sold” is a much better measure

        It bugs me when GW2 also does this with “over 12 million players” when actually it’s registered accounts.

        I know people who have and use multiple POF accounts obtained freely, including a guy who literally has 83 accounts and uses them all every reset.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
          20 hours

          I think they include Game Pass players as well. So it sold probably less then 40 million, therefore they go with the “Players”.

        • tomi000@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1 day

          “Copies sold” is a much better measure

          Definitely. I was being sarcastic, not trying to defend the wording.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 days

    This game just finished? Guess I should revisit, it’s been years. I thought it released a while ago.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 day

      It was in Early Access phase the whole time. Compared to AAA publisher, they had declared this game not being finished yet.

        • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21 hours

          Not really. I would consider 2 years pretty average. Some games get abandoned in less time, some are in early access for double the time. Some games are basically complete and are only in early access for a few months. I don’t have a problem with any approach, as long as the game is getting worked on of course.

          • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
            20 hours

            Like Going Medieval. Came out in June 2021 and had 5 years of steady regular content updates.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1 day

          Yeah, some other games / publisher are even longer in Early Access. But at least it is correctly advertised as such and not a scam like AAA games who does not declare themselves as Early Access. To me its only fair.

    • 🔺Kritix🔻@fedia.io
      1 day

      Yeaa, it’s been a while. I played it at launch so I guess it’s time to revisit Palworld again.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 hour

      Palworld is multiplatform, so it reaches Steam that is 150 millions alone, Switch 150 millions (Edit: Sorry, Switch port never happened!) and PS4 90 millions. Compared to the 118 million Game Boys (including Color). Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to mud their success, just putting some numbers into perspective. It is fantastic to see how well Palworld does. And it did even survive an attack from Nintendo’s Ninjas (Palworld was sued by Nintendo)!

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1 hour

          Oh my! I don’t know why I thought it came out on Switch. Its unlikely, because of the legal action from Nintendo. If the game was on the eshop, it would mean Nintendo is okay with the game. I remember the devs talked they can imagine it being released on the Switch or Switch 2. That was before Nintendo sued the company.

          It short, my bad and now that many people saw my reply they might think it happened… Sorry everyone!

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1 day

        For Nintendo, Pokemon is more than just raw numbers for the games themselves. It is a system seller by being exclusive, a core Nintendo strategy. And the most money from Pokemon isn’t even made by the games themselves, but from merchandise and other licensing around this IP. But what I could see Nintendo doing someday is, releasing a game that is not mainline Pokemon and its sole purpose is to “advertise” Pokemon on other platforms like Steam. They tried it already on mobile. Maybe release the mobile games on Steam too, like this strange Super Mario Bros game on Android.

    • Faaaaaaa@piefed.socialEnglish
      1 day

      It’s not sales it’s players. When Palworld came out it was on gamepass, no clue if it still is but I know that is how my friends and I played it on release and never bought it.

    • creamfresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 hours

      Palworld has nothing to do with Pokémon so I don’t understand the comparison.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
    1 day

    I’m gonna start anew a private server. My group of friends played the hell out of this for months until there was nothing else to do. I kept playing just building new bases, it was my jam. We decided to give it a pause and retake the game after 1.0. Now’s the time, we’re starting from scratch and I already have an idea for a new base on top of the massive stone pillars in the central part of the island. Can’t wait for tomorrow!!

  • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
    1 day

    I can’t wait to play the 1.0 version, its a better game than I thought initially. Just gotta transfer my current pals into that machine to retrieve them in the new world. Can’t wait till Friday!

    • theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.ukEnglish
      1 day

      Can we still use our old saves in 1.0? I kinda want to start a new game but I’m so used to flying around on my jetdragon, I don’t think I’ll be able to go back to walking everywhere! It’ll take quite a while before I’ll be able to craft the item you need to ride them if I start over

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1 day

        You can use the same save file. The devs did recommend starting over though as a lot has changed. You can use the global palbox to store pals you want to transfer between saves.

      • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
        1 day

        You can if you want too, but like another commentor mentioned there have been major changes done to the world for the 1.0. You’d be playing at a disadvantage. I decided to start over because my first base was pretty inefficiently placed and it was a bitch to realistically move the first time. I decided that starting over with a clean slate but easy to retrieve pals is better.

        • theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.ukEnglish
          1 day

          Yeah, I guess I will start over. I haven’t really been following it so I’m not sure what changes they’ve made but I guess I’ll find out tomorrow

          • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
            24 hours

            I kinda fell off a little bit because if I poured too much time in an early access game…I was concerned that I wouldn’t want to play it at 1.0. Played enough to get a good understanding that the game is actually great, and there is countless hours of fun to be had starting tomorrow!

              • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
                3 hours

                I already started a new world in the new update as they released it based on Japanese time, so it came out at around 11pm my time last night. The game feels smoother, and I got my first base established fairly fast.

  • Novamdomum@fedia.io
    1 day

    I knew this annoying dude who would always confidently declare that Pocketpair were doomed and that Nintendo was just waiting for the perfect time to completely destroy them. I don’t know why, but he seemed to almost look forward to that, it was weird.

    • SleepyPie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 hours

      Apparently game fans in Japan and Korea are culturally opposed to any form of game mimicry. They were decidedly on Nintendo’s side and were rooting for pocketpair’s downfall.

      Which is weird because I feel like every game is “x game but with y”, but online spaces love to form one correct opinion and drown out all other perspectives.

    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
      1 day

      Because the 3 or so patent suits they filled against them weren’t the perfect time… Even after ex post facto filing for these patents and this somehow being allowed under Japanese patent law

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    1 day

    Have there been a ton of big content changes since the EA launch?

    I know they changed a ton of features like pet mounts and pokeball throwing due to morally reprehensible, anticompetitive nin lawsuits. That stuff can be modded back in - but I looked at a recent map and wasn’t sure how much it’s really changed over time or how many new things have been added.

    What i’m hoping for is substantial improvements to base management and the metagame, along with loads of new pals. The bosses also seemed kind of weird compared to the rest of the game so changes to that / the story would be huge improvements for me too.

    I guess I should look this stuff up.

  • RogueBanana@piefed.zipEnglish
    1 day

    Palworld tomorrow, Scrap mechanic on 24th and Valheim on September. Super excited for coming months.