Palworld: threats, evil Nintendo, 7 million copies, 2 million online players, future plans
New news about the Palworld game, which continues to set records.
Developers at Pocketpair have reported that they have started receiving threats from players who believe that Palworld is too similar to Pokémon games and that Pocketpair has been stolen from Nintendo.
Moreover, Palworld has already received a mod that replaces all “friends” with Pokémon and the player’s character with Ash. Of course, Nintendo has already issued a DMCA strike on this video. Although the game doesn’t have Steam Workshop support yet, the Nexus Mods website has plenty of Palworld mods.
According to the developers themselves, Nintendo shouldn’t complain about Pocketpair because Palworld is more of a survival game like Ark Survival Evolved or Valheim than a Pokémon clone.
As for the next records, Palworld sales in 5 days have already reached 7 million copies.
On January 22, Palworld became the most popular game on Steam, and on January 23, it moved up to the 2nd place in the Ranking of the most popular Steam games of all time, surpassing Counter-Strike 2. Now Palworld is second only to PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (3.2 million players). Although, if things continue to go at this pace, the game may surpass PUBG. Today, Palworld has attracted more than 2 million players at the same time. The new record is 2 018 905 players.
As for Palworld’s further development plans, Pocketpair first fixed the Game Pass version of the game, which was lagging behind the Steam version, although they seem to have said that Steam, which actually brings them real hard cash, is a priority, and it is unknown when the Game Pass version will be released.
Besides, the developers have released a Game Exploration Map in the Early Access. The primary tasks are fixing numerous bugs, the ability to reassign keys, and improved AI of friends. Future plans include PvP, raid bosses, Pal Arena, Steam-Xbox crossplay, migration between servers, new islands, monsters, bosses, and technologies.
It looks like this game is with us for a long time. As someone said it online: “If Nintendo isn’t going to make a proper Pokémon game, someone else will.”