Palworld is an alternate take on Pokémon at a time when the colossal franchise feels stagnant and slow

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    10 months ago

    Pokémon with guns wouldn’t have gotten millions of sales on its own

    The day before sold millions (but this one was refunded by millions too) and everybody and their mom knew it was a scam since it was announced like 2 or 3 years ago. Internet is weird, if something becomes viral it will sell, the quality does not matter, people just wants to be in

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      10 months ago

      As far as I can tell The Day Before was overhyped early and people bought it because of the marketing. Palworld did some advertising, but the mass adoption appears to be mostly word of mouth that the game is actually fun when it was made available in early access.

      That matches what I have seen from people commenting and my personal experience as I don’t remember hearing about it before and hopped on because of friends recommending it. Palworld is a word of mouth success like Valheim and for similar reasons of competent styling, smooth gameplay, and survival that isn’t punishing the player from the moment the game starts.

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        10 months ago

        As far as I can tell The Day Before was overhyped early and people bought it because of the marketing

        https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDayBefore/comments/lwaach/people_keep_saying_its_a_scam_whats_the_scam/

        That’s a 3 years old post. Everybody knew it was a scam back then. to the point the studio released “We are not a scam, trust me bro” statements (which made it more obvious it was a scam)

        I don’t remember hearing about it before

        Internet has been talking about “pokemon with guns” for 2 years or so since the developers were already famous because they launched a “Breath of the Wild” knock off (Craftopia) that also sold well (not at the same level of palworld, but for being the first title of a brand new indie studio it sold really well)

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          10 months ago

          Apparently not everyone knew the day before was a scam or it wouldn’t have sold millions of units. Just because some people predicted it does not mean that the general population had any awareness of that expectation.