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Palworld has broken Counter-Strike's all-time concurrent players peak at 1.8 million, and is now #2 most played game on Steam ever. It is only behind PUBG which holds the record at 3.2 million. (twitter.com)
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[–] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago (35 children)

I hope Game Freak sees this as a wake up call. People will kill for a Pokemon game with a little innovation.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 17 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I don't think that GameFreak will see this as a wake up call. And even if it does, it might not do the necessary changes to Pokémon main series.

The stagnation runs deeper. It is partially caused by inertia ("we're selling well, why bother innovating?"), but also by GF's insistence on making the main series story-driven instead of gameplay-driven. Even if story-driven Pokémon goes a lot against the franchise's biggest strength - a wide, unique, and immersive universe to explore.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Except Palworld is insanely popular with essentially no story...

[–] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's the point. Pokemon could be successful in the same way but they're saying Game Freak doesn't want to change how they do things.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Omg I'm an idiot, I completely misread what they were saying, I thought they were saying gf needed to focus more on story and the gameplay being stagnant doesn't help. I'll chalk that up to morning brain.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Why would they downgrade in terms of success?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't they have learned the lesson from Pokémon Go? That had absolutely no story that I was aware of.

[–] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That wasn't made by Game Freak, that was Niantic.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

So? They proved first no one gives a shit about story

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