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Palworld Becomes the 7th Game Ever to Reach 1 Million Concurrent Players on Steam (www.githyp.com)
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"Palworld is now one of only seven games that have seen over 1 million concurrent players on Steam – the others include: PUBG (3.2 mil), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.8 mil), Counter-Strike 2 (1.4 mil), Lost Ark (1.3 mil), Dota 2 (1.2 mil), and Cyberpunk 2077 (1 mil)."

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its weird because except for the looks and taming mechanic it has nothing to do with pokemon. But yeah it probably helps to get people interested in the first place.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I get that direct comparisons to Pokémon might seem too surface level to someone who has played both. But let’s not beat around the bush: People have been begging GameFreak for something like this for years now. And I don‘t mean the guns, but everything else, really. There‘s a reason so many Pokémon mods are made for these type of games anyway. Really, players couldn‘t have been more obvious about what they wanted all these years.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't there an official branded pokemon dotalike for a while? I mean, they tried the approach of "let's make a conventional PC genre game but with Pokemon" and it didn't stick.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was a lazy cash grab. They outsourced it to the same chinese company who‘ve made plenty mobile dota clones before. They dumbed down their usual game and slapped pokemon skins on it. It‘s a fairly awful game.

Then there‘s PokemonGO which had a rough start quality vise. It was also outsourced but at the very least it was successful and different, though way too simplified for my taste. Of course I‘m one of those conservative gamers who don‘t want to point their camera at virtual things outside so I‘m a little biased I guess.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah they also made a Monster Hunter mobile game and it just feels so wrong. I can't do it.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah Pokemon UNITE. It was fairly bad with somewhat P2W mtx.