Palworld continues being an absolutely ridiculous success for developer Pocketpair, as they've announced it's hit 19 million players in less than two weeks.
I’m aware that the game is more Ark-like than Pokémon-like, but the sales comparison reminded me Masuda’s rather shitty public message justifying Dexit, it sounds outright hilarious in hindsight: “the world of Pokémon keeps evolving”. Now we only need Palworld devs saying “evolution is the survival of the fittest!” for extra burn.
The “coat of paint” is a bigger deal than we players often pretend that it is. It’s what put us in the mood to play, so it’s often the difference between “play 5min, go play something else” and “fuck, it’s already morning!”.
Plus what other posters here said, Ark had quite a few other problems.
I’m aware that the game is more Ark-like than Pokémon-like, but the sales comparison reminded me Masuda’s rather shitty public message justifying Dexit, it sounds outright hilarious in hindsight: “the world of Pokémon keeps evolving”. Now we only need Palworld devs saying “evolution is the survival of the fittest!” for extra burn.
Gotta be honest, maybe it really is the coat of paint, but I could not at all get into ark. Palworld has me hooked tho.
Ark had basic structural problems. Even ark lovers strugglento get into ark
The “coat of paint” is a bigger deal than we players often pretend that it is. It’s what put us in the mood to play, so it’s often the difference between “play 5min, go play something else” and “fuck, it’s already morning!”.
Plus what other posters here said, Ark had quite a few other problems.
I love ark, but i hate ark and wouldn’t expect anyone to get into it
I liked Ark a lot in the beginning.
Now the game is an unplayable bloated mess that wants to take up half of my Steam drive.