Palworld has been a massive hit on both Game Pass and PC with Microsoft saying that it’s been the most downloaded third party game ever on Game Pass. The game has also been an incredible success on streaming platform Twitch and the developer’s have said that this is only the beginning. However, in Japan, celebrities are being told by a major talent agency not to mention Palworld for fears of upsetting The Pokemon Company and spoiling any future collaborations. Here’s what a talent agency source told Tokyo Sports:
“We have told our talent not to mention Palworld on social media or in public. This was done out of consideration for the Pokémon side as an agency. This decision was made in consideration of future potential collaborations.”
Perfectly illustrates the problem: Pokemon is more of a brand than a video game series now. They don’t have to make quality games to be successful. Palworld is just a fun game and that’s it.
Arceus was perfectly fine and Pal world is still in its Alpha and is a complete mess.
Arceus was fine but S/V was awful and didn’t expand on the stuff introduced in Arceus. That’s why Palworld is doing so well… it’s offering an experience Pokemon hasn’t tried to provide.
not to defend pokemon games state but s/v was never gonna iterate on arceus they were developed concurrently, it was nearly done by the time there was feedback on stuff in arceus
Let’s be honest here… S/V was not done when it was released. They could have delayed it a year to continue developing on it.
“Didn’t expand on the stuff introduced in Arceus”…. my brother, it’s been happening since at least the 3-4 last generations. They introduce a new Gimmick only for them to abandon it by the next game. Think Mega evolutions, which in my opinion was the best thing they could have come up with in recent years, and all the rest of the weird stuff they keep adding in every new gen.
Palworld! Palworld! Palworld! Palworld! Palworld! Palworld! Palworld! Palworld! Palworld!
There! I said it. I don’t care for Pokémon at all. But it needs a kick up the H01€ for its fans, churning out mediocre, average looking, poor frame rate, buggy messes. Palworld might be that kick.
Not really surprising. The talent agency isn’t wanting to even appear like it or its clients is taking a side against the most profitable multimedia franchise in the world (that likely has lucrative contracts with them or will at some point). A pretty obvious business move.
Oh boo hoo
Let me play a sad song for you on the world’s smallest violin.
Took those first three words out of my mouth.
Now big names have to be hush hush and ghost a game just to still be involved with anything Pokemon, all because GameFreak themselves:
A. Hate to improve in areas where it counts.
B. Hate competition, especially well-received competition.
C. Hate listening to fans who aren’t happy, and even deleting proofs-of-concept (mods) that show better implementation and ideas.
You wouldn’t be in this mess if you just stuck to a library of Stadium games, instead of jumping your entire franchise into open 3D (Gen 6) more and more each generation.
That’s dumb
I find this ridiculous.
As an old Pokemon fan since gen 2 who hates the Switch Era Pokemon games it feels so good seeing a game like Palworld start to make The Pokemon Company feel nervous. I love Yokai Watch, Digimon, and various indie monster taming games but sadly none of em have been able to match up to Pokemon saleswise making The Pokemon Company feel invincible and in turn they got lazy but finally Palworld has become the first monster taming game to not only outsell Pokemon but at record speeds even I bought a copy and have been enjoying it. Hopefully this’ll finally be the thing to motivate Game Freak to try and make good games again but even if they don’t I still have the old games & all the other monster taming games out there. Game Freak as a wise man once said “The choice is yours”
You care entirely too much. Quit talking to game freak like you’re a video game boss lol they have enough money to make you disappear forever
Okay? Did you even read my comment? I said in the final part that if nothing changed I’d basically just shrug and go “Oh well”. If anyone cares too much I think it might be you.
No way. A fellow Yo-kai Watch fan? Mad respect for ya
Nintendo have been welcoming to digimon and Yokai watch on their systems, Palworld is just shameless though.
Thats a shame. Pokemon could be on pc, on Xbox. But it’s stuck on Nintendo systems. So now other players finnaly get a game. The pokemon company has compatition. Something to challenge them. Palworld could literally even influence the switch 2 preference. I personally hope they release a normal switch. And a slightly more powerful TV only switch.
You do know what a 2nd party game is, right? Pokémon has, at least for the most part, always been owned by Nintendo. I would give an example of how dumb it would be for Pokémon to be on a PlayStation or Xbox system, but I’m humble enough to accept that anything I say could age like milk. If you have a problem with Pokemon being on Nintendo systems, then buy a Nintendo system you cheepstake.
They already had real competition it’s called Nexomon and Nexomon Extinction, copyright infringement is only now a problem for them. They’re have been numerous Pokemon knockoffs, it’s only now a problem for them! Just look at “Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth” The sub stories called Sugimon. It’s almost identical to Pokemon but no one cares.
So I looked and the Nexomon creatures look like fakemon, with mostly original designs, whereas the Palworld ones are color swapped and mixed versions of Pokémon. Just search for Robinquill and compare it with Decidueye, it is literally the same color and power and the design is 90% the same. Same for Fenglope and dozens of others. Couldn’t they make original designs like a platypus creature or a saber-tooth monster? They did it to look like Pokémon to attract players and generate buzz.
Here, take a look at other designs: https://exputer.com/guides/palworld-vs-pokemon-designs/
I know that people are very happy about their success and opposition to Pokémon in hoping that they will force game freak to make better new games but you cannot deny if you look at the palworld models they are completely shameless copies of Pokémon. They don’t look like monsters they look like Pokémon and it’s kinda messes up how much support a blatant rip off is receiving.
Should they have ugly Spore/Monster Hunter designs?
Pokemon dropped the ball and is now being a sore loser instead of actually competing with those that beat them at their game.
Lol I do love when companies that have got a grip hold on the market lose their power
Have they? Until they release their new game and it flops or fails, they haven’t lost anything. This alone solidifies their chokehold. It’s not even Nintendo, GF, or TPC telling people not to talk about Palworld, but talent agencies telling their clients for the fear of missing out on POTENTIAL future work.
Love the salt from pokemon nerds on here.
Pocket Pair should release two versions of Palworld that are 99% the same file, and then sell them together as a bundle. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I think Palworld is neat and wanting to try it, but this isn’t a confirmation that Pokemon company is telling Agencies to quiet their clients.
It’s far more likely other businesses see Pokemon is responding to the public alligations of plagiarism, and don’t want anywhere near that legal trouble until a verdict is made. If anything, fans on social media fighting each other are the reason Pokemon has made any kind of a statement at all. They have yet to be a ‘sore loser’, and no evidence they’re feeling the ‘pressure’ from palworld. They probably never will, even, since palworld and Pokemon dip into different genres (turn based JRPG vs real time survival game, and with different maturity ratings)
Stumbled on this post by mistake in the wp app. Need to get this ASAP. The game looks refreshing unlike most. I was a big pokemon fan owning all of the games until they went 3D and ruined it.
“Pokemon but with guns”
“Pokemon but for PC snobs”
“Pokemon but with more emphasis on the slavery and violence”
“Pokemon but instead of being kid-friendly it’s an edgy preteen’s idea of “mature”
“Pokemon but we asked an AI to draw them so now they’re off-model enough to be quote unquote legally distinct”
All gimmicks, designed solely to grab attention and prey on the wallets of the cynical neckbeards who whine about every new Pokemon game.
But when the ENTIRE identity of your game is it being a shameless knockoff that reels people in with shock value, do you think anyone will still care about it months from now? No, but the Palworld devs don’t care; The shameless cash-grab already worked! Maybe they can start developing edgy Mario or edgy Animal Crossing next?