I have not played Palworld but I love that it has exposed the greed and capitalist rot of the company that makes Pokemon. Seriously, the “old guard” video game giants like GameFreak, Valve, etc. are putting out lazy content and sucking up billions from micro-transactions, lazy retreads, and subscriptions. It’s just funny to see capitalists be bad at capitalism.
I like parts of this story. I think it’s funny and great that this ragtag group of Japanese misfit game dev amateurs stumbled onto a huge hit by cobbling together a bunch of game design ideas from different popular games from the past decade and sprinkling Pokemon on top of them. This hacked together Frankenstein of a meme game has probably outsold FFXVI by now
Apparently the CEO couldn’t get hired by big Japanese studios, then found out Steam would let anyone sell games on there
I also like that their character designer is some high school dropout who they found working at a 7/11 near their office
On the other hand, from the CEO’s NFT and AI tweets and his own admission that he’s more interested in chasing trends than innovative, boundary-pushing game design he kind of seems like an opportunistic rise and grind dipshit