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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)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] TheQuietCroc 11 points 11 months ago (5 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.