Yes. I've seen most of Digimon and bought Temtem over a year ago. But seeing how many Pokémon fans are in a tizy after Pal, I hope it keeps diversifing.

I'm curious why you would reply this. Kinda feels like a "Oh you like X name 3 Y's". Am I misreading the tone? Idk.

So why is palworld seemingly so much more successful? Niche games like these mean nothing if they don't appeal to a broad enough audience to be successful. I would have initially said the same thing about palworld but now it's the #1 game on steam of all time and in hindsight it is so easy to see why.

Pal world is a lot more casual and a lot less buggy than ark.

Ark had basic structural problems. Even ark lovers strugglento get into ark

The creature capturing mechanics in pal world are much more forgiving. It took minutes to "tame" a dinasour in arc and it only gets worse. In pal world it's just "throw a ball". That alone makes pal world better.

I love ark, but i hate ark and wouldn't expect anyone to get into it

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.

Same here, ark was just a mess, and I couldn't get into it at all.

Palworld isn't a take on Pokemon though, it's a take on ark

Love how people on Lemmy kept the Reddit tradition of just downvoting a harmless opinion when they don't agree

Which bodes poorly for the people who bought Cradtopia. I remember how mad people were at Wildcard for releasing Scorched Earth while Ark was still in Early Access. Can't imagine how upset they would have been if they had released an entirely different game.