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It reached the second most concurrently played game on Steam. It didn't have a lot of hype around it when it was released, tbh. So there's gotta be something there that you're missing.
It's not a Pokemon game. It's what's been missing from Pokemon games since Gamefreak and Nintendo squandered the IP so badly with years and years of shoddy garbage release after shoddy garbage release.
This is just a goofy mon-game with guns. It's closer to ARK: Survival Evolved than it is Pokemon.
It didn't have a lot of hype? I didn't see much in the way of advertising, sure, but there certainly was a lot of hype from people about it being pokemon with guns.
I agree that it's not a Pokemon game, though, the gameplay is completely different. It's also early access so things are going to develop over time. I haven't bought it yet, but I'm interested in seeing what it turns into.
No it didn't have a lot of hype. There was almost no marketing budget for it at all. Nobody talked about it until it was released. There was absolutely no hype for it. This isn't like Cyberpunk 2077 where millions of people were chomping at the bit for its release. Palworld came out of nowhere and became a favorite organically.
It was a huge meme for like a week a few years ago when they first announced it. It died down in the interim since no one expected it to become a reality, but to act like people weren't at least meme hyped is ignorant.
Hype =/= marketing. Marketing can be a type of hype, but not the only type.
Palworld absolutely does have hype around it, it's just the hype has come from the community rather than a tranditional marketing budget.
It also didn't come completely out of nowhere, I remember reading about it some months ago. But yes, most of the hype came after its release.
Agreed, there is something I am missing for sure because I truly don't get it. Which is fine, I don't need to get it. but am I really the only one? Lol