I do wonder what will happen with those 19 million once the shine wears off. Getting to max level and “catching them all” isn’t really that difficult nor that terribly time consuming. If I had kept playing, I would have hit 50 by now and probably have most of the available pals. And to be fair, I may get back to it and do so, but once I’m done with that I’ll probably put the game away.

I suppose a goal one could have is to work toward being as efficient as possible with their base. But unless there’s some compelling feature after maxing out level and catching the pals, the game is effectively won. Which may be fine and be what is intended (until an expansion arrives).

I'm not sure what the raw numbers prove. I paid $1 for a free trial of Gamepass to play it. It's an Ark clone with Pokemon. Wasn't that impressed. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills listening to people rant and rave about it.

Still don't get this kinda stuff, it's not even vaguely competing in the same ring as Pokemon. But hey if it pisses off the brats into Pokemon then it's fine by me ┐(シ)┌

Good!

Pokemon has refused to evolve in any meaningful way over several decades. Just sitting at the top and trying to own the entire concept of "monster friends" isn't a real strategy. At minimum I hope palworld wakes gamefreak up, but honestly I just hope it takes the bandaid off and more devs flow in to the space.

I'm aware that the game is more Ark-like than Pokémon-like, but the sales comparison reminded me Masuda's rather shitty public message justifying Dexit, it sounds outright hilarious in hindsight: "the world of Pokémon keeps evolving". Now we only need Palworld devs saying "evolution is the survival of the fittest!" for extra burn.