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Sadly, this is normal online. Many people with some sort of exposure online will receive death threads. Some communities are more prone to it than others.
Pokémon, Sonic, Osu! and many Gacha Game communities, for example, have an unusual amount of crazy fans. When you attract their attention you will become a topic in their communities.
The list for game communities keeps going on, too lol. Some communities are way more toxic than others for some reason (looking at Undertale and League).
Ironically, communities with super hard games tend to be nicer and more willing to help out like Dark Souls or Assetto Corsa.
Palworld has done better than Nintendo has been with characters lately.
Have you seen the latest gen? Flamenco? ... seriously?
Do you mean Flamigo?
Whoops. Yes you're right 🤦♂️
"OBJECTMON ARE STUPID! GAMEFREAK WOULDN'T DO THIS IN THE GOLDEN ERA" - Voltorb says hi, and Sudowoodo is literally a bug being a tree
"REAL WORLD ANIMALS ARE LAZY! GAMEFREAK WOULDn'T DO THIS IN A REAL POKEMON GAME!" - Seel says hi
"Okay, that's just food, but now it's an animal." - Diglett looks more like a hotdog than a mole, let's be honest here.. but if you want something more direct Eggsecute
Sudowoodo always cracks me up.
I imagine them in a meeting room
"We need a unique twist in this 2nd gen. Something to catch the players off guard"
"What if we made a grass pokemon rock type heheh"
"What was that?!"
"What if we made a grass pokemon rock type? ... Y'know, most people pick fi.."
"That might actually work!! Genius! Who hired them?"
Seel was gen 1. Every gen since the beginning has had boring filler pokemon. I've been a singles competitive player since the end of gen 4 though so my opinion might not matter as much.
Earlier gens had some originality. Nidoking, Polywhirl, Alakazam, Machamp. What are some more original looking Pokémon from the later gens? They all looked like a dog with a seed in his mouth tier when I glossed through them
Pokemon? You mean the Shin Megami Tensei rip-off?
If you're getting death threats, that means you've made it. Your project is popular enough for the sociopaths to reach out.
So as long as you're not getting DMCA requests, keep doing what you're doing.
If anything, they're ripping off Digimon.
At least people are coming to defend Nintendo, a 10 trillion dollar multinational company, I would feel bad if the only people defending Nintendo were their army of famously aggressive lawyers.
Lots of controversy around this game. Gotta say, no one really cares. Well no one who doesn't find something to complain about each day on social media anyway. Dunno about you all, though I am fucking tired. So much shit just wrong nowadays and while I do my part where I can, when it comes to games I honestly just want to sit down and have fun. Palworld is fun. Lots of potential that is likely to be built upon and just enough depth right now that I can hop into the world and actually feel just a bit of that original wonder from so many years ago. Something our old pals Game Freak and Nintendo have, much like Nvidia did years ago, purposefully opted to barely refresh the concept as time has gone on.
There have been plenty of fanmade Pokemon games that have done it better than the devs of the actual, official, licensed main games. Hell, there have been sideloaded Pokemon titles better than the cash grabs of the last few years. I for one hope Palworld lights a positive "better-than-thou" fire under Nintendo. The literal best move they could make now, imho, is run with the larger community response and release something truly mildblowing.
Ah yes, death threats, the dumbfuck mean of communication.
Only tangentially related, but I just realised that now when I read "X got death threats", the assumption I jump to is that X is a terrible person/company trying to deflect from their terrible decisions/actions.
Not seemingly the case here, but Im left pondering how often this claim has been misused as an easy cop-out. WoTC, , etc.
You jump to blaming the victim? That's not a good place to start.
Yeah, it should be the opposite. If X is getting death threats, that means X is successful. FOSS projects get that nonsense all the time, it's just a symptom of getting large enough for crazy people to notice.
There's no real correlation between getting death threats and being "good/bad," if you make something that gets popular, you'll get death threats. There's no further meaning behind it.
Nintendo and Game Freak execs have wet dreams about developing a Pokemon game this interesting.
They haven't iterated on their formula since the first game. The 3D version could have been a 2D re-skin.
Gamefreak has absolutely 0 drive or desire to make an actual improved pokemon game, they have been carried by the IP for the past 20 years. Now if they get some competition... Maybe they will start dreaming
My son just said the same thing. Game Freak are actually going to have to do some work!