Palworld - the shitstorm so far

Dielan

I'm preparing notes for MP#80 and figured I'd start posting threads of my findings.

Writing this before recording the episode so not sure how much will get into the episode

Anywho - tl;dr:

Palworld is in early access
Its a survival game with creature capturing elements
People keep calling it Pokémon with guns
Really its ARK with Pokémon
People are really mad about it
It is selling very well

Why is this?

People are using the CEO's old tweets against him. In these screenshots you can see he is remarking at how well genai is producing fake Pokémon in a buzzfeed article. He didnt generate these, he simply posted them without condemning genai in this same post, which is being used as a 'gotcha!' Moment

I dont have links handy but I have some screenshots

Really its nothing special.

The other thing he is in trouble for is creating a small game previously that used genai - but the game was a sort of spot-the-ai-art kind of hidden role game. I will find the name and a sour e for this before we record and update the thread

Dielan

I articulated my findings so far a lot better in discord earlier

Dielan

Note to self: get the tweets from the animal cruelty guy & that awful Eurogamer article

Dielan

Nintendo official response

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1750363801780617274?s=20

Which reads like more of an acknowledgement they would have sued already if they could

HelsEch

Dielan

Honestly, reads even more like "If we say we're doing something, will you shut up about it?"

Dielan

Here's that really awful Eurogamer tweet

https://x.com/eurogamer/status/1749834750829777011?s=20

i hope that embedds

Dielan

Does this embed?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Playing Palworld gives off the impression of playing a product designed to be sold, rather than to be played. You will feel like a mark. And you'll be right.<br><br>Our early impressions: <a href="https://t.co/9Q8jzkzJT1">https://t.co/9Q8jzkzJT1</a> <a href="https://t.co/DWqUtetDtO">pic.twitter.com/DWqUtetDtO</a></p>— Eurogamer (@eurogamer) <a href="https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1749834750829777011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Dielan

fuckin hell

Dielan

Here's the awful Eurogamer tweet

Lots of people on Twitter have pointed out the author of this article privated his account and the bio looks like this:

So this seems to be feeding the fire that pokemon fans and nintendo shills are mostly responsible for feeding this fire.

Dielan

A viral post made by twitter use byofrog turned out to be a hoax or exaggeration. They admit it here -> https://x.com/byofrog/status/1749258386552639596?s=20

Screenshot:

This threads replies go into the details of the deception: https://twitter.com/MetalDragonKid/status/1749711993848594803

Here's one specific screenshot that seems to catch it all:

tl;dr this user was claiming the 3D models were rips from previous pokemon games. Which is very believable, however he resized the models to make them look more like a copy than they actually are.

SkoomaDealer

I stand by what I said in the discord. It’s like Hogwarts 2. I know there’s a ton of “reasons” behind it. But it sounds like the grifters just want something to take a stand against more than anything else.

Dielan

I asked the fedi what their thoughts on palworld were and the results are here -> https://shitposter.club/notice/AeDfIFNGA8SExGKb7w

Dielan

This is like, almost Hogwarts numbers

Holy shit