Thankfully there's the FTC and its antitrust law! /$

Yeah XDA is (or I guess, was) invaluable for custom ROMs for Android. There's a huge modding/coding community on XDA.

If you've seen some of the half baked articles coming from there over the last year, you wouldn't be surprised at all. There's still some interesting stuff but there's a lot of half assed trash articles as well. I saw this and immediately everything made sense lol.

It feels like almost everyone who made a career on the internet in the 20-teens has sold their brand to private equity

Its a qoute from the link in my comment under "reception."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valnet

Nailed it.

Their boss probably wants to replace them with an agent too.

Any amount above $0.00 is WAY TOO much money to pay these "writers" to spend half-an hour a week hitting CTRL+X and CRTL+V.

Trying to associate palworld with AI

Which is even more stupid considering that Pocketpair publicly stated that they don't use AI

People don't click through on rage bait. It only serves to push an agenda.

Should be calling Minecraft 'very shitty FPS dwarf fortress without any dwarves'.

Was Heretic a Doom knockoff? Does it matter? Palworld does enough differently and scratches an itch that GameFreak isn't interested in scratching. GameFreak should just make a better Pokemon game.

It's closer to monster hunter, breath of the wild, and Ark than Pokemon. The only passing resemblance to pokemon is the fact the 'pals' are on the cartoony side (and a couple are just digimon rejects).

It's the media that dubed it pokemon with guns and slavery after the first trailer dropped way, way back when, and even then that was exclusively due to the cartoony design before any game play elements had been revealed.

Yeah, I hear people use "Stardew Valley" clone or rip-off too. Which doesn't bother me either. Stardrew Valley is a ripoff of Harvest Moon.

I think Palworld is more base-building and stuff than the turn-based Pokemon games that are out there -- but it definitely looks more of a ripoff than the game itself leads on.

I've played both games. The only similarity between the two is the monster collection aspect of it. It has more in common with Ark, with the real-time combat, directly fighting alongside your tamed monsters, and the base building.

Imagine a survival game (like enshroud or even ark) but there are these creatures that are not realistic.

It's only "pokemon" in the sense that you can catch these pals with spheres, but I'd love to see a pokemon game that allows you to build a base, explore dungeons, farm, craft stuff, carry weapons to fight alongside your pals IN REAL TIME and, in general, treats its players as if they weren't mentally challenged toddlers

No, it's not "pokemon with violence".