A developer behind Baldur's Gate 3 has offered their perspective on the success of Pocket Pair's action adventure game, Palworld.
With so many live-service games to choose from it can be incredibly overwhelming to decide what to play these days.
Gta from 2008 can at times have ten times the player count than suicide squad 2024.
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There is a pool of players that want to be milked bdsm style that pool is not growing as fast as the amount of players that are needed to support so many of these live service titles. The limited time crap is also a chore for alot of users like how diablo 4 forces user's to max out a character every 3 months to get the new gear.
I think GaaS proves not every game needs to be GaaS. Sony’s finding this out the hard way.
What? Live service is there to milk money. Even if BG3 had 5 mil concurrent players it still wouldn't generate any extra money, that is the point of live service and for u to not own anything. BG3 being popular will sell more copies sure but this is not the point. And this is one of the best and biggest game in recent history of course it will have good numbers, it is relatively new too. I get what you are getting at but you are kinda brute forcing your point. Kinda of a no brainer take anyway tbh
What dumb sh!t article and thinking is this that concurrent players means a thing worth talking about? It has zero influence on how much lifetime money these companies make. Bg3 sold millions of copies at 60 dollars a pop and made bank. Having a bunch of players later on revisiting the game does little to say anything other than ppl like to play it. If the numbers go down compared to a live service game it makes no difference.
Tldr: concurrent players means nothing for single player games amd this article is a waste of time on what must have been a slow news day
When you're waiting for an update the gameplay doesn't feel fresh. Palworld players offer some interesting ideas on how to enjoy the game.
With Pocketpair recently announcing a partnership with Sony, Microsoft has failed to take advantage of a golden opportunity with Palworld.
true, but xbox would be am odd choice for that sort of partnership id imagine. but yeh, they dodnt think anout the potential, as usual.
There's no golden opportunity, this game was pure hype and will suffer the same fate as most games in the survival genre. It'll be mostly forgotten, which it already has been. It'll have a half arsed cartoon like most of these games usually have, some merchandise, and eventually a sequel that'll play exactly the same because the survival genre is riddled with low effort early access games. It'll never reach the same heights as Pokemon or Minecraft.
That team wants to be acquired after a one hit wonder. I’m surprised Nintendo hasn’t sent an army of armed lawyers to their gates.