When did you first hear about Palworld?
What was their marketing strategy?
How is it possible for a game to get so huge with such a small budget? Are gamers a hivemind now?
I'm not asking for a value judgment here. I don't care if you hate the game. Tell me, how did everyone hear about this small indie title? Did it get on national news? Did your favourite big streamer cover it? Did they advertise it more than Raid Shadow Legends? Explain it to me. Nobody heard about this game until right fricking now, and everyone claims to have heard about it years ago, which is not reflected in any data.
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>When did you first hear about Palworld?
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2024 01 20 08:56:42.563.
based, thanks
Same. About two days after release.
>When did you first hear about Palworld?
Mainly on Ganker, there have been threads posted over the last year. I didn't take it seriously because it didn't look good from the screenshots. I also saw a post on gamingonlinux. Then it blew up on Ganker and I played it on Game Pass, had a lot of fun, and bought it on Steam because it was only $30.
So, it blew up because Ganker saw some rando journos cover it? Why did the journos cover it?
The article was from Jan 10 before release. I am assuming he covered it because he got a press release and likes Monster Catching games. Maybe they paid him for the post. When I saw it, I thought it was weird because it doesn't have a Native Linux Client and since it was unreleased, no one knows how well it would work on Proton.
>So, it blew up because Ganker saw some rando journos cover it?
I wouldn't say that. Streamers picked up the game, most notablely Asmongold and looked like they were having fun and the game looked like fun. That is probably why it blew up. They may have even paid the streamers. The price being $26 and it is free to try on Game Pass probably helped too. P5R blew up on Ganker when it was released to Game Pass too.
Now we're getting somewhere.
>Now we're getting somewhere.
Websites get paid to promote press releases. Streamers get paid to play games. Even if you have a shit load of money and pay to do these two things, unless your game is fun, it wont blow up like Palworld. Having played Palworld and P5R, it is much easier to see why Palworld is successful than it is for P5R. If your question is why did Palworld blow up. The answer you are looking for is Palworld is fun.
True... but I don't think this logically explains what we see. Tons of fun games get limited traction, and they had sizable budgets, years of careful marketing leading to the predictable and intended small result. Being fun is not a win condition, it's not even a requirement, garbage still sells. Palworld is outperforming everything. It's bigger than fricking Elden Ring, which people were talking about constantly for years.
But Elden Ring was sold for more than twice the price.
Oh, that's true. I should look at it in terms of price per copy.
Same
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>What was their marketing strategy?
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My family knew about it day 1 because they all got it from gamepass.
Their goofy mafia city-esque trailer during indie live expo
No, that was in 2022. There were practically no searches for Palworld at that time.
Crossreferencing with social media, posts relating to Palworld from that time garnered ~no attention. No likes. No views. Nothing.
No, you did not, because if you had, those videos would have views. They do not.
Is your claim that Ganker has purchased 2 million copies of Palworld? Interesting.
>When did you first hear about palworld?
>Oh yeah, i heard it during X
>No you didnt
I'm just answering your first question. I doubt 8 gorillion people watch indie live expo but I did.
You're so pathetic. Go back to Pokémon.
I've never played pokemon, however, I can tell by your use of diacritics that you are an oversized homosexual.
I heard about it 3 years ago when the first YouTube trailer dropped. A year or so later we got another trailer and about a year ago we got YouTube reveals of 2 new pals every weekend. The only marketing they did was giving the game for free to vtubers.
>When did you first hear about Palworld?
when the first trailer came out and people on here were laughing at it being an Edgy Pokemon
if you were an actual Ganker poster and not some moronic normalgay you'd already know about the game for several years.
I was listening to Jim / Mr. Metokur talk about shit, then one of the chatters told him about Palworld and he watched the trailer on stream.
Trailer, years ago, thought it was a joke, turns out it wasn't.
Ganker told me
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Very funny how easily malleable Ganker is, it’s as slop as the other things you guys complain about.
Nobody is complaining. Nobody is saying it is or is not slop. Stop making moronic moralgay value judgments. Answer the fricking questions you gay frog.
It's like Trump. Sometimes you want the moron to win because it's more soulful.
Ganker a day before release
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Palworld Derangement Syndrome
>When did you first hear about Palworld?
When they dropped a trailer in 2021 because Google knows I'm a Pokemon shill.
Then I got scammed by Craftopia, realized it was same developer, and assumed Palworld was never going to happen. Even waited for reviews to pile in confirming it wasn't a buggy wasteland.
>When did you first here about palworld
Last Friday, it was Vinny Vinseauce, i saw his palworld stream VOD, not sure what caught my attention to click on it but I'm glad i did.
>Marketing strategy
Idk pokemon with guns lol
>How can a A game get so huge with such a small budget?
True Talent i guess
>Are gamers a hivemind now?
As far as I know i still like Starfield.
>How did everyone heard about this small indie title
I don't know pokemon with guns, lmao
>Favorite streamer
I rarely see anything live nowadays but Vinny is sometimes funny and Palworld looked that way.
>More advertising than raid shadow legends?
What's raid shadow legends?
>Everyone claims they have heard about it years ago.
Do they? Really?
I asked my friend and he said it was fun
>When did you first hear about Palworld?
Ages ago, though I forgot about it until it blew up after release.
>What was their marketing strategy?
Early on it was just "Pokemon with guns" which was enough to at least pique my interest.
>How is it possible for a game to get so huge with such a small budget?
By just being a game. Not a vehicle to push an agenda, nor an attempt to be deep and thought-provoking. It doesn't try to be art nor anything more than it is. It's just silly, dumb fun, which is what video games are supposed to be.
Didn't know about it until December, when I posted some pokemon-esque abominations in the /sdg/ thread and someone said it reminded them of one of Palworld.
You c**ts won't shut up about it and from what I understand its just some ripoff pokeslop so I not interested
So, if five people buy a scamgame a decade ago, it is normal and rational to assume that this studio's next title will sell millions of copies with no marketing, right?
no, that's insane.
I did bought craftopia, it looked like fun, haven't touched it since i got it, it still on my Steam library, it's never been installed on my machine.
9:11AM June 6th 2021
Yeah, I first heard about it from thar trailer. Thought it was a prank or scam, but here we are. It's surprisingly solid.
>When did you first hear about Palworld?
2 years ago when they first added it to steam and I saw the trailer and immediately added it to my wishlist
>Fast forward to last week
>Instantly buy when it launched
>Play all weekend
>Come on Ganker and be surprised to see how massive a hit it was
Can't say I was expecting it to blow up so much but it is pretty solid. It was nice to see Ark's interface in a state where it doesn't lag to hell and back.
vaguely remember seeing one of the trailers first, wasn’t on my radar until my friend brought the game up before launch
December 2023 because a trailer was posted in Funnyjunk.
Awhile ago when they released a trailer. Forgot about it over time. Then i saw it on gamepass when it released and have been enjoying it since
I saw a streamer play it, said "This looks like a gay mobile phone tier asset flip", went to Ganker, and there were 35 fricking threads about it.
>Are gamers a hivemind now?
Yes
People no longer buy games. They buy memes
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probably the first trailer whenever that was.
ive known about it for years and so has my bf. we were gonna buy 2 copies when it came out to play together. games i like are normally more niche so i didnt know it would sell that hard. i guess not being turn based does help.
>When did you first hear about Palworld?
when it was announced like 2 years ago at whatever game showcase it was -- I genuinely don't remember.
I had it on my wishlist since that trailer released and I bought the game when it came out without really looking at any early gameplay footage. 30 dollars is quite cheap for something like this
Like 2 years ago when i used to keep track of new vidya announcements they released the first trailer
Avoided it until yesterday when my girlfriend showed me an image of a character using a pokem - Pal - As a bullet sponge. I specifically ignored any YouTubers talking about the game because it's another bandwagon thing happening with social media...
But I couldn't not buy it when I realized just how much of a bastard I was allowed to be.
>But I couldn't not buy it when I realized just how much of a bastard I was allowed to be.
Cartoonish gun violence and butchirng. What a fricking softie you are.
I can't ruin sociums by selling drugs, i can't overthrow the ruling elite, i can't burn down villages on innocents. This is all so lame, i strive for large scale violence.
I saw there ad in the summer games fest.
I thought it would be a rival to pokemon but it turned out to just be an Ark clone.