Asmongold TV's video on PalWorld's recent complaints (summary inside)
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Yeah pal world looks like a hype-bubble meme game like Choo Choo Charlie, with just slightly more gameplay meat on its bones. They may only be 3 Devs, but it seems pretty likely they're getting backed up by plenty of marketing instead, especially the streamer agencies, plus the close ties with Epic Games.
Also there are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than 2 Pokémon style knock-offs out there and plenty more in development. My personal favourite remains Monster Sanctuary for making it full team Vs team instead of a series of mindless 1v1s.
Sorry, didn't mean to overstate, nothing concrete to link to direct marketing but the hype and exposure and just the formulaic coverage it has been getting by steamers, and how obviously they are glossing over and avoiding complaining about game breaking bugs like boss encounters falling through the map floor, just leaves me judging it more likely than not that this is being streamed as a business transaction than for fun.
It's definitely astroturfed.
You're not watching the right streamers, then.
Seeing all the jank and server issues they run into is half the fun.
Oh it's live so they can't help but run into the glitches, it's just when they try super hard to make jokes out of even the lame bugs, or ones who aren't usually shy about bitching or criticizing mechanics exclusively brush off broken boss fights and lost pets.
They're professionals so they can act natural whilst doing it, but you see it very occasionally in collaborations where one of them is like "ixnay el itchbay, I can't talk about that bro" when the other starts tearing into a game too much. Like full on Jonah Hill neck-chop meme mode. They can fuck around a bit, but they just can't be outright negative when there's an active business relationship there. It's also easier to see the pattern when you're aware which ones share the same agencies and which ones don't.
But TBH, I don't habitually watch streams live, I'll just skim VODs from a bunch of them for specific games of interest or to keep a finger on the scene, so my character judgements may just be off from low exposure.