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Palworld's community manager reminds people impatient for updates that playing other games is fine

If you told me at the start of the year that Palworld would break Steam records, I would've done a hearty "no no" chuckle. But here we are, with the survival game exceeding 19 million players and Pocketpair probably wondering how they managed such a feat. With its success has come the inevitable slew of impatient people saying the game's dead because it's not received updates fast enough, or folks saying it's lost a hefty percentage of its player base, and others saying its viewership numbers over on streaming services have plummeted. Palworld's community manager Bucky has gently reminded folks that not only is this discourse "lazy", but to play other games instead.


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Xbox's big meeting reportedly included a surprising amount of Palworld, because "Every screen is an Xbox"

Good news, that special Xbox podcast that’ll see Phil Spencer and co give us all an update on the console maker’s future plans is set to take place later today, February 15. As you’d expect, Microsoft staff were given their own update last week, via a meeting which reportedly included enough Palworld to genuinely surprise people.

We’d already heard a few snippets about what went down at this townhall, with the main one being that Xbox doesn’t have any plans to stop making video game boxes. Now though, Inverse’s Shannon Liao has reported some more details about what went on, and how Xbox staffers reacted to the things their bosses outlined.

According to Liao’s report, the meeting featured Palworld being shown off via a huge range of different devices, to the extent that staff were apparently genuinely surprised to see so much of the game. Why, you ask? Well, it was reportedly part of a plan to demonstrate one of the things Xbox president Sarah Bond told those in attendance, this being that: “Every screen is an Xbox.”

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Palworld dev says talk of player dropoff is 'lazy' and 'it is fine to take breaks from games'




Palworld is 2024's first surprise hit, combining all the familiar elements of the popular survival genre with an irresistible layer of Pokémon-inspired Pals to do your bidding. It's a game with no firm endpoint but a finite amount of stuff to do, and so unsurprisingly plenty of players picked it up, played it, and moved onto other things...
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These wretched bootleg Palworld costumes looks like they just shambled out of a Junji Ito nightmare, and they're not the only knock-offs making the rounds




Palworld has now officially hit a level of popularity most can only dream of: the bootleg costume zone. I should reiterate up-front that these costumes aren't official products from Pocketpair—an important footnote, since no-one should be falsely accused of such crimes against nature...
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