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I thought the game was neat but far too buggy to enjoy.
I only play these kinds of games with others and after a few days the servers would always grind to a halt or the gameplay would spaz out.
I’m waiting until it’s done and I’ll try it again.
I typically do that with many survival games. I skipped Minecraft and Terraria during release and played it when it was at 1.0, and holy cow, they’re so deep!
When Valheim came out as early access and only 3 out of 6 biomes finished, reaching the end sucked. Because once you hit it, waiting a year or two for an update is painful.
Fortunately, it’s now a pretty oversaturated market. I was playing Vrising, Grounded, Raft, Dinkum, etc and just rotating between these early access games every few months.
People are calling it a dead game because it was a flavor of the month random meme game that happened to get wildly popular and was then left in the toy trunk after its novelty wore off.
When people are calling it ‘dead game’, they do not mean it in the older sense of either a server reliant multiplayer game that has no more players, or that its so old and buggy or incompatible with modern hardware and is not being developed any more, such that the game is unplayable.
They mean it in the sense of ‘i got bored of it and so did almost everyone else.’
Everyone heard ‘Pokemon with Guns!’, thought this was amusing, then played yet another open world survival crafting game with a gimmick.
multiplayer game that has no more players
‘i got bored of it and so did almost everyone else.’
Sounds like the same thing to me, unless you mean the servers would be down for the multiplayer game and nobody can play it anymore.
whether a game is “dead” or not only really matters for online games with matchmaking. If a game requires a large playerbase to function, like an MMO or a matchmaking based competitive game, the game can die. This doesn’t apply to single player or small scale coop games.
Anyone will get the full single player game experience even if they are the only one playing. If the game has multiplayer, like coop or vs play where the expectation is that you will find the person who you will play with, the game cannot die.
Calling palworld a dead game is just as nonsensical as calling starfield dead because of a lower playercount. It literally doesn’t matter for this kind of game.
I bought palworld.
i played it.
i enjoyed it.
i had enough.
i stopped.
there is nothing wrong with this sequence of events.Did the exact same thing with Helldivers 2.
Checkout saleblazers now.
I’ve been eyeing that up since I’m a business management game kinda guy. But it depends on exactly how jank it is. Is it worth playing?
I did that, then started up a new playthrough to check out the updates. That’s a sign of a good game IMO
Palworld is dead to me when I have completly interest and/or my friend group doesn’t want to play
Palworld just released a massive update. It’s not dead. Just sounds like more bandwagon hate.
Palworld is a dormant game, much like Terraria, that will spur to life with content updates as it approaches completion.
I just started playing it.
Checked SteamDB, it says the online players are between 20k and 50k, and it’s summer (meaning everyone is out and about).
How does one take these numbers and proclaim a game dead? It’s like 30th in the overall Steam Chart for number of online players.
Line must go up. If line doesn’t go up, it’s dead. It can’t go down, and it can’t level off, either.
It’s an unhealthy approach to anything. Things will level off eventually. Palworld’s initial hype was never going to last, but if it settled into a nice plateau that let the devs pay their bills, that’s fine. The giants of the industry consider such a thing to be failure, but fuck them. Players shouldn’t buy into that mindset.
I think a lot of people are preoccupied with the optics of not being HUGE and receiving frequent updates or losing a lot of players. Especially people who grew up with games that didn’t really have a lot of competition for their time or were decent jumps over their competitors. Halo 2 came out, and EVERYONE was playing. There wasn’t any real competitor. Nowadays, survival crafters are a dime-a-doze.
Good news: Pocketpair knows and they are now in the licensing phase of the lifecycle
It was a flash-in-the-pan meme game. Of course it’s “dead” in the popularity contest. Only the handful of actual dedicated fans still play it. The majority has moved on to the next meme fad craze/current popular title.
Im convinced the people saying Palworld is a dead game are dumbass pokemid fans angry theres not a content update every month.
Yet I check every now and then and the game still has like 30k players on steam! thats way better than a shitty live service disaster like Multiversus could ever hope for!
