What The Hell Is Going On With PALWORLD?
605We might only be less than a month into 2024, but Palworld has already somehow turned out to be one of the games industry’s biggest news stories of the year. Pocketpair’s survival game has attracted riotous success since its recent early access launch, selling at an astonishing rate that can put even the biggest AAA megatons to shame, and attracting a massive player base that’s engaging with the game on a scale that no one could have anticipated.
Also, part of the Palworld story, however, are allegations of plagiarism, with many bringing up the strong resemblances the game’s monster designs have to those of the Pokemon franchise. Whether Pocketpair has actually based its work off of stolen assets or if it falls more in the territory of “blatant yet legal ripoff” is up in the air right now, and here, that’s what we’re going to talk about.