>>55794111Most of the People posting about it were the usual board hoppers looking to stir shit.
But its completely different markets. Pokemon doesn't make most of its money on games and Palworld doesn't have any serious official merchandising it can make money with.
Pocketpair is trying to make money by making games with as much "Fun stuff" stuffed into them as possible to give players a wide variety of playstyles and grinding and chose to avoid turn based fights like the pokemon games still do and it worked well for them.
Pokemon Co., Gamefreak, and Nintendo care more about what pokemon to put in the next game over what makes the game good. They don't care about what the story is like, what the "qol" is like, or the pokedex. If it sells more Gengar and Charizard merch they will do it and do not care about critic reviews because they have a fan base and cater to it.
As such, I think Pocketpair has completely different goals than Gamefreak and theres nothing they can really learn from them. Pocketpair wants a fun monster catching game in an open world, Gamefreak wants the next $60 Switch advertisement for the designs they choose. Totally different mindsets.