>developers' previous game is a botw rip-off early access open world survival crafting game that is STILL in early access 4 years later
>basically a rug pull where the game has been left in a half-finished state, alternating between maintenance mode and delivering half-baked updates
>implication is that they took the money and ran (to develop palworld)
fast forward
>palworld is a pokemon rip-off early access open world survival crafting game
>streamers, stream viewers, and people who will play any FotM crap give it a MASSIVE amount of publicity, pushing it to the top of steam and the steam store
>making it that much easier and more profitable to rug pull and leave the game in maintenance mode while delivering half-baked updates
