Although Palworld was released on Steam in early 2024, the developer studio still has to deal with many attacks from the community. The community manager Bucky has had enough, which is why he addresses the haters on social media.
Where does the hate come from? The team behind Palworld constantly has to justify its player numbers on Steam:
- Palworld had over 2 million players at launch. Gradually, more and more fans left the Steam title, causing the player numbers to drop to less than 140,000 at times.
- At that time, the first discussion about player numbers started. Bucky spoke with the defenders of Palworld and told them that justifying the player numbers would not make a difference. That is the normal course of events.
- For him, it doesn’t even matter how many players are currently playing Palworld. It is critical, if players were forced to always play the same title.
- He defended Palworld when it came to the claim that the title is a meme game.
Therefore, it’s easy to imagine that Bucky eventually got fed up. On X, he has now addressed the haters and promises that this will be the last time he talks about this annoying topic.
In the following trailer, you will get a better impression of Palworld:
Haters of Palworld should simply ignore the game
What does the community manager say? Bucky discusses the comments from haters, in which developers are wished to lose their jobs, for example. For Bucky, that is a personal problem of the hater. He sees a wave of anger directed at Palworld that is foolish. Most comments about the game are only aimed at getting many likes.
You can read his English tweet here:
Bucky has advice for the haters: They should simply mute Palworld on X, hide the game on Steam, and not think about it anymore. This way, those individuals would do themselves a favor. He does not understand how one can invest time and energy in things one does not like.
The hate would only lead to self-frustration. Therefore, they should occupy themselves with other things.
The team behind Palworld is currently not having an easy time. In addition to the hate comments, Pocketpair also has to deal with a lawsuit from Nintendo. According to this, Palworld supposedly violates several patent rights, leading to demands for injunctions and damages: It looked like Palworld could get away with it – Now Nintendo is suing the “Pokémon with guns” on Steam after all
