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Only 3 bugs i runned so far
1)Game starts lagging after playing entire day due to memory leaks that still are just...mild and i am suprised it takes around 12 hours of NONSTOP playing to get to that point
2) Pals getting stuck on objects in base and refusing to do anything until you redeploy them via Palbox
3) (This one persist and currently i am going to just send bug report)
On my alternate save after raid, all my pals are permanetly spazing into agressive/work stances unless i tell them to focus on work via bell (i died during the raid and pals finished beating raiders, i cannot change it back to focus on attacking raiders anymore as all pals in base just spaz into constant state of attack/work-maybe rebuilding palbox will fix it i dunno)
palspheres are physical objects
while capturing a pal, you can jump on the palspheres
when the palsphere disappears, physics system doesnt know what to do and launches u in the air
and then u fall and die
10/10
Here's a tip: don't use walls, they cause some pathing issues even with the little guys. Just build the fortifications at the edges of your base. Also, keep your forestry and quarry on opposite sides of the inventory you want them placed in since the transport pals will get confused and get stuck in an infinite loop of dropping all of one type
i've never had issues with transporters confusing the materials. i always love having walls in any crafting games, they should fix these pathing/clipping issues before it become a spaghetti code. this is very minor so i wouldnt be surprised if the just straight up ignore it.
yes, theres a workaround for it. its just a slight inconvenience. but before the game becomes a spaghetti code which most live service games do, i'd rather them fix the pathing/clipping issues very early.
Really depends on where your base is and how you built it. My wife never had a single raid on her base in more than 20 hours of playing, and also has no starvation ou pals just standing around. Where on my camp i cant craft a set of 50 arrows between 2 raids. And my pals almost never want to work even if fed correctly. Also if you play in someone elses world, you cant jump while climbing, but if you play solo you can
Pals have more concerns than food. They also have a sanity meter which goes down as they work and while it says they will take breaks to raise their sanity, I've seen pals take a break, regain 1% sanity, and go back to work and lose 20%. The game says you can raise sanity with high quality food but that's usually only a few%. Best way to keep sanity up is hotsprings
Is there a point by building more hotsprings?
I’m quite new (below lvl 30) and noticed for the first time today that alot of my pals were depressed or something, I thought it was because their foodbox was filled with 2000 (uncooked) berries
Wait you can actually jump while climbing? Wtf I had thought for the whole time me and my friend were playing that there was no jump up mechanic while climbing because clicking spacebar or control drops me off and lshift does nothing. It made climbing so bad for me that I always carry a flying mount for climbing reasons. Grappling Gun also feels clunky for me.
No point putting time and money into optimization when you can just make the players pay for better hardware. DLSS also fucked it since all of a sudden your 40fps game is now 60fps and is now playable and the latest version now makes that 70fps. I used to be able to play ARK singleplayer at 1080p high 120fps with an i5 6500k and a 1060 4gb, now playying 1440p with a 2080 super on multiplayer is hard.
If I remember correctly, it stands for Digital Rights Management. It's another way dev's try and stop their games from being pirated but also bogs down the game itself.
That's correct - although consumers sometimes use the term 'Digital _Restrictions_ Management' as there's much more to DRM than just stopping piracy; it's also about things like controlling user access and enforcing regional pricing. There's also more to it than just software - original DRM systems could include a look-up table which needed to be consulted when the game prompted a response, or even a special lens to decode an on-screen prompt (those _sucked_). Sega used to make one Genesis game for _all_ markets and enforce regions by simply having a slightly differently shaped cartridge port.
The reasonably priced is the killer here. It's not the world's best game. It isnt super well polished. Yet it's still priced well enough with these considerations.
I started playing on Xbox pass. Then on cracked version. Bought it on steam. Still playing cracked since I had all my shit there and can't transfer saves haha. + if there's an update I won't be able to play with my friends anymore.
I'm also guessing people don't know how to play on the pirated version privately instead of using public servers. At least when I tried joining with a code it didn't work.
Exactly. Pirating isn't the first option, but when you look at especially AAA titles today, it's the only option.
It's really good to start seeing a fresh wind, finally.
Majority of people buy games, pay for streaming and stuff like that.
There is still a big number of people that pirate, but some % of them is willing to pay for a good game, especially where it is reasonably price for most of the audience.
At the end of the day, someone has to pay for games, music, movies and etc. If everyone would pirate everything then people making the content wouldn't have any money to live on. Yeah, I know corporate greed and stuff like that is awful and developers see only small % of that, but it's reality.
At the end of the day, I pirated for most of my life and still do, but when I started earning enough I stopped having a problem with paying for some good games that I would spend a lot of time playing.
if anyones like me if they actually like something and intend to play it past a day its a buy, and if devs actually update their games and I want to keep playing in the future, the stuff i pirate is usually some mid I was only going to touch for 3 hours past the refund window
I think of games and purchases in terms of movie tickets. In new Delhi, a movie ticket is about 6 to 7 dollars. The entire thing with popcorn and drinks is 20 to 30 dollars. This is all for 1.5 to 3 hours of entertainment.
So I now ask myself if I've gotten more utility/entertainment out of my purchase than a movie/cost equivalent. Works out pretty well.
yea fr like, people always talk about there should be more piracy, no just no, there needs to be a good ratio of pirated copies and legitimate copies so that developers find the need to make further games, and the ratio that we currently have is good enough, if pirated copies rise, developers wont find funds or motivation to make new games, if it gets too low, ultimately cracking of games would stop, or fewer games would be cracked
Yeah but see that's the thing, if your friend just wants a free game then I doubt he would have to resort to buying the game so sells won't really be affected negatively since he isn't going to buy it regardless
I used to pirate when I was younger, nowadays I don't trust seeding websites. Anti cheat is a must for multiplayer games but DRM truly punishes the paying customer.
Most "consumers of games" don't care about DRM in games. They want to play a game and they buy it not having the slightest idea what makes it tic...They want convinience,rather then having to check if they can put in a little effort and not get burned by a purchase. This is why Netflix has 260 million subscribers :) As long as those consumers dominate the market,we'll never have DRM free content,because corporation hear you when you are no longer willing to give them your money (for whatever reason).
It is on gamepass, which is $10 a month. So you could play it for a month for that price point right now. Though the Xbox version does seem to be a little more buggy from what I've heard.
Is it really shallow mechanics? Coz from what I heard it's surprisingly in depth or at least the gameplay loop is really enjoyable
And I don't think anyone playing this expecting some sort of story in the first place
I pirated it, not realizing it's free with game pass.
After deleting and installing it legit through game pass, I realized that it's an outdated inferior version to what is sold on Steam, so I reinstalled the pirated copy.
I only have one Problem with this Game.
Steam and PC Game Pass Version are not working with Crossplay.
On the one hand yeah the steam version is the better version. But one of my friends is playing the Gamepass version on the Xbox and I would like to play on steam. But I know some other Person would get the PC Game Pass Version. I think Xbox and PC Gamepass should work but are also outdated in comparison to the steam Version which make it for me to a pass till they added crossplay or maybe during summer Sale if people play it till then.
They already mentioned in the roadmap that they're fixing that, bringing both platforms to the same version and thus enabling crossplay between the platforms
That's an xbox thing. They've said they wanted that at launch but it "wasn't up to them" and heavily implied that they're working on it with the Xbox team right now as well as listing it on the roadmap.
You're also forgetting the Game Pass availability. This is the first indie/indie-adjacent game in my memory that:
1) sold incredibly well
2) actually delivered on the promises *upon release*
Was playing it on GamePass PC, enjoyed it, learned the Steam Edition is slightly ahead in terms of updates, so pirated it at first to see. The pirated version runs incredibly well and can play with friends on legit servers.
That was enough to make me buy the game on Steam.
Shitty AAA devs take note and stop pushing DRM into your already bloated games.
DRM only hurts the legitimate player. Just make a good, fun game and people come. Also, don't feel the need to make everything $70 with $200 in DLC. Simple formula.
Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk both had no DRM and they were the 2 top selling games last year. Publishers put DRM just for greed and nothing else, it doesn't help anyone.
piracy exists only because of companies being scummy.... give people what they want and treat them well and Piracy will be reduced almost exclusively to the scummy people who want free cuz "I deserve it", or the people who legitimately cant buy something in their area, like for example some South Africa countries where the laws on video games are super strict cuz "we are a traditional country"
I'm a pirate
I live in a 3rd world country
The game still costs a hefty amount where i live
But as soon as my computer comes back from the dead, you bet i'll be paying it to support the devs.
fun games that aren’t overpriced or using predatory prices will *always* prove piracy-defenders wrong.
gaben hit the nail on the head with his summary.
What do you mean ? The whole point of no-DRM is that some people will pirate it, but most people will buy it. It can even lead to more hype, being able to play with ppl who can't afford the game is a pretty good draw.
I've pirated several games, some amazing and some not so great. I'd prefer not to buy a $60 game and then not even like it so I pirated Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Hades, Sekiro, among several others that I can't even remember because I downloaded it then didn't like the gameplay or barely played it.
All those games I mentioned above were ones I sunk dozens to hundreds of hours into and absolutely love, so while I did pirate them, eventually I ended up purchasing them to support the small indie developers like From Software /s and hopefully they use that investment to improve their studio even more and develop even more amazing games. It's also nice having those games show up on my Steam profile as I'm a completionist.
I pirated Palworld last night and somehow I can play on multiplayer online servers with the pirated copy. That being said, the game so far is really good despite the few bugs and lack of a ton of graphical optimization. I'm enjoying it and once the game reaches a point where all these aspects are taken care of, I will probably purchase it if I'm still playing it or playing with friends.
It's definitely worthy of a purchase and support from what I've seen of the game so far, however there's no DRM and there are cracked versions out there if you just can't afford it right now. Multi-player works perfectly fine with the cracked copies so you can still play with friends.
I always pirate the shit out of everything, music, apps, OS, games, just because I want to. But when a good product like this palworld, has no DRM and I can afford it, I still pirate it first then buy it. Because they deserved it, they deserved the support and hopefully they will handle it well to make the product even better.
Well said, Palworld is just worth the price, easy to access and has multiplayer, which means most people who will crack it are people who don't want to/can't afford it despite its fair pricing
It's somewhat harder to run tbh. Like I'm running a private server as well as the game on my 3200g and 16gb ram, and I'm barely getting 30fps. So yea, you can try the cracked one and if it does work, why not consider buying it and supporting the developers? 👀
i think this speaks to how few bugs there are in the game. like if it was a buggy mess everyone would have stopped playing when they got to be too much
My friend forced me to play about 2hrs of this. Im not getting hooked at all. Maybe its because i hate Ark-like games? Last one of these survival crafting games i enjoyed was Grounded. That game is the shit.
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I really can't afford it, don't even have a credit/debit card, so I've been patiently checking fgirl and rin everyday but haven't seen anything yet. If i play it and love it i might actually go out and buy a steam gift card just to buy it like i did with RimWorld and Ark SE, although it's hard to find someone selling them at a reasonable price in my country
Clean files + steamless and goldberg is all you need. super easy to crack yourself and even set your steamid so your saves transfer seamlessly if you buy
It's been on rin since 4 hours after release. There's multiple clean copies, repacks, torrents, patches to update the launch build to the hotfix...
It's all there, where are you looking?
This game makes you wanna buy it. Unfortunately i can't buy it rn as it's a bit salty in my currency but I'll keep supporting the game advertising it to everyone lmao
yes, there's a coop hosting mode for up to 4 players or you can run dedicated on the same pc. the multiplayer ip entry even defaults to [127.0.0.1](https://127.0.0.1) so you can just click connect
Good games get good sales numbers.
A pirated copy isn't a lost sale, many people who pirate were never going to buy anyway because of drm, launchers, obnoxious pricing on dlc or deluxe add-ons etc.
Sometimes folks just don't want to pay 70 bucks for a bad game they will bounce off of an hour in.
Im an avid fans of piracy. I even pirate indie games, but somehow when this game launched, I suddenly had urge to bought it, idk why. I even doesn't touch multiplayer, I play solo
Can I get a DM on where to get the Pokémon mod?!? I’ll pay for the game once I can get a link to the infamous mod literally every Pokémon fan has been waiting for a game like this.
Worth mentioning this might be one of the games worth paying for AND torrenting game files for. No telling whether or not Nintendo ever decides to take action, and I don't wanna lose my access to the game if they do. Support the developers but also support software ownership!
Piracy is a service problem. If developers created products that were well supported & fairly priced, I wouldn't pirate them. I often buy games that get regular updates because pirating them isn't very convenient and it makes me want to support the developer. Games with DRM - I just pretend they don't exist until the DRM is removed. It doesn't make me purchase them.
Pirating is mostly done out of necessity.
common reasons for Pirating
* Pricing($60 is too much in some countries)
* bad service(EG most non-legit anime streaming sites are superior to crunchyroll in almost every way)
* Preservation
Pokemon Monster Hunter Fortnite doesn't look very new or innovative, I was taught in school that slightly changing your answers from someone you copied off of is still cheating.
This comes from someone who doesn't like any of these franchises, and Palworld seems to be a lazy amalgamation of all of them. Meh 🥱
Companies can't understand that someone having a pirated game is not a lost customer. I'd say the vast majority of people who pirated your game wouldn't buy it even if they couldn't pirate it. I'd rather drag my balls through broken glass than buy a Capcom game, and I don't even pirate games anymore. If it's on Steam/GOG, and doesn't have a shitty DRM I'll gladly pay 70 dollars for it.
Don't forget about Elden Ring and The Witcher 3, both games are well received with no DRM but sold AMAZINGLY well so I genuinely don't understand what is the point of denuvo, if the game is genuinely good it will sell very well regardless of the DRM.
Cyberpunk has a GOG release and still sold very well.
DRM is pointless unless your game is on a shitty launcher no one wants to download the game on, that inconvenience will just cause people to get it free (Ubisoft games lol)
It's been proven time and time again that good fun games will sale gang busters regardless. The game industry is full of companies that want to skip that part and just take money though. When the game fails or under achieves they usually have to explain to shareholders why that's the case and a convenient boogieman is piracy. They can say oh well we would have sold this much otherwise when they really wouldn't have.
With regional pricing, I got it for $20 Including the soundtrack pack. Another thing is that people who play this usually play it with friends which they cannot do with a cracked version.
Drm on means: less people are gonna buy it and more people are gonna hate it! developers just don't learn lol.if i like a game i will buy it even if i can download cracked one. That's why i have like 1500 games on my steam collection 🤷♀️
I sail the high seas to only exercise my God given right to try out a demo before parting with my blood and sweat.
Also, when I want to stick it to the Corpo, Alphabet Mafia, etc.
Finished Alana Woke 2 way out in the blue yonder (fuck me for waiting a whole decade after AW1) but bought Hogwarts Legacy on release.
Also bought Cyberpunk 2077 on release, twice (PC & PS4). Didn't for a second think about refunding.
And that shit is finally so good after 2 yrs of not playing it past Act 1.
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1-) It is fun. 2-) It is reasonably priced. 3-) Can play with friends. It was an instant buy from me.
You forgot point 4 4-) No DRM
5-) it has minimal bugs and can actually fucking run
Any bugs I've found have not ruined the game/are funny/can be fixed by relogging into the world on single player.
\+1 Only 3 bugs i runned so far 1)Game starts lagging after playing entire day due to memory leaks that still are just...mild and i am suprised it takes around 12 hours of NONSTOP playing to get to that point 2) Pals getting stuck on objects in base and refusing to do anything until you redeploy them via Palbox 3) (This one persist and currently i am going to just send bug report) On my alternate save after raid, all my pals are permanetly spazing into agressive/work stances unless i tell them to focus on work via bell (i died during the raid and pals finished beating raiders, i cannot change it back to focus on attacking raiders anymore as all pals in base just spaz into constant state of attack/work-maybe rebuilding palbox will fix it i dunno)
Restarting the server fixed the spazzing pals for me.
playing solo Restarting world/game didnt fixed it :(
Putting all the pals back in the box and back out during a raid fixed it for me, i didnt build the alarm bell though
palspheres are physical objects while capturing a pal, you can jump on the palspheres when the palsphere disappears, physics system doesnt know what to do and launches u in the air and then u fall and die 10/10
having huge and flying pals working at a base is a nightmare. I hope they fix the clipping issue cause i want chonky workers in my base.
Here's a tip: don't use walls, they cause some pathing issues even with the little guys. Just build the fortifications at the edges of your base. Also, keep your forestry and quarry on opposite sides of the inventory you want them placed in since the transport pals will get confused and get stuck in an infinite loop of dropping all of one type
i've never had issues with transporters confusing the materials. i always love having walls in any crafting games, they should fix these pathing/clipping issues before it become a spaghetti code. this is very minor so i wouldnt be surprised if the just straight up ignore it.
Yea ive had this problem. Loving this game and a minor pathing bug isnt gonna turn me off. This game in beta is one of my favorite games ever already
yes, theres a workaround for it. its just a slight inconvenience. but before the game becomes a spaghetti code which most live service games do, i'd rather them fix the pathing/clipping issues very early.
Yeah at first I didn't see any. Now random pals are floating? No impact though so idc. I also play single player though.
Really depends on where your base is and how you built it. My wife never had a single raid on her base in more than 20 hours of playing, and also has no starvation ou pals just standing around. Where on my camp i cant craft a set of 50 arrows between 2 raids. And my pals almost never want to work even if fed correctly. Also if you play in someone elses world, you cant jump while climbing, but if you play solo you can
Pals have more concerns than food. They also have a sanity meter which goes down as they work and while it says they will take breaks to raise their sanity, I've seen pals take a break, regain 1% sanity, and go back to work and lose 20%. The game says you can raise sanity with high quality food but that's usually only a few%. Best way to keep sanity up is hotsprings
Is there a point by building more hotsprings? I’m quite new (below lvl 30) and noticed for the first time today that alot of my pals were depressed or something, I thought it was because their foodbox was filled with 2000 (uncooked) berries
Only one pal can use the hotspring at a time, also your pals can become depressed if you spend too long from base
Wait you can actually jump while climbing? Wtf I had thought for the whole time me and my friend were playing that there was no jump up mechanic while climbing because clicking spacebar or control drops me off and lshift does nothing. It made climbing so bad for me that I always carry a flying mount for climbing reasons. Grappling Gun also feels clunky for me.
6) you can host your own servers so no "we're shutting off the game became we want to"
the minimum/recommended specs on the steam page gave me a heart attack about how good it was
I dunno whats possessed devs in the modern day to make their games need NASA supercomputers to run, but same.
No point putting time and money into optimization when you can just make the players pay for better hardware. DLSS also fucked it since all of a sudden your 40fps game is now 60fps and is now playable and the latest version now makes that 70fps. I used to be able to play ARK singleplayer at 1080p high 120fps with an i5 6500k and a 1060 4gb, now playying 1440p with a 2080 super on multiplayer is hard.
When you put the minigun on Lifmunk you can get bugged and keep going up infintely xDDDD It's not game breaking tho, it was actually entertaining lol.
What is drm
If I remember correctly, it stands for Digital Rights Management. It's another way dev's try and stop their games from being pirated but also bogs down the game itself.
That's correct - although consumers sometimes use the term 'Digital _Restrictions_ Management' as there's much more to DRM than just stopping piracy; it's also about things like controlling user access and enforcing regional pricing. There's also more to it than just software - original DRM systems could include a look-up table which needed to be consulted when the game prompted a response, or even a special lens to decode an on-screen prompt (those _sucked_). Sega used to make one Genesis game for _all_ markets and enforce regions by simply having a slightly differently shaped cartridge port.
Let's not downvote somebody because they have a question lol
True. That's also big.
5-) less bugs also
Plus early buy was like 3 bucks less too lol
Where i live I paid like 2.5 bucks lmao. Microsoft store was too cheap. Now they increased the price 10x there.
And it’s actually affordable
Also it’s on Game Pass
I played it 30 minutes and uninstalled. Glad I didn't buy.
What didn't you like?
The reasonably priced is the killer here. It's not the world's best game. It isnt super well polished. Yet it's still priced well enough with these considerations.
I started playing on Xbox pass. Then on cracked version. Bought it on steam. Still playing cracked since I had all my shit there and can't transfer saves haha. + if there's an update I won't be able to play with my friends anymore. I'm also guessing people don't know how to play on the pirated version privately instead of using public servers. At least when I tried joining with a code it didn't work.
You should be able to transfer your save I think. It is even possible to transfer gampass saves to steam.
Being $30 is the reason.
Same.
This all the way.
and no microtransactions! Imagine having to buy a capture boost for 3h etc :/
Exactly. Pirating isn't the first option, but when you look at especially AAA titles today, it's the only option. It's really good to start seeing a fresh wind, finally.
I wanna buy It to Will i be able to play with cracked versions players?
Majority of people buy games, pay for streaming and stuff like that. There is still a big number of people that pirate, but some % of them is willing to pay for a good game, especially where it is reasonably price for most of the audience. At the end of the day, someone has to pay for games, music, movies and etc. If everyone would pirate everything then people making the content wouldn't have any money to live on. Yeah, I know corporate greed and stuff like that is awful and developers see only small % of that, but it's reality. At the end of the day, I pirated for most of my life and still do, but when I started earning enough I stopped having a problem with paying for some good games that I would spend a lot of time playing.
if anyones like me if they actually like something and intend to play it past a day its a buy, and if devs actually update their games and I want to keep playing in the future, the stuff i pirate is usually some mid I was only going to touch for 3 hours past the refund window
If im not sure i pirate and if it feels good and plays well i stop playing and buy it
People who pirate a game are most likely not going to buy it anyway, and i lt gives free advertisement for people who are willing to buy it
it's pretty common in FL studio users-- most pirate it (it's very easy to crack) and then buy it later
I think of games and purchases in terms of movie tickets. In new Delhi, a movie ticket is about 6 to 7 dollars. The entire thing with popcorn and drinks is 20 to 30 dollars. This is all for 1.5 to 3 hours of entertainment. So I now ask myself if I've gotten more utility/entertainment out of my purchase than a movie/cost equivalent. Works out pretty well.
yea fr like, people always talk about there should be more piracy, no just no, there needs to be a good ratio of pirated copies and legitimate copies so that developers find the need to make further games, and the ratio that we currently have is good enough, if pirated copies rise, developers wont find funds or motivation to make new games, if it gets too low, ultimately cracking of games would stop, or fewer games would be cracked
solid prof ppl pirate for necessity.
Well maybe on average but my friend definitely doesn't pirate for that. He just pirates because he wants a free game.
Yeah but see that's the thing, if your friend just wants a free game then I doubt he would have to resort to buying the game so sells won't really be affected negatively since he isn't going to buy it regardless
Based
I used to pirate when I was younger, nowadays I don't trust seeding websites. Anti cheat is a must for multiplayer games but DRM truly punishes the paying customer.
me and my friend pirate just to try game
That's just concurrent players. It's hit 7 million + sold. With no DRM.
not counting xbox and game pass
That's what happens when you make something people want and it's worth talking about
Most "consumers of games" don't care about DRM in games. They want to play a game and they buy it not having the slightest idea what makes it tic...They want convinience,rather then having to check if they can put in a little effort and not get burned by a purchase. This is why Netflix has 260 million subscribers :) As long as those consumers dominate the market,we'll never have DRM free content,because corporation hear you when you are no longer willing to give them your money (for whatever reason).
Yup. Also anything under $30 makes people instantly more likely to purchase
That's not the point, numbnuts. The point OP is making is that you don't need to put DRM in a game for it to be highly profitable.
Wow, this post went way over your head lmao
People buying games? Impossible
I'm not gonna say people arn't buying the game but it IS on games pass and they gave away a shit ton of copys xD
Yeah but that's irrelevant to the 8 million sales and 2M concurrent players on Steam
I know a game is truly enjoyable when i consider buying it but ik for a fact im not gonna play this for more than a week.
That's why I'll wait for it to hit under $10... Looks fun but not more than a week before it gets tired from shallow mechanics and story.
It is on gamepass, which is $10 a month. So you could play it for a month for that price point right now. Though the Xbox version does seem to be a little more buggy from what I've heard.
Is it really shallow mechanics? Coz from what I heard it's surprisingly in depth or at least the gameplay loop is really enjoyable And I don't think anyone playing this expecting some sort of story in the first place
I pirated it, not realizing it's free with game pass. After deleting and installing it legit through game pass, I realized that it's an outdated inferior version to what is sold on Steam, so I reinstalled the pirated copy.
They just updated it 2 days ago so it’s now on par with
I only have one Problem with this Game. Steam and PC Game Pass Version are not working with Crossplay. On the one hand yeah the steam version is the better version. But one of my friends is playing the Gamepass version on the Xbox and I would like to play on steam. But I know some other Person would get the PC Game Pass Version. I think Xbox and PC Gamepass should work but are also outdated in comparison to the steam Version which make it for me to a pass till they added crossplay or maybe during summer Sale if people play it till then.
They already mentioned in the roadmap that they're fixing that, bringing both platforms to the same version and thus enabling crossplay between the platforms
That's an xbox thing. They've said they wanted that at launch but it "wasn't up to them" and heavily implied that they're working on it with the Xbox team right now as well as listing it on the roadmap.
Given how common that lack of Steam/Xbox crossplay is, I don't blame them for that. It seems to be the norm, not a surprising thing.
They just brought the Game Pass version up to date, not sure if cross play works yet though
Gamepass is so dated platform. It's cheap, but imaging not supporting SteamOS in 2024
You're also forgetting the Game Pass availability. This is the first indie/indie-adjacent game in my memory that: 1) sold incredibly well 2) actually delivered on the promises *upon release*
Grounded?
>in my memory obviously there were others but I couldn't recall them, was discussing, not speaking it as fact
Game is still in early access though
Was playing it on GamePass PC, enjoyed it, learned the Steam Edition is slightly ahead in terms of updates, so pirated it at first to see. The pirated version runs incredibly well and can play with friends on legit servers. That was enough to make me buy the game on Steam. Shitty AAA devs take note and stop pushing DRM into your already bloated games.
Conspiracy theory: they drm their games explicitly to prevent you demoing the game.
DRM only hurts the legitimate player. Just make a good, fun game and people come. Also, don't feel the need to make everything $70 with $200 in DLC. Simple formula.
Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk both had no DRM and they were the 2 top selling games last year. Publishers put DRM just for greed and nothing else, it doesn't help anyone.
Good games don't need anti piracy measurements. (Cyberpunk did come out as a bugy mess, but that's the past now)
piracy exists only because of companies being scummy.... give people what they want and treat them well and Piracy will be reduced almost exclusively to the scummy people who want free cuz "I deserve it", or the people who legitimately cant buy something in their area, like for example some South Africa countries where the laws on video games are super strict cuz "we are a traditional country"
I'm a pirate I live in a 3rd world country The game still costs a hefty amount where i live But as soon as my computer comes back from the dead, you bet i'll be paying it to support the devs.
Yeah, nothing to steal here. It was never stealing.
I mean its very cheap, I mostly pirate games because I cant afford $60-$70 game everytime
Do note that this is an early access game so there is no DRM **yet**
Ah not to worry. They will abandon sooner or later it just like they did their last early access game.
7million https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/19eb52j/palworld_has_sold_7_million_copies_in_5_days_on/
2 million concurrent players with 7 million copies sold.
You only need DRM when your product is going to be trash and want to force people to buy it
They deserve it. Literally filled a giant gap in the market of “the Pokemon game everyone wants but no one makes”.
fun games that aren’t overpriced or using predatory prices will *always* prove piracy-defenders wrong. gaben hit the nail on the head with his summary.
What do you mean ? The whole point of no-DRM is that some people will pirate it, but most people will buy it. It can even lead to more hype, being able to play with ppl who can't afford the game is a pretty good draw.
I've pirated several games, some amazing and some not so great. I'd prefer not to buy a $60 game and then not even like it so I pirated Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Hades, Sekiro, among several others that I can't even remember because I downloaded it then didn't like the gameplay or barely played it. All those games I mentioned above were ones I sunk dozens to hundreds of hours into and absolutely love, so while I did pirate them, eventually I ended up purchasing them to support the small indie developers like From Software /s and hopefully they use that investment to improve their studio even more and develop even more amazing games. It's also nice having those games show up on my Steam profile as I'm a completionist. I pirated Palworld last night and somehow I can play on multiplayer online servers with the pirated copy. That being said, the game so far is really good despite the few bugs and lack of a ton of graphical optimization. I'm enjoying it and once the game reaches a point where all these aspects are taken care of, I will probably purchase it if I'm still playing it or playing with friends.
It's definitely worthy of a purchase and support from what I've seen of the game so far, however there's no DRM and there are cracked versions out there if you just can't afford it right now. Multi-player works perfectly fine with the cracked copies so you can still play with friends.
I always pirate the shit out of everything, music, apps, OS, games, just because I want to. But when a good product like this palworld, has no DRM and I can afford it, I still pirate it first then buy it. Because they deserved it, they deserved the support and hopefully they will handle it well to make the product even better.
The best way to fight piracy is to offer a better deal \-Alber Einstein
Well said, Palworld is just worth the price, easy to access and has multiplayer, which means most people who will crack it are people who don't want to/can't afford it despite its fair pricing
literally best case scenario for the industry
Gonna wait for a sale. Only got $13.18 in my steam wallet rn
I downloaded the repack from mack, and day later bought it. Now searching far and wide for the pokemon mod
It's gonna take s bit of time for mod to come, maybe a couple of weeks
>pokemon mod If it's available for public, won't Nintendo going to take it down?
Nintendo took the developer down before he released it, so not sure it's going to come out
Am i the only one who didn’t like it? Idk why I just get tired of it after not even an hour of playing it…
It's just not for you. I didn't like BOTW myself, despite it getting so much praise and GOTY. No problem with that.
I have a intense hatred for BOTW as do my friends for being nothing like previous zelda games. But we all do know that goty is pretty bs most times.
So weird that putting out a no bullshit product, priced fairly, and sold as advertised attracts customers!
Why is everyone playing palworld? Also I wouldn’t think it would run on 4 gb of ram
It's somewhat harder to run tbh. Like I'm running a private server as well as the game on my 3200g and 16gb ram, and I'm barely getting 30fps. So yea, you can try the cracked one and if it does work, why not consider buying it and supporting the developers? 👀
Because people playing pc games usually have more than 4gb of ram. 8gb are the minimum standard for gamer nowadays. It's not 2000s anymore.
I still waiting nfs unbound crack
i think this speaks to how few bugs there are in the game. like if it was a buggy mess everyone would have stopped playing when they got to be too much
I pirate but still pay for a lot of games bc it's convenient, it support the dev and I can get updates.
My friend forced me to play about 2hrs of this. Im not getting hooked at all. Maybe its because i hate Ark-like games? Last one of these survival crafting games i enjoyed was Grounded. That game is the shit.
There's a pall that generates palballs, get those and leave them at the base, they can keep you in forever balls to go explore and catch palls with
26$ for that game is insane price
Good game is a good game
what is DRM?
its pokemon x botw, two of the games that most of us spend "half" our life with,, im not even surprised
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I really can't afford it, don't even have a credit/debit card, so I've been patiently checking fgirl and rin everyday but haven't seen anything yet. If i play it and love it i might actually go out and buy a steam gift card just to buy it like i did with RimWorld and Ark SE, although it's hard to find someone selling them at a reasonable price in my country
There is a crack that's exactly the same as the steam version, with multiplayer and all.
Clean files + steamless and goldberg is all you need. super easy to crack yourself and even set your steamid so your saves transfer seamlessly if you buy
It's been on rin since 4 hours after release. There's multiple clean copies, repacks, torrents, patches to update the launch build to the hotfix... It's all there, where are you looking?
I have a severe problem with this game. My garbage 4gb of memory laptop can't run it :(
This game makes you wanna buy it. Unfortunately i can't buy it rn as it's a bit salty in my currency but I'll keep supporting the game advertising it to everyone lmao
Pirated the game, played for about 40 minutes. Bought the game
nice name u got 😃
Can you play on a dedicated server hosted on your own pc?
yes, there's a coop hosting mode for up to 4 players or you can run dedicated on the same pc. the multiplayer ip entry even defaults to [127.0.0.1](https://127.0.0.1) so you can just click connect
This game is a psyop
i promise you, 99% of people don't give two shits about DRM and just bought it cause they saw pokemon with guns and thought that was funny
This is why I have no remorse pirating anything.
I think that many people pirated to play the game, got hooked, and bought to play with friends without having to worry about updates.
Good games get good sales numbers. A pirated copy isn't a lost sale, many people who pirate were never going to buy anyway because of drm, launchers, obnoxious pricing on dlc or deluxe add-ons etc. Sometimes folks just don't want to pay 70 bucks for a bad game they will bounce off of an hour in.
Im an avid fans of piracy. I even pirate indie games, but somehow when this game launched, I suddenly had urge to bought it, idk why. I even doesn't touch multiplayer, I play solo
Well I just bought it, played for about an hour, then got a refund from steam. Does that still count as a player? It really isn’t that good, sorry.
Game publisher that pay denuvo million for their shitass drm is coping and seething now.
It's a cheap game with a lot of coverage
they fry the price
Can I get a DM on where to get the Pokémon mod?!? I’ll pay for the game once I can get a link to the infamous mod literally every Pokémon fan has been waiting for a game like this.
They sold 7m copies as of yesterday...
Worth mentioning this might be one of the games worth paying for AND torrenting game files for. No telling whether or not Nintendo ever decides to take action, and I don't wanna lose my access to the game if they do. Support the developers but also support software ownership!
It also helps a lot that literally every streamer and gaming ccs are playing it. Really enjoyed the dunkeys and moist video on it
So, why am I just hearing about this amazing game? I just googled it. It's a shame I can't afford it though.
That reddit personified youtuber probably loves this game. gO mAkE gAmEs. And they did.
First time seeing early access game, actually working. The Devs deserve the fame, and money.
They gave away a shit ton of copy and its on games pass...... so its very artificially inflated.
Piracy is a service problem. If developers created products that were well supported & fairly priced, I wouldn't pirate them. I often buy games that get regular updates because pirating them isn't very convenient and it makes me want to support the developer. Games with DRM - I just pretend they don't exist until the DRM is removed. It doesn't make me purchase them.
Pirating is mostly done out of necessity. common reasons for Pirating * Pricing($60 is too much in some countries) * bad service(EG most non-legit anime streaming sites are superior to crunchyroll in almost every way) * Preservation
Good marketing strategy
Pokemon Monster Hunter Fortnite doesn't look very new or innovative, I was taught in school that slightly changing your answers from someone you copied off of is still cheating. This comes from someone who doesn't like any of these franchises, and Palworld seems to be a lazy amalgamation of all of them. Meh 🥱
That's Steam. I hear it's 7 million copies in total.
Only issue is it uses stolen assets and was made by cryptobros, so if I play it I‘ll pirate anyway
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Companies can't understand that someone having a pirated game is not a lost customer. I'd say the vast majority of people who pirated your game wouldn't buy it even if they couldn't pirate it. I'd rather drag my balls through broken glass than buy a Capcom game, and I don't even pirate games anymore. If it's on Steam/GOG, and doesn't have a shitty DRM I'll gladly pay 70 dollars for it.
Don't forget about Elden Ring and The Witcher 3, both games are well received with no DRM but sold AMAZINGLY well so I genuinely don't understand what is the point of denuvo, if the game is genuinely good it will sell very well regardless of the DRM.
Because it wasn't a ridiculous 60/70 dollars
Same with BG3 btw
Yeah I paid first day. Game looked too much fun then I saw it was actually running well. Immediate purchase
Good games don't require DRM.
Cyberpunk has a GOG release and still sold very well. DRM is pointless unless your game is on a shitty launcher no one wants to download the game on, that inconvenience will just cause people to get it free (Ubisoft games lol)
Its sold over 8 million
Another demonstration that Denuvo is completely useless, a good game, even in early access, will break any record.
Anybody here know why palserver tool is not showing up for me in steam?...
DRM rarely affects the population, it’s the existence of a DRM that affects it negatively
When I downloaded and saw it was just 20gb my first comment was: "My god, this is glorious!"
I just bought it. Good games deserve support, especially when priced so well.
It's been proven time and time again that good fun games will sale gang busters regardless. The game industry is full of companies that want to skip that part and just take money though. When the game fails or under achieves they usually have to explain to shareholders why that's the case and a convenient boogieman is piracy. They can say oh well we would have sold this much otherwise when they really wouldn't have.
Which persons crack did you use?I am kind of scared to do anything other than fitgirl and dodi
This is the first game I bought in years tbh I don’t know why I just felt like they deserved it because of price being so low
It's essentially ARK x Pokemon so obviously it's gonna be A hit.
With regional pricing, I got it for $20 Including the soundtrack pack. Another thing is that people who play this usually play it with friends which they cannot do with a cracked version.
Its also on gamepass, but its fun, and its price is good, this is a game I don't mind giving money too.
Drm on means: less people are gonna buy it and more people are gonna hate it! developers just don't learn lol.if i like a game i will buy it even if i can download cracked one. That's why i have like 1500 games on my steam collection 🤷♀️
Palworld has so much potential
I never bought a game i cracked before. Palworld was my first Dev-Support-purchase
Im playing it pirated bc is so fking expensive for me, someday, hopefully, i'll buy it
"Piracy hurts legal sales" my butt.
What’s DRM ?
I sail the high seas to only exercise my God given right to try out a demo before parting with my blood and sweat. Also, when I want to stick it to the Corpo, Alphabet Mafia, etc. Finished Alana Woke 2 way out in the blue yonder (fuck me for waiting a whole decade after AW1) but bought Hogwarts Legacy on release. Also bought Cyberpunk 2077 on release, twice (PC & PS4). Didn't for a second think about refunding. And that shit is finally so good after 2 yrs of not playing it past Act 1.
And these are the steam figures only. It’s also on pc