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Plagiarism rule
(lemmy.world)
Context: Pocket Pair is spreading their devs thin on three unfinished early access games (Craftopia, Palworld, Never Grave) and capital G Gamers are crying
I really hope Pocket Pair is in it for the long run and carefully manage their success to create new popular series. However, the cynic in me thinks they're going to release as many titles in early access as they can before people realize none of them are ever being finished by the devs who are now multimillionaires and have no financial incentive to continue.
Unless they continue to make blunder for years to come, at this point i doubt they will fold. They already becoming one of the highest selling indie game within one month and made millions to last several years, they can just hire more.
And if they running out of money they can just fire everyone down to the core team and cancel the other game and focus on Palworld, write an "i'm sorry" essay, and continue their day.
I'm like 99.9999% sure that craftopia was an initial attempt at something similar to palworld, it has all the catching mechanics, the skills the pets use, the crafting machines, and their last major update was to add a "seamless" open world. I think they eventually decided that they'd be better served to jump from unity to unreal and just make a whole new game instead of improving craftopia.
I just wish they were more honest about it. I think they're still afraid to call it what it was and so they are pretending to care about craftopias future.