Palworld director Takuro Mizobe says that the game’s artists have been receiving abuse and death threats, and has called for it to stop.
The director of Pocketpair’s open-world survival-crafting game Palworld has defended the game’s artists, and has asked people to stop sending them abuse and death threats.
Palworld launched in early access on PC and Xbox Series X|S on Friday, January 19, and since then has sold over five million copies. According to SteamDB, earlier today (January 22) it managed to hit an all-time peak of over 1.5 million concurrent players on PC alone.
However, its success has also been mired in controversy. From its reveal, the game became unofficially known on the internet as ‘Pokémon with guns,’ since the creatures (Pals) in the world can be both shot and equipped with guns and weapons.
