Summary
Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe recently shared an image of aPalworldclone being developed by Tencent and gave his opinion on potential competitors in the survival genre. Despite a few controversies leading into the game’s launch,Palworldbecame one of the most successful games in 2024 with millions of players around the world.
Pocketpair’sPalworldhas received multiple updates each monthto fix bugs and introduce new features to the monster-taming survival game. On average,Palworldreceives three updates per month on PC and Xbox Series X|S, ensuring that known issues are remedied in a timely manner. Updates to the PC version are normally released first, followed by Xbox updates at a later date. As fans await more updates forPalworld, Pocketpair’s CEO began to notice competition arising from developers in China.
On Twitter, Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe shared an image of Tencent’s newPalworldclone, which shows various monsters taking care of a farm. This clone is calledAuroria, a new co-op sandbox title developed by Tencent’s Tianjin Wumai Technology Co., Ltd. According to Mizobe, various other game developers in China are already developing mobile clones of Pocketpair’s lucrative title. In some cases, the development budget for these games could be up to 10 billion yen, which is 10 times the budget needed to developPalworld. Mizobe also notes that “Genshin Impact-quality monster (or girl) breeding games” will be released within the next year, adding that “amazing times” are ahead. What’s more, one of the new titles releasing in the near future could bePocketpair and KLab’s new hybrid game.
Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe Shares Image of Palworld Clone from Tencent
Palworldplayers in Japan and around the world are chiming in on Mizobe’s tweet, praising Pocketpair’s successful title and commenting on Tencent’s new game. Some Twitter users note thatPalworldis promoting competitiveness in the survival gaming space, which will add more jobs to the gaming industry. There’s still skepticism fromPalworldfans, but others believe Tencent can easily develop a competitor due to its wealth and assets. A budget of 10 billion yen or more could expedite the game’s development at the Tencent studio, allowing it to avoidsome of the problemsPalworldfaced at launch.
Tencent’s new game is currently scheduled to release in Q2 2024 on Steam, potentially coinciding with the new island and PvP update forPalworld. However, updates forPalworldwill continue well into 2024, eventually leading to the game exiting early access in the near future.The most recent update forPalworldfixed a major bug that affected the game’s damage scaling.
Palworld
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In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate. Pals can be used to fight and breed, or they can be made to work on farms or factories. You can even sell them or eat them.Survival: In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices…even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes.Mounts & Exploration: Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world.Collect all kinds of exciting Pals to fight, farm, build, and work for you in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
