Palworld, the recent game that took the world overnight, lets you commit heinous crimes in the game, and apparently that’s ok? Read on to learn more.
Palworld Lets You Commit The Most Evil Felonies Known to Man
If you’re living under a rock, then allow me to brief you on the overnight success of a certain game that took the world by storm. Palworld has had one of the most successful Steam launches to date, racking up to 4 million copies in 3 days and up to 1.1 million concurrent players on Steam. Players quickly found out it wasn’t just Pokemon with guns. They found out you can be the most evil Pal Tamer known to man, and under that cute and fluffy exterior lies a deep dark evil that Palworld encourages you to do.
Crimes Against Humanity
On Palworld’s launch day, news broke out that players are able to catch humans using the in-game Pal-catching tool, Pal Spheres, and make them your "Pal." This feature, of course, raises a ton of questions. With humans effectively being turned into "Pals" could you make them do labor and all the other crazy things you can do in the game?
It turns out that yes, you absolutely can.
Caught humans start functioning like normal Pals and become available to do your bidding without any consequence. Be it making them work for you without any pay, letting them battle for you and sacrifice their life for you if need be, selling them to the market for gold, and last but definitely not least, butchering them for various items and/or gold.
With the emphasis on survival in the game, they didn’t hold back on using everything at their disposal for their own gain. Selling humans, letting them do your bidding,, and even just straight-up murdering them were not on my Palworld bingo card. I’m particularly surprised at how open they are to include anything related to human slavery.
No Labor Laws Out Here
Of course, we already expected animal cruelty to be on the list of evil crimes to commit in a game that’s infamously known as "Pokemon with guns". However, Palworld takes it a step further by exploiting Pals to do your work for you. Punching them or beating them with a stick and THEN using a Pal Sphere to use them for your personal gain is pretty wild to me, and it really puts the monster-taming genre into perspective.
The devs openly encourage you to poach wildlife, whether local or rare. You can sell for a profit, breed them, or exploit their powers so that you can benefit from them, all so you could "live a life of comfort." After all, it really is never a crime if you don’t get caught. It’s survival of the fittest out in the wild. Only those who are willing to do anything and everything can survive in this cute-yet-cruel world.
A Game is a Game
Of course, it's not to say that anyone playing this game condones such acts, but this, really, says how much the media, including video games, have pushed the envelope with these kinds of potentially controversial features. It’s not the first game to include such sensitive topics, nor will it be the last.
Aside from the evil acts you can commit, you can actually stop other traffickers in the game from pulling these stunts to make sure that Pals are free from captivity. No one’s stopping you from petting your Pal or rewarding them for a job well done. It allows you to do a lot of things, and it just so happens that it’s a fantasy game with an unsuspectingly cutesy art style that catches players off guard and shocks them with what morally-ambiguous things you can do in this game, crime or not.
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