Recently, "Phantom Parlu" has become popular around the world and has become the masterpiece to open the year of 2024. The game was launched on Steam on January 19, and sold 5 million copies in just three days after its release. The concurrent peak number of Steam online users exceeded 1.5 million.
While the game "Phantom Parlu" became popular, developer Pocketpair also encountered troubles. CEO Takuro Mizobe posted that they have received many slanders and attacks on the development team, and even death threats.
Mizobe said that they have received a lot of opinions and feedback, but the responsibility for the content of the game lies with him. "Currently, we have received defamatory comments against our painters, as well as tweets that are suspected of death threats. Please stop defaming the painter of "Phantom Beast Palu". Thank you very much."
Pocketpair community managers also claimed that they received a large number of emails and private messages, including death threats, threats to the company and a large number of outrageous claims... "Please be human, we will reply as soon as possible."
"Phantom Parlu" is a new open-world survival and production game that supports multiplayer game mode. The core gameplay includes monster cultivation, combat, field exploration, construction, production, etc. Many people believe that this game plagiarizes the Pokémon creature design, and the historical relationship between the developers and generative AI has also caused players to question it.