Pocketpair
Palworld’s international popularity brings not only grateful fans but also tons of unpleasant players, unfortunately. There are many ways to deal with them, but Pocketpair chooses the easiest.
“Just kick ’em,” Palworld’s community manager John ‘Bucky’ Buckley said at the Game Developers Conference 2025 (via GamesRadar). “You just call ’em losers and you kick ’em. And then they post on Twitter saying, ‘Bucky called me a loser,’ and I’m like, ‘yeah, you’re a loser, dude.'”
Apparently, Pocketpair has a couple of moderators per region and “an army” of English-speaking ones, all trained to find toxic players and kick them.
“Really, they’re just very no-nonsense. We’ve told them to be as strict as you want,” Bucky added. “Palworld is a game that’s kind of ripe for toxicity. It’s a survival game and has multiplayer. It’s ticking all the boxes for worst people. Mix that with the furry community, and these things do not go together. The Palworld Discord is 24/7 mayhem. So very early on, we said, look, if people are out of line, just kick them. I mean, who cares at this point? What are they doing to do?”
Well, I can imagine what, remembering the guy who sent 39 death threats to Nintendo employees. People can get pretty creative, like the Destiny 2 player who harassed Bungie workers and even sent a pizza to their house to show he knew where they lived.
Hopefully, Palworld, which attracted millions of people – how, Bucky has no idea – won’t lead to that.
Especially since the studio is still fighting against Nintendo over Pokémon patents.
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