Probably for two reasons:

1. They probably can’t actually navigate the venue floor well (You’ll notice they’re pretty much dragging the dogs in a direction).
2. Someone might steal them if they aren’t guarded.

That’s good to know, but unless you’re offering an invite code a private tracker isn’t too helpful.

What’s BHD?

Its even hard to find on the high seas

I think it’s silly to think that this has nothing to do with pokemon. Palworld basically came out of nowhere and made the pokemon game a lot of people have been asking for. I haven’t played a Pokémon game in years because they felt held back from modern game design.

I’ll admit it has similarities to Ark, but it’s a lot more PvE and approachable, not to mention the creature design and capture mechanics.

I don’t disagree that centralization of information gathering is a bigger concern of many fragmented data collectors. Sure the US is a large surveillance state, but it takes a lot of energy and coordination to integrate all these disparate systems. The risk of China is that by having state involvement in all businesses, that integration can happen at all stages of development. But generally I think fighting for data privacy is worth it regardless of company/country.

As for Chinese games, I generally avoid them because they’re gatcha games or heavily astroturfed. I still feel burned from “My Time at Portia”. It had so many positive reviews and was compared to stardew Valley, but the game was janky and felt like a poorly implemented single player mmo.