Palworld has been in Early Access for less than a month and has sold incredibly well. In fact, it is so popular that the team at Pocket Pair is now looking for reinforcements.
How successful is Palworld? Palworld was released on January 19, 2024, and broke several records in a very short time. Here are a few examples:
- January 20: “We had an emergency meeting” – Palworld hits over 700,000 concurrent players, overwhelming the servers
- January 21: Palworld breaks 1 million players on Steam – These 3 records have already been broken by the survival game – at the time of this news, the all-time peak according to Steamcharts.com is 2,101,535 players.
- Currently, Palworld is ranked 4th in the official Steam charts for top sellers and 2nd for most played games with currently 687,571 players.
It looked early on that Palworld could be the number 1 Twitch hit of 2024. However, it seems that even the developers didn’t expect such great success right away.
What positions is Pocket Pair hiring for? On X.com, formerly Twitter, they have now posted a call for new employees. They write the following:
At Palworld, we still have a lot to do, but we are short on staff! We are hiring for all positions, but we are particularly looking for planners and technicians! We are looking for people with experience in any engine. So if you are interested in developing a completely new game, please apply!
(Translated with Deepl.com)
Underneath, they posted a GIF of the incredibly unmotivated stone-mining Pal, Depresso. Here you can see the original post:
How quickly is Pocket Pair with patches? The developer has been regularly releasing new updates since the launch of Early Access. The first bug fixes were already made on January 25.
When users on Reddit reported that cheaters and hackers were stealing their Pals and involving them in one-sided PvP, Pocket Pair released an emergency patch. Just a few days ago, the developer also announced the follow-up update 0.1.4.1.
Given the workload that such a successful game brings, it’s no wonder that the team is now looking for reinforcements. It also shows that Pocket Pair wants to continue developing and supporting the game – many Early Access games never make it or take a long time to reach the final release version.
In fact, the head of the games, Takuro Mizobe, spoke about the server costs for Palworld being so high that they might go bankrupt because of those alone: Palworld: The head reveals how much they pay monthly so you can play: “Maybe we will go bankrupt because of the servers?”
