Palworld server costs near $500K per month
Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what'. Monster-collecting survival game Palworld has amassed an astonishing 19 million players, and that extraordinary success isn't coming cheap for its indie developer: Palworld's projected February server costs are over 70 million yen, according to a post from Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe. That comes to over $475,000 USD.
"Wait, maybe we'll go bankrupt from server fees?" joked Mizobe (machine translated from Japanese).
I wouldn't worry too much. Pocketpair says it's sold about 12 million copies of Palworld on Steam. At $30 each, that puts Palworld's gross revenue at $360 million so far, and that's ignoring its Xbox sales (it's on Game Pass, too).
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