As the sales of “Palworld” skyrocketed, for developer Pocketpair, another cost invisible to players also skyrocketed, that is, server maintenance fees. According to the latest recommendation from President Takuro Mizobe According to the article, their server maintenance costs skyrocketed to 70 million yen.
Compared with the previous month, the server cost of “Eidolon Parlu” in early February is currently estimated to be 70.53 million, a sharp increase of nearly 360%, which made President Mizube laugh and answer, “Should I pay the server fee?” Just pay until you go bankrupt, right?”
In fact, “Fantasy Beast Palu” has sold more than 12 million units on Steam. Taking the Japanese selling price of 3,400 yen as the median price and deducting the platform’s 30% commission, “Fantasy Beast Palu” should also receive 28.5 billion Compared with the Japanese yen revenue, the server cost is only a temporary peak. With the recent online peak slowing down, this cost pressure is believed to be getting smaller and smaller.
Wait, maybe they’ll go bankrupt due to server fees? pic.twitter.com/ahxYHM3zWl
— Takuro Mizobe | Craftopia, Palworld (@urokuta_ja) February 2, 2024
So far, “Eidolon Parlu” has been on the market for two weeks on Steam and still maintains the activity of more than one million players online at the same time every day. This is of course also a great pressure for Pocketpair company’s network engineer Chujo Hiroto, and he is also at X The platform stated that it “received an order that cannot degrade service quality under any circumstances.”
Of course, players are still looking forward to the update of the content of “Craftopia”, but according to the update speed of Pocketpair’s previous game “Craftopia”, whether “Craftopia” can grasp the popularity in a short time The launch of the update is still unknown.
I have been ordered not to degrade the service no matter what I do.
We have prepared a server without considering profitability.
We will continue to do our best to ensure that all players have as much fun as possible!— Chujo Hiroto (@chujohiroto) February 2, 2024
