Palworld Reaches Over 1.2 Million Players on Steam Alone
It’s no secret that Palworld is taking the world by storm, as the developers at Pocket Pair are celebrating over 4 million copies of the game sold in only a matter of days.
Palworld is the latest and greatest creature collection survival game, which is made apparent by the massive amount of concurrent players on just Steam alone. On January 19, 2024, Palworld released on both Xbox and PC, and within mere moments of the game's release, it had over 500,000 players in game.
The “Pokemon with Guns' ' seems to have taken everyone by surprise, as there were a lot of skeptics who even called the game a scam at one point due to the devs track record. Since then the game has reached over 1.2 million concurrent players on Steam, making it the second highest paid game in Steams’ history to ever reach numbers of this caliber.
Now, this massive success doesn’t come without a few bugs and failures, as Xbox users have been experiencing a lot of issues with the in-game multiplayer feature. More so, almost all of the multiplayer servers have gone down at some point, but is this shocking with the amount of stress on the servers?
Even still, Pocket Pair has addressed the issue, and apologizes to fans for the mayhem and downtime since release stating,
“Server Outage Notice: As the number of concurrent players across all platforms exceeded 1.3 million, the Epic Online Service is currently experiencing outages due to an unusually high load worldwide, single player is unaffected by this outage.”
It will be interesting to see where the game ends up over the next couple of weeks, but so far, the devs have seen major success.
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