"Palworld's Monthly Server Costs Spark Price War Between Tencent and Alibaba"
TL;DR
Palworld, an indie game in early access, has sold 19 million copies across Steam and Xbox, with its CEO revealing that the monthly server costs are estimated at almost $500k USD, due to the massive number of concurrent players and the company's commitment to never letting the service go down. Despite the high costs, Pocketpair plans to increase the game's multiplayer capabilities in the future.
- Palworld monthly server costs estimated at almost $500k Dexerto
- Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' PC Gamer
- Palworld dev CEO jokes server fees could bankrupt the studio after it spends $478000 to "never let the service go down no matter what" Gamesradar
- Viral 'Pokemon with guns' game Palworld sparks cloud service race between Alibaba, Tencent in China Yahoo Finance
- Tencent and Alibaba Engage in Price War for Palworld Pandaily
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