What happens when nineteen million players jump on your brand-new online game? It gets really, really expensive.
If you have somehow missed this story as it has been evolving, Japanese indie hit Palworld has been tearing up the leaderboards on both Steam and Xbox platforms. As we reported on Thursday, it has over 19 million players between the two stores, and while it’s available on Game Pass, the majority of the players are actually on Steam.
Now, Palworld is a multiplayer game. You can play it solo, but it’s intended to be played with up to 32 players in a single massive open world. This is one of many characteristics that the survival game inherited from Minecraft, ARK Survival Evolved, and similar “survival-craft” titles.
