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Palworld is spending £378K a month on servers to ensure the service "never goes down"


Pocketpair is spending around half a million dollars a month – that's around £378,000 – to keep its sleeper-hit Palworl…

Pocketpair is spending around half a million dollars a month – that's around £378,000 – to keep its sleeper-hit Palworld's servers online. Watch on YouTube Not that that kind of cost is prohibitive, apparently; Palworld network engineer Chujo Hiroto replied to their boss' message, revealing to the world that they'd been instructed to "never let the service go down no matter what". Less than two weeks after its early access release, Palworld has officially surpassed 19m players on Xbox Series X/S and PC, with Microsoft now touting it as the biggest third-party launch in Game Pass' history.

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