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Palworld devs put out a call for more staff as it struggles to keep up with the game's massive success


To the surprise of probably no one, Palworld developer Pocketpair is struggling to keep up with the game's success, so it's looking to bring on more staff.


We all know the deal by now: Palworld is a ridiculously popular game, so much so that across Steam and Xbox it's managed to hit 19 million players. That popularity has had some detrimental effects too, like the apparently very high server costs that Pocketpair now needs to pay so that everyone can keep playing. Now, it seems like the latest way Pocketpair is finding it difficult to keep up with demand is a serious case of being understaffed. Earlier this week, Pocketpair shared that it's currently hiring staff in all positions, as the studio needs the help in every aspect of development.


"At Palworld, we still have a lot to do, but we are overwhelmingly short of people to join us!" reads a tweet from the Japanese Palworld Twitter account (as translated by PC Gamer). "We are looking for people with experience in any type of engine, so if you are interested in creating a completely new type of game, please apply!" This was followed up with a tweet linking to its jobs page, which is also available in English, so if you're desperate to make Pals that players can give guns to, it seems like you might have a chance.

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The makers of Palworld are desperate to hire more developers: 'We are overwhelmingly short of people'




Palworld developer Pocketpair is pouring nearly a half-million dollars every month into keeping the game's servers up, which it can afford to do because Palworld is a massive hit. But it still needs help in the form of people, and rather like Gary Oldman in Leon, it's looking for all the help it can get...
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Palworld Valentine's Art Giveaway

Hello everyone,

We would like to introduce you to our ongoing campaign on Discord and X.

The prize is a STEAM GIFT CARD for $100 USD or equivalent products
*Automatically converted to your country's currency
Buy some Pocketpair games or give Palworld as a gift to someone you love, You can use it as you like.



[h3]・Discord[/h3]
Pocketpair Official Discord
https://discord.gg/pocketpair

Win by posting art!
Ends Feb 16th, 2:00 AM (UTC)


[h3]・X[/h3]
Palworld Official X
https://twitter.com/Palworld_EN/status/1755906324259623325

Win by reposting or by posting art!
Ends Feb 16th, 2:00 AM (UTC)


We look forward to seeing everyone's art!

Palworld's latest patch stops its capture chance boosting items making capture chances worse, and prevents your breeding Pals from being sent to a farm upstate forever




If you can cast your mind back to last week, you'll recall a Palworld bug that saw Lifmunk Effigies, which are supposed to increase your chances of successfully catching Pals, seemingly decreasing those odds instead. It was a minor scandal that saw players pull out their calculators to verify that—yep—their chances of catching Pals while using Lifmunk Effigies sure seemed to be some double-digit percentage lower than they were before...
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Palworld players stumble on cunning new strat to defeat bosses in one hit: a literal 'stairway to heaven'




Palworld players are working smarter, not harder by letting gravity do the work of killing bosses for them. Specifically, they're constructing enormous stairways into the sky, luring bosses up, then deleting them, leaving poor foes to plummet helplessly to a sticky end on the ground below. It's a bit like the bowl of petunias from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or a metaphor for the role of collateralized debt obligations in the 2008 financial crisis...
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