Honestly, other than the questionable Pokemon-esque models, Pocketpair seem like they have really solid heads on their shoulders
Thanks, the cloud?
I mean yeah, pretty much, that and good software / network engineers. But otherwise hosting a global game like Palworld and having the player base it does would’ve been absolutely impossible if they were self hosting servers or calling up individual hosting providers around the world to work with. Being able to manage your entire network as software and be able to deploy anywhere around the globe nearly instantly does have huge benefits, not the least of which is that anyone can do it, even a small Indy dev, and there’s little no upfront infrastructure costs, the costs only really scale with your users, so if your game flops you don’t pay much, and if it’s massive you should have the revenue to pay your bills.
Math seems fine if 2 million people payed $30 usd.
They need to make 17,000 sales every month perpetually to cover the costs, and then those sales will cause the server costs to rise as more people start playing.
It’s a one time income to cover perpetual costs. They will probably either need to start raising prices, reduce server costs, or maybe start a subscription service eventually, or start doing micro transactions.
12,000,000 sales so far on steam alone, so that covers the next 60 years or so
Pocketpair says it’s sold about 12 million copies of Palworld on Steam. At $30 each, that puts Palworld’s gross revenue at $360 million so far, and that’s ignoring its Xbox sales (it’s on Game Pass, too).
Looks like a little more than 2M.
I’ve been playing single player this whole time
Same. If I could like level my dudeand take collections with me then sure. Otherwise, pass
well this is probably PR as there is no such system nor it can be made that can have 100% uptime. not talking about the fact that network engineers rarely work with servers :)
Not 100% but 99.9%… IIRC Guild Wars 2 servers had like 1 actual outage in 11 years. They have pretty amazing structure.
a lot of things are possible if you are lucky enough ;)
This is a software development business, which is a positively bananas trade no matter what’s getting written. And the smaller the business, the more hats network guys wear. We work with everything from the server app down to the coffee machine fueling the devs. And 100% uptime isn’t the most crazy demand I’ve heard. I’m sure Chujo is busier than a one-armed paper hanger with jock itch.
At least he’s got money to throw at his hosting company. Scaling up would have been much slower in the old days.
I’m not versed in videogame network infrastructures, but wouldn’t be enough just having a load balancer and a couple of instances to ensure “100% uptime”? At least before all instances and the load balancer itself decide to join a suicidal pact, but more instances mean less chance of a critical event happening, no?
well this is probably PR as there is no such system nor it can be made that can have 100% uptime.
Five-nines is entirely possible with enough resources and competent outage-minded engineers.
Hell. Five nines is doable with eks, a single engineer and thinking through your changes before pushing them to prod. Ask me how I know…
Operations like this don’t have a single engineer. The more complex the project, the higher the risk of complications and outages. It’s not a matter of “oh, just think harder about your changes”.
Ask me how I know…
If you’ve got a rant, I’m all ears
Agree, but five nines are not 100% ;) Anyway - this discussion reminds me of Technical Report 85.7 - Jim Gray, which might be of the interest to some of you.
Distinguishing between 5 nines and 100% is just semantics in any discussion outside of contractual ones.
