Comment on Palworld faces the difficult choice of whether to become a live-service game or stay buy-to-play, PocketPair’s CEO says

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Didn’t they make 10-100s millions of dollars on this? Pays a lot of salaries for a while.

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  • dodos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    According to their careers page, they have about 60 employees. And, knowing japanese game dev salaries, a lot of those devs (excluding senior devs) probably make around 30-50k a year depending on seniority unless it’s a unicorn company.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah…that changes the numbers. More like 10-20 years to do just about anything.

      Somehow the urgency just drains right out of this for me.

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    • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Iirc they started paying their devs waaaay more after the game sold a ton.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    no line must go up, only up, up now and up tomorrow and the days after too. fire all the devs too, paying them makes line go down.

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• Psychodelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Anyone know if The Finals counts as a “live service” game? It’s free to play and I think it’s fantastic - both the game and the fact it’s free.

  I just don’t play games enough to justify the huge asking prices anymore. The last games I paid for were COD MW2 and Cyberpunk and I doubt I’ll ever drop $70+ for a game again, especially when there’s games like splitgate and whatnot that are free (not that I ever tried the new one. lol)

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could always become a patientgamer !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, it’s a live service game. Most major free to play games are.

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