Months before launch, Palworld’s community manager thought anything above 50,000 players ‘seemed unreachable’
Almost a month later PalworldFollowing its successful early access launch, Pocketpair community manager ‘Bucky’ has reflected on his expectations for the game ahead of launch, revealing that reaching more than 50,000 players seemed impossible in May last year.
In case you weren’t familiar with it, the survival crafting game has launched in early access on PC, Xbox Series|S and Xbox One (and further Xbox Game Pass) on January 19, and this was the case from January 31 reached a total of 19 million players on all platforms. The number of concurrent players was also huge: on Steam it previously reached a whopping 2,101,867 concurrent players. This exceeded Counterattack 2‘s record, and gave Palworld Steam second highest record for concurrent players (after PUBG‘s monumental peak of 3,257,248 concurrent players).
Needless to say, this wasn’t something Bucky expected months before launch. In a new message on Twitter/X he wrote: “In May 2023 I was convinced Palworld could break the 50,000 player barrier. However, anything above that seemed out of reach, and I certainly never expected it to reach into the millions.
“It’s taken years to get to this point, and Palworld really starts from here,” he continued. “Everyone is working hard to solve the problems and prepare new content and friends.”
Palworld has already received a number of updates to fix bugs and issues. One was rolled out last week which, among other things, fixed save data that was corrupted by capturing too many Pals in a guild (multiplayer group). However, much bigger changes are coming game’s early access roadmap was revealed last month, revealing plans to add PvP, raid bosses and more. However, it is not clear when these things will be implemented.
If you’re just getting started in Palworld and are looking for some tips on getting started, be sure to check out our guides to finding Palworld Sulfur, Pal fluids, Coal, Ore and more.