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Palworld faces the difficult choice of whether to become a live-service game or stay buy-to-play, PocketPair’s CEO says (automaton-media.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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