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Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

But then they'd be paying $2M a month! /s

Tbh they probably already are, $500k/month is a lot of money. They would be able to get those costs down by hiring a few it engineers and renting a few racks at a CoLo. Geographic distribution is hard for a company of their size, though, and maybe it's not worth making that investment if the game's popularity isn't going to last.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the up front cost of the type of infrastructure necessary to handle the player volume they have is not only expensive, but requires a ton of expertise to be done correctly, AND requires lots individual geographically discrete locations to keep latency down.

The fear for them would be investing in all that infrastructure just for the game to fall off in popularity after a few years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I wonder if they are hiring.