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The makers of Palworld are desperate to hire more developers: 'We are overwhelmingly short of people' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] ExpertisePredicament 7 points 10 months ago

Spent on what? Please do tell

[-] SheeEttin@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Probably AWS stuff. An application that hasn't been designed to scale well can get very expensive very quickly.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 points 10 months ago

Iirc the hosting cost so far is a few hundred thousand dollar. So far. But with the tanking of player base the price might get lower the coming month.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the devs did say server costs were killing them, IIRC. Probably some of the reason for the relatively minor updates since launch has been putting out the fire of ballooning cloud expenses.

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