Summary
Palworldis presently suffering from server outages that are preventing players from accessing its multiplayer modes. The ongoing problems mark the second wave of connectivity issues with the game sincePalworldwas released in early accesson January 19.
Pocketpair’s latest title has already proven to be a huge hit, with the Japanese developer revealing that it surpassed 3 million sales within 40 hours of hitting the market. And whilePalworldthus promptly became one of the most popular Steam games of all time, that massive momentum came at the price of some server instability due to the enormous influx of players trying to access its multiplayer during the launch weekend.
As a result,Palworldmultiplayer is now not working for many playersfor the second time in the 72 hours since the game’s debut. Pocketpair has consequently taken to Twitter to post a server outage notice on January 21, stating that the huge volume of player traffic has caused problems with its implementation of Epic Online Services, whichPalworlduses for its backend. In an effort to provide more context, the Japanese studio revealed that its hit game exceeded 1.3 million concurrent players during its launch weekend.
Epic Game’s First Palworld Hotfix Wasn’t Enough
ThePalworlddeveloper had already held an emergency meeting with Epic Gameson January 20, which produced a hotfix that resolved some of the earlier connectivity issues with the game. However, it would appear that the move did not suffice to stabilize thePalworldbackend, as suggested by this latest wave of issues. Pocketpair has already repeatedly apologized for any inconveniences caused by these ongoing outages, saying that it’s working on resolving the problems in a swift manner. The developer promised to share an update on its efforts to do so via Discord and Twitter as soon as new information is available.
Epic Games, for its part, recently said that the initialPalworldconnectivity issues were caused by the game hitting a preconfigured connection limit, which happened around the time when Pocketpair’s title was boasting some 700,000 concurrent players across PC and Xbox consoles. Be that as it may, this newest wave of problems is a fairly strong indicator that the company never anticipated games using Epic Online Services would need to support such a massive volume of traffic.
That state of affairs also suggestsPalworldis by far the most successful game using Epic Online Services ever made. For clarity, all developers are free to implement the EOS framework into their titles, even if they don’t launch them on the Epic Games Store, which is exactly what Pocketpair did withPalworld.
Palworld
WHERE TO PLAY
In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate. Pals can be used to fight and breed, or they can be made to work on farms or factories. You can even sell them or eat them.Survival: In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices…even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes.Mounts & Exploration: Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world.Collect all kinds of exciting Pals to fight, farm, build, and work for you in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
