Palworld dev begs fans not to argue about player counts as the survival game gets a boost from the Sakurajima update: “Palworld had 2mil, then it had 15k, now it has 140k”

Palworld is enjoying a substantial boost to its player numbers thanks to the launch of its first major update, but its community manager is asking players not to worry about defending it from criticism over an overall drop in players from its huge peak earlier this year.

After Palworld launched into early access in January, it surged to more than 2 million concurrents – enough to establish it as the second most-played game by concurrents in the platform’s history. Those numbers were pretty clearly unsustainable for an early access survival game, and Palworld quickly slipped to its new normal – a still-respectable daily peak of around 25-30,000 players.