As an engineer yeah, but honestly it’s usually pick one to prioritize, one to strive for, and one to ignore.

We can get it out fast, and it can be not bad but pretty expensive or it can be pretty cheap but not good. If we get it good we can try to do it cheaply and take our time, or we can try to do it quickly and it’ll be expensive.

In this context “fast” refers to speed of the system, not time to implement.

Those are all the same attributes, just the planned out version of it where the balance of speed, reliability and cost are decided upon ahead of time.

Valve reduces their cut to 20% after the first $50M in sales

I didn't even think to figure that in, was just doing some rough math figuring the numbers in are sure to change over the next week (methinks an upward trend for another couple weeks at least).

What even was Pokemon? This game stomps that entire franchise imo (been playing since red&blue).

This is 100% not about DRM. Cracked clients work just fine, even on official multiplayer servers.

Pirates play on Palworld servers no problem. No problem at all.

Running a passworded Palworld server on Linux. Have about 7-10 active players on it and the server instance balloons up to ~33GB of RAM usage in less than 12 hours of uptime.

Supposedly disabling some features (like base raids) reduces resource utilization, but was curious what stock settings would do.

When it was restricted to 10GB on a container it would just crash every couple of hours, running out of resources.

It is, RAM usage is absolutely wild on it and it needs constant reboots.

Also, the player base will be a fraction of what it is today in a month. They're dealing with unprecedented demand that's gonna fall off into something more reasonable by throwing money at it.

It's the right thing for them to do. It would have been stupid to plan for this much demand. You'd delay the game by another year just building out a cloud native architecture. Letting the servers buckle would have killed momentum.

They can go the Minecraft route and allow players to self host servers, plus a subscription option for online servers.

presumably they plan to get the game out of early access

I've heard that the company has a history of…not doing that. They apparently have a few games out that went early access and left in an unfinished state.