The makers of Palworld are desperate to hire more developers: 'We are overwhelmingly short of people'

[John Elden Ring]

Palworld developer Pocketpair is pouring nearly a half-million dollars every month into keeping the game's servers up, which it can afford to do because Palworld is a massive hit. But it still needs help in the form of people, and rather like Gary Oldman in Leon, it's looking for all the help it can get.

"At Palworld, we still have a lot to do, but we are overwhelmingly short of people to join us!" the studio tweeted on its Japanese account (translated by DeepL). "We are looking for people for all positions, but we are especially looking for planning and engineers!

"We are looking for people with experience in any type of engine, so if you are interested in creating a completely new type of game, please apply!"

The Twitter auto-translation is a little more Palworld-esque: "We are severely lacking in friends!"



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[Bryank75]

With so many layoffs and remote work becoming very normal, youd think they would have great choice....

But maybe Japan is just different to everywhere else.

 

[Zzero]

The Twitter auto-translation is a little more Palworld-esque: "We are severely lacking in friends."

I know that feel, bro.

 

[Exicide]

With so many layoffs and remote work becoming very normal, youd think they would have great choice....

But maybe Japan is just different to everywhere else.

Honestly, I hope PocketPair gets the help they need, they got a major hit with Palworld, and I do not think they anticipated the explosion of popularity they got from it's launch and success.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

With so many layoffs and remote work becoming very normal, youd think they would have great choice....
But maybe Japan is just different to everywhere else.

Capcom/Nintendo/SE and other major publishers have repeatedly said in the last 2~ years that they're experience difficulty in staffing up for continued growth because there's not enough potential employees coming into the workforce to fill in for all the positions they want.

Real battle between the pubs to entice talent to come to work for them.

 

[Bryank75]

Capcom/Nintendo/SE and other major publishers have repeatedly said in the last 2~ years that they're experience difficulty in staffing up for continued growth because there's not enough potential employees coming into the workforce to fill in for all the positions they want.

Real battle between the pubs to entice talent to come to work for them.

So that will likely push costs up even more, I guess.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

So that will likely push costs up even more, I guess.

Costs are going to go up indeed, at least in terms of local currency.
Take a glance and the current value of the Yen compared to USD right now, it is absurdly low.

A lot of Japanese publisher/studios actually raised the salaries(Nintendo, Monolith Soft, Capcom, SEGA, etc...) to combat inflation.
This is significant because historically Japan has always had very low inflation due, but even them were affected by 2022/2023.

Edit: 10% for Nintendo and for the others between 20-30%.