Controversy over Palworld player limit on Xbox and Game Pass and its big difference with Steam

Yesterday, the long-awaited game finally arrived on PC, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One (as well as Game Pass) with Palmyrea video game that combines the collection and evolution of pets from Pokemon with survival game mechanics such as the ark, DayZ or rust.

He the first day of the video game was a success with over a million sales on Steam in the first 8 hours of launch (which has even more value considering it’s on Game Pass) and hundreds of thousands of players enjoying Pocketpair at the same time.

However there is something I didn’t really like To Xbox or Game Pass players forks Limit of maximum 4 players per server in versions Xbox Series, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass and Microsoft Store for PCand on Steam this player limit increases to 32.

It didn’t take long for the controversy to cause a stir on social media, with a representative from Pocketpair coming to the fore on the game’s official Discord to note that “We would like to have dedicated servers on Xbox, but unfortunately this is not up to us.” and now it’s quite difficult to negotiate, but… we’re trying!”

It is necessary to clarify that The official Palworld servers on Steam are also limited to 4 players. but in the case of the Valve platform version, Players can create dedicated servers to increase this limit to 32.which is not possible on the Microsoft-run versions of the Xbox Series X/S or PC.

At the moment the mode is PVE and there is no cross-play between Xbox and Steam.

Palworld can be enjoyed both alone and together thanks to the PVE mode Butlater Pocketpair already announced a PVP mode for which it seems almost mandatory to have more players.

Moreover, at the moment Those using the Xbox versions can play with each other. whether they do it with Xbox Series or PC, but for now no crossplay with Steamsomething that Pocketpair will probably fix over time, since we have to remember that this is an early access game.