{"id":46640,"date":"2026-08-15T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46640"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:38:59","slug":"pocketpair-not-planning-to-spend-a-year-making-a-massive-update-for-palworld-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46640","title":{"rendered":"Pocketpair &#8216;not planning to spend a year making a massive update&#8217; for Palworld 1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-28d4e62a-981b-11f1-813d-b1d5d04c5a7b\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/palworld\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/palworld\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/palworld\/\">Palworld<\/a> went into full release in July after more than two years of early access, and it&#8217;s going pretty well: A massive surge in concurrent players on Steam is slowly settling back down to Earth, but more than a month after that 1.0 launch it&#8217;s still putting up numbers that haven&#8217;t been seen since the early days of that early access rollout.<\/p>\n<p>Work on the game continues and there&#8217;s more to come, but Pocketpair&#8217;s publishing and communications head John &#8220;Bucky&#8221; Buckley recently warned that players should maybe temper their expectations about what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p>Buckley apparently set the bar higher than intended yesterday when he celebrated Palworld&#8217;s &#8220;incredible&#8221; 1.0 launch by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2087887376169435358\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2087887376169435358\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">retweeting an image<\/a> of a &#8220;Palworld v1.1 brainstorming session,&#8221; adding, &#8220;time to get back to the grind!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-6 w-full overflow-hidden rounded-[10px] lg:my-8\" data-component-name=\"JwPlayer:Carousel\" data-jwp-carousel=\"\" data-jwp-carousel-payload=\"{&quot;ids&quot;:{&quot;playerID&quot;:&quot;xRndq6xb&quot;,&quot;searchPlaylistID&quot;:&quot;4Ea1NHIL&quot;,&quot;divID&quot;:&quot;botr_4Ea1NHIL_xRndq6xb_div&quot;,&quot;fallbackPlaylistID&quot;:&quot;egqep2zS&quot;,&quot;fallbackDivID&quot;:&quot;botr_egqep2zS_xRndq6xb_div&quot;,&quot;key&quot;:&quot;IMcDEqsezRep6Vlov8S+D5R7vfE9eQDsizft09U7euHVCtiE&quot;,&quot;tintLogo&quot;:false,&quot;useSearchPlaylist&quot;:false,&quot;enabled&quot;:true},&quot;signPostingEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;signPostingLinkEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;waitForAdLoad&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnDesktop&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnMobile&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnTablet&quot;:false}\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-nowrap items-center justify-between gap-3 bg-zinc-900 px-[14px] py-3\" data-jwp-carousel-header=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand\">PC Gamer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"elk-91986682-981b-11f1-b1bb-4560bd8d3739\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:945px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:127.72%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-945-80.png.webp 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-945-80.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-945-80.png.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-650-80.png.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-480-80.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-320-80.png.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M.png\" alt=\"Palworld 1.0 was incredible, and you guys are the best for making it a success! But anyway... time to get back to the brain! If you've any suggestions...let me know\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-945-80.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-945-80.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-945-80.png 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-650-80.png 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-480-80.png 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M-320-80.png 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M.png\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline expandable\"\/>\n<\/picture><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"expand-button icon-expand-image icon\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KBo9iD6b5WHZvUdwfvqR4M.png\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bucky (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"elk-28d4e756-981b-11f1-828d-0756b300b882\">He also invited suggestions, and received more than 2,000 responses, some of them\u2014like more storage slots\u2014manageable, and others, like cross-server PvP or being able to play as pals, less so. Eventually, he was forced to pump the brakes on the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-article-category=\"games\" data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"ecom-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-28d4e756-981b-11f1-828d-0756b300b882-1\">&#8220;Shot myself in the foot here, 1.7k comments later, but things like &#8216;add a new continent&#8217;, &#8216;add 20 more levels&#8217; and similarly massive undertakings are not really what we want to do with v1.1,&#8221; Buckley wrote in a more recent <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2088096824892760265\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2088096824892760265\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">message<\/a>. &#8220;Open to ideas but, we\u2019re not planning to spend a year making a massive update for 1.1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-2 pb-0 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold&#10;        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Naturally, that didn&#8217;t stop people from continuing to make unwieldy suggestions. Buckley made a trooper&#8217;s effort to answer a lot of them: In <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2088104649622761775\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2088104649622761775\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">response<\/a> to a request for a &#8220;variant system&#8221; for pals, he said it wouldn&#8217;t be difficult, &#8220;just exceptionally time consuming. A variant of 200+ pals would take a considerably long time to do. Realistically, a year or more unless we hyper focus it. Unless you don\u2019t do it by hand and automate it somehow but\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Replying to another user who asked why the process would be so time-consuming, Buckley <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2088268080820674744\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2088268080820674744\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;Because we would want to do it ourselves by hand rather than just automating it.&#8221; (Pocketpair has been quite outspoken in its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/palworld-studio-pocketpair-says-its-new-publishing-division-wont-handle-games-that-use-generative-ai-we-dont-believe-in-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/palworld-studio-pocketpair-says-its-new-publishing-division-wont-handle-games-that-use-generative-ai-we-dont-believe-in-it\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/palworld-studio-pocketpair-says-its-new-publishing-division-wont-handle-games-that-use-generative-ai-we-dont-believe-in-it\/\">opposition to the use of generative AI<\/a> in game development.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-BTakLCuNGu7NeomdFusEH9\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-BTakLCuNGu7NeomdFusEH9 slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eventually, though\u2014as it always does\u2014it came to this:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"elk-91986704-981b-11f1-b669-ef59a981aa79\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:945px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:137.46%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-945-80.png.webp 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-945-80.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-945-80.png.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-650-80.png.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-480-80.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-320-80.png.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM.png\" alt=\"An image of Mike from Monsters Inc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-945-80.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-945-80.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-945-80.png 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-650-80.png 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-480-80.png 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM-320-80.png 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM.png\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline expandable\"\/>\n<\/picture><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"expand-button icon-expand-image icon\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/HhBCPc7gzpt6vEdv9iruUM.png\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bucky (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"elk-28d4e7ce-981b-11f1-aeb7-1d403e88edb7\">Deeply relatable. There&#8217;s no word on when Palworld 1.1 will be out at this point, or what will be in it, but Buckley also recently suggested that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/palworld-fans-do-not-realize-the-sheer-number-of-collabs-weve-rejected-even-with-the-survival-games-fun-first-approach\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/palworld-fans-do-not-realize-the-sheer-number-of-collabs-weve-rejected-even-with-the-survival-games-fun-first-approach\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"games\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/palworld-fans-do-not-realize-the-sheer-number-of-collabs-weve-rejected-even-with-the-survival-games-fun-first-approach\/\">more collaborations are on the way<\/a>, so at least you&#8217;ve got that to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-collectionwidget-8c49aa0d211ad821763ee484bb9c503d\"\/><a id=\"elk-a11dbe36-981b-11f1-904d-77b300ef8514\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palworld went into full release in July after more than two years of early access, and it&#8217;s going pretty well: A massive surge in concurrent players on Steam is slowly settling back down to Earth, but more than a month after that 1.0 launch it&#8217;s still putting up numbers that haven&#8217;t been seen since the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/d6wJDVDpYZ8Sjdq9tfTh79-1920-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}