Can we stop saying "Palworld is a small indie studio that's understaffed"

[hippobaer]

Halo 1 launched with 40 developers.
If you log into the game the Credits option is listed on the start screen. There are over 150 main developers that work/worked on Palworld. To say it's a "Small indie studio that's understaffed" is just out-dated and spreading misinformation at this point. There's actually MULTIPLE studios that work/worked on Palworld.

Not only are there 82* ish main developers, I'm not counting another 100+ that fill other positions at the company. This being SFX devs, voice actors, the community managers, admins of various platforms, mods, translators, etc. The original 150 I guessed turns out to be wrong, based off of melonLord's analysis of the credits list done below.

Check them here yourself, or check in-game, or Google the following link:
https://www.pocketpair.jp/palworld/palworld-credit

Edit: melonLord has graciously done the due diligence of going through everyone on the list and coming to the conclusion that there's 82 people whom work/worked on Palworld.
While it could be more, or less, I'll take their word for it.

This is still a tad above a "small indie studio" and would probably place Pocketpair in the A or AA bracket.
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[Wushiba]

Originally posted by notmymains:

Can we stop saying "Palworld is a small indie studio that's understaffed"

No.

[hippobaer]

Originally posted by Wushiba:

Originally posted by notmymains:

Can we stop saying "Palworld is a small indie studio that's understaffed"

No.

Pocketpair, Inc.
Director & Game Performance Engineer
Co-Director & Lead Game Designer
Game Designer
Lead Character Artist
Character Artist
Character Concept Artist
Assistant Character Concept Artist
Concept Artist
Lead Motion Animator
Motion Animator
Technical Artist (Rigger)
Lead Environment Artist
Environment Artist
Technical Artist
Lead UI Artist
UI Artist
Cinematic Artist
VFX Artist
Logo Designer
Lead Game Programmer
Game Programmer
Lead Network Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Music
SFX
Voice Actor
Localization
Localization - Chinese
Progress Management
Business Development
Lead Global Marketing
Global Marketing
Quality Assurance
Lead Community Manager - Japanese
Lead Community Manager - English
Discord Moderator
Takuro Mizobe
Kotaro Suzuki
??? I accidentally deleted this persons first name, Suzuki
Shoma Toda
Kensaku Nakamoto
Bucky
Wataru Chiku
Junichi Kobe
Kenji Kawabata
Yusuke Moriyama
Keiichi Kakogi
Tetsuya Morikoshi
Yuito Ono
Ryan Flynn
Daiki Kizu
Nakayan
bazz
Mai Fujiwara
Masato Watanabe
Marie Iwase
Ryohei Adachi
Yoshihisa Mikata
Mai Fujiwara
Shoya Honma
Kazuya Fujinami
Nao Kozono
Kenji Tokumori
Satoru Izumi
Hisashi Kakizaki
Keita Kawamitsu
Ryohei Nakano
Yuki Watanabe
Kazuki Suzuki
Kenta Kitamura
Tsutomu Kakihara
Hausson Damien
Koki Kawasumi
Miki Fujimoto
Koji Sato
♥♥♥♥ Kurotsuchi
Hiromasa Fukuoka
Akira Yoshida
Yuta Ehara
Myeongsun Lee
Yoshihiro Tanuma
Yoshihiro Ito
Hirofumi Oishi
Yunika Sato
Yusuke Hata
Yohei Mizobe
Keisuke Yasuda
Szu-Yuan(Kiki) Ho
Takatsugu Fukushima
Yohei Mizobe
Hiroto Matsutani (START DASH SENSATION, Inc.)
Yuki Hori
Koki Hisa
Manabu Ishioka
Kanji Fujisawa
Hiroko Fujisawa
Daiki Ito
Zhao Yifan
Kodai Hirano
Genta Watanabe
Tomohiro Koyanagi
Yasunori Hanyu
Mio Kutani
mameo
Hiroto Chujo
Naofumi Nishikita
Tatsuya Yano
Kazuma Ishii
Toyota Tatsuyuki
Graham B
Heidi A
Kevin W
Marina Aicholtz
Olian
Safiya
Enrique Saúl González Di Totto
Hawkward
Bucky
Kenta Kitamura
ManHei Ng
Szu-Yuan(Kiki) Ho
Zhao Yifan
Long Miao (Ryu)
Mikio Iioka
Hawkward
Kohei Hayashi
Long Miao (Ryu)
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
Mana Adachi
Takafumi Suzuki
Teo Kamiyama
Ko Onoda
Bucky
andro_squall
ena1508
icoplum
iori
kanaeman
krissy komiya
mdschannel
rabbitxv
slice_nightcat
VnQ
Lead Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance
Ko Onoda
Kazuto Ino
Umeta Kyosuke
Alckina
Bell
kotatsu
Sla
Tuyogari
yui
Carpine Co. Ltd.
Game Programmer
Kureaki Takahashi
Tsutomu Takano
Saburou Matsuoka
Plus Signal Co., Ltd.
SFX
Hiroshi Kusuhara
Takayuki Sakadume
Ryo Minohara
Yudai Ishii
STUDIO SLEDGEHAMMER Inc.
Art Manager
Character Artist
Toshiaki Tanaka
Masayuki Endo
Kanae Kobayashi
Keywords international (Keywords Studios)
Art Manager
Account Manager
Sales Manager
Kyuji Kawase
Tomoko Katsuragawa
Kazuhiko Nakanishi
Lakshya Digital (Keywords Studios)
CEO
Studio Director
Production Head
Studio Project Director
Studio Art Director
Studio Director of Bengaluru
Studio Head of Pune
Director of Business Development
Director of Customer Relations
Associate Project Director
Sr. Project Manager
Associate Project Manager
Sr. Project Coordinator
Project Manager
Art Director
Associate Art Director
Sr. Art Lead
Character Lead
Rigging Art Lead
Art Management Final Reviewer
Art Reviewer
Sr. Character Artist
Character Artist
Sr. Rigging Artist
Rigging Artist
Sr. QC Artist
QC Artist
Deputy Manager of IT
Assistant Manager of IT
Translation Manager
Translator
Jr. Translator
Manvendra Shukul
Rob Olson
Anando Banerjee
Manish Bhandari
Anupam Thapliyal
Raju Patil
Mayank Rajpoot
Arjun Agnihotri
Mukund Vasishta
Ankit Singhal
Vikrant
Vivek Tiwari
Mayur Dhole
Alex You
Aluka Cao
Lokendra Shekhawat
Ukee Zhang
Jinyuan Hong
Minxuan Liu
Ruben Nevarez
Sandeep Saini
Nimish Rai
Sumit Kumar
Kevin Lai
Abhinav Malhotra
Santosh patil
Parveen Kumar
Malay Tripathi
Shuchi Kumari
Mansi Singh
Ramesh Lore
Jas Dhiman
Niraj Hooda
Ketan Talwar
Rajesh Koli
Anirban Debnath
Mohd. Asif
Akshya Mottan
Shishil Vishwakarma
Shruti Paria
Varun Gupta
Eeshan Vaidya
Daya Bhardwaj
Yogesh Barse
Yang Li
Yue Li
Man Yuan
Yufeng Zou
Chao Chang
Sachin Pokhriyal
Akash Deep
Bibaswan Sarkar
Ambuj Sharma
Pravin Goundgaonkar
Kamal Singh Bisht
Vijay Bhatia
Makarand Adke
Gaurav Gera
Sujanitha Shankar
Yuzuru Maeda
Priyanka Gupta
Active Gaming Media, Inc.
Localization
Active Gaming Media, Inc.
SHIFT Inc.
Test Manager
Test Leader
Test Meister
Shingo Suzuki
Kenta Murakami
Shoko Iiyoshi
Sho Yokoyama
Akito Yasuno
Kazuki Oyama
Naoki Nakayama
Kaichi Takano
Masakazu Mafune
Yuto Nakamura
Naru Takahashi

[hippobaer]

Originally posted by Tutu has #SavedTF2:

Respect.

Typical echo chamber corporative male excuses like "Palworld is a small indie studio that's understaffed" is the reason why the games are so low-quality, buggy and broken nowadays.

Keep defending bad products, guys. See how the games will continue degrading in quality.

I'm all for defending Palworld, with over 500 hours in the game I'm still enjoying it. I just don't enjoy people saying the game is ran by a handful of people when it clearly is not. If it is, then they should probably fire off the 200 or so people that are listed under their Credits and apparently not doing anything lmao

[rage]

Originally posted by notmymains:

Originally posted by Tutu has #SavedTF2:

Respect.

Typical echo chamber corporative male excuses like "Palworld is a small indie studio that's understaffed" is the reason why the games are so low-quality, buggy and broken nowadays.

Keep defending bad products, guys. See how the games will continue degrading in quality.

I'm all for defending Palworld, with over 500 hours in the game I'm still enjoying it. I just don't enjoy people saying the game is ran by a handful of people when it clearly is not. If it is, then they should probably fire off the 200 or so people that are listed under their Credits and apparently not doing anything lmao

Clueless zooner

[rick.vanopdorp]

They were upon the release of Palworld, so what is there was developed by a small indie company. The succes of the game allowed them to greatly expand, but all the new help needs time to be brought up to speed first. We can't expect to see any real effect of that in just a months time. We should hold judgement until say 6 months when all the new help has had time to settle in. Though that doesn't mean we can't be critical or say what we like and dislike about the game. Just that we should be a bit lenient and offer them a bit more time.

[kernoorlog]

coop harder
150 is smal compard to current day game studios
1000 is the norm for triple a and the creat ♥♥♥♥

[hippobaer]

Originally posted by rage:

Originally posted by notmymains:

I'm all for defending Palworld, with over 500 hours in the game I'm still enjoying it. I just don't enjoy people saying the game is ran by a handful of people when it clearly is not. If it is, then they should probably fire off the 200 or so people that are listed under their Credits and apparently not doing anything lmao

Clueless zooner

When you can't argue with me so you just insult
Average troll

[hippobaer]

Originally posted by kernoorlog:

coop harder
150 is smal compard to current day game studios
1000 is the norm for triple a and the creat ♥♥♥♥

Did you know there's such thing as A, double A and triple A?
Yet for some reason people just default to "either it's indie or triple A"
no, it can be somewhere in the middle

[RinneSean]

It doesn't matter what facts you give, people will defend this game until it eventually is mis-managed into the dirt.

Over a month after a super successful launch and we got what? A few patches and more broken things added to the list

[hippobaer]

Originally posted by rick.vanopdorp:

They were upon the release of Palworld, so what is there was developed by a small indie company. The succes of the game allowed them to greatly expand, but all the new help needs time to be brought up to speed first. We can't expect to see any real effect of that in just a months time. We should hold judgement until say 6 months when all the new help has had time to settle in. Though that doesn't mean we can't be critical or say what we like and dislike about the game. Just that we should be a bit lenient and offer them a bit more time.

I'm also the author of the post "10 reasons why people prefer palworld over pokemon" and yet people are somehow blind to that fact or the other comment where I said I have over 500 hours in palworld, and still just click the reply box, leave an insult and move on. I wonder how they manage IRL with goggles that thick.

[rage]

Originally posted by notmymains:

Originally posted by rage:

Clueless zooner

When you can't argue with me so you just insult
Average troll

Not every you listed works for and at PocketPair. So yes you are clueless how credits work. Look at Starfield 3/4th are overseas.

[rage]

Originally posted by Ashernobi:

It doesn't matter what facts you give, people will defend this game until it eventually is mis-managed into the dirt.

Over a month after a super successful launch and we got what? A few patches and more broken things added to the list

Entitled much? Even if they did release content you'll still feel like you are owed more.

[hippobaer]

Originally posted by rage:

Originally posted by notmymains:

When you can't argue with me so you just insult
Average troll

Not every you listed works for and at PocketPair. So yes you are clueless how credits work. Look at Starfield 3/4th are overseas.

Look at the comment above yours

[kernoorlog]

Originally posted by notmymains:

Originally posted by kernoorlog:

coop harder
150 is smal compard to current day game studios
1000 is the norm for triple a and the creat ♥♥♥♥

Did you know there's such thing as A, double A and triple A?
Yet for some reason people just default to "either it's indie or triple A"
no, it can be somewhere in the middle

thatch what happens when a tine new comer humiliates triple a gaming
it gets compared to triple a games and skips the a and aa games

why compare it to a or duble a when you can compare it to even higer standards

not that triple a games has had any high standards the last 10 years

you dont hit down you only hit up

[Wolfguarde]

Originally posted by notmymains:

(inf: 2)

Sure. Around the same time that people stop saying stuff like "game dead", "game made using AI", "studio getting sued by pokemon", and other such nonsense.

I mean, anyone throwing out inflammatory and slanderous troll bait without a shred of proof to give it credibility should be met in kind, no?

Originally posted by Ashernobi:

It doesn't matter what facts you give, people will defend this game until it eventually is mis-managed into the dirt

There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the majority of the game's defenders will turn on Pocketpair if - and only if - they actually abandon the game. Actions speak a lot louder than words do, and plenty of us are familiar with the likes of archeage, atlas, bless, dark & light, pixark and others like them. We know abandonware when we see it, and so far, this isn't being treated like abandonware. I don't think I've played another game in my life where I've seen 200-600mb of hotfixes a day, even during their launch week.

That said, the forums here are getting pretty stale, it's largely the same two or three posters/9-10 accounts spamming the same tired BS ad nauseum. Maybe we'll finally start to see the activity here die down properly in the coming weeks.