{"id":85548,"date":"2026-07-08T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85548"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:36:51","slug":"it-has-become-a-success-beyond-our-wildest-dreams-palworld-dev-pocketpair-decides-against-raising-the-price-of-the-game-for-1-0-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85548","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It Has Become a Success Beyond Our Wildest Dreams&#8217; \u2014 Palworld Dev Pocketpair Decides Against Raising the Price of the Game for 1.0 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/palworld\">Palworld<\/a> developer Pocketpair has decided not to raise the price of the game for this week\u2019s 1.0 launch. Instead, it will remain priced $29.99.<\/p>\n<p>Palworld\u2019s Early Access Steam page still says \u201cThe price of the game may increase at or closer to the official release,\u201d as it has done so since early 2024. That led many to think Palworld would get more expensive when 1.0 launches on July 10.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pocketpair has announced it\u2019s sticking with $29.99 \u201cas a small way of saying thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"palworld-official-10-cinematic-trailer-ign-summer-of-gaming-2026\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>\u201cAfter much thought, we have decided not to raise the price of Palworld following the 1.0 release and will keep it at $29.99,\u201d Pocketpair said in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Palworld_EN\/status\/2074841089324745046\">a statement on social media<\/a>. \u201cWe are incredibly proud of how far Palworld has come. Thanks to the amazing support of our players, it has become a success beyond our wildest dreams. As a small way of saying thank you, we&#8217;ll be keeping the price at $29.99. Thank you for your continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccess\u201d is perhaps an understatement when it comes to Palworld. It\u2019s seen an incredible 40 million players since Early Access launch \u2014 a number that will no doubt increase when the 1.0 update comes out. When<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palworld developer Pocketpair has decided not to raise the price of the game for this week\u2019s 1.0 launch. Instead, it will remain priced $29.99. Palworld\u2019s Early Access Steam page still says \u201cThe price of the game may increase at or closer to the official release,\u201d as it has done so since early 2024. That led&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":85550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85552,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85548\/revisions\/85552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}