{"id":85567,"date":"2026-07-08T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85567"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:37:29","slug":"paralives-success-shows-being-generous-to-players-isnt-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85567","title":{"rendered":"Paralives\u2019 Success Shows Being Generous To Players Isn\u2019t Unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/paralives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paralives<\/a> released in early access, and so far, things are looking good for the life-sim. The game has proven to be popular since its May launch; the cozy vibes have been praised, and the promise of free post-launch\u00a0DLC and updates for the lifespan of Paralives continues to be a big selling point. In an industry focused on extracting the maximum amount of cash possible out of every player, it has become the norm&#8211;just look at how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/heres-how-much-youll-pay-for-gta-6-and-whats-included-in-the-ultimate-edition\/\">GTA 6 is locking in-game shops<\/a> away from players who purchase the standard edition&#8211;Paralives&#8217; commitment to investing in its players feels refreshing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That plan is something that we had announced before the game was released, and our sales in the first week&#8211;the first day&#8211;confirmed that that was going to be viable,&#8221; Paralive&#8217;s communication manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/?post_type=articles&amp;p=1813467\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/?post_type=articles&amp;p=1813467\">Gab Boyer-Antoni said to GameSpot<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re a very small team of 15. We don&#8217;t plan on increasing that much, just a few senior positions, and we don&#8217;t have any investors. We don&#8217;t have to pay back anybody. The development so far has been fully paid for by our Patreons. And we&#8217;re good. We can last years like this and make sure that we offer free updates and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Paralives released in early access, and so far, things are looking good for the life-sim. The game has proven to be popular since its May launch; the cozy vibes have been praised, and the promise of free post-launch\u00a0DLC and updates for the lifespan of Paralives continues to be a big selling point&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":85569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85567","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\/85567"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85570,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85567\/revisions\/85570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}