Official Palworld Developers Leave for Monster Hunter Wilds Release After Reports of Employees Feeling Unwell

[LIONT4MER]

This includes Palworld's developer Pocketpair, which posted to X this morning the following (machine-translated) statement: "For some reason, many employees have reported that they may be feeling unwell tomorrow, so tomorrow [they've] been given an extra day off." The full image also reads:

"Regarding February 28th, we have received a series of mysterious reports from many employees that they may feel unwell tomorrow, so the company has decided to institute a special holiday." Not everyone's got the day off, mind—there's a note that some departments are excluded, and "updates to 'PalWorld' and 'Craftopia' are progressing smoothly and are expected to be implemented as scheduled."

Palworld's developer gives staff day off after Monster Hunter Wilds causes 'a series of mysterious reports from many employees that they may feel unwell'

Coming down with a case of monst-itis.

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[Matt Shakyo Booty]

Why is this being treated like news? Half of Japan takes Monster Hunter day off. Like this is literally non-news

 

[Gypsydanger426]

At this point they might as well just file that day as an information gathering day on their competition to see what is good about the new game they might implement in their game right now or future.

 

[GremlinKing]

When I worked at a marketing company around the release of Persona 5 I covered for my boss so he could have the day off for the release. In return I got a long weekend to enjoy the game. This kind of stuff is more common than you'd think.