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Last week, Xbox provided an update on the mega-successful Palworld and how the team was helping out with the Game Pass phenomenon – and a new post from the developer’s CEO explains why this may be necessary.

Taking to Twitter, Pocketpair’s Takuro Mizobe joked about the server costs for Palworld, and how the team could “go bankrupt” by keeping the servers running.

The tweet roughly translates to “Wait, maybe we’ll go bankrupt due to server fees?”, and the quoted figure puts Palworld’s running costs at around $470,000 per month. Given the astronomical success of the title, Pocketpair is joking around here, but still, that’s a…

If you have somehow missed this story as it has been evolving, Japanese indie hit Palworld has been tearing up the leaderboards on both Steam and Xbox platforms. As we reported on Thursday, it has over 19 million players between the two stores, and while it’s available on Game Pass, the majority of the players are actually on Steam.

Now, Palworld is a multiplayer game. You can play it solo, but it’s intended to be played with up to 32 players in a single massive open world. This is one of many characteristics that the survival game inherited from Minecraft, ARK Survival Evolved, and similar “survival-craft” titles. Multiplayer games need game servers, and while you can host your own dedicated server for your friends, there are indeed quite a number of official servers as well.

So…

Between January and August of this year, nearly half (48%) of the complaints submitted to the National Consumer Helpline targeted e-commerce entities, a stark contrast from the mere 8% reported in 2019.

Surge in Consumer Grievances Against E-commerce Giants: Calls for Standardized Redressal System

Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh highlighted the substantial number of grievances directed at e-commerce players and expressed concern over their conduct towards consumers. He revealed that the sector, including major players like Flipkart and Amazon, contributed significantly to the total complaints received by the helpline.

Singh noted that the department engaged in multiple discussions with e-commerce companies, emphasizing the need for a standardized grievance redressal…

This clip was pulled from an episode that aired back in July, but Ripa clearly thought it a fitting tribute to the Queen of Pop.

In fact, that wasn’t the only post Ripa made in honor of Madonna’s latest trip around the sun. The day prior, the All My Children alum shared a slideshow that honored Art Moore (the executive in charge of production on Live) and the Material Girl.

For her caption, Ripa wrote: “Let’s give birthday wishes to two of my favorite people … Art Moore and @madonna! Thank you both for all the celebrations!”

This slideshow featured pics we had no idea existed, from a shot of Madonna holding baby Joaquin to another that saw Ripa grabbing Madonna’s hand while at her concert.