Palworld dev to address Game Pass auto-save failure

With the latest Palworld patch dropped on PC and Xbox’s version coming soon, developer Pocketpair has already set sights on getting rid of auto-save failure reports from Game Pass users as well as continuing to address cheaters in the next patch.

On Twitter, Pocketpair noted that it hopes to have the auto-save failure issue some players face axed “in an upcoming update.” This came bundled with the Steam patch notes, which included adding full keyboard config support, fixing minor bugs, adding “backup of save data” in world selection, allowing for one button press for long-press operations, and more.

We are currently working on an issue where auto-save fails on the Xbox and Xbox Game Pass versions. We expect that this will be resolved in an upcoming update.

We are also continuing to address the issue of cheating on the official servers and the connection problems caused by…

— Palworld (@Palworld_EN) February 27, 2024

Palworld has proven to be an absolute success story for its developer, proving there to be a market for more monster captures outside of Nintendo’s near-dominance of the genre. While there are games similar to it outside of Pocketpair’s title, nothing has come even close to the size of it.

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