“Phantom Parlu” reached 6 million units in 4 days. Players switched to the Steam version due to Microsoft Game Pass version issues | 4Gamers

2024-01-23 07:13:09

The new work of collecting and stitching fantasy beasts, “Palworld” (Palworld), has set new records almost every day since its launch. The game has reached sales of 6 million units across all platforms in 4 days since its release. However, for players of the Microsoft Store/Game Pass version, The connection status of the game server seems to be unstable.

According to the discussion on the official Discord channel of “Eidolon Parlu”, many Microsoft Store/Game Pass players raised doubts regarding the social server being unable to connect, and the official administrator Bucky said the day before yesterday that the Steam version’s connection update file will be available in 2 days. It had been installed before (19th), but Microsoft’s Microsoft Store update file was in the card review stage, showing the inconvenience felt by players at that time.

Although they are both on PC platforms, the Steam version of “Eidolon Parlu” obviously seems to be different from the MS version. According to overseas players, the MS version and PC Game Pass have a cross-platform archive function, so the versions on the two Microsoft platforms can be connected. The lines are correct, but they are essentially different game versions and connection structures from Steam.

In fact, since Microsoft launched PC Game Pass, its promotional market orientation has been seriously confused with Xbox Game Pass, because it itself is packaged in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate One of the services, and the game version is basically synchronized with the Xbox console and MS version.

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Recently, the official Discord announcement area has frequently provided explanations to Microsoft Store/Game Pass players, and also clarified the multiplayer connection problem of the Xbox console. Players need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to conduct multiplayer connection in “Phantom Parlu” game, otherwise buy the MS version of “Phantom Parlu” and subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Core.

Therefore, players who only have Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass PC will not be able to play the multiplayer of “Phantom Pallu”.

According to foreign media PC Gamer According to reports, it is said that some players have given up on the Game Pass version and directly purchased the Steam version of “Phantom Parlu” to join the game. This is understandable because playing on the Steam version does not have the above-mentioned Game Pass subscription version difference problem. .

According to Pocketpair’s announcement, “Phantom Parlu” has sold more than 6 million units within 4 days of its release. During this period, the maximum number of players online at the same time exceeded 1.7 million. Considering that the peak number of players in the SteamDB record is 1,582,482, it seems to indicate that the vast majority of players choose Steam. Version.

The new open-world fantasy beast collection “Phantom Beast Parlu”, which stitches together various masterpieces, has been launched on Steam for early access on January 19, 2024, and is also available on Xbox Game Pass.


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