Det er meget, meget udfordrende at køre et succesfuldt live service-spil, det ved vi, og det er også derfor at det kun er meget få der overlever i en længere periode. Disse studier har måtte finde ud af på den hårde måde hvor svært det er at vedligeholde et mildest talt skyhøjt tempo på nyt indhold.
Netop dette aspekt bliver diskuteret af både studiet bag Palworld og studiet bag Helldivers II, og begge studier er enige om at forbrugernes forventninger simpelthen er for høje. I et interview med GamesRadar starter Palworlds Community Manager, John Buckley, med at sige dette:
"I play an unhealthy amount of games myself. I understand the need for more content quickly. But I think people really misunderstand how long it takes to make things. So they come into something like Palworld. They play it for a week, they love it, and then, they go, you know, what's going on with this? There are so many people saying we've dropped off, we're dead, or we've run away with the money, we're not working on it. We are, every minute of the day, working on this game, but it takes weeks and months to make stuff,"
Arrowhead-chef Johan Pilestedt er enig, og siger dette:
"But games are so meticulously crafted. You have to build the actor from the ground up for them to even be able to perform those lines. People say, can't they add this or do that. Most of the time, all of the decisions that you make, especially the larger the game gets, have so many consequences that cascade, making something that seems easy really hard, or something that seems really hard to be super simple. It's unintuitive unless you've worked in games to see how they're created."
Skal der ske en rekalibrering af hvor hurtigt disse spil får nyt indhold, eller brokker disse studier sig for meget?