"A new island in Palworld, that's half a year's work": Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads agree people can "misunderstand how long it takes to make things," and you can't just "add this or do that"

Palworld.

As part of our big roundup where game devs explain what people get wrong about games, lead devs from the Helldivers 2 and Palworld teams unknowingly, and somewhat unsurprisingly, came to a bit of a silent agreement: fans of big, living games often underestimate how hard it is to make new content.

Helldivers 2 and Palworld were both enormous hits that attracted tens of millions of players, and plenty of those players have stuck around for the long haul. Among them, there's an understandable, unquenchable thirst for new content, but unfortunately, this stuff takes a long time to make, no matter what you do.