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Pocketpair has announced that tomorrow, February 28, will be a special, non-working day at its offices.

According to the announcement, the company has been receiving a series of “mysterious” notices from its employees, who claim that they will “probably be feeling unwell tomorrow” and thus unable to clock in.

In response, Palworld’s developer has decided to make February 28 a holiday for the majority of its employees. Pocketpair also emphasizes that work on Palworld and Craftopia will not be affected by this and that update rollout will remain on schedule.

With Palworld’s major Feybreak update behind them and an ambitious roadmap planned for the rest of 2025, it’s safe to say Pocketpair’s holiday is well deserved. Although, in this case, it seems they’re more likely to go hunting than get some rest.

Interestingly, Pocketpair did something similar back in 2022, when it gave employees a day off to play FromSoftware’s Elden Ring.

Palworld developer Pocketpair gives employees special holiday that just so happens to coincide with Monster Hunter Wilds’ release - AUTOMATON WEST

Palworld developer Pocketpair has announced that tomorrow, February 28, will be a special, non-working day at its offices.

automaton-media.com

 

[HRK69]

And that's how you do it

Unless you've already taken off a few days

 

[Skifi28]

The dream, I had to spend paid leave and tell them I'm visiting my parents while I'll be in my cave for 6 days straight.

 

[Loomy]

Well yeah. Those game mechanics and monster designs aren't going to steal themselves.

 

[mèx]

Based.

 

[Embearded]

Well yeah. Those game mechanics and monster designs aren't going to steal themselves.

True, maybe gamefreak can give them a couple of hints.

 

[SJRB]

Very cool of them.

 

[NanaMiku]

IIRC another Japanese company also did this with MH Rise release

Monster Hunter Rise vacation requests prompt official holiday at Japanese tech company

Rise and shine and play Monster Hunter all day

www.gamesradar.com

 

[asdasdasdbb]

Well yeah. Those game mechanics and monster designs aren't going to steal themselves.

Not even joking, I was going to make a serious comment to that effect.

 

[Saber]

Thats actually a pretty cool move, not everyone is like that.

 

[Davevil]

 

[Hudo]

Pretty obvious marketing move, but good for the employees regardless, I guess.

 

[Sintoid]

Warner did the same time Monolith and no one care...

 

[Evolved1]

i had to use a week of vacation lol.

 

[Impotaku]

Nice that they get the day off will give them time to download the 50gig day1 stability patch.

 

[ReyBrujo]

They just need a day to assimilate the Pokémon live and decide what to steal from them. Probably the hats.

 

[Holammer]

Why not, considering the success of Palworld, the revenue per employee is through the roof.

 

[NanaMiku]

True, maybe gamefreak can give them a couple of hints.

I always laugh at this picture. Since the beginning, Pokemon was really small game. They lucked out it was a success. Even the Japanese names for the first gen Pokemon were lazy
Zapdos' name is Thunder
Articuno is Freezer
Moltes is Fire
Dratini is Miniryuu (literally mini dragon)
Sandshrew is Sand
Rapidash is Gallop
etc

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

They just need a day to assimilate the Pokémon live and decide what to steal from them. Probably the hats.

Those PS1 graphics aren't easy to replicate in contemporary systems.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Didn't know AI needed time off

Spoiler

What? You expected a j/k or /s?