Palworld developers get official time off to play GTA VI

Why are Palworld developers getting time off for GTA VI?

GTA VI is an ambitious crime action game, and its approaching release is expected to push many people in the industry and beyond to take a day off. Employees at Pocketpair are being spared that. The studio treats the game as something worth seeing for themselves, so the time counts as sanctioned, not as a personal day.

The details are thin. The material available does not say how many days staff get, whether the leave covers everyone or only the Palworld team, or how the studio will handle it in practice. Those specifics are not confirmed here.

What is Palworld?

Palworld is a survival simulator from Pocketpair, a Japanese developer. It became one of the more talked-about survival games and put a fairly small studio in the spotlight.

The gesture is also a neat bit of industry humour. Game developers spend years making their own projects, and many of them are keen players of everyone else's. Giving the team official time to play the biggest release around is an easy way to say that playing is part of the job, at least for one week.

For players, the takeaway is small but pleasant: at least one studio is treating GTA VI day as a public holiday of sorts.