Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what'

There's a lot of official servers that support 32 players as well

I think it's like rust where lots of people play official servers and I think more play community and modded servers. But there are a lot of people on those official servers. But I also think Rusts player based is more tech competent and it's a more mature game which lends itself to more people setting up their own servers.