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Checked SteamDB, it says the online players are between 20k and 50k, and it's summer (meaning everyone is out and about).
How does one take these numbers and proclaim a game dead? It's like 30th in the overall Steam Chart for number of online players.
Line must go up. If line doesn't go up, it's dead. It can't go down, and it can't level off, either.
It's an unhealthy approach to anything. Things will level off eventually. Palworld's initial hype was never going to last, but if it settled into a nice plateau that let the devs pay their bills, that's fine. The giants of the industry consider such a thing to be failure, but fuck them. Players shouldn't buy into that mindset.