Microsoft will help Pocketpair in enabling dedicated servers--a feature found in the Steam edition but not on Game Pass currently--as well as through offering “engineering resources” to help Pocketpair conduct optimization for GPU and memory. Additionally, Microsoft said it will work with Pocketpair to increase the speed of update releases to the game, and in general working alongside the studio to “optimize” Palworld for Game Pass.
Whether or not it's uncommon for Microsoft to step in this way to help a developer so closely is not immediately clear. We do know that, after Baldur's Gate 3 started to put up big numbers, Microsoft stepped in and assisted Larian with getting Baldur's Gate 3 ready for Xbox. In both cases, Microsoft lending a hand in a more direct manner makes sense given the respective popularity of each game. A game that performs better and is generally the best version possible would in theory help it sell and perform the best, which benefits both the developer and M
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