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“ConoHa for GAME” now offers “Pal World Exclusive Plan”

On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, GMO Internet Group, Inc. (Representative Director and Group Representative: Masatoshi Kumagai) will collaborate with Pocket Pair, Inc. (Representative Director and President: Takuro Mizobe) to create a monster breeding open world survival craft game “Palworld”. / Pal World” has started a business partnership. In conjunction with this business alliance, GMO Internet Group, Inc. will offer the “Pal World Exclusive Plan,” the only Japanese company officially certified by Pocket Pair, through its multi-server service for games “ConoHa for GAME” on April 24th ( We will start on Wednesday). This “Pal World Exclusive Plan” is a multiplayer server optimized for a comfortable game play experience, and is offered to Pal World users at a price of up to 47% off (*1) compared to the previous price. This is designed to allow more people to enjoy multiplayer.

(*1) Comparison with “ConoHa for GAME” hourly billing 8GB server

[Background of the business alliance]

“Palworld” is a monster breeding open world survival craft game set in a world where mysterious creatures “Pal” live and supports multiplayer for up to 32 players, and will start early access worldwide from January 19, 2024. It is a worldwide hit title that gained 25 million game users in just one month. In order to comfortably enjoy multiplayer in large-capacity open world games such as this one, it is necessary to have a high-performance and stable gaming environment. However, high-performance gaming PCs and rental servers are expensive, so there are issues such as high hurdles to introduction.
Through this business alliance, GMO Internet Group, Inc. will be able to provide “Palworld” with an environment that allows even those with little experience in server construction to easily construct a server, provide a comfortable multiplayer environment, and provide it at a low price. We aim to provide the best gaming experience to users in Japan.

[About “Pal World Exclusive Plan”]
(URL: https://www.conoha.jp/game/function/palworld/)

As a “Palworld exclusive plan” officially approved by Pocket Pair, there are four plans that can be selected depending on the number of users playing at the same time, based on the recommended server specifications to play “Palworld / Palworld” comfortably. are available.
The “Pal World Exclusive Plan” has a simple pricing structure, with only hourly billing (deferred payment) in which fees are charged based on the amount of time the server is used. On the other hand, since there is a monthly upper limit, if you wish to use it for a long period of one month or more, you can use it at the same low price as the one-month long-term discount pass (prepaid) provided by “ConoHa for GAME”. It will be provided.
In addition, we have a “Palworld manager” that allows you to easily configure server settings, backup and restore, and change settings for worlds and items from your browser without using any commands, so even those new to servers can use it with confidence. .

■Plan table

(*2) Usage price per server hour (decimal places are rounded down at the time of billing)
(*3)Maximum usage price per server month

■Operation screen image

[About “Palworld”]
(URL: https://www.pocketpair.jp/palworld)

“Palworld” is an open world survival craft game for raising monsters that supports multiplayer for up to 32 players and is set in a world where mysterious creatures called “Pals” live.
They meet Pals, capture them, raise them, fight them, make them work, and sell them. You can explore the vast world as you wish while cooperating with various pals.

[About “ConoHa byGMO”](URL: https://www.conoha.jp/)

“ConoHa byGMO” is a hosting service from the GMO Internet Group, which boasts the No. 1 hosting share in Japan (*4). “ConoHa VPS” which allows you to freely customize and build “ConoHa for Windows” for those using Windows OS, “ConoHa for GAME” for game users who can use game templates for free, etc. You can choose the most suitable service according to your purpose of use. It is a service that thoroughly pursues “simpleness” and “ease of use” with no initial cost, and is used by a wide range of people, from first-time server users to individual business owners and corporations.

(*4) Industry share is calculated based on ipinfo.io. ipinfo.io is a website operated by IDB LLC where you can check geographic information associated with your IP address.
(*5) As of the end of October 2023, according to our own research. We compared the average values ​​of the server processing speed of the lowest plan of each service, measured five times using the load testing tools “Apache Bench” and “h2load”, among the top 10 services that accounted for over 90% of the domestic market share in Japan. Domestic share is calculated based on Webhosting.info and DomainTools.

[About Pocket Pair Co., Ltd.]

Pocket Pair Co., Ltd. is a top-class indie game company in Japan that ranks number 1 in worldwide sales on Steam and is attracting attention from developers around the world. We are a global company with many members from major game companies and well-known developers, and we develop games centered on our own original titles, with overseas sales ratio of over 70%.

[About GMO Internet Group, Inc.]

Since GMO Internet Group, Inc. was founded as an Internet business in December 1995, we have focused our management resources on providing Internet opportunities and making the Internet more enriching and convenient, with the slogan “Internet for everyone.” We have been developing our business to achieve this goal.
Currently, we are developing Internet infrastructure business, Internet advertising/media business, Internet finance business, and crypto asset business. As of the end of December 2023, we have grown into a comprehensive Internet group with 18.19 million customers, 106 companies, mainly 10 listed companies, and 7,438 group partners. In addition, with the aim of “becoming the number one corporate group that creates the future with AI,” all group partners will utilize generative AI to achieve the following goals: 1. Saving time and costs, 2. Improving the quality of existing services, and 3. AI. We are moving forward with providing new services to industry.

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[Contact information regarding services]
● GMO Internet Group, Inc.
Domain Hosting Business Headquarters ConoHa Division Harada
E-mail: [email protected]

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