Nitrado Acquires Multicraft: Revolutionizing Game Server Management
Karlsruhe, Germany, August 1, 2024 | Nitrado, a global leader in game server rentals, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Multicraft, a key player in game server management solutions. The acquisition marks an important milestone in the company's strategic development, enabling Nitrado to expand its offerings beyond consumer-focused server hosting and reach a broader B2B target audience. At the same time, the company will be able to implement comprehensive improvements and feature enhancements that will benefit not only its own hosting companies but all Multicraft customers.
Levering Expertise for Advanced Game Server Solutions
With over 13 years of expertise in panel functionality, Multicraft has proven itself as a reliable and innovative platform in the game server management industry. By integrating Multicraft's extensive knowledge base with its own development skills and resources, Nitrado plans to create advanced features, streamline server access, and significantly improve user interfaces and experiences.
“This will benefit not only the customers of our US subsidiaries, ApexHosting and MCProHosting, but also Nitrado's clients, including game studios and players, as well as our new customers, such as other game server hosts," says Nitrado’s CEO Raphael Stange. “In our strategy to grow, expand our target audiences, and strengthen our competitive edge, acquiring Multicraft is a decisive step."
The collaboration between Multicraft's founder Daniel Hofer, who will remain with the company, and Nitrado's team of developers will drive innovation, ensuring the development of new features that meet the evolving needs of both individual users and business clients.
Initial Impact and Future Developments
Nitrado's ongoing dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction remains at the heart of this acquisition. The benefits will be evident to users of Apex Hosting and MCProHosting, with subsequent enhancements rolling out to Nitrado customers.
Non-commercial Multicraft users can already enjoy a new free version with unlimited gameservers and players, along with the removal of in-game messages. Additionally, the Dynamic License is now available for free, limited to 25 gameservers across all installations, for companies with less than €10,000 in monthly revenue.
The acquisition of Multicraft positions Nitrado to benefit from the anticipated growth of live service games and multiplayer games in the coming years. Raphael Stange adds: “By diversifying our business model beyond our own market share in game server hosting, we open up a new line of business, underscoring our strong potential for growth and stability. That’s great news for our team, our clients, and the online gaming community as a whole.”
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About Nitrado
Nitrado, along with its US-based subsidiaries Apex Hosting and MCProHosting, specializes in renting private servers, enabling players to fully customize their gaming experience. As a market leader with over 4 million customers, Nitrado provides multiplayer server infrastructure for renowned games such as Ark: Survival Evolved, Minecraft, Farming Simulator, and DayZ. Partners benefit not only from Nitrado's robust server solutions but also from Nitrado SteelShield® protection against DDOS attacks and the ability to monitor multiplayer server performance via the Nitrado Enterprise Console®.
Nitrado’s engineers possess extensive expertise in multiplayer software implementation and have played a crucial role in developing new multiplayer games for its partners. Early consultation with Nitrado has helped many studios avoid common pitfalls in multiplayer game development, ensuring smoother and more successful launches.
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