Gamescom 2026
Our stand at Gamescom 2026
Four of the team, two brands on one wall: PingCore for studios, PingPlayers for players.
The PingPlayers community. Players helping players, day and night.
A Discord channel for your game, guides written by the engineers on live chat, and real people answering around the clock.
Free to join · No server needed · 24/7 human support
- A channel for every game
- 90+ games hosted
- Guides from the support team
- 24/7 live chat with people
A channel for your game, free before you rent.
Ask a setup question, share a mod, or find the people already playing what you play. Nobody in there will push you to buy anything.
- Setup help in #server-setup-help, before you own a server
- A discussion channel for the game you actually play
- Mod collections and tools, shared in #mod-share
- Streams announced in the server before they go live
- Community events, and a place to promote your own server
Free to join · No server needed · 90+ games hosted
90+games with a channel or a home
$0to join, no server needed
24/7live chat runs beside it
Join the Discord and get 3 extra days on your server.
Claim it whenever you like, not just at signup. Open a ticket in #discord-promo with your Order ID and support adds the days.
1. Join the Discord
Free, open to everyone, and you do not need a server to be in there.
Open the invite2. Open #discord-promo
Open a ticket there and paste the Order ID from your confirmation email.
3. Three days land on your server
Someone from support checks the order and puts the days on your server.
One redemption per order · Works alongside the 24-hour money-back guarantee
The team behind live chat was at Gamescom and GDC.
PingPlayers shares a stand with PingCore, the infrastructure brand behind it, and the people on that stand are the ones answering your tickets.
Gamescom 2026
The Valheim hall, and the queue for it
One of the 90+ games we host, with a troll roughly the size of the stand.
Gamescom 2026
Held at swordpoint on the show floor
Hand-made armour, a prop sword, and a team member who did not see it coming.
Gamescom 2026
We stopped by the CurseForge stand
One of the mod sources wired straight into the Mods tab of your control panel.
Gamescom 2026
Out on the floor, not just the stand
Other people's games, played by the people who host yours.
GDC 2026
Doors not open yet, stand already lit
The GDC stand going up: ladder still up, crates still taped, screens already on.
GDC 2026
The real control panel, shown to whoever asks
No slide deck. The panel you get after checkout, on the screen, driven by the team.
Conventions
John Romero, in front of the Doom art
Yes, we asked about the shotgun. He was generous about it.
Next year
See you next year in Cologne
Gamescom runs every August in Cologne, and the stand goes up the day before the doors open.
Watch a server get built
Setup walkthroughs, game guides and Ping AI running a live server, on the PingPlayers YouTube channel.
Every way to get help, all of them free.
Live chat, Discord, the Knowledge Base and the channels we stream on. Pick whichever suits the question.
Live chat
Open 24/7Real support engineers, never a bot. Write in any language and every message is translated both ways.
Meet the teamDiscord
A channel per game, setup help, mod sharing and the community events we run in there.
Join the serverKnowledge Base
Setup, mods, backups and troubleshooting, written by the engineers who answer live chat.
Browse the guidesYouTube
Server setup walkthroughs and game guides, filmed on the panel you get.
Watch on YouTubeTwitch
We play on the same servers we sell. Streams get announced in the Discord first.
Watch on TwitchBilling, account changes and anything that needs a paper trail.
Send a messageSix engineers share the rota, and answer you by name.
The names that keep showing up in the reviews are the people on live chat, and each of them runs game servers too.
Nicole
Support engineer
Named in more five-star reviews than anyone else on the team.
Francis
Support engineer
Knows the games, not just the panel. Palworld hosts ask for him by name.
German
Support engineer
Takes the deep infrastructure tickets, the ones with no obvious cause.
KI
Kimmy
Support engineer
Found the auto-update setting that had a host convinced their server was broken.
LA
Lautaro
Support engineer
Got a PS5 host into Valheim and walked another through a full data transfer.
EM
Emman
Support engineer
Walked an Xbox host through a full Palworld setup, start to finish.
Guides written from the questions live chat gets most.
Every article starts as a real ticket or a Discord thread. Free to read, no account and no server needed.
Ping AI
Manage a dedicated game server by asking Ping AI
Ping AI sits in the control panel. Ask for a setting or a mod in plain words.
Game Switching
Switch your cluster to another game without losing the save
The save files for the game you leave stay where they are.
Share Pay
Split the cost of a server with SharePay
The panel makes a link. Your squad pays a share without an account.
Mods
Build a Steam Workshop mod collection for your server
One collection, one paste, every mod on the server at once.
Access
Let your friends manage the server with you
Sharing the controls, not the bill, for when you are not the one online.
Control Panel
Schedule restarts and edit configs from the panel
Task Manager restarts, shuts down or starts the server on a schedule, Config Manager edits the files.
Reviews about the people who answer the chat.
4.9 Excellent on Trustpilot from 900+ reviews. Six of them from players who arrived with a question before they had a server.
Nicole was very helpful and as a first time server host she help guide me into finding the right server for me and now me and my buddies are having a blast fighting monsters together!
This was the best experience, Kimmy was so kind! easy to talk to and quick to solving the problem. I wanted to invite her to the game after. Wish her the best give her a raise!
Had a few questions about how the servers work and player count. Spoke to Kimmy on the chat and they were super helpful. All my question were answered. I'll be setting up the annual plan.
Nicole helped with my intro to coding in mods to my server, will definitely continue using this service
Needed help with setting up a pal world server for xbox Emman was beyond helpful and knowledgeable about the process. After some trouble shooting it was solved in short time.
Great and cheap game server hosting website, It has great variety, and works pretty well. I also had a really great ticket experience with Kimmy, who helped me setup a mod and solved my problem. Really great website!!!
Quoted word for word from Trustpilot, names and dates as published.
What the community
gives you, and how to get it.
Everything here is free and none of it needs a server first.
No. The server is free and open, and plenty of people sit in the game channels long before they rent anything. #server-setup-help takes questions from people who are still deciding, and nobody will push you to buy.
Join the Discord, then open a ticket in #discord-promo with your Order ID. Someone from support checks it and adds three days to your server. There is no deadline, so it works just as well a month in. One redemption per order.
Games industry shows and conventions, with the stand and a screen running the real control panel. Dates are announced in #irl-events first, and the team on the stand is the same team that answers live chat.
Yes, that is what #server-promotion is for. Modders share tools and collections in #mod-share, and established communities can get their own channel under Affiliations.
The same support engineers who answer live chat, from the questions they get most. When a question keeps coming back in the Discord it turns into an article on the Knowledge Base.
Real people, around the clock, and they sign off by name. Write in any language: the support system translates every message both ways. Meet the support team.
Your server comes with
friends.
Launch a server and you land in a room full of people running the same games, and three extra days are waiting in the Discord.
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