In-fact, the free tier has pretty much everything you need and you don’t need to upgrade until you hit 1k MAU (and by that point you should be making money…)įlayFab also supports hosting for your own custom servers (though Unity support is… not great as far as I know) and cloud scripts (code you can call remotely to execute custom tasks). PlayFab also works well with something like Photon Pun (a future blog topic). One major boon PlayFab has for it over Gamesparks (Azure vs AWS) is the fact there is a free tier that offers a lot of functionality and for testing a game should offer enough to get you ready to launch. Support for management of several digital currencies.Push Notifications (useful on mobile titles).In-game characters (loadouts, gear, player inventories, etc).At a glance, PlayFab gives you access to the following: So, putting aside a need for complete control or a burning desire to reinvent the wheel, it makes sense to look at a out of the box solution that is pretty much ready to go. While it is true that rolling your own back-end solution will give you more control, you might find you spend so much time on that end of things that you are never able to work on your game.

PlayFab is a back-end service from Microsoft that makes setting up things like user accounts, leaderboards, digital currencies, and other related back-end infrastructure that you would otherwise have to create yourself very easy.

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