Matchmaking

Photon
#1

A few questions about matchmaking.

  1. In my code/dashboard, do I as a developer need to choose which Photon Cloud region to connect to, or do you do that automatically based on a users location (IP address etc)?

  2. Can users connect across regions?

(Ex. Japan <-> US)

  1. Is the pricing per region?

(Ex. If I want to use the US and Japan regions (100 CCU Indie), would that be $9+$9 for both regions?)

#2

#1) You have to do the selection in your code. E.g. you can select the region with the lowest ping.

See http://doc.exitgames.com/photon-cloud/Regions/#cat-reference

#2) No, there is no interaction between regions.

#3) Pricing is across regions. The peak of the last 24h of each region is added up.

#3

Thanks for the info.

It looks promising. I’m planning to implement this in one of my games which I think it would boost popularity quite a bit. At the moment it only has around 300 DAU, and based on another answer I’ve seen, that the 100 CCU tier would be enough for up to 2000 DAU.

#4

#1) You have to do the selection in your code. E.g. you can select the region with the lowest ping.

See http://doc.exitgames.com/photon-cloud/Regions/#cat-reference

#2) No, there is no interaction between regions.

#3) Pricing is across regions. The peak of the last 24h of each region is added up.

#5

Thanks for the info.

It looks promising. I’m planning to implement this in one of my games which I think it would boost popularity quite a bit. At the moment it only has around 300 DAU, and based on another answer I’ve seen, that the 100 CCU tier would be enough for up to 2000 DAU.