Our team is having a conversation on the best way to display game ID as text in-game, since it's great for debugging. If a player shares a screenshot or video of an issue (but doesn't do a formal report with logs), we can just type in the game ID from the screenshot.
However, PlayFab's game IDs are 64 characters long, which makes displaying them unsightly for players.
64 hex characters seems unnecessary.
- 64 characters = 10^77 combinations (roughly the number of atoms in the universe)
- 32 characters = 3x10^38 combinations
- 16 characters = 2x10^19 combinations (more than the number of grains of sand on Earth)
16 characters would be more than enough. If PlayFab had 1 billion games played every day, it would take 50 million years before all the unique combinations were used up.