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Brent Batas (Lisk) asked

Does calling PlayFabMatchmakerAPI.StartGame without any available servers return a failure callback?

According to the docs here:

https://api.playfab.com/documentation/matchmaker/method/StartGame

It seems this call will either return a successful response, or InvalidParams, or BuildNotFound.

But what if there are no available game servers?

Will there be a response such as "NotEnoughGameServers"? If not, any recommendations on how to fail gracefully? (e.g. I want to log useful error messages and ideally tell the client what is going on. Later, I'd like to implement a queue where people can wait until a game server is available)

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brendan answered

StartGame attempts to start a new instance of the game on a server. If there are no available instance slots in the specified region, it will return InvalidParams, with the error details stating that there's no available capacity.

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Berk Unal answered

How do you call StartGame after getmatch result? I can not understand how to do the api call on unity.

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