What's the point of adding a statistics item manually in Game Manager?

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xinliu asked Jan 29, '19

What's the point of adding a statistics item manually in Game Manager?

Hi, I'm kinda new to PlayFab. I followed the Getting Start guide (https://api.playfab.com/docs/general-getting-started) and the section of adding a basic leaderboard confuses me. In the tutorial we have added a statistics called "XP" to the player manually in the Game Manager, and yes we can call in the client to retrieve this value. But what about other players? Do we have to create an XP statistic for each player manually in the Game Manger? Isn't the player statistics definitions supposed to be defined on the game level instead of player level? Please help.

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Answer 1 · 2019-01-30T02:42:03Z

Seth Du answered Jan 30, '19

You don’t have to create it in the game manager. No matter you are trying to create or update players’ statistics, the only API you use should be UpdatePlayerStatistics, which means if the current player does not have the statistics you want to update, they will be automatically created by PlayFab. Hence you may not have to worry about it.

Statistics are “player-level” because it needs quick responses according to player’s actions and it is a data that is frequently changing. Besides, please try to avoid using Client API UpdatePlayerStatistics and disable it in [Game manager] -> [Settings] -> [API Feature] because enabling players to post statistics will cause abusive uses and cheats. It will be better to implement UpdatePlayerStatistics in the cloud script where you can also verify the data.

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xinliu commented · Jan 30, 2019 at 02:44 AM

Thank you for your explanation, it makes sense to me now :)

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