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Manual Game Session via groups

I have a feasibility question regarding using the groups feature to track users inside a game session.

Since our servers can be user hosted there is no way for us to use the server api directly. (It requiring a better not publicly available token and all that)
So for now we decided to have players create separate accounts for their servers that are accordingly tagged so they can be filtered in playstream events.

The question now is if we can have those accounts simply use groups for the active set of users/characters on the server, or even finer grained inside the teams on that server, with the server basically being the administrator.

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Could you describe what kind of game session is it? There is request rate limit for PlayFab API calls, if the client calls the API too rapidly in a short period of time, it could get throttled. Therefore, it is not recommended using the groups feature to track users inside a game that requires frequently API calls, such as tracking players' positions on a multiplayer game.

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Philipp Gehring avatar image Philipp Gehring Rick Chen ♦ commented ·

It is merely ment to track player groupings, so the only api calls would along the lines of "join session", "leave session" and set team. Its basically an emulation of a statefull lobby for data tracking purposes. Later this might be used to track cross clan matches or something along those lines.

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In this case, yes, the Groups can be used in your situation. Entity groups can be used for short-term groups created to allow individual players to accomplish an immediate goal, and then easily disbanded afterward. Please refer to: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/playfab/features/social/groups/quickstart

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