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If you have a very limited number of people that you feel will be using your title, that may work for you. But I do need to caution you that doing this creates a horrible player experience if your game has any significant user population. Basically, once you hit the 100K player account level, everyone trying to play your game for the first time - or return to it from having taken a break, if you're deleting player accounts in order to stay under that number - will simply not be able to sign in. You're likely to see a high percentage of downloads that abandon the game, in that case.

Also, as an aside, I do need to point out that Development Mode is only free for the Core services. Use of CDN, Party, or game server hosting would be charged at the normal rates (though you do get some limited use of Party and game server hosting for free - the docs have all the details on this).

For 2, the short answer is that you should aim to have no more than a few API calls per client, per minute. If you're running into API call rate or data update rate limit errors, that means you're making a level of calls that's excessive enough that we'll have to move your title to a quarantine vertical if that goes on for a non-trivial amount of time (to prevent any performance issues to other titles). The quarantine vertical is far more strict about rate limiting than the main vertical, so you'd see error rates increase. - forwarded from similar question in forums, hope it helps.

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Hello I found this in the forum, hope it helps. If you have a very limited number of people that you feel will be using your title, that may work for you. But I do need to caution you that doing this creates a horrible player experience if your game has any significant user population. Basically, once you hit the 100K player account level, everyone trying to play your game for the first time - or return to it from having taken a break, if you're deleting player accounts in order to stay under that number - will simply not be able to sign in. You're likely to see a high percentage of downloads that abandon the game, in that case.

Also, as an aside, I do need to point out that Development Mode is only free for the Core services. Use of CDN, Party, or game server hosting would be charged at the normal rates (though you do get some limited use of Party and game server hosting for free - the docs have all the details on this).

For 2, the short answer is that you should aim to have no more than a few API calls per client, per minute. If you're running into API call rate or data update rate limit errors, that means you're making a level of calls that's excessive enough that we'll have to move your title to a quarantine vertical if that goes on for a non-trivial amount of time (to prevent any performance issues to other titles). The quarantine vertical is far more strict about rate limiting than the main vertical, so you'd see error rates increase.

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Answer by SethDu Sep 11, 2019 at 07:32 AM

It depends, but usually, it only affects the player who is making exceeding calls. For example, Player A calls UpdateUserData too frequently and failed callback will be received but it doesn’t affect Player B’s any actions. However, if you using Server API to call same API too frequently, like UpdateUserData, you will be unable to make that call for a while.

Another thing is if there are too many CCU players and the title is exceeding a safe limit on usage (excessive calls per player), this title will be moved to a "quarantine" server vertical we manage, to prevent causing any issues to other titles. In that case, response times may grow significantly, as that vertical does not have the same level of resources as the primary PlayFab service vertical, including Cloud Script calls.

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Talha Sep 11, 2019 at 02:06 PM 0

"if there are too many CCU players and the title is exceeding a safe limit on usage (excessive calls per player), this title will be moved to a "quarantine" server vertical we manage"

Hi so the questions that arise are

1) what is the safe limit? (like Per minute safe limit)

2) if there are insanely high DAU for a title, Does playfab provide temporary throttle exemption if asked?

3) In Our game we are not using updateuserdata frequently but the only issue is the api call (Getleaderboard) we have restricted the user to 5 times in 1 minute (and if limit exceeds we freeze the button for 30 seconds).

so far in our game the limit we set is 9 calls per minute. We've designed the game in such a way that limit never exceeds 9 calls per minute.

Is that cool?

When the DAU increases will this 9 calls per minute limit come to bite us?

SethDu ♦ Talha Sep 12, 2019 at 07:08 AM 1

I don't know what's your current subscription tier but "title being moved to a "quarantine" server vertica" only occurs on Essential Tier titles.

1)The specified safe limit is not given, usally it depends on many factors, but I will consult the team and will keep you updated later.

2)Since payed tier users are able to create dedicated support ticket and can get responses very soon. I don't believe it will work if you post a thread on the forum to ask for that. The expected response time on the forum is longer than support tickets'.

3) 9 calls/min looks fine but also check the limits in your Game Manager. You should have a brief idea about DAU and MAU of your game, and also consult sales team before the game releases.