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Brendan Vanous said on Thu, 09 April 2015 at 1:25 PM

Hi Richard,

We're always looking for ways to improve our docs, so thanks for that. The login/link docs are an are we know we need some additional work - in addition to updating the docs, we'll be posting a blog soon with some examples of how best to use the various authentication systems.

The quick answer is that the link functionality attaches authentication methods to the player account. So, a single player account could be enabled for sign-in via username/password, email/password, Android/iOS Device ID, Google, Facebook, and Steam (and we'll be adding more - if there's one you particularly need, please let us know).

For friends, we have our own friend list built into PlayFab, which you can use to manage friends the player connects to during play. In addition, we have integration with both Steam and Facebook friends lists, allowing you to add them to the list retrieved.

In addition, our statistics/leaderboard system (each statistic written for players in your game generates a distinct leaderboard) allows you to query by position in the leaderboard, the cluster (in score) around the current user, or by friends (as well as simply querying player statistics directly).

Brendan

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Brendan Vanous said on Thu, 09 April 2015 at 1:25 PM

Hi Richard,

We're always looking for ways to improve our docs, so thanks for that. The login/link docs are an are we know we need some additional work - in addition to updating the docs, we'll be posting a blog soon with some examples of how best to use the various authentication systems.

The quick answer is that the link functionality attaches authentication methods to the player account. So, a single player account could be enabled for sign-in via username/password, email/password, Android/iOS Device ID, Google, Facebook, and Steam (and we'll be adding more - if there's one you particularly need, please let us know).

For friends, we have our own friend list built into PlayFab, which you can use to manage friends the player connects to during play. In addition, we have integration with both Steam and Facebook friends lists, allowing you to add them to the list retrieved.

In addition, our statistics/leaderboard system (each statistic written for players in your game generates a distinct leaderboard) allows you to query by position in the leaderboard, the cluster (in score) around the current user, or by friends (as well as simply querying player statistics directly).

Brendan

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angry_penguin said on Thu, 09 April 2015 at 3:28 PM

Ok, is there a way for me to add friends to a user's PlayFab account based on, say, their GameCenter friends?

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Brendan Vanous said on Thu, 09 April 2015 at 6:53 PM

Hi again,

We will be updating in the near future to improve our Game Center integration, one aspect of which is friends integration. We're actually going to remove the Game Center login/link API calls temporarily (don't worry if you're using them now - they won't break, we're just hiding them from the docs), in preparation for this update. If this is a key feature you need for shipping, please be sure to work with us via the devrel@playfab.com alias, so that we can get your integration dates.

Brendan