What is PlayFab?
PlayFab is a customizable backend platform that provides online game services for game developers. It handles server hosting, player data storage, analytics, content management, online marketplace, economy management, customer support and more so developers can focus on building great game experiences.
Key features of PlayFab include:
- Player Data Service - Store player profiles, statistics, virtual currencies, progression data, inventory in the cloud.
- Player Identity System - Support account creation, authentication, social network connectivity for players.
- Game and Player Analytics - Get insights into game performance, player behavior, monetization metrics.
- LiveOps Management - Rapidly deploy content, features, experiments with no downtime or loss of data.
- Multiplayer Servers - Dedicated game servers for synchronous multiplayer gameplay sessions.
- Game Commerce Engine - Define virtual currencies, item catalogs, purchasing options, wallets, stores.
- Customer Service - Tools to review player reports, mediate disputes for safe and fair online gameplay.
- Flexible APIs - Low-latency access to PlayFab functionality from game clients or admin tools.
As a cloud-based live game service platform, PlayFab handles infrastructure provisioning, scaling, security, redundancy and updates behind the scenes so developers can operate successful online games as a service over time.