Don't Let Overwhelming Success Overwhelm You

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PlayFab claims a production backend that already runs 2,000 live games and serves 100 million MAU, built on AWS (DynamoDB, Kinesis) with a PlayStream real‑time events pipeline that drives segmentation, rules, and immediate actions. Demo shows cloud scripts, store overrides by segment, autoscaling game server hosting, and per‑player overrides working in seconds; roadmap adds Azure hosting, a new matchmaker, UGC commerce with real‑money, and Azure Data Explorer for high‑volume analytics.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:00Top Grossing Games - Now
3. 3:14What Do Those Titles Have in Common?
4. 4:09A Tale of Two Games
5. 6:43What is LiveOps?
6. 8:14LiveOps Requires Games to Be Operated as Services
7. 9:10The PlayFab Platform
8. 9:52Modern Game Success is Driven by Use of Real-Time Data
9. 10:43API Processing ("mainserver" application)
10. 14:01Cloud Script Processing ("logicserver" application)
11. 14:59Custom Game Servers
12. 15:44Game Manager - Customer Admin Portal
13. 16:17PlayStream Processor
14. 32:05PlayFab Demo
15. 32:42Using Metrics More Effectively is About Learning
16. 33:00Capturing Events
17. 34:30Test Your Idea With Experiments
18. 35:05Rules Engine
19. 35:37Scheduled Tasks
20. 37:22Requirements for Actionable Business Intelligence
21. 38:29Harnessing the Power of Game Data in PlayFab
22. 38:57Leveraging the Cloud
23. 39:25Fully Cross Platform and Engine Agnostic
24. 40:18Over 2,000 Titles and 100,000,000 MAU - and Growing
25. 41:28Multiplayer Servers 2.0
26. 42:56Simple Scaling Optimized for Multiplayer Gaming
27. 43:50Matchmaking 2.0
28. 44:38Multiplayer + Match
29. 45:18Commerce 2.0
30. 47:28Data Warehouse 2018
31. 49:11New KPI and LiveOps Dashboards
32. 51:07Leaderboards 2.0
33. 52:11Two-Way Connectivity
34. 52:55Configuration Management
35. 53:32Improved Unreal Support
36. 54:00Open ID Connect (OIDC)
37. 54:36PlayFab Localization
38. 55:42Call to Action

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