Is Playfab any good for Minecraft Server Hosting?
Hey all, I've been looking into Minecraft hosting recently, I'm fairly new to the whole thing, and I was wondering if any Azure services would be useful for hosting a Minecraft server?
I'm especially looking at PlayFab, it sounds like it's new and it's using Minecraft gameplay/imagery in some locations to advertise, so I was wondering if it was any good?
The groups of people I play with aren't large, usually maybe 15 people max (and that's with me overestimating to be safe), however I'm hoping modded minecraft can be on the table.
Beyond that I'm really new to this, like, started googling stuff today new, so I apologize if I sound like I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm only even looking at Azure solutions at all bc I work in IT and use Azure services at work fairly often, and I'm hoping learning how to do it in Azure will also help me learn Azure better overall.
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i'd avoid the big providers like aws and azure, things get really expensive really fast
would recommend making a post in #marketplace
I've seen people talk about default Azure as a pricey option, but I haven't seen anyone mentioning this new PlayFab resource in terms of price. I don't have anything to sell, and I'd need to do more research before looking to buy/rent space from someone.
Also, I apologize for not doing more research into PlayFab in advance. It seems Playfab is meant for more session based games, like games with matches, not something that's always on like Minecraft. Which is weird because Minecraft is used on their website. Which is also weird on Microsoft's end since PlayFab looks to be in the $50+ range whereas realms are like $8 (tho I'd imagine both aren't great for what you're paying for)
never buy realms, extremely expensive, and really shit performance
you also get very limited in terms of what you can do with realms
you'll get a really nice server for like $10/month thats legitmately 4x better performaning than what you'd get for realms
It's for game devs, not end users
Won't be able to do mc anyways
That's super weird that it can't do Mc they have pics of Mc on their site
I believe you I'm just baffled by why they'd use a pic of Mc if they can't host it
Especially since when I scroll down the secons tab is 'multiplayer servers'
i mean i think it can definitely run minecraft
yeah, all of mojangs minecraft realms uses playfab
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/articles/2020/10/migrating-minecraft-realms-from-aws-to-azure/#:~:text=During%20Phase%201%2C%20Realms%20migrated,a%20live%20game%20at%20scale.
realms uses playfab... (and realms is shit)
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Just to clear up, the "wont be able to do mc anyways" was a continuation of the previous sentence, meant as in you wont be able to do mc on playfab as a enduser
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