Hosting AAA Multiplayer Experiences with Multiplay
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Multiplay is an Enterprise Game Server Hosting Platform made for developers who want to create real-time multiplayer experiences. Fred Grill (EA/Respawn Entertainment) and Will Lowther (Multiplay) discuss launching AAA games, featuring a post-mortem on the launch of Titanfall 2.
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Hosting AAA Multiplayer Experiences with Multiplay
- 1. Hosting AAA Multiplayer Experiences with Multiplay
- 2. Will Lowther Head of Product Development & Strategy Multiplay, a Unity Company
- 3. What will you learn today? • Challenges of hosting games and using the cloud • What is Multiplay? • Why Hybrid? • Auto-scaling challenges • Scaling Success Stories
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- 5. Real-time multiplayer games are hard to create and operate
- 6. Challenges in Hosting Real- time Experiences
- 8. Why use a Dedicated Server? Better experience for players Consistent No Host Advantage! Scalable All population sizes! Secure Mitigate Cheats!
- 9. Why use a Dedicated Server? Better experience for developers Iterate Faster Patch/Cert Less
- 10. Game Hosting – Traditional Options • Colocation • Long lead times • Inflexible • Costly to Maintain • Leased Bare Metal • Complex Vendor Relationships • Up-front commitments • Cloud • Flexibility, at a cost • Still not infinite
- 13. Flexible infrastructure Management tools Premium support Single API Dedicated teamSingle bill
- 14. Any Engine Any Platform The best Cloud New gfx needed
- 15. 24 / 7 / 365
- 18. Why Hybrid?
- 19. No more Wasted resources All players served Optimized Cost
- 20. • The internet is an unreliable place! • Issue Mitigation • Real-time Failover • Transparent to Players Hybrid Model – Provider Redundancy Bare Metal Data Centre A Bare Metal Data Centre B Cloud Data Centre
- 21. Scaling up can be easy…
- 22. Scaling down is much harder! Fragmentation is tough to avoid, causing: • Poor player experience • Higher server costs
- 23. Why is Visibility So Important? Player Density 73% 86% 81% 76% Player Density 23% 49% 38% 35% Efficient Game Mode Inefficient Game Mode
- 24. Fixing Fragmentation Once Identified it can be Easy to Improve Player Density which Leads to Significant Cost Savings! Player Density ~40% ~90% Resulted in 20% Required Capacity Drop
- 25. Game Images – Zero Downtime Patching Game Server Node tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-x1-1 tf2/prod-x1-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-x1-1 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-x1-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-x1-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-x1-1 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-x1-2 tf2/prod-x1-2 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-x1-2 tf2/prod-ps4-1 tf2/prod-x1-2 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-x1-1 tf2/prod-x1-2 tf2/prod-x1-2 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-pc-1 tf2/prod-ps4-1
- 26. Game Images – Deployment In Action
- 27. Auto Scaling - Not All Clouds Are Equal • Create – 3 minutes • Boot – 1 ½ minutes • Shutdown – 3 minutes • Billing – 1min + 1min incs • Create – 9 ½ minutes • Boot – 1 ½ minutes • Shutdown – 1 minute • Billing – 1 hour + 1 hour incs
- 28. Auto Scaling – The Success Stories! Lots More in the Pipeline…
- 29. Learn More Contact Me We’re Hiring! Multiplay Kiosk will@multiplay.com careers.unity3d.com multiplay.com @willlowther
- 30. Questions?
- 31. Thank you!