Edit - In case anyone wonders what the deleted comment was about, it was a reference to https://unity3d.com/services/multiplayer https://unity3d.com/services/mu

Edit - In case anyone wonders what the deleted comment was about, it was a reference to https://unity3d.com/services/multiplayer https://unity3d.com/services/multiplayer (Unity's multiplayer infrastructure offering). Well, Unity and the like will probably keep building their services into their own frameworks while Heroic Labs might just survive the onslaught by being the one group that has an open API for anyone to integrate into. This could theoretically allow for more creative game development (especially in turn based games) where you might use a full blow Unity engine game for desktop/web and maybe a component attached to mobile (a side companion that gives strategy advice etc.) that would just be a native app instead of a game. They'll probably need to hustle on getting past just simple turn based games if they want to compete though. It looks like Unity's offering is aimed at delivering on real time multiplayer as well. We live in interesting times.