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"$1.50 per month for every 1000 daily active users." I'm not sure what that means precisely. But any interpretation seems prohibitively expensive. (That's for

"$1.50 per month for every 1000 daily active users." I'm not sure what that means precisely. But any interpretation seems prohibitively expensive. (That's for GameLift)

jdub 11y ago
That'd be $1500/mo for 1,000,000 daily active users, right? (Which doesn't include infrastructure costs.) That doesn't sound prohibitively expensive...
- abrookewood 11y ago
  It sounds completely reasonable to me ...
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- forrestthewoods 11y ago
  You're off by 30x. It's $45,000 per month for 1 million DAU. Here's an example from the horse's mouth. "10,000 DAU (10,000 / 1000) * $1.50 * 30 = $450" http://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/pricing/
  - jdub 11y ago
    Ouch, yes: It's $1.50 PER DAY per 1000 daily active users. (I think everyone is so used to AWS prices being per month...)
jon-wood 11y ago
If you can't extract more that $1.50 a month from a 1000 active users then you should probably pack it in and try something else.
- dantiberian 11y ago
  You also pay for the EC2 instances on top of that.
  - phillu 11y ago
    Which will be far more than $1.50/month to support that many users. I guess.
MatekCopatek 11y ago
Can anyone with experience in game development give us a ballpark figure on how much this would cost if you were't tied to anything and just wanted to set up multiplayer infrastructure on your own? It sounds cheap to me too, ends up costing you 9 cents per copy assuming all users who bought the game play multiplayer for 5 years.
- scrollaway 11y ago
  The pricing is really good. The licensing terms are awful, but $1.50 for 1k daily active users is nothing. Three use cases to consider. Subscription-based games (eg. MMOs), averaging $11 / month. Worst case scenario (all your users are active daily), that's less than 0.02% of your income going to the engine. Freemium/microtransaction games. Considering $1.50 is somewhere between 1/10th of a transaction to 10 microtransactions depending on the game, you need roughly an extra 1-100 microtransactions per 10k daily-active users to cover the cost. That's nothing. Ad-based games... 1000 users should be worth more than $1.50. That's not gonna happen, why would you use this.

"$1.50 per month for every 1000 daily active users." I'm not sure what that means precisely. But any interpretation seems prohibitively expensive. (That's for GameLift)

jdub 11y ago

That'd be $1500/mo for 1,000,000 daily active users, right? (Which doesn't include infrastructure costs.) That doesn't sound prohibitively expensive...

abrookewood 11y ago
It sounds completely reasonable to me ...
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forrestthewoods 11y ago
You're off by 30x. It's $45,000 per month for 1 million DAU. Here's an example from the horse's mouth. "10,000 DAU (10,000 / 1000) * $1.50 * 30 = $450" http://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/pricing/
- jdub 11y ago
  Ouch, yes: It's $1.50 PER DAY per 1000 daily active users. (I think everyone is so used to AWS prices being per month...)

jon-wood 11y ago

If you can't extract more that $1.50 a month from a 1000 active users then you should probably pack it in and try something else.

dantiberian 11y ago
You also pay for the EC2 instances on top of that.
- phillu 11y ago
  Which will be far more than $1.50/month to support that many users. I guess.

MatekCopatek 11y ago

Can anyone with experience in game development give us a ballpark figure on how much this would cost if you were't tied to anything and just wanted to set up multiplayer infrastructure on your own? It sounds cheap to me too, ends up costing you 9 cents per copy assuming all users who bought the game play multiplayer for 5 years.

scrollaway 11y ago
The pricing is really good. The licensing terms are awful, but $1.50 for 1k daily active users is nothing. Three use cases to consider. Subscription-based games (eg. MMOs), averaging $11 / month. Worst case scenario (all your users are active daily), that's less than 0.02% of your income going to the engine. Freemium/microtransaction games. Considering $1.50 is somewhere between 1/10th of a transaction to 10 microtransactions depending on the game, you need roughly an extra 1-100 microtransactions per 10k daily-active users to cover the cost. That's nothing. Ad-based games... 1000 users should be worth more than $1.50. That's not gonna happen, why would you use this.