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Third Party Unity Built In Mutiplayer vs Photon?

Discussion in 'Multiplayer' started by ColouredPixelsUnity, Jul 27, 2015.

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Which is Better?

  1. Photon

    1 vote(s)
    20.0%

  2. Unity

    4 vote(s)
    80.0%

  1. ColouredPixelsUnity

    ColouredPixelsUnity

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    Hi. I need multiplayer networking for the game I will be developing soon and I was wondering which is better to use.

    Based on...

    1. Quality of Network

    2. Ease of Use

    and 3. Cost

    Thanks!
     
    ColouredPixelsUnity, Jul 27, 2015
    #1

  2. asperatology

    asperatology

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    Unity built-in networking for Unity 5.1 and up.

    Photon has additional cost, and you need to look it up for more specific details.

    Other than that, both do well with #1 and #2.
     
    asperatology, Jul 27, 2015
    #2
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  3. boby-bobs

    boby-bobs

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    My experience with Photon Server after 1 month is...



    I'm sure it's a great product, but I really couldn't get through it. Honestly, it does work out-of-the-box, but you should be prepared for a lot of document reading, and you should know a lot about networking programming.

    I haven't tried their other products, but they all have free tiers for development.

    Also Unity will have matchmaking in the future, currently in beta I think.
     
    boby-bobs, Jul 27, 2015
    #3