= Coming soon: Dedicated game server hosting and matchmaking for all =

Stay tuned for new self-serve functionality added to Game Server Hosting (Multiplay), and the introduction of our new rule-based Matchmaker – both are included as part of Unity Gaming Services

This means that developers will now be able to activate and configure Game Server Hosting (Multiplay) and Matchmaker from within the Unity Dashboard

Check out our blog HERE for more details, a video sneak peek, and a save the date to be notified as soon as we launch!
They won't discontinue it until you are a year or two into a project that you've built around it. THEN they will discontinue it and layoff the entire team and pivot to a DOTS version of matchmaking that won't be available for several years which will be discontinued once you get a year into it..

Sighhoping Unity hub 3.x logon will function properly soonwithout any reinstalls..

That would normally be an exciting announcement, but I think the community has just been burned so many times by unity services of every kind being abandoned before they ever mature

It would be useful if that blog post (or another one on the topic) would explain to the community why we should have any faith in another unity service offering after being left out to dry so many times. Teams lose man years over those. We just can't afford to risk relying on another unity offering outside of the core engine itself

I think I'll stick with Playfab for now but watch this from a safe distance for a while

One thing that could raise your trust is the fact that multiplay is already in use in some big games including Apex legends, Fall guys and Among us

That's fun and all but I'm new to Unity and I don't get these jokes xD. Could someone explain to me what features/services were dropped after little time?
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Unity has a history of dropping hyped up projects randomly. They have never been able to make up their mind about the way their networking solution should be. Specially with some recent bad publicity, people expect the

I have a positive outlook regarding this myself regardless of other stuff


Make it FREE for at least some thousands of simultaneous connected clients to regain some community trust and adoption. Thanks in advance

Can't believe I typed that to a company that can't make it's main app logon function properly on the main OS it's used onsigh..

Bring Unity back to northwest Europe with ONLY northwest European and japanese employees so that it will be as reliable as it used to be again. And get rid of thathub cr-app (or at least bring the built-in logon back like in 2.x so that WILL ACTUALLY FUNCTION
And actually, MAKE ME CEO to rescue Unity from the downhill slide it's been on since about calendar year 2018

"butbutcaring about investors and diversity more than product quality was trending"