u/Unfair_Platypus_9788

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I need an alternative to PlayFab.

Hey all, solo developer here. Back in 2023, i first used PlayFab for one of my small game projects. I noticed that for the "Development" plan, you could have up to 100K unique players. i thought "That sounds incredible! Too bad i don't need it right now". Well, now it's 2026, and i planned a much larger online project, with PlayFab planned as the spine of the whole thing. I'm already about half-way done building my game, and i decided to start testing PlayFab. Well as it turns out, at some point during my hiatus, they have decreased the maximum player count to 1K! Microsoft has all the money in the world, why the hell do they need to make that huge of a cut when they know it only affects indie developers? PlayFab isn't even the most popular Azure service afaik, there's just no point. Anywho, i need an alternative to PlayFab, like pretty soon, and it needs to be free and preferably support 10K - 100K players. 100K would be preferred, and i'm 90% sure it doesn't get any bigger than that, which is fine. Does anybody know any service that can save text data to each account (stuff like levels, achievements, etc.)? Literally, i don't care how slow it is, as long as it works with Unity. I just need some text data for each unique user, i already have multiplayer figured out. It doesn't even need to have moderation tools. Please, are there any options?

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