Hi there!
I using Unity Cloud in my game, But I wondering
if a players has been play too much until bandwidth usage are more than 5GiB per month
and it should be because my game is popular in my country,
so how to pay to Unity?
I will have some notification to my email or what?
or if I still can’t pay yet, what will happen?
my Cloud System will no longer download
or upload players save to the Cloud right?
Thanks!!!
Hi there,
This Billing FAQ might be helpful:
How can I tell if I’m close to exceeding my free tier limit?
We have free tier email alerts, which notify you when you reach 75% and 100% of the free tier limit for any UGS service. You can’t customize the usage threshold for free tier email alerts. If you don’t want to receive free tier email alerts, you can opt-out of receiving them in the Email preferences section of the Budget Alerts UI (Projects > Finance > Budget Alerts).
Please note the 5 GiB per month threshold for Cloud Save is for total storage, rather than bandwidth - the free tier for Cloud Save is 5 GiB / month total storage, 1 million reads / month and 1 million writes / month.
Obviously how much storage a game is going to use is very dependant on the game and the number of players but with typical intended usage, the free tier would be enough to support tends of thousands of players.
If you have an idea of the amount of data an average player is using, which you can see from looking at players in the Cloud Save Dashboard, then you should be able to work out how many players you would need to have before you are going to start exceeding the free tier threshold.
As guidance, typical usage for a game for things like player level, achievements, inventory (etc) would be under 100 KB, which is enough for 50,000 players (but even then many games use much less!).
If you are using much more than that per player, and you don’t have something like player placed structures or other custom data stored in Cloud Save, then it might be worth looking at how you are serialising the data (which would both reduce the cost to you, and improve save/load times for players).
You are billed monthly - even if your bill is $0 you still get an invoice.
The cloud dashboard (under Administrations) allows you to set spending thresholds / budget alerts. I suggest to go through all the Administration pages and familiarize yourself with them.