Microsoft's Playfab provides live services and infrastructure for games.
Microsoft's Playfab provides live services and infrastructure for games.
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Microsoft’s PlayFab cuts prices for its networked player game services

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft’s PlayFab division said it is cutting prices for its networked player game services.

The changes are rooted in PlayFab’s effort to find efficiencies and increasing value for game developers. This makes the platform more accessible and easier to use for developers, making PlayFab a more competitive offer in today’s game developer market. James Gwertzman, founder of PlayFab and general manager for gaming cloud at Microsoft, said this in a blog post today.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.