
Build or Buy: Gaming Backends
Naavik Gaming Podcast
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The Existential Question of Builder By
Almost all of the biggest games are in house games. The most simple like database is just like a key value store. And then there's ones that are going to do a lot more, a lot of different things. So for example, if today you purchase something on Steam or Epic or Xbox or PlayStation, those people act as the actual payment facilitator. They take the dollars in and then the back end itself is going to handle the entitlement of the item. That might have to crap in across the PC, their Xbox account, et cetera.
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