Resolved Is there Lobby region?

Hi,

while lobby itself isn't currently deployed in multiple regions (currently only in us-east) we can play a few tricks here to filter lobbies by fields to essentially decrease your lobby lists to something within what you would call a "region". Essentially you would be using the filter options in the query on meta data where you would provide a region.

See:
Creating a lobby
Filtering lobbies

These fields would be just string fields to help you narrow down your users to "regions", but note that it won't improve any network latency, though it could in theory make it more consistent within a "region".

 

Unless performance becomes an issue I don't see us extending lobby to have multi-region functionality, in the near future. In its current state it provides the most flexibility as it allows people to get together in lobbies from across regions and the current custom data queries allows for superficial filtering by player region.

If you feel like performance of lobby is insufficient for the turn based game it might be beneficial to use something like Relay.

 

Hi Mj-Kkaya, this is Gladys, product manager of the Unity Lobby solution. We don't have multi-region support in the plan at the moment, but please submit your ideas via our interactive roadmap here:
https://unity.com/roadmap/unity-gaming-services/multiplayer
Your opinion will help us shape a better Lobby product. Thank you!