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Impact of Maintenance Disruption

Last updated on February 27, 2025

Failing to implement proper reconnection handling for maintenance dispruption can lead to serious issues in real-time applications, especially in multiplayer games. Here’s what the players might experience when accessing the AccelByte service:

Access Service

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
3rd party loginHTTPFailed to do 3rd party login.
Account linkingHTTPFailed to do account linking.
Email + password loginHTTPFailed to login with AccelByte credentials.
User profile featureHTTPFailed to view and modify user profile.
Public user searchHTTPThis could affect game client find player/get friends feature.
LegalHTTPFailed to do legal related requests.
GDPRHTTPFailed to request user data/account deleting.
Login QueueHTTPCan not get a queue ticket so player will failed to login failed.

Monetization Service

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
StoreHTTPFailure to do store related requests.
3rd Party IAP/ DLCHTTPEntitlement not fulfilled.
EntitlementHTTPFailure to fetch entitlement data.
WalletsHTTPFailure to fetch wallet data.
CurrenciesHTTPFailure to fetch currency data.
SalesHTTPFailure to fetch sales data.
Code redemptionsHTTPUnable to redeem a code.
PaymentsHTTPFailure to process payment request.

Social Service

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
FriendsWebsocketError triggering friends-related action during the disconnection and reconnection process.
PresenceWebsocketError fetching presence information during the disconnection and reconnection process.
ChatWebsocketUnable to send and receive chat during the disconnection and reconnection process.

Play Service

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
LobbyWebsocketDisconnection with auto-reconnect.
Missing any notification that is being sent through the lobby service.
MatchmakingWebsocketDoes not receive match found notification. Does not receive match ticket expired notificiation.
SessionWebsocketDisconnected from a 1st party synced session.
Does not receive session info update.
DSHub serviceWebsocketFail to claim DS. DS need to reconnect to the DSHub WS.

Engagement Service

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
LeaderboardHTTPFailure to do leaderboard related requests.
AchievementHTTPFailure to do achievement related requests.
ChallengeHTTPFailure to do challenge related requests.

Storage Service

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
StatisticHTTPFailure to do statistic related requests.
CloudsaveHTTPFailure to do cloudsave related requests.
InventoryHTTPFailure to do inventory related requests.

APT Service

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
Player PortalHTTPUnable to access player portal.

Game Server

FeatureConnectionPlayer Impact
Game ServerHTTPDisconnected from the game server.