[Comparative Analysis] Comparison of game chat solutions features!

In this blog, we will do a detailed comparison of 'Photon' chat solution and game chat. (ง •̀_•́)ง

Photon Chat

Photon is a network solution developed by Exit Games, and PUN (Photon Unity Network) is a representative example of it. Currently, Photon provides a total of 8 services including Realtime, Pun, Bolt, Quantum, Chat, Voice, Server, and Industries, and services developed using Photon services are operated within the Photon Cloud! Among them, the chat solution Photon Chat is a cross-platform chat service with message channel subscription feature. You can subscribe to as many message channels as you want, which is a major advantage. Also, it provides message buffer per chat channel so that even new users entering the chat room can review recent message content. Plus, it also offers bad word filtering feature. It helps maintain clean and safe chatting using the famous chat filter provided by partner Community Shift. However, do you know that additional charges are required to use the filtering feature?

Source: https://www.photonengine.com/en/Chat/Pricing

Increasing additional charges...

So, how about game chat? Game Chat vs Photon Chat

Game Chat fundamentally has all the necessary functions for game chatting, and the added benefit is that no additional charges are required to use these functions! It's diverse in functions and does not have additional charges!

Also, Game Chat provides various APIs to easily create and manage guilds, communities, and 1:1 private chats. In addition, it provides a powerful dashboard that gathers various functions such as message statistics, chat channel (guild) management, user blocking and message filtering, message content download and search. Also, it offers an analysis feature to discover insights about users based on collected chat data, providing real-time analysis indicators. It can monitor user chat and visitation status in real time by providing statistics such as real-time visitor status, message status, DAU, MAU, etc.

We have compared the functions of Photon and Game Chat! Game Chat is a solution that is particularly attractive to game developers as it provides various functions without additional charges.

When selecting a game chat solution, we hope the following article will be helpful~! We hope you build successful chat services within the game using Game Chat, which is affordable and has all the necessary functions!