Posted by Laura Nechita, Software program Engineering at Google Play and Victor Chen, Product Specialist at Google Play
To additional improve the privateness of customers and their multi-platform gaming expertise, Play Video games Companies (PGS) is introducing subsequent technology Participant IDs. With this transformation, the primary time a consumer performs a recreation, they are going to all the time be assigned a singular subsequent technology Participant ID that may stay constant whatever the gadget or platform a consumer performs a recreation on, however which is able to range from recreation to recreation.
Current customers, or accounts which have already signed into your recreation utilizing PGS retain their present PGS Participant IDs and are usually not affected by this transformation. If in case you have a number of titles in your portfolio and want a approach to establish customers throughout your titles to supply cross-game consumer experiences, we’re additionally introducing a developer participant key. Study extra.
With subsequent technology IDs, it should additionally allow higher Play Video games Companies help for all accounts, together with these beneath supervision.
Here’s a timeline for the rollout:
How this impacts your recreation
- Subsequent technology IDs are solely assigned to customers signing in to PGS in your recreation for the primary time.
- Customers who’ve already signed in to PGS in your recreation are usually not affected.
- We’re introducing a brand new developer participant key which lets you establish customers throughout video games in your portfolio.
