How to manage game streams and pricing

Glossary

Coverage and capacity

To set up your game coverage and capacity:

1. In your project in Publisher Account, go to the Cloud Gaming section.
2. In the game pane where you want to set up a coverage, click:
   • Fill info — you have not published your game yet.
   • Edit info — if your game is already published.
3. Go to the Stream tab.
4. Click:
   • Set up stream — if you have not configured game coverage yet.
   • Add coverage — if you have previously configured game coverage.
5. In the modal window that opens, select regions where your game will be available:
   • Click the dot on the map in the corresponding region.
   • In the modal window that opens, select a server type per your game’s hardware requirement: high or ultra. In some regions, only one server type is available.
   • Close the modal window. On the map, a selected coverage area is indicated by a color-filled dot.
   • If you want to remove some of the areas, choose the corresponding dot on the map and click Reset.

Notice

You can’t add several servers with the same type for the same region.

6. Click Capacity.

7. Select the capacity required for your game. This defaults to Cost-optimized capacity; if you want to enable higher capacity, contact the Xsolla Cloud Gaming team at cloud_gaming_team@xsolla.com.
8. Click Pricing.

Chosen configuration will be added to the list in the Draft status. They move to the Active status once the game is published. If you want to update settings of a game that had been already published, click Publish game to activate new server types.

To delete coverage areas:

1. On the Stream tab, click the corresponding region name.
2. Click the bin icon and confirm the action.

Pricing

Based on your needs and integration costs, you can set up the playtime price for your game streams in a particular region.

The end user price is calculated using the formula:

\[ \begin{aligned} \text{User price} = \frac{\text{Self cost} + \text{Fixed fee}}{1 - \text{Percentage fee}} / (1 - \text{Xsolla fee}) \end{aligned} \]

Legend:

• User price — the end user price in US dollars per 1 hour of playtime.
• Self cost — a game stream’s self cost per 1 hour in US dollars.
• Fixed fee — fee you want to charge for 1 hour of playtime in US dollars. Equals 0, if the Percentage fee value is passed.
• Percentage fee — fee you want to charge for 1 hour of playtime as a percentage. Equals 0, if the Fixed fee value is passed.
• Xsolla fee — Xsolla fee as a percentage.

To set up pricing:

1. Configure your game coverage and capacity.
2. Specify the fee you want to charge for 1 hour of playtime. You can do that in one of the following ways:
   • In the Fixed fee column, specify the fee in US dollars. You can set this value based on a ratio of the game’s cost to its playtime. For example, if the local copy of your game costs 60 US dollars and provides an average of 30 hours of playtime, you can set the fee to 2 US dollars per hour.
   • In the Percentage fee column, specify the fee as a percentage of the end user price and overall cost. You can set this value as additive costs for your game, e.g., to cover royalty payments.
3. Click Publish. If you are not ready to publish your game, you can close the modal window and edit pricing settings later.

1. In your game’s section, go to the Pricing tab.
2. Click Edit pricing.
3. Make necessary changes.
4. Click Save.