Can you give us an example of what a backend service is?

Yes, like a friend service. We have Persistence now, which basically is in charge of bringing items from the game servers into the database and that sort of thing. We also have the General Instance Manager, which is essentially in charge of spooling up and shutting down game instances and managing game sessions.

And that's different from netcode.

Network code is more between the clients and the actual game server. The game server would be like your Arena Commander game sessions or when you're actually flying around in Crusader. That's the more real-time, twitch type of play. The backend services is more command and control.