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Question by stansison · Mar 30, 2018 at 02:43 PM · Player DataIn-Game EconomyPlayer Inventory

Can PlayFab be use to create player economy

We’re looking if we can use PlayFab for our unity game. I know there are ways to handle player inventory and purchases, is there support for players to create and sell “items” to other players?

Also is it possible to search for player “items” or “listings” with some sort of tagging system?

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Answer by pfnathan · Mar 30, 2018 at 05:38 PM

We currently have secure item trading system, but our trading system does not support Virtual Currency, so the answer is no, you cannot create an economic system to sell items to other players.

You can tag items in GameManager / Economy/ Catalog, but it's not searchable via a tag.

Item's Custom Data can be used for searching items ... here is the discussion reference on the forum and Doc.

https://api.playfab.com/documentation/Server/method/UpdateUserInventoryItemCustomData

https://community.playfab.com/questions/3752/read-custom-data-from-iteminstance.html

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avatar image pfnathan ♦ · Mar 30, 2018 at 10:11 PM 0
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Only possible way It could be done is using the Server API, however,” it wouldn't have the same security as our economy system does which is the most crucial point in economy system

avatar image Shaaheen Andrew Karabi · Aug 08, 2021 at 06:46 PM 1
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Hi pfnathan, I am not sure if necroing a post/comment is allowed or if I should make an entirely new post but I wanted to ask if this is possible now as it's been a couple of years since the original posting.

avatar image SethDu ♦ Shaaheen Andrew Karabi · Aug 09, 2021 at 07:59 AM 1
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For now, all items should be predefined in Catalog, and UGC is not supported. Please keep track of economy updates in PlayFab Roadmap - PlayFab | Microsoft Docs.

avatar image Shaaheen Andrew Karabi SethDu ♦ · Aug 09, 2021 at 03:07 PM 0
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thank you for the information

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