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?
Best Answer
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
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
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.
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.
