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Educational plan without credit card?

Hi, I'm in Australia and the multiplayer section of Playfab requires a credit card. Is there anyway to use the free teir for students, so they don't need one? We mainly just want to try it out, nothing serious.

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brendan answered

You can try all of the PlayFab core services in the free tier, without any credit card. The issue here is that we do not limit you to the free hours we provide in server hosting - or even that you only use the specific server models and server regions that those free hours apply to - as that would be too restrictive as well as potentially confusing. So we do have to have a payment instrument on file, in order to allow for use of that service.

Also, server charges are assessed when the server stops - not every minute that it's running. So it would require significant changes to server management. Given that we have had few requests for this, that's not something we'd be able to prioritize over getting new features shipped.

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