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Amitai Mazliah asked

Economy V2 default currency

Is there a way to give players a starting/default currency in economy V2? like v1 has

In-Game Economy
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kylemc@microsoft.com answered

A workaround for this scenario could be implemented using the following steps.


  1. Add a PlayStream trigger for when a player is created
  2. Add an action to call CloudScript
  3. Call `AddInventoryItems` from CloudScript to grant that user things
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Rick Chen answered

Please note that some Economy features such as the one you mentioned, didn't make the cut to v2. These features were ones whose feedback centered around them being too restrictive to be useful.

Please refer to this document for more detail: Economy v2 overview - PlayFab | Microsoft Learn.

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