Badges are broken in my game

[TheRealAbsurd (Absurd)]

The badge system has been working fine in my game and now all of a sudden it doenst work at all. I need the badge system to work for my game to be playable. Does anyone know why this is happening?

This is a script that awards the player a badge when they join

It was working fine before today and now its just broken.

[XxLegitOPxX (Legit)]

You should probably wrap the BadgeService calls in a pcall to handle errors. Other than that I’m not sure why that error would happen, as a fail-safe you could also try checking/awarding the badge like 10 seconds later if an error occurs again. Roblox has a code example on how to use BadgeService efficiently (when a player joins the game):

local BadgeService = game:GetService("BadgeService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local badgeId = 00000000 -- Change this to your badge ID

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
	-- Check if the player has the badge
	local success, hasBadge = pcall(function()
		return BadgeService:UserHasBadgeAsync(player.UserId, badgeId)
	end)

	-- If there's an error, issue a warning and exit the function
	if not success then
		warn("Error while checking if player has badge!")
		return
	end

	if hasBadge then
		-- Handle player's badge ownership as needed
		print(player.Name, "has badge", badgeId)
	end
end

-- Connect "PlayerAdded" events to the "onPlayerAdded()" function
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)

[ElectrizedAdam (Adam)]

If you are encountering this issue while testing in Roblox Studio then I see why. Studio servers are unable to handle badge awards, test your thing on a game server.

[brandon1804 (Fenexy)]

Maybe the game isn’t loaded yet, try to add the characteradded and wait() after the playeradded, and see if it resolves

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		wait(3)
		local owned = badgeservUserHasBadgeAsync(plr.UserId, 2148715202)
		if not owned then
			badgeserv:AwardBadge(plr.UserId, 2148715202)
		end
	end)
end)

[TheRealAbsurd (Absurd)]

Ok so just like how the badge service stopped working randomly it also fixed itself randomly. The game is working now thanks for responding guys.