This is a great update and I understand why this update is being made. However, Roblox doesn’t exactly have a good history of automated termination systems or proper moderation support, so I hope there are some safeguards in place to prevent wrongful terminations on everyone’s part.
Hope to see some future follow-up with Linux too
Will this affect users that use Sober on Linux to play the game?
this is exactly what the announcement is for.
Honestly its frankly technical ignorance on Roblox’s part to actively block people just because they use a different operating system to give themselves more freedom and stability of THEIR device.
There’s no reason to block it other than sheer stupidity to be bluntly honest. Roblox clearly don’t care about having quality creators on the platform by blocking an OS typically used by those with sheer creativity.
There’s a difference between not actively supporting linux, and actively blocking community efforts to make roblox work on linux with no work from roblox themselves, the latter of which Roblox has done.
If Roblox do not at minimum remove the blocks that prevent linux users using the platform, they’re going to see a huge decrease in users in October when many switch from W10 to Linux.
Roblox should give developers tools to detect exploits, but a platform-level anti-exploit I do not think is a good idea, especially when some games may wish to allow certain tools that may be considered exploits such as autoclickers or multi-account usage to substitute for friends in multiplayer games with benefits for having friends join you / play with you in the game.
I really think Roblox needs to actually clarify what they mean by this announcement, rather than vague terms that don’t give us any real idea what they mean or are targetting. Already loads of users are arguing about what Roblox is aiming to do with this change, and frankly clarification is sorely needed to prevent unnecessary conflict and worry.
Will this effect users who use Reshade, and bloxstrap (since it uses fastflags)?
To be fair a lot of those are likely just players with joins disabled or set to friends only or something
ROL is dying chat GG I’ll have to use a VM again </3
these might not be bots. i think it some kinda “obfuscation” to prevent those roblox join extensions from working? correct me if im im wrong tho.
Surely this year will be the year of Linux.
Yes, it’s a runtime environment (like Waydroid for example), not a entire modification of the Roblox client.
For reference, there are “hacked” redistribution of the Roblox mobile client, these are not allowed, but fetching a official copy of the Roblox mobile client to give it to Sober is perfectly fine.
Good change if it actually blocks cheaters for more than 2 weeks
though I wouldn’t be surprised if it also ends up catching a lot of linux users… I’d rather not have to use my windows partition more than Absolutely Necessary (Mostly for an extremely petty reason but I digress) so if that’s the actual result then this change is BAD!!!111!1!1!!111.
Ya is removing the “\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\ROBLOX_singletonEvent” Handle using ProcessExplorer part of the ban?
This has been in-place on the platform for years, Roblox obfuscates a large majority of avatars as random avatars such as avatar packages or amalgamations of real users avatars to prevent exploits that allow people to be stalked even with joins disabled for users who are not friends or followers etc.
Also, a lot of users are kids or people with minimal spending money and do not know how or do not care or cannot afford to customise their avatar.
billions must GPU passthrough. YOTLD.
i use X11 because of a KDE bug, hopefully they fix it soon do i can use wayland then 
That is very wrong. Earlier, Roblox clearly stated using third-party softwares such as Bloxstraps violates their new ToS. They also made an announcement/post about it clearly stating they will be banning users for attempting to modify client’s side. Please read their post carefully.
Nvidia GPU?
Either way, you still can run Waydroid under a compatibility layer to run Wayland applications under X11, check: GitHub - 1999AZZAR/use-waydroid-on-x11: This guide provides comprehensive instructions for installing and using Waydroid on an X11-based Linux system. Waydroid is a powerful tool that enables you to run Android in a containerized environment on Linux, giving you a full Android system experience directly on your desktop. and Weston - ArchWiki
Sober itself shouldn’t be effected until we see it directly addressed, the way the post is worded means that Sober isn’t blocked or effected, just modified redistributions of the client is.
This likely won’t affect people who use Bloxstrap as it doesn’t modify the client directly (however they might have to remove fastflag modification), but will this affect Linux users such as people who use sober to access roblox?
