are we gonna rename “disconnected from the game” to “unfriended from the game”?
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Just because people tend to work a certain way online doesn’t mean you can just change a widely used term to a corporate term because “some friends aren’t actually friends”, otherwise everyone would have adopted such a term by now
And if differentiating between friendship levels really is that big of a problem, they could have just added best friends (or used a different term that’s more generalized while not being overly corporate) as a way of denoting a higher level of friendship while leaving everything else alone
Even if this trusted connections thing didn’t exist and we just went back to generally being friends, people can still decide on their own whether a friend truly is a friend or not, no generalized corporate garbage terms or wierd online dating functionality in a kids game required
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roblox did have best friends back in around 2009 but they removed it in 2014 for whatever reason
You’re right.
I don’t know what else to say.
I completely agree with you.
None of these questions are remotely related to what I said.
Not every person on your friends list is a friend.
That’s not me defending the renaming choice, or saying that corporate is the way to go (see previous posts, I have done nothing but dispute this change). It’s just me poking a huge hole in your logic.
They didn’t remove it, they renamed it to “friends”. What were called friends at the time later became mutual followers.
Look, I’m not even mad at the idea of Trusted Connections. Being able to talk freely with your actual friends? That’s cool. That’s what people have wanted for years. We’re all tired of typing “w h a t” or “d*mn” and getting tagged out like we’re doing something evil. So yeah, let verified teens chat like normal people. Fine.
But here’s where it all falls apart: why on earth are we calling them “Connections” now?
Like seriously… connections? What does that even mean in the context of a game? It sounds like something out of a business app. “Let me unconnect this associate from my professional Roblox network.” Are you serious?
Everyone else still uses Friends — and they should.
- Fortnite: Friends
- Minecraft: Friends
- Steam: Friends
- Xbox: Friends
- PlayStation: Friends
- Even freakin’ Clash Royale: Friends
So why does Roblox suddenly need to be different for the sake of being different? This isn’t innovative. It’s not some forward-thinking safety thing. It just sounds like a corporate buzzword forced into a space that was already fine. You’re not making things safer by changing a label — you’re just making it weird.
And what now? We’re not “unfriending” people, we’re “unconnecting” them? That doesn’t even sound real. Like, nobody’s saying that out loud in real life. That kind of language just strips the emotion out of it. It’s like Roblox is trying to sanitize the platform so much that even friendship has to sound sterile.
Then there’s the whole Age Estimation thing. Sure, it’s meant to protect younger users — but let’s be honest: AI scanning your face? That’s not gonna work for everyone. Some people don’t have an ID. Some people aren’t comfortable giving their face to some system just to talk to a friend. That’s not accessible, and it sure as hell isn’t comforting.
And don’t get me started on the privacy tools. Do Not Disturb? Parental dashboards? Online status toggles? Cool, but none of that fixes the real problems — like the broken moderation system, false bans, bots still slipping through, zero transparency, and support tickets that feel like they’re going straight into a void.
It feels like Roblox is trying to slap on shiny new features and language to look good for investors while ignoring the core of what makes people stay: community. Real friends. Actual connection, not whatever “Connections” is supposed to be.
At the end of the day, kids just want to play games and chill with their friends. Not “users.” Not “connections.” Friends.
Stop overcomplicating it. Stop trying to be LinkedIn. Bring it back to what it used to be — real people, real fun, and real friendship. That’s it.
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You want to push online dating, yet in your OWN LinkedIn page it seems you cater to under 18s.
Wikipedia pages, and Google show game to this day.
You are getting nominations for game of the year, having multiple games.
and like i said twice now, why friend them then?
Because you need them as a contact? Why do you think so many developers and/or content creators are connected? Do you really think every single one is a friend?
other platforms call them friends (like discord or other social medias) does that mean they’re also friends irl too?
Check any old, inactive account from <2015. I can gurantee you most of them will have at least one friend despite having not logged in since the year they joined.
No, it doesn’t mean they’re also friends IRL too.
But, using the logic from your FIRST reply, you’re saying they SHOULD be friends irl.
The two messages oppose each other, clear as day, indisputably. Please stop trolling.
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this is utter peak and it’s how i picture roblox in the next few weeks
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Its impossible to moderate a community as big as roblox; without pre-emptive measures in place. ROBLOX is a large scale platform, infact, the biggest platform for users to actively and simultaneously connect together. We’re talking 1 billion daily users. Do you reckon ROBLOX hires 1 billion moderators to moderate each user?
Absolutely terrible change. I have not seen one person who likes this rebrand. Especially the poll where 98% of players hated this - clearly nobody wants it.
If I were collaborating with someone or sharing an objective with someone - I would consider them my friend. We had the same interests in collaborating. The last reason (general interest) is literally just the definition of a friend.
Also, it sounds terrible to say. What would I now call friending someone? Connecting with them? It it so much easier to just say “friend me” instead of this. Even renaming it to adding them would be better.
I dont call them close friends - I call them friends. I have real life friends who I don’t consider “close friends” but still “friends”.
Heres an idea: revert connections to friends and change trusted connections to close friends.
If I were a parent I would be frightened if my child’s game had people labeled connections. It sounds worse than friends.
Others have already gave enough reasons as to why each of these are a bad idea.
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Literally exactly what I envisioned how a conversation with these changes would go like.
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