Datastore thinking that its my first time playing the game

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1

The datastore constantly prints “first” when I join the game regardless of it not being my first time playing the game - Studio access to api is on. No errors too

local dis = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local players = game:GetService("Players")

local cafe_datastore = dis:GetDataStore("CafeDatastore")




local function saveData(player)
	local cafe_table = {
		["Currency"] = {
			["Coins"] = player.Currency.Coins.Value;
		};
	}
	print(player.Currency.Coins.Value)
	local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
		cafe_datastore:UpdateAsync(player.UserId, cafe_table)
	end)
end


local function loadData(player)
	local currency = Instance.new("Folder")
	currency.Name = "Currency"
	currency.Parent = player
	
	local coins = Instance.new("IntValue")
	coins.Name = "Coins"
	coins.Parent = currency

	local cafe_table
	local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
		cafe_table = cafe_datastore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
	end)

	if cafe_table then 
		coins.Value = cafe_table.Currency["Coins"]
	else
		print("first")
		coins.Value = 0
	end
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(loadData)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(saveData)
game:BindToClose(function()
	for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do  

		saveData(player)
	end
end)
2 
if cafe_table then 
		coins.Value = cafe_table.Currency["Coins"]
	else
		print("first")
		coins.Value = 0
	end

A datastore works as it saves the data, what your trying to do is load nil data into the player. cafe_table.Currency wouldn’t be a thing. I am not good at datastores so I may be wrong…
I suggest looking at: Saving and Loading Data with DataStores - Scripting Helpers and seeing if that helps, if it doesn’t please let me know so I can help further.

As I said above, I am not good with datastores so I may be incorrect. But definitely read the scripting helpers post.

Hope I helped.

4

Aha your using the UpdateAsync, the second argument is the function where youll check for the correction of data, not the data it self, check the wiki pls

5

replace

local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
		cafe_datastore:UpdateAsync(player.UserId, cafe_table)
	end)

with

local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
		cafe_datastore:SetAsync(player.UserId, cafe_table)
	end)
6

Yes but this is just a band-aid, As this could cause data lost(experienced by me in my own game), I think he should use 2 seperate datastore 1 for the data saving and another for leaderstats