Do not change "Updated" date under game page unless the developers actually Published

Currently when you save, instead of publishing, in Roblox Studio for a game that is published to the website, the website will change the update date for no reason. Even if you don’t change anything, especially in team create, just opening, and saving your work will change the update date. I think this should only occur if you actually publish the changes.

I think this should be changed because it’s incredibly misleading to players. They will assume the developers actually updated the game, even when they didn’t change anything or didn’t even publish the update. It’s also very annoying that I have to explain this to players when they accuse me of changing something, when I didn’t, and they point to the updated date on the game’s web page.

Before saving (not publish) in studio:

After saving in studio:

I know “updated” doesn’t necessarily mean “published”, but to the average player, they will assume the changes were published.

My first assumption would be that this is an easy change, but I don’t have a clue how Roblox’s back end works, so it may actually be disruptive, but this would be much appreciated.

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Updating this for behind the scenes work in addition to player facing game updates makes this stat on the games page completely meaningless to the player. It should belong on the creator hub instead in this current state. On the game details page it should show last published only.

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I agree with what you said, it should only be updated when the update is published.

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Agreed this has been bothering me so much because old games randomly get “updated” when I open studio and I think it shouldn’t be this way

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Players keep asking me ‘what was the update’ but there was no update :confused:

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That happens if you have AutoSave feature enabled, it can be disabled on studio settings, i think.

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