A lot of people, as ive noticed via scrolling through these comments, are backing up this update by claiming nobody plays the old games that got locked down anyhow.
So, here is a list of actually still popular games that got locked down by the update:
- Paintball!
- All 3 of the original Mad games (Mad Games, Mad Murderer, Mad Paintball)
- 2 Player Gun Factory Tycoon (bereza’s version)
- Blueshift
- Strife!
- Purple Skittles 1 and 2
- Sword Fight On The Heights IV
- Escape Room
- A Pirate’s Life
(The list will grow as I learn of more)
And this is only POPULAR games. This doesn’t include any slightly-popular or not-popular games on Roblox that got taken down. Thousands of players play these games almost everyday, and the wide majority of these games became a part of their Roblox journey. They made friends on them, had experiences on them, and these games ultimately shaped their experience on the site. Why are we taking these games away from them, simply because their developers aren’t active on the site and/or don’t want FE to break their games because of the bugs in the system?
Here is a way in order to make things a lot easier for us all; obviously, most of the classic games on Roblox are not going to be updated for this. However, also obviously, we need to ensure that the games with developers capable of enabling FE on their games do so that the players are protected. So, instead of just locking down every game that doesn’t have FE updated, lock down all of the games that don’t have FE updated, but have been updated within the past year or two. After that, it will be obvious the owner isn’t active to the point where they can update it to make FE active, so either automatically set FE onto those games or unlock those games, but put up a warning message saying the game is not FE and may be exploitable.
I can truly and honestly see the ethics gone behind by this update; it helps ensure the security of Roblox users, and it ensures that those games without the protection are required to get it to protect their players. However, to just completely lock down all games from being accessible simply because it does not have FE on it, I believe, is not the route to go with this update.