I feel now would be a good time to bring back up these two potential solutions that /u/QuiteAmazingStuff posted on Reddit.
Even that first one would be a better way of handling this than completely removing the history that these old places hold, though if posible the 2nd one I feel would be a great way to keep everything alive.
You’re kidding…? No more historic Roblox games. Forget about being backwards compatible and making sure you don’t break anything - let’s just remove the games entirely.
Why not just force the switch to filteringenabled? I want to visit Wit’s End. I want to visit Dodge the Teapots. I want to visit Thrillville, and King of the Hill.
Just force the switch to FilteringEnabled. Don’t make all of those old games COMPLETELY unplayable.
I understand the need to keep people safe, but just force the switch in that case. I seriously do not see the point in completely making all of these games null when there are other solutions like the ones @CaptainJadeFlames posted about.
Time to say goodbye to classics such as:
A Pirates Life
Banland
Be Crushed By A Speeding Wall
Chaos Canyon
Cruiser: Hyperspace
Daxter33’s Paintball
Deception Infection
Dodge The Teapots of Doom!
Egg Hunt 2014 (Drzewko)
Glass Houses
Haunted Mansion
HERE, where the world is quiet
King of the Hill
Lost Thoughts Fortress
Mission to the Moon
Ninjas vs. Samurai Pagoda Battle
Nuke The Whales
Pinball Wizards
ROBLOX Museum
Rocket Arena
Sandbox
Santa’s Winter Stronghold
Survival 303 Original
Sword Fights on the Heights
Thrillville
Ultimate Build
Ultimate Paintball
The Underground War
Vidre Cova
Welcome to ROBLOX Building
WipeOut Obby
Yorick’s Resting Place
Zombie Tower
You will all be missed dearly.
Sort of strange how Roblox haven’t taken measures to update their own games, like Welcome to ROBLOX Building and Glass Houses, to make them playable again. Since the official Roblox account doesn’t accept friend requests, there’s not much hope we’ll be able to play them again.
I don’t agree with this decision. Let us play classic games again. Please, do something about this.
Exactly, I think that if everyone understood FilteringEnabled properly, they would just use it. It’s perks massively outweigh it’s cons in practically every aspect. Some light pushes such as only allowing 13+ players use experimental games, and featured games having to have FilteringEnabled on etc would have been fine, but right now everyone hates Roblox, and I’d say that in part it’s Roblox’s own fault that people feel that way.
That second one seems like a really reasonable solution.
I feel like preventing 13+ users from joining experimental games is an unacceptable destruction of older, unmaintained games.
Please reconsider this decision. 18+ users at the very least should be allowed to play experimental mode games to preserve these historical games.
Even just forcing all old games to FE is more acceptable than locking them all forever. Many old devs have moved on. They will not enable Filtering on their own. If a developer wants to close their game if it doesn’t work with FE forced, that’s their decision. If a developer wants to disable filtering afterwards, that’s still their decision.
Let us at least JOIN old games. Even if some don’t work.
If I had to guess, Roblox is trying to slowly phase out experimental mode. With access restricted to these games from all users, it makes sense to stop supporting it. There seems to be a lot of confusion for new programmers about the differences between experimental mode and non experimental mode anyway.
Daxter33’s paintball, for me.
What about a method of playing experimental games with FilteringEnabled on? Players can join a game in a ‘Secure Mode’ or something along those lines, and although many scripts would be broken, at least it’s not entirely closing the game for good.
This game is what kept me on Roblox for a couple years.
Not all games will work if you just “force the switch” on them. If they were made without FE in mind they won’t work with it.
On a separate note, now that we don’t have to worry about backwards compatibility as much if at all, will we finally see changes to the API such as removal of deprecated items only those old games used?
It totally screws up things for those of us who are recreating the old games with fe. I don’t want to go back and spend 3 months fixing the older games to work with fe while working on the new game like seriously. Let 13+ users play the game or even 18+ this is causing a lot of harm and backlash for developers even though the reason behind it is good.
Practically everyone fakes their age on almost every internet platform.
Well, it’s quite funny because they are absolutely useless now. I’d rather see them broken even further than never see them or be able to play them again.
And that is their choice to play the game then.
And that’s not gonna fly with parents, because if they don’t know any better they’ll just jump on the “ROBLOX IS BAD!!” bandwagon and blame it on Roblox.
you could do anything and that 1 parent will still complain. Roblox literally could put Hello every-time you login and someone will come in complaining saying it is racist or sexist or some other thing.
That’s not the point, most of these news articles you see are children who have willingly entered ‘sex places’ that they have come across. Of course they’re not going to tell their parents that, they’ll say someone’s exploiting or something.
On top of the fact that as far as I can tell no parent takes any interest in what their child is doing online, so it doesn’t matter whether it’s the child’s choice to play the game, parents will always blame Roblox.
It may have taken away our old dated games, but it increases the safety of the community as a whole, and that’s what really matters imo.
The fix to this is teleporting to all of them. After that they’ll be unflagged. I created a post here.