How many players could a ROBLOX server theoretically support without extreme lag if you could bypass player limits?

[dezway (Rasvyet)]

Would an MMO game work with hundreds of players in a server at once? Or just something like 150?

I’m aware that a ROBLOX admin made a game with a 10,000 player limit, but I don’t think that ever reached 10,000 concurrent players.

[Pseudosuper]

There was an experiment with MessagingService last year that tested the capabilities of something like this:

MessagingService: Creating an 'infinite player server'

Update: this no longer works with the recently imposed restrictions, although I’ll consider recreating something similar in the future to work with these changes. With the release of MessagingService, a wave of creations originally impossible to achieve have began popping up. Developers can now create global chatrooms, easily broadcast global announcements and setup basic match-making systems. However, out of all these, one particular concept really caught my attention: @Hanfian’s ‘infinite pla…

Although not everyone was in the same server, it created the effect that being so. It was possible to get 300+ players together with filtering.