Don’t click play, open the servers tab and click join on one of the servers
Ah, I thought that was due to the automatic follow/join system I implemented, but I guess the server list does that automatically. In that case, this is a Roblox issue that should be fixed. I’m not sure why they allow this when there are games that only allow access to certain places if they’ve unlocked them (such as reaching a certain level or owning a certain gamepass).
Technically you can just kick unauthorized players, but that doesn’t stop them from grabbing the IP in this case, plus that’s just extra work for something that should just have a setting to toggle allowing a user to join directly or be forced into the starting place first.