Players Join Group through Engine API

[Dhammapada]

It’s impossible to get users to join our Roblox groups from in-game. The alternative is an entirely more difficult process, taking the users out of the game, ruining their immersion, and ultimately dampening their experience - when it doesn’t have to be. Having users able to join our group via an in-game Engine API would improve player retention, sense of community, and overall player experience.

It also creates friction for players on devices that cannot easily alt-tab, such as those on mobile and Xbox who wish to join the group either to follow or for rewards.

Something like a PromptJoinGroupAsync function would solve this issue.

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If Roblox implements this, player retention would increase for games under a group because it becomes easily accessible for players through the Groups tab to find the games again.

Additionally, Roblox could use it as a signal to improve cohort home recommendations based on the types of experiences that group is developing, becoming an indicator of what genre types that player enjoys.

[Stinch_Comb]

Already been requested many times before.

Ability to prompt in-game user to join group

Problem: As a Roblox developer who does groups, it can be particularly difficult to specify to some people specific groups which they must join / request - especially when you have formatted affiliates. Most recently I have begun my Star Wars project, as some of you may know in military groups you tend to have your main group, then divisions and then sub divisions which is great but then it’s difficult to give pathways from main to sub division. What I have wanted to achieve recently is a way …

New Group Methods and events

[code]:PromptGroupJoin(int GroupID) Will, if the player has a free group slot, prompt them to join a group. Any join requests will be approved automatically.[/code] [code].PromptGroupJoinFinished Event which is fired when the a player responds to a group join prompt. Returns: Int GroupID Bool JoinedGroupSuccesful[/code] [code]:ChangeRank(int GroupID, Instance Player, Int GroupRank) Will change the rank of the player in the group specified to that of the one given by the GroupRank paramete…

Join Group Prompt

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to get players to join your roblox group with group rewards systems, so I was thinking that roblox should make an option that prompts the player to join a roblox group in-game. For example a prompt that asks the player to join a group when the player wants to claim group rewards instead of having to leave the game, join the group and rejoin the game to claim the group rewards. If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my developme…

Join groups in-game

Saw this post on the main site and thought it was really neat. Re-posting here since I don’t think the staff ever get to check the main S&I forum in all its glory with spam and whatnot. It’d be similar to the “Would you like to purchase this shirt?” notification you get when you’re prompted for a purchase with a script. [image]

GroupServices PromptJoinGroup

Currently, the only way to join a group is directly through the website or group page. A lot of games, rely on their community to grow or, have cool in-game perks for group-members which is great and it benefits everyone! The problem is… For mobile and Xbox players, they would have to leave the game entirely to join the group. There is also the possibility that when the player leaves the game after playing they’ll forget to join. If the player is on Desktop, then it is easy to tab out or leav…

[royee354 (Royee)]

Maybe it’s about time Roblox listens to their community then

[TeamDreams123 (sillygoober)]

Bump, this still needs to be added.

[HungryFox02 (Hungry)]

Bump x2, still needs to be added

[wallofgarlic (garlic)]

Requested many times but not added once? Very unfortunate.

[metatablesnow (snow)]

This is hopefully going to be added soon, according to this post:

@lm_gameon

Hello @6Clu and interested devs! Thank you for the suggestion and support for this feature! We’ve reviewed the suggestion and believe it would be beneficial for many, We will be tracking this suggestion for a possible future implementation, but I am unable to provide a timeline at this time as there are many factors for our team to consider. Thank you all for the feedback!

edit: (sorry, didn’t mean to reply)

[Hooksmith]

Hello, we are planning for this to go out to all creators in December.

The API signatures will ship in release 700, but we will wait a few weeks afterwards for clients to pick up this version before we can enable it.

[Santos_M27 (SantosM)]

I just used this feature in Roblox Studio and I must say… IT’S INCREDIBLE!!! This will for sure help my games grow my groups without the players having to leave the game!

[Hooksmith]

Hello! This is now live:

Prompt players to join Communities from in-experience!

Hello creators, We’re excited to release a highly requested feature for Communities: you can now prompt players to join your Community directly inside your experience, using GroupService:PromptJoinAsync! Grow your Community without interrupting gameplay Communities are a fantastic tool for keeping your players engaged and informed about your experience. Until now, players had to go to a separate browser or leave your experience to join your Community, creating friction and missed …