I was literally about to post a thread regarding this because it has gotten on my NERVES.
I use the Home Page to monitor my game’s current player count.
It is the easiest way to monitor it, as just with normal use, I can check up on the game just by using the website.
Now I Cannot do this, as the “FRIEND ACTIVITY” icon exists, permanently, even though I do not have any friends in the game currently.
Earth to roblox. Knowing if a friend played a game within the last who-knows-how-long, is not a justification for completely removing the playercount from the game icon. It was absolutely annoying enough before when it’d show the friends playing, but since it’s just permanently up now, roblox has effectively made it extremely, extremely annoying to check up on my experiences.
Being that it’s my game, obviously I have friends playing it every once and a while.
Duh. I know this. Show me the player count!!!
I don’t want to see this NONSENSE!
It is hilariously bad from a player’s perspective, as stated in the OP, but I attest it’s a terrible change for developers too, making player count unviewable at a glance on the home page.
(Some have even claimed this might be contributing to the algorithm problem stated in this thread: Roblox’s Algorithm Changes Are Killing Our Game
Though I have limited evidence for this.)