I also have this issue when I use the beta app. Personally when I use ALT + F4 my intention is the fully leave the application quickly and not have to click another button to confirm. I can see why it would be added to stop other users pranking others so they leave the application but itās more annoying having the feature than not having anything altogether.
This happens whenever you attempt to naturally close the beta app while youāre in-game; itās not specific to just Alt+F4.
When the beta app first launched in December 2020, that pop-up would only appear the first time you attempted to close the app while in-game, and then youād never see it again.
Several months later it was changed so that it instead appears every time you attempt to close the app while in-game.
I donāt know if this change was intentional, but it is pretty annoying. If itās not a bug, I agree that it should be reverted.
Another issue is that if you try to join an experience but get an error loading in (e.g. trying to join a friendās private server if youāre not invited), pressing leave will now bring you to the Roblox application. There should be three buttons if this design change is going through - one for retrying, one for going back to the application, and one for closing entirely. Iām pretty sure this would happen if you got kicked too.
Iāll set aside my gripes with the core problem that the application provides no benefits to just using the website, because itās probably not going to be axed this far into development.
Itās incredibly annoying when Iām just trying to close out of the Roblox Player.
Iād add to this that clicking the big red āCLOSE PROGRAMā button (the red x) also brings up the same menu. Itās one thing if I press Esc and then āLeave Gameā, but generally if Iām clicking the X or ALT+F4, my goal is to close the program.
Yes, itās a change, but I think itās a good one.
I never find myself having to leave a game immediately and this is going to prevent accidental closing of the window or alt+f4 pranking.
Itās pretty hard to accidentally press alt+f4 and you can just leave your mouse in the center and quit just as fast. It just makes it harder for the average user and no one else.
This begs the question, whatās the intention of forcing users to keep the application open for a short time after exiting, instead of having the ability to immediately kill the process? Upon further inspection, the process doesnāt die immediately.
Iād assume that with a slower device, this process could take even longer! Double-tapping Alt + F4:
The client needs to take time to destroy instances, free up memory, and inform the server that they disconnected. This process takes up to a few seconds.
This is terrible UX, it absolutely needs to be changed.
This intended behaviour violates Windows behaviour norms that have been defined for decades. Unless youāre asking the user if they want to save unsaved work, which isnāt the case here, it is standard UX to immediately close the program.
If you must, have an opt in for those who want to use the Roblox app, so it closes straight to the Roblox app. But for the majority who expects Roblox to follow standard Windows UX, this behaviour should reflect it.
I donāt think itās okay to violate UX norms, it hurts the player base who have an expectation of what Alt + F4 and pressing the close button does. I would strongly urge the team to reconsider their approach on this matter.
The problem here is because this āpromptā hijacks the X button, it makes it so that the app cannot be closed if it freezes, the only way now is to kill the task from task manager.
Please go back to the old behaviour where it would ask me once, but if I just press āClose Robloxā, it should never show up again.
Really, Roblox should only be returning to the home menu if I press the Home button on the escape menu. It is so ingrained that both the Leave and X buttons, as well as the Leave button on the error prompt, all close the app.
I from my own experience personally dislike the whole prompt, as far as I am aware there is no way to fully disable this prompt without hacky workarounds that normal users surely arenāt aware of (should've been a setting similarly to volume, performance display, [...] and honestly I am disappointed that it isn't as far as I am aware) and from a normal user POV it is frustrating constantly having to deal with Roblox trying to redirect me to an app that - while yes, has cleaner appearance than the Website - is a lot slower and (from my own experience) takes up to even 30 times longer to load a singular game page in some cases (sometimes refuses to load in 100%).
Nevermind the 2 posts above from metatablecat and railworks2 also seem to elaborate on a lot of inconveniences, I honestly agree with all of their points and heavily dislike how this was executed. Claiming this as an "Intended Feature/Behavior" only makes it a lot worse to be fully honest.
In my personal opinion, this completely destroys the Windows UX.
Alt + F4, by default, should terminate the entirety of the process. There should be no confirmation unless it would result in data loss, which in this case, there would never be.
The prompt could very much easily still exist for manually closing, however, it should not for Alt + F4.
This is not an acceptable UX practice for Windows machines. It makes 0 logical sense why this feature was removed:
What was added in lieu of removing this ability?
Does it do the exact same behavior?
I am not sure what exact reasons are why it was removed but I would really appreciate if a UX lead in the engine would explain the design choice here as itās truly mind-boggling.
Currently the only way to get out with solely Alt+F4 is to leave the beta through the Roblox Player app itself. It is pretty annoying that this feature was intentional to begin with, however it is a good choice Roblox can still allow us to opt-out in the meantime.
Roblox really has to make a setting for us to choose whether we want the āDUARā new quit system or the good old browser system.
What seems to be happening here is because itās deemed as āintended behaviourā, it apparently invalidates the entire topic and itās replies, if you read through the replies, the majority of the community (both Robloxians and Windows users) have themselves deemed this as unintended behaviour, which Roblox should listen to. Roblox having the mind-set of, āif itās intended we arenāt fixing itā, disgusts me.
Also, what previous problem does this āintended behaviourā fix, Iāve never heard of someone annoyed because they accidentally closed the Roblox application but actually wanted to keep it open and now need to relaunch. I have instead heard a lot of complaints with how long Roblox takes to close, even without this prompt.
What I feel is happening is that to increase retention in the application, Roblox is willing to kill UX and even lie to the end user (it is assumed that the x button closes the application)
I think they shouldnāt add things like this because something could happen and Roblox can freeze so now pressing alt+f4 wouldnāt work for that so you would literally need to open task manager and end task. So this āfeatureā is quite annoying personally indeed.
I canāt reply in that subforum so I guess Iāll still have to put this here:
I think a good compromise would be to let pressing the x button work as normal, but leaving via the āEsc+L+Enterā shortcut would go back to the application. This would be good because those who actually want to quit Roblox donāt have to go through that additional prompt, and would stop the thing about having to kill Roblox through the task manager, which is a huge whiff.
The entire time Iāve played Roblox (way longer than this account has existed) I donāt remember ever closing the window by accident. Maybe once or twice while trying to click something in the corner, but never enough where Iād consciously think about it as a reason to add a modal. Plus, most games nowadays save your data on exit, so data isnāt lost.
Once you get Alt+F4 or Esc+L+Enter pranked once you tend to learn not to do it again, and now they can just say you have to mash that key combination instead. Also, most players are on mobile, so itās really āhold the power button and the home button for free robuxā or something like that.
