Hello developers, I’d like to ask if it’s possible for me to get in trouble if I add quick chat to my game for Xbox players and let them read normal chat from others.
Any help with this would be appreciated,
Thanks, MBroNetwork.
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If I recall correctly, having quick chat is fine. Allowing them to read normal chat is not fine.
The issue is online interactions w/ user generated content (in the form of text chat). Quick chat is okay because the developer curated it ahead of time.
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So I might need to do what Among Us did with the quick chat only mode?
I was hoping that this wouldn’t be the case, I’m also planning to check this with roblox support.
Depends on what your gameplay would be. I could see many platforms benefiting from quick chat without needing normal text chat depending on the game mechanics. If you feel like not having normal text chat would be unfair to Xbox players, it may make sense to isolate them.
That said, definitely check with support to ensure what I am referencing is still accurate.
It’s a pretty social game that I’m making, normal chat would most likely be necessary.
Edit: I’m not sure how to approach support with this since I don’t see a category for asking this kind of question.
Edit 2: I can’t “isolate them” since the game is a social game and requires it to not be split up.
I don’t know why you need to contact support - the blurb they put when enabling console is pretty clear:
You cannot have any console-user-generated text input in your game. This makes Quick Chat okay because the concern is with giving out private info. I believe this means you have to hide chat messages too, because it says “contains none of the following”
Considering how social this game is, I might need to make it so that quick chat is the only visible chat to Xbox players but this also kind of breaks the point of the game since people can’t use normal chat with Xbox users.
Edit: I’ve just realized, wouldn’t objects that you can write on also break this rule?
Yes, because it’s still a potential safety violation
I hate this rule so much, it’s idiotic.
It’s nothing to do with “personal information” since you can literally send that over an Xbox message which is less secure than Roblox’s filter.
Edit: And the new voice chat (which shouldn’t be on by default, it’s a safety risk for children) is even less secure than text chat.
im pretty sure that agesssss ago roblox had a feature for guests where they could choose from a select number of things to say in-game, maybe you could try that for some common phrases in your game?? it isn’t exactly text messaging but it still provides communication. if you want non-xbox players to communicate back, you could attempt at making some kind of chat system which would look for key words in the normal chat message and put it into the restricted chat equivalent. idk that made more sense in my head lol
if the game is really social, like, you cant play it without communication, i don’t think you should make it xbox compatible in the first place. i dont use the chat myself for personal reasons; i dislike hearing what other people have to say. it annoys me a lot when games base their gameplay around using communicating, it’s not worth turning my chat on for. xbox players make up like 2%(?) of roblox’s total players anyway. it’s not worth the headache.
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No from what I know guests couldn’t speak or view the chat at all apart from bubble chat
The whole game isn’t going to be focused on socializing but it does play a big part in the game.
I’m probably going to just put in a quick chat system that will be optional on other platforms and is the only form of chat that Xbox can see and use.
It’ll contain common phrases and will be updated as time goes on. (To include things that people make often such as a minigame or something)
Edit: I plan to make it possible to disable chat as well so that people can play without seeing chat constantly.