Hello everyone, i’m working on a game since some months now and getting close to it all being finished. My question is how do you manage updating a game? Is doing “publish to roblox” enough to push the update out? I’ve also seen there is a “Shutdown servers” option but i can’t find whats the usage for that. Any help and guidance would be appreciated. Thank you and sorry if my english is bad, not my native language.
Saving to Roblox means that itll be saved to your Roblox STUDIO.
When you publish, itll be rolled out to PLAYERS in new players. You can force players to update to the new server by shutting down the servers.
Save to Roblox: What you did is saved but players can’t see the changes.
Save to Roblox As: It’s the same as “Save to Roblox” but it’s to save what you did in another game.
Publish to Roblox: What you did is published. players will see the changes.
Publish to Roblox As: You can publish what you did but in another game.
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When you publish the game, the servers that are currently running won’t update, but from then on anytime a new server starts it will get the update.
For example, let’s some people are playing in a server and you publish an update. The server they’re in won’t change at all, but now if some other people go into a new server, that new server will use the latest version of the game that you published. Now if the first group of people in the un-updated server leave, the server will end, so un-updated servers don’t last forever. Basically if you just publish an update there will still be some servers for a little bit that don’t have the update.
However, if for some reason you need all the servers to update immediately because you found a crucial bug or something, then you can shut down all the servers, which kicks everyone out, but now all the new servers will contain the important update.
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Publishing to Roblox will save your game and release your game at the same time. Although, there is a saving option where it will save in only Roblox Studio. Shut downing servers is only necessary when you are publishing the update to Roblox.
Thank you guys for the replies, now i understand much better 