I originally thought this too but then realised it doesn’t really matter:
So any ‘guest’ that finds your game, signs up and then plays will count (I assume)
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I think this would need clarification. Since you have probably already signed up before seeing the games, (Home page has no link to games before login which is a whole other issue to do with user experience) you wont have been on a game, then signed up because it is an impossible task.
The removal of guests mean the players now have to sign up before they can play the game. I sincerely hope that if they sign up from there you get the signup statistic. (By the way, Roblox staff, redirecting to home page with a return URL really breaks flow, especially since there are multiple forms on the page i’m taken to and doesn’t look anything like the same site I was just on apart from by name. Might I suggest a form that appears just like the one that does if I’m not logged in and click play?)
RIP Guests, glad I found all the cool guest numbers like 1337 before this 
. Understand the change, but will miss guests!
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What game?
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[ Content Deleted ] - Roblox, since been taken down, but pretty much every single player was a guest idle in spawn.
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I wasn’t aware this kind of system existed, haha.
I always thought the people who developed these systems weren’t particularly adept at it (after reading the horrificly bad code behind other malicious programs 
)
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Hey Developers,
Guest Mode has been turned off for iOS.
Thanks,
Developer Relations Team
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Just going to reiterate
Every time one is taken down, the bots switch to another. This is on the front page and all the players are Guest. Remove the “Solution” on this post if Guest are not even removed.
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Another one just hit front page! This needs to be taken down ASAP
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At least make guests not count towards the player count (frontpage-wise)
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Does any platform officially support guests any more? Does the website or any of the apps support guest mode?
If nothing officially supports guest mode, all guests must be “hacked”/exploited in through unofficial means. Would it be reasonable and allowed to kick these players from our games?
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I think that for now, just not counting them towards the player count (as einsteinK said) is the best solution.
Sometimes I try and join a game and I get thrown in as a guest instead of myself - no clue as to why this happens, but it does. I’m fairly sure this is what happens for most of the guests you see, seeing how there is no proper way to log on as a guest anymore.
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It’s the best solution on Roblox’s side of things, definitely.
I’m asking as a developer if I’m personally allowed to kick guests from my game since they are likely not legitimate guests.
Given this information, it’s probably best to not kick guests since they are actually, probably bugged players. This is the sort of thing I wanted to know about in regards to if kicking guests was “reasonable”.
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Ironically when I was signed in one day I went to play that Injustice game. I have no idea why but it set me as a guest when I was clearly logged in. I don’t know why this occurred but bugged players isn’t out of the question - just not that ad game.
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AFAIK on Android it’s definitely possible to play using really old versions by installing the APK from outside Google Play. I know that because our Google Analytics constantly had bizarre errors logged like “upVector is not a member of Vector3” that only made sense once I realized it was players using old clients that didn’t have those.
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Yeah. Android no longer has forced updates iirc.
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When are they going to be removed entirely?
It has been five whole months since this was announced and for now I’m just treating people joining as guests as either using really outdated and insecure software (which is bad anyways for them and for me) or doing so for malicious intentions.
Either way, for the game and the user’s security, I’m kicking all guests joining my games. There’s no point on handling side cases anymore when such cases were officially announced as removed.
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Yeah, I was tracking some stats yesterday, and to my surprise it appeared to include guests still. Not sure how this hasn’t been officially removed yet.
Actual stats I found yesterday in one of my games:
Of 4,200 people, 19 of them were different users using the guest system
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