Player Points are basically obsolete now, as the only thing that’s left from Player Points is the small message that tells you about points added or lost. It’s basically just a variable that is global and can be added to or substracted from by any game, but is useless.
What is the point of player points anymore? You can just make a game to give yourself 100000 meaningless points, and you can’t even check your player point total. It’s literally just the message that’s left from player points.
New people to Roblox might get confused about what are player points and would need to search for what it is and the fact that it’s now obsolete.
The leaderboard for player points was also removed in like 2018, so what’s the point (pun intended).
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I feel if they are removed it would be more beneficial just to disable the notification, I wouldn’t be surprised if removing the API completely would break a lot of older games which still have this functionality
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PointsService is already deprecated so it can be removed at any given time.
There are some deprecated features that do end up getting removed and break functionality in game, like AdService (?). Developers are usually given a window to migrate if it’s a widely used function, or it’s just flat out removed and you’re expected to work around the problem. Older games breaking doesn’t really hold up here.
If there are truly a lot of games dependent on PointsService and Roblox decides to completely remove the feature, then migration can happen in such a way that it’s not disruptive. Each piece of the API can be removed and throw warnings or errors: for example, calls to AwardPoints fall through and produce a warning instead that points can no longer be awarded.
I don’t think PointsService is blocking any platform progress but if it is, it’d be more beneficial to stop supporting it and get rid of it rather than to keep it on as bulk or just disable the notification.
By the way, you can also use SetCore to disable the points notification yourself.
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