Well, I officially want to cry now-
Coming from a person who loves social and competitive games where voice communication is very important, I am not fully on any bandwagon when it comes to this topic. In the right situation, it can really enhance how people play games and communicate. For some games (outside of the platform), they simply wouldn’t work without in-game communication. My first thought would be Counter Blox, whose non-ROBLOX counterpart relies heavily on team-mate coordination and call-outs that can’t be done quick enough by typing.
The idea behind it is very good, actually, if you do look at ROBLOX as a game engine and platform. ROBLOX has obviously taken strides to expand who is playing their game, and by categorizing accounts into ‘13+’ or ‘under 13’, it’s been able to do so somewhat successfully.
As with any platform, making an account that is 13+ to use a service is not foolproof. If we want to compare to a platform like Steam, or even Discord, there is no “verification” and it all boils down to liability and the terms you agree to when signing up. Even 13 year olds don’t belong on many Discord servers, and to be exposed to unfiltered voice and text chats, but that’s just how it is.
It all boils down to making ROBLOX a platform that is welcoming to 13+ people, and that is more difficult than it seems. As of right now, the community, regardless if they’re 13+, sometimes can’t even say large numbers, their own usernames, or even mention social platforms outside of ROBLOX to communicate better on, without being filtered out. The standard for maturity on the platform and the extent at which people can communicate has already been set, and adding voice communication is a big leap.
I think the idea is right, and timing is not. Work on these things that scream “ROBLOX is a platform for children”, and start yelling “ROBLOX is a platform for everyone.” Give older players some more freedom first, and then make the jump to voice communication. I feel like everyone is wondering in their head “how are they gonna filter us in voice chat,” and also believe that the text filtering has gotten a bit too far. In my opinion, work with what we have. Once we finish that, then we start adding.
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If you have the trust level member or higher you had an oppurtunity at being in the beta
Even top developers like clonetrooper (A person who is responsible for essentially posting every change to roblox studio, and was a high-visit top tier developer for god knows how long) didn’t get it, it selected 5k people randomly who were in the trust level Member+ on the devforums, which means me and you had an opportunity, we just weren’t lucky. If you scroll through this post you can see a majority of people who got access have this trust level, and some never even developed a game.
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This is because you don’t have access yourself, you can only access VC-Enabled servers if you have access to the beta, if you don’t, you get teleported as you described to a non-VC-Enabled server
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It only happens If I join friends from the home page, If I join friends from their profile, then I can join VC enabled servers.
edit: this is a bug, see here for more info: Unable to join friend through the home page
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unfortunately I was not selected, but I find this new tool really fantastic and useful
Maybe they will use speech recognition and if a word is bad, they will notsend the audio to other people and they will send audio to a place where moderators will review
My only question would be how will profanity in-game be handled? I know that it is almost impossible to avoid swearing/cursing in today’s world both inside and outside of the digital world, but I also know that ROBLOX is pretty strict when it comes to handling inappropriate behaviors. I just want to know how it’d work legally and ethically.
We have invited more eligible developers to the Spatial Voice Beta. If you are selected, you will receive an invitation with more information on how to opt-in to the developer preview via a Private Message.
We also invite all Spatial Voice Beta users to join the Roblox Community Space each day between 12PM - 2PM PT (7PM - 10PM UTC) to help us playtest!
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I am pretty sure they are brain storming ideas because I much agree with what you are saying. It is one thing if it is chat and now it is another if its voice chat. I would think they would do the same thing that news channels or tv game shows do by bleeping them out every time someone says a curse word or type of profanity. Since this is a game I think their methods could be different but I could be wrong.
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Hopefully I’ll get invited to this…
So do the invites go out as soon as it’s open for testing?
I was selected for the first wave of invites to the spacial voice-chat feature, however, i seem to have had it revoked today for no apparent reason. Were some people removed to make room for the new eligible developers or something?
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Thats really weird. Maybe they are removing the people who already had access because of what happened? I dont know thats really weird though.
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Will there ever be any information about the criteria of being “eligible” for those who need it?
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it seems to be so much fun, if you want to invite me to try it, we’re here to try it
I’ve been in the community for about 7 years now and I only see very well-developed progress, congratulations.
That’s what I thought as well. Only thing I was worried is that if only speech recognition is a thing, and we don’t know how it’ll be done and how it’s going to be filtered from client to server yet. I got a few guesses.
My best guess atm is that it’ll behave like Message:FilterStringAsync() from the Chat API. Obviously there’ll be a latency, and voice data (from my experience) tends to hit a bit more latency when transmitted from point A to B, therefore I think sometimes there might be a delay associated with it if it’s being filtered on server.
I got invited, I’m excited to try it out, but I’m not sure about how it’ll look like down the road.
Got access yesteday, its pretty cool to use
Fortunately I had the opportunity to hear and see with my own eyes and ears this new function, it is incredible!!