It’s just what I stated…
Of course in reporting you’ll have to give their username, however for reports that require proof such as moderation report for exploiters, they’ll normally require a video, and showing the display name of the exploiter in-game or rule violator, instead of their real username would be hard, because how would you prove it’s them in the first place if their display name is in display and not their real username as proof against the account of that user.
I don’t have a display name option in my account settings. Do I have to wait or do I have to do something?
When will they become available to the average user?
I think that might increase the risk of filter bypass and create inconsistency.
As you could probably understand, I hate this idea with a passion. Not for any privacy reasons or anything like others talk about. For me, it’s the fact I was the type of kid that tried to get the best possible usernames. From 3 letters, 4 letters to actual human names that were surprisingly not taken already. Now, with display names it feels like I did that for it to mean nothing now. Very first world problem of me, I know. It’s not that I want attention for my name-- actually scratch that, I feed off of the attention. I seek validation from others.
Terrible idea. I’m probably biased (I’m 100% biased I hate this so much).
“Yay! Another thing for people to impersonate & scam others with! Cool!”
But seriously, this doesn’t even help for development. It makes development worse, too.
I’ve also seen people impersonate the Roblox account with uppercase letters or numbers. This is also happening with YouTubers that are in the star program.
For example, a player impersonating Flamingo:
Keep these in mind:
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Not putting a display name will just make your display name your username.
That’s not what I’m saying, I’m saying they could disable it for others on their screen for security
Not sure what that’s needed? All you need to do is check the leaderboard, playerlist, or chat.
I would absolutely love that! especially youtubers in the video star program as well.
I agree with @IConsumeCheddar, there should be an option to toggle display names off and on. I know you can check the coregui, but think about it. What if you don’t wanna see display names. What if you’re in a game like club iris where there’s a ton of players, it’s gonna be hard finding a player’s original username when they have a display name like other people. Plus what if two people have the same display name? It’d still be hard to find usernames without an option to toggle display names on and off.
I can’t change it as nothing shows anymore.
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of this update. The possibilities for impersonators and the general chore of having to look for someone’s username by clicking on their display name will only complicate things. Not only this, but it will pretty much make username changes pointless, because why would you spend robux changing your username when you can just change your display name and it does 90 percent of what a full username change does?
Mate, that would diminish the entire feature.
Don’t make pathetic suggestions.
Honestly when this update came,I have changed my display name to Mohammed because my user name had that name in it, And I already knew what this could be used for I can imagine impersonators Using Star Creators like flamingo for example and exploit in a role-play game and then when the admin‘s try to ban the user they’re gonna see a bunch of mr flimflam names.
…it’s optional though? How is that bad?
Been a few months and we’ve had basically no updates on what’s going on with Display Names. They’re rolled out in Germany but still not available in other countries?
They are testing Display Name’s update so they have to roll it out in a few countries.