As you said “similar” not the same.
WITH this update you can choose a display name of your like.
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Remember that roblox has lots of kids in it and kids fall for a lot of scams. This update will make scamming a lot easier.
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Already possible with false groups. Even then, since DisplayNames are easily accessible to everyone, it’ll be much less effective than a similar username.
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It’s not useless. Let’s say you have an NPC talking to the player, they would now say “hello chris” rather than “hello chrisplayzroblox23423423”. It makes the experience alot more personal
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Love this, yeah there is some negatives but hey its awesome.
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I was already thinking of ways to combat this, such as a setting in-game and on-site to disable, reorder, or tinker with the display name feature; Reordering display names to appear below usernames in-game, or changing the way they’re displayed on default player characters (such as “(displayname) [(username)]”, or a combination of realistically anything.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. This feature will cause a ton of problems for me and many people. If devs really want display names for people in their game, they can just add them! You already see this in RP games.
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Yes, it has a lot of kids. But even a kid can realize everyone can have the same displayname when the game tells them about displaynames and allows them to use one.
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I have a controversial proposal:
What if for all the extremely worried developers about impersonation, you could get a sort of “license” to your username for a large fee? Probably relatively expensive so people can’t go around sniping display names as well. Maybe 25,000 - 100,000 robux
Owners of large games could use this to avoid impersonation in any game
Also
There could be a feature that automatically hides any display names that are the same as the game creator of the place they’re in?
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Again, Roblox already has special identifiers and unique badges to those who qualify for it, so the point of impersonation only applies to a small group of Roblox celebrities and developers. Either way, it’s pretty easy to identify an impersonator compared to an actual person via their username, so this risk is very minimal and does not pose much of a threat compared to other on-going problems on the platform.
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I mean, the feature is a good idea, seeing as how you can now have a single name across the entire platform that doesn’t clash too much against your actual username. I understand the complaints also about how malicious actors can use this against players.
E: I also note your specific mention about social roleplay games having a display name feature.
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Exactly. Especially when players are prompted to set one to begin with, increasing awareness.
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Some children, don’t know official roblox developers have badges.
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Putting a paywall behind devs to stop their own impersonation is bad UX and shouldn’t be the solution. Devs will just not purchase this and impersonation will still be a huge problem. I personally don’t want to drop $350 on a username, at that point i’d rather people just be misled.
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A lot of kids won’t think about checking reliability. They just see their favorite youtuber sending them a free robux link and that’s enough for them to get scammed.
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Because it isn’t explicit. Setting a DisplayName is much easier to notice than looking at the profile of a specific user or looking at a hidden badge list.
This isn’t confirmed, but it’s likely Roblox will make DisplayNames part of the sign-up process, further decreasing chances of getting tricked by it.
Well, if roblox is going to implement this update, roblox should implement a developer verification badge, that only a selected developers qualify for, this badge would show up in game, basically like other social medias.
What do you all think? Heart this if you agree.
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Sure, but prioritizing it over the user’s real username? This will cause real issues that way outway the benefits of a platform wide nickname that isn’t really necessary.
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I agree completely. A system to easily identify popular users could be a further step on avoiding impersonation, with or without DisplayNames.
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The only people worth impersonating and blacklisting are official roblox staff. Definitely possible to filter out anyone trying to change their display name to the username of anyone on the roblox team.
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