How many parents do you think care about this or understand Roblox?
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Maybe all people with devforum regular rank?
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It sounds like a cool idea, but literally no information was given on a system to prevent impersonation. And this just seems like a lazy way to fix the “No good usernames” problem…
Are there any more restrictions on display names? If I wanted to, could I choose the display name ROBLOX? Or asimo3089? Are you able to choose and set your display name to someones exact username?
I own a small community with some events, guidelines, vip servers ect… Could people now set their username to TrippleStrike333, join one of the groups vip servers, and start causing problems?
I know this problem was discussed before this announcement, yet it was still decided on. Either there is no system, or ROBLOX just isn’t very transparent.
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Cant wait for all the edgy americans to using bypasses in display names too!
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I think what he is saying is how will the player easily know the username of another player who is using a displayname?
Say you have three players in your game named ‘Bro’. Your player needs to enter the name of ‘Bro’ to do something, how will they enter the proper Bro’s username? How will they acquire it to use it? How many steps is this gonna be?
Or if its just one Bro, your code will have to translate that or require the use of the userID which the player will have to decipher and use?
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Will this be limited to alphanumeric characters or will other characters be allowed? I’m curious how this could allow people to stylise themselves.
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If you had a system using the player’s username for identification, there will be 0 issues. You have to use player.DisplayName for that. Even though Roblox sometimes, lacks problem solving, I doubt they’re stupid enough to go through with this update without some safeguards against impersonation.
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Can’t wait for people to start using random latin words to make people think they’re smart (wait they already do that)
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They should have your user id or user name be below your display name in like 80% opacity like on a twitter users page.
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Supposedly Devs can force usernames throughout their game, however, its not gonna work for all games. Some developers may not want to force usernames, or maybe its a hugely popular place that doesn’t get updated.
I really hope there is some sort of way to tell people apart. If there were 2 users with the same display name in the server, it could show their username, but that still doesn’t solve impersonation with just one person in the server.
There should be a way to easily tell their real name without having to click somewhere, as some younger users don’t do that. (maybe in the chat window, or under their name on the playerlist, just so it doesn’t say just their display name).
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The 1st and 2nd problems could be problems, but your code shouldn’t have to translate that into UserId since any code would probably use player.Name already.
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Even though there might be some impersonation, this update will definitely have a positive feedback among the majority of users!
This update will be great!
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I’m pretty sure it makes it harder for the moderators of discord report servers for exploits. Players would have to try and get more evidence than usual, they likely wouldn’t even be able to prove that the exploiter’s display name isn’t an innocent players username, since display names and usernames are show completely separately.
In games where there are a lot of players in one server (like adopt me), its hard for the younger players and kids to actually find the person’s username among all the other usernames. What if they pretend to be a co-developer that doesn’t have the dev badge because of team-create? Then it would be harder to know whether they’re actual developers or fakes with display names, because it would be tedious for the players to go through all 100 players in the game and check if the developer’s username is there.
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There shall be an option for automatically setting display name to Humanoid.DisplayName even if a custom humanoid is being used. I don’t think that one more layer of delay shall be introduced for this.
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Exactly! I feel that there’s literally no point in doing this update and all it will do is just cause nothing good. A lot of people will begin faking that they are a developer like minitoon (which a lot of people are already copying his avatar) and it will make kids fall for scams more easily. Also it sort of ruins the point for anybody who is proud of having a unique name cause now people can just put in any display name.
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I like this update, but I think that there should be some sort of developer verification like the star program so it’s harder to impersonate.
Me too. Just watch roblox economy crash.
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Imagine roblox actually listening to what roblox players want
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I am strongly against this update, the main problem is impersonation. I suggest listening to developers’ feedback before coming up with such a big changes.
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I agree. Big youtubers, roblox admins, etc are going to be impersonated. I hope they find a way to stop it though.