This is an absolute no.
Well, yes and no,
We do not yet know nearly anything about this feature, but I would like to see at least these being a thing.
Looks like it. I don’t think I’m the happiest about that.
I didn’t use the feature a lot, but when I needed it, it was extremely useful.
That would ruin the purpose of this feature.
Roblox idea’s to stop it is to filter out the popular people usernames so they can’t be used.
I’ve seen people use this display name in some games, it doesn’t confuse me at all since their username on the leaderboard is the default player name.
This whole display name thing is dumb, but for once, I think that this would defeat the point of display names and make the situation even worse.
If I am (hopefully) correct, you can only view DisplayNames in game. That would be way too confusing on the website.
Now this is something I can get behind. The only problem, would group visits count as well? I work as a CEO of a game studio and have no interest in making any other games solo. Of course it could be botted but why bot a game just to reserve a name and possibly get banned?
you can view display names and usernames on the website
I’m almost at 10k visits, so I can apply for name lock soon that nobody will impersonate me with the display name, I’m actually at 8.9k visits
Also I’m a small youtuber
One final begging request of mine:
PLEASE allow for spaces, dots, underscores, and more unicode characters to be allowed! Myself and many others would love for the freedom of this. I feel as if this would cause more creativity for names than the basic username criteria being enforced on Display Names as well.
As far as I know, this shouldn’t break anything at all. The only situation of Display Names with special characters unrestricted breaking something I can think of is the possibility of ruining some TextLabel/TextBox etc. fonts for characters that are unsupported within the fonts. You can’t reference a Player instance by their DisplayName property using scripts, so there should be no scripting issues with allowing special characters as well.
I think anyone who doesn’t want to be impersonated should be able to apply for a name lock. It’s crazy that just because someone isn’t “famous” means that they can be impersonated.
Horrible idea.
People would apply to lock popular names, like real people names. This would literally just cause for Display Names to suffer the same fate as the already-existing usernames… so many of them being taken.
I meant more of, anyone can apply for a name lock for their own username only.
For me, it should they can only apply their own username for the name lock, also it’s not very hard to get a username for an application
Absolutely
If you make the restriction high enough then it won’t mean all names would be name locked. Say 10k you-tube subs or 10k+ MAU. 10k Visits was an example. Visits could be good but 10k is a little low. There should be some sort of dev/user verification or name locking feature so we know the real user.
There should be reasoning behind what name is locked and what isn’t. If the name is too “general,” as in a real life name, it shouldn’t be locked, because, for example, there are other people out there named Matt. Don’t lock general names like “Green,” “Matt,” etc. but usernames that are totally unique like “mrflimflam” should be locked.
Yea, if it’s too general it should not be locked.
Yes names like that should be locked(when the user hits “said” req)
Petition to lock the rare name of SillyMeTimbers
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