Well, my case isn’t quite ordinary - I work on a game hosted on Crykee’s account, as we’ve been unable to convert it into a group place.
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I would personally still like to see the server list as a feature - personally being able to choose a sever, especially if you are trying to join a cirtain server due to a player requesting an admin.
I also agree with Waffle since you would need to be friends with anyone that you wanted to join.
Maybe this ‘servers that your friends are in feature’ could be hidden behind a drop down - since being someone who doesn’t accept FR’s, I can rarely think of a situation that I would just happen to be playing the same game at the same time as someone on my Friends List.
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I would like if there was an option in the place’s configuration page where you could enable expanded server lists. Mostly because clans rely on this to for example:
- Identify a server with enough defenders present (by looking at their uniforms)
- Identify another clan member they want to talk to (that is not their friend)
- Join the right server if there are multiple ongoing trainings at the same training center
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If the concern is bots scraping games pages for user profiles then a middle ground is pretty simple. Don’t include usernames/userids/profile links, just have the avatar thumbnails and keep the server lists and player counts. Usually I don’t care who specifically is playing in each server, and if I do care, I can probably recognize them from their avatar icon.
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Why did they decide to do this? What if im a loser and I dont have any friends.
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I don’t understand the benefits of this update. it just makes it harder to play games.
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I have the same problem as As8D. I am a developer of Lava Tumble, but not the owner. I used the server list all the time to server hop, meeting new players and interacting with them. This update removes my ability to do that.
One of the things that I do to promote Lava Tumble and generate excitement and loyalty for the game is to join different servers and throw a party for the players present. This is fun for most players and they get a badge as a result. Without this ability to server hop, I can no longer select the server to visit. This is disastrous to my ability to interact with the players.
Please revert this change.
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Can you it so if I click the play button, I avoid my friends’ servers if possible?
The auto-join feature is terrible for a lot of (competitive) games, and there is no way to opt-out of it currently.
If I didn’t manually join their server, I didn’t want to be in it.
Currently the behavior remains the same.
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A new thread appeared (again) with over 12 pages already; https://forum.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=221244380.
I think this might be a long day/nigth…
Leaked Future Update
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This is also problematic because viewing servers was the only way to fix when ROBLOX matchmakes you into an empty server.
game instance crasher
ok, also: http://www.roblox.com/games/getgameinstancesjson?placeId=316264464&startindex=0
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finding vulns and reporting them is my favorite thing to do. rest easy.
Let this be an option you can enable, “Show Friends” option basically.
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Someone on the regular forums pointed out that this could be problematic if you get matchmade into a bad server. For instance, if the server is broken, the population of the server is toxic, etc the player won’t be able to for sure select another server and have to rely on matchmaking if they don’t have any friends in the game.
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yep. that’s not the vuln though.
your link still requires a bit of trickery but anyone with the slightest knowledge of cookies (not the food kind) can easily get to it. hey wouldn’t you guess it - bots are programmed.
Yes, actually. It appears that was their reasoning
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Surely there’s a systematic way to defend new users from phishing links by lessening phishing bots by putting in anti-bot captchas in place for sending messages (or detecting that you’re sending way too many messages)
On top of which if the user isn’t your friend messaging you and your account is still relatively new, put a glaring warning/ format the message so nothing on it is clickable/ selectable.
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It wasn’t thought through enough, honestly. They can still scan groups, any even just scrape through the player list if desperate.
This won’t reduce the spam PMs for most users. If anything it’ll increase as more people move over to large group targeting.
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