Why is Dialog.DialogChoiceSelected event not firing?

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I am trying to make a shop, you talk to a blacksmith to access the shop
when i ask for a weapon via the dialog i put in the blacksmith, the DialogChoiceSelected event seemingly didn’t fire. I came to this conclusion after seeing that nothing printed in my code.
I have looked at the developer hub just to reconfirm nothing was wrong, i checked where i placed the script, during play test, and also when scripting, to make sure nothing was wrong.

dialog script:

local Smith = script.Parent
local Dialog = Smith:WaitForChild("Head"):WaitForChild("Dialog")
local RpS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local ClientEvents = RpS:WaitForChild("GameRemotes"):WaitForChild("Client")

Dialog.DialogChoiceSelected:Connect(function(plr, choice)
    -- code in comments mean that they were there, but deleted
	if not ClientEvents:FindFirstChild("Buy") then print("bruh") return end -- did not print
    -- print(plr.Name.."'s choice was: "..choice.Name) -- did not print either
	if choice.Name == "weapon" then
		wait(2)
		ClientEvents.Buy:FireClient(plr)
		print("Test") -- also did not print
	end
end)

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also, i got no errors. i wouldn’t be asking if there were errors, because i usually know what the errors mean. if i don’t know what an error meant, i would just ask for details about an error instead of a question like this

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if I’m remembering correctly, you can only use this on the client-side. maybe move it to a LocalScript and use CollectionService to retrieve the shop dialogs.

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hold up but then what’s the purpose of the player parameter? seems to be the sollution though, so thanks anyway

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I’m assuming Roblox just never updated it to work with FilteringEnabled, otherwise it would work. I’d recommend using a custom dialog system anyway, allows for more customization and the default one feels outdated anyway, at least to me.

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They should, otherwise shop games like this are not going to work with the Dialog. But maybe its a old feature so I doubt that Roblox is going to fix this issue.

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This sucks cause I have a condition that once met does something to the server but needs the server to check the condition so I have to make a script to talk to local and back to server again Roblox should make it possible to play this function on a server script for convenience. Honestly I would have never known about this with out your comments so thank you for that.

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the other way is to just make a custom dialog system
but that’s a massive pain

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