Developer Hub Game Pass Confusion

[UnderMyWheel (Wheely)]

Not too long ago, Roblox released the brand new functions and events for game passes. However, many new and even experienced scripters are still confused due to the Wiki’s information on game passes not being up-to-date. Listed below, I have compiled a list of outdated information about game passes on the Wiki:

• The GamePassService should be marked as deprecated as there is no use for it anymore since its only function, PlayerHasPass, will not work with new game passes and should never be used.

• The PlayerHasPass page should be marked as deprecated and that they should use the UserOwnsGamePassAsync method instead.

• In the PlayerOwnsAsset notes, it says to use the PlayerHasPass method when it should say to use the UserOwnsGamePassAsync method.

• The PromptPurchaseFinished event in the notes section should say to use the PromptGamePassPurchaseFinished event for detecting in-game game pass sales.

• The PromptPurchase function in the notes section should say to use the PromptGamePassPurchase function for prompting in-game game pass purchases.

[1waffle1 (Waffle)]

I thought the update about the re-release of the gamepass updates meant that everything would work now. Can we get a list of what doesn’t work so I don’t keep implementing things wrong?

[sleitnick]

Thanks for posting this! I’ve recently been very confused by this too when searching for solutions.

[Maximum_ADHD]

We are aware of the documentation quirks. Rest assured that this and many other things are going to be fixed in the near future. More information will follow in the coming weeks.

[RuizuKun_Dev (Kitsune)]

That might be too many to list but you can find most of them here

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@EchoReaper

To clarify, list of known gamepass issues:

• Purchase event not replicating to server
• Ability to purchase gamepasses multiple times
  • Players are only charged once
  • This also causes a bug where it displays the final Robux balance as higher than the predicted since the player wasn’t charged
• Purchase prompt showing incorrect or no thumbnail
• Purchase prompt triggers warnings in output
• Purchase prompt refers to gamepass as “product” instead of “gamepass”
• IconImageAssetId is not set for product info returned by gamepasses
• GetProductInfo fails for off-sale gamepasses
• Purchased gamepasses are added to end of inventory instead of beginning
  • Only happens when purchased in-game

As posted on other threads, most of these have fixes on the way, but the newly reported ones have all been logged internally as well.

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@Beartikal

Hi, just one question.

How can I get the Image Endpoints for the GamepassId.
Previously, with the AssetId, I could do
https://www.roblox.com/asset-thumbnail/image?assetId=4365935&width=420&height=420&format=png
But now, I cannot figure out how to do it using these new IDs.
Thanks.

@RuizuKun_Dev appears to have the same issue as described in this thread

Gamepass Icon via Script (Without Uploading Decals) Scripting Support

[Polyhex]

Just ran into this very frustration when updating my old game. Nowhere on the wiki does it say PlayerHasPass shouldn’t be used or replaced with the newer, better way, and I was stuck confusedly trying to figure out why my GamePass wasn’t working at all. Please do something about this!

[ArchiveChampion]

Thanks everyone for flagging this.

We completely agree that our documentation was a bit confusing here.

The following changes have been made:

• GamePassService and GamePassService:PlayerHasPass have been updated to explain the difference between the current and legacy game pass scheme and provide links to the correct API members to use
• MarketplaceService.PromptPurchaseFinished and MarketplaceService:PromptPurchase have been updated to include a link to the correct members to use for game passes.

If anyone is looking for a general how-to guide for implementing game passes under the ‘new’ regime, we also have an article up on that topic.

Note - we are aware there are some display issues on these pages (largely due to cross-references not rendering correctly). This is a known bug.