Will Players.PlayerRemoving consistently fire?

[Matthais5]

Just out of curiosity, outside of shutdowns/migrations to latest update by the developer, will Players.PlayerRemoving consistently fire for the last player leaving a server?

To extend the question a bit, if you were to call a service on PlayerRemoving (e.g. DataStoreService, MessagingService) will the server be consistently able to finish whatever it’s doing before shutting down?

[sjr04 (uep)]

@HiroyukiSawano_nZk

Just out of curiosity, outside of shutdowns/migrations to latest update by the developer, will Players.PlayerRemoving consistently fire for the last player leaving a server?

Not consistently it looks like. I have seen occurrences where the callback doesn’t finish or it just never fires.

That is what game:BindToClose is for.

@HiroyukiSawano_nZk

To extend the question a bit, if you were to call a service on PlayerRemoving (e.g. DataStoreService, MessagingService) will the server be consistently able to finish whatever it’s doing before shutting down?

It does in my experience, but again, That is what game:BindToClose is for.

I have a tutorial on this.

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