I’m working on a game with a character creator that lets you customize the following features:
First Name
Middle Name
Last Name
Age
Birth Date (Specifically the day and month)
All of these features can be fully customized by any player as they wish however i was wondering if ROBLOX could potentially take down my account/game for having these customizable features under the pretense that I’m trying to fish for users real information. The birth date itself is probably the biggest offender of this as i am 100% sure quite a decent chunk of players would (probably) enter their real birth dates so they can get some special events/cutscenes or whatever else on their actual birthday.
So would my account/game be at risk of moderation due to these features?
While I don’t believe Roblox will take down your game, it’s essential to consider the following:
First Name (Do not enter your real name)
Middle Name (Do not enter your real middle name)
And so on…
Naming precautions like these are necessary because people might start arguing. Additionally, it might be wise to implement a feature allowing users to change their names if they accidentally use their real names. I highly recommend continuing to use a Placeholder Account since we are all aware of Roblox Moderation’s shortcomings, and it’s best not to take any risks.
Furthermore, it’s advisable to thoroughly review the Terms of Service to ensure that your game complies with all the rules and is 100% safe. I hope this information is helpful to you.
I was thinking of implementing some warnings like this, hopefully they could work.
But yeah, you’re 100% right that i should probably use an alt account to hold my experiences in, thanks for the idea!
Right now i have both. Originally you could only type in names, it’s just recently that i have implemented lists of premade names. While removing the ability to type in custom names would 100% make the game more safer from moderation, i do also believe it would somewhat take away from the customization potential a bit.
Alternatively, something i could do would be to entirely disable the ability to type in names if your account is under 13 (or something else similar, not 100% sure how you would check for the player’s age.)
Likely they wont, but it also sucks they wont give us at least some sort of boolean to see if the player is above or below 13. Only way i found to somewhat get around this would be using the PolicyService and checking if the player has access to external links. It’s a pretty half baked method but right now its the only one i have found.
I don’t believe you should try to limit what they do base on their age, I think instead just limiting the amount of personal data they can input in general is a better idea.
I mean, do other player see that data or only them?
If other player can see it, I’d not let them enter any data at all
If It’s only for them to see, then you can let them use a bit more info. But try to keep it limited
The main reason as to why i would limit what players can and cannot do based on their age would be for the fact that players over 13 could at least have the mental capacity required as to not blindly insert their entire real information. There are so many warnings and label i can give to a player under 13 before they just ignore all of them entirely.
As for who sees them, the first, middle and last names are primarily going to be used by both players (players will be able to see your character’s first, middle and last name) and NPC (those being able to address you by one of those 3 names). Whole reason for these features is simply just more in-game depth and a slight level of “realism”. It’s a very easy option for me to simply not let anyone enter any custom data at all along with this probably providing that sense of realism even more (as there wont be any player’s called “Poop farter 9000”). However i do have to say that I’m not 100% okay with removing said custom names entirely. It just feels like I’m somewhat downgrading the experience.
Well, you will need to implement Roblox filter so that user don’t use profanity.
Maybe you could have the other player see a “default name” but for the local player they see their name.
You have to think that if the game is made for all age, some sacrifice will need to be done in order for all to play. I think the best idea for this, at least for name, is only allowed them to put a first name and then let them chose a premade name for a family name. Not every one as a middle name, that’s also something you need to think about.
Making it so kids can input basically their full personal data is risky and could possibly result in moderation even if you warm them to not do it.
For age, I think you could use their account age, base of their join data. So it relates to them, but It’s not their actual info…