Xbox custom chat implementations no longer work

[Dued1]

It looks as though Roblox has disabled custom chat systems for every xbox player. CanUserChatAsync() and FilterStringAsync() now returns false for xbox players. What is the reason for this?

[HmmBilly (BillyH)]

This is due to :

Xbox players can no longer chat, resulting in major loss of playercount

Recently, we have been working closely with Xbox to ensure that the Roblox platform is meeting Xbox Requirements. This change was made yesterday, and we are still preparing communication to announce to the wider community. We will also be making changes to the Developer Hub Xbox page to reflect this information.

As your players discovered this means that text chat is no longer available. You did mention in this post that there are other features that accept custom input that are affected by this change, would you mind giving me additional information?

This was reported last night by Cindering

Topic can be found here: Xbox players can no longer chat, resulting in major loss of playercount

EDIT: I hope this has has helped a bit on what has happened!

[KnightGaladeld]

Cindering reported this issue earlier in the week. (Xbox players can no longer chat, resulting in major loss of playercount)

The recent change was intentional to comply with Xbox requirements. Our team is working on a wider-community announcement that should go live early next week with more information.

For more information you can check out @nsgriff response.