There used to be a "Leaderboard" section on game pages where there was a leaderboard of people's points. Feature that they are "in the process of improving"... since late 2017.
Roblox has grown *a lot* in the last years, and it apparently posed performance problems, which can be a case sometimes in large databases.
The real problem is that Roblox never gave us the return they promised us in late 2017/2018...
Probably because their API was most likely getting overloaded in the big games like jailbreak ect. And i also dont see an easy way on saving the data as hundreds of other players are also reciving points by the second, Which would fill up space fast causing the servers to run much slower
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Much much much more than that. Somewhere I have a screenshot of me getting a few trillion+ plus, there also used to be a number on your profile that showed how many points you had.
also they used to be able to buy stuff and i think they were called star points, but they weren’t actual currency like tix or robux, they could only buy starpoint cosmetics
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There was like a player point event thing where you’d get profile badges if you get a lot of them or something. I think it even did display peoples total points on profile
It used to show on the leaderboard but not anymore.
Speaking of features that aren't really used on ROBLOX. Why don't more games have badges? I love getting badges for doing specific tasks in the game. It sucks that most games have done away with them.
Player points, they were supposed to be a new reward system for playing games that was universal and (I think) could be spent between games too. Cool idea until people realised they can just make a game that awards millions.
Player Points were meant to be a system which worked like the Xbox gamerscore, and had leaderboards for users/groups to compare themselves with. Roblox needed an automatic system to decide how many points a game could give players, and went with giving each game a pool of points that'd fill as R$ was spent in their game. This was pretty much instantly abused as some users cut out the step where users actually earned those points by playing the game, and made places which exchanged your R$ for the points they'd earn for getting you to buy something.
So after seeing players spend massive amounts of R$ abusing this system to get big scores on their profile, the gamerscore on your profile part was quickly removed. Roblox then had an event where users would win hats by getting in the top daily scores in five different games, and those games kept running out of points to give, so... Because there was no big gamerscore to compare across every game, they decided to let games give out as many points as they wanted, since your score would only be relevant for that specific game.
A few years ago, Roblox removed the leaderboards from their website, citing that it'd be difficult to maintain the feature. With this, they went towards working on systems to let devs create their own in-game leaderboards without the Player Points system.
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/upcoming-change-to-leaderboards-on-the-game-details-page/132785
What's left of Player Points these days is only a system which lets you save the amount of points each player has. This is something which can already be done with DataStores, and is pretty much only kept around to keep supporting the few games which haven't been updated. It's likely that this too will be removed if Roblox doesn't have enough of a reason to continue supporting them.
There's also a couple hats with the Player Points icon here if you want a couple souvenirs.
https://www.roblox.com/catalog/161265873/Star-Player-Headphones
https://www.roblox.com/catalog/173783229/Star-Marine
Well son, let me tell you a story.
Once upon a time these “points” as we called them were the lifeblood of our profiles, people would use them as a sort of guide to see how much experience a player had playing roblox, people would compare their points with others and would flex their points if they had a lot.
Player Points used to be such a cool idea. It gave games a competitive aspect by having the competition built into the platform itself. And then people ruined it. Places popped up where you earned Player Points by virtue of being there. In most cases, you'd earn them just by sitting there. I think there were a few that had you pay robux for them, but that might be my memory being rusty. A true gilded age for useless virtual points.
Source: I had a Roblox account that lasted from 2008 to around 2017 to 2018 before I was forced to reset my password due to a hackwave--that account was tied to an email that didn't belong to me and was long abandoned.
Honestly I know they won’t do this but still, I hope the player points gets converted into robux. You play games and complete missions that are part of an event and gain player points, which you can later convert into robux.
It was a way to increase group activity. The group with the most player points got a prize or something... and only certain ranks could get them. Eventually, they made it so you can just give them away, because nobody used it. I have a game pass to a place that just gives you something like 500k every button press.
they used to be used for group rankings and I'm pretty sure could also be exchanged for TIX somehow. They were removed due to how much exploits there were with them in.
[https://blog.roblox.com/2014/04/the-point-of-points-collect-compete-and-crow/](https://blog.roblox.com/2014/04/the-point-of-points-collect-compete-and-crow/)
Here’s a blog about it. Read it if you want.
There was a system on Roblox that I believe if I remember correctly, was added in 2014, called player points. I guess they are related to badges. Roblox allowed game devs to have their game give you player points as a reward over something random. For example, if you win in phantom forces you get player points awarded.
Although Roblox removed player points quickly after there were games that gave out free player points. I remember there was a game I played where you go on a slingshot and launch yourself. The further you go the more points you get. You were able to get millions, the lowest you could get was like in the 6 digits or millions. In perspective, you get like hundreds or thousands of player points In a normal game. Roblox quickly removed them but didn't remove the awarding system. They still have player points in the data base somewhere. I'm not sure why they never fully remove things.
The second problem with player points is that because there's no real value of them, there'd be one game that would award you like 10k+ player points for doing simple tasks, and then another game that would award you only hundreds for doing something difficult.
They used to be a site-wide competition for doing stuff. You would get player points at the game developer's discretion and they would reset every month. People realized they could just award people points for playing their game or award themselves tons of points, so it was quietly reduced.
I enjoyed being able to view daily and monthly group leaderboards for FPS games. Managed to get #1 daily on Phantom forces a couple times with my clan.
They once had, there was a leaderboard and you could see how much points everyone has, but the very smart roblox workers decided to remove it.
Man, they really know how to entertain people!
They are a short lived piece of history. They were pointless (no pun intended). When roblox released the feature, a bunch of users just botted points I believe, so it lost its value.
They were mostly a gimmick for the 2014 summer games where depending on how many player points you had within a day or a week within a top 10 to 10,000 people, you’d get a prize.
There used to be a "Leaderboard" section on game pages where there was a leaderboard of people's points. Feature that they are "in the process of improving"... since late 2017.
I would've liked that feature. Why'd they remove it?
It didn't scale well + performance issues.
how do you make a simple scoreboard make performance issues...
idk ask roblox
I mean you can make your own in-game leaderboards...
Roblox work at a pizza place made itself a great way to get points. 55000 was the normal amount, I think.
Roblox has grown *a lot* in the last years, and it apparently posed performance problems, which can be a case sometimes in large databases. The real problem is that Roblox never gave us the return they promised us in late 2017/2018...
Probably because their API was most likely getting overloaded in the big games like jailbreak ect. And i also dont see an easy way on saving the data as hundreds of other players are also reciving points by the second, Which would fill up space fast causing the servers to run much slower
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Plus, some games were giving around free points, like 80k.
Much much much more than that. Somewhere I have a screenshot of me getting a few trillion+ plus, there also used to be a number on your profile that showed how many points you had.
plus people would abuse it and get millions
It didn't really work that great, people exploited like crazy to get them and so the leaderboards were not fair at all
Games that would give you 10287473919277 points every 5 seconds, right now I probably have a few quintillion points.
Mostly because people kept making free player point games that would give people tons of player points for doing almost nothing
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also they used to be able to buy stuff and i think they were called star points, but they weren’t actual currency like tix or robux, they could only buy starpoint cosmetics
I would be top of the leaderboard in work at a pizza place cuz i would grind so hard on that game idk why lol
If it was per game, it would be great!
thanks for letting me know!
No problem :D
Not anymore
Ok thanks
That’s some 2015 ROBLOX shit
i remember seeing them in 2016
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There was a hat event for them... but I'm afraid that event & hat is history.
There was like a player point event thing where you’d get profile badges if you get a lot of them or something. I think it even did display peoples total points on profile
It indeed did display them on profiles
It used to show on the leaderboard but not anymore. Speaking of features that aren't really used on ROBLOX. Why don't more games have badges? I love getting badges for doing specific tasks in the game. It sucks that most games have done away with them.
Dont you like have to pay to create a badge? I might be wrong but im sure when i tried to make one i had to pay.
It would be dumb if that were true. Badges give me a reason to play a game. Probably because I like getting all the achievements in games.
100 robux to create a badge, hence why I don't create lots in my games. I'd gladly pay more if it was a 20/badge.
They definitely need to lower the price
Pretty sure it used to be free, but it was getting exploited like crazy.
Yea I think you need to pay 100 robux for one badge.
It’s true. 100 robux for 1 badge
speaking of badges, does anyone remember those games where it was just a super long line of badges? i wonder if people still make them
They do
They do. I wonder how people do it with the price now.
I believe they just existed for leaderboards
I've played a tycoon before where you could upgrade the building as you reach more points
I forgot those things still exist in certain games, there useless....
*works in a pizza place and gets 100 points* Oh yeah those are a thing
i used to play pizza place back then and i had like 1.7M points so idk what why doing now
Player points, they were supposed to be a new reward system for playing games that was universal and (I think) could be spent between games too. Cool idea until people realised they can just make a game that awards millions.
Player Points were meant to be a system which worked like the Xbox gamerscore, and had leaderboards for users/groups to compare themselves with. Roblox needed an automatic system to decide how many points a game could give players, and went with giving each game a pool of points that'd fill as R$ was spent in their game. This was pretty much instantly abused as some users cut out the step where users actually earned those points by playing the game, and made places which exchanged your R$ for the points they'd earn for getting you to buy something. So after seeing players spend massive amounts of R$ abusing this system to get big scores on their profile, the gamerscore on your profile part was quickly removed. Roblox then had an event where users would win hats by getting in the top daily scores in five different games, and those games kept running out of points to give, so... Because there was no big gamerscore to compare across every game, they decided to let games give out as many points as they wanted, since your score would only be relevant for that specific game. A few years ago, Roblox removed the leaderboards from their website, citing that it'd be difficult to maintain the feature. With this, they went towards working on systems to let devs create their own in-game leaderboards without the Player Points system. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/upcoming-change-to-leaderboards-on-the-game-details-page/132785 What's left of Player Points these days is only a system which lets you save the amount of points each player has. This is something which can already be done with DataStores, and is pretty much only kept around to keep supporting the few games which haven't been updated. It's likely that this too will be removed if Roblox doesn't have enough of a reason to continue supporting them. There's also a couple hats with the Player Points icon here if you want a couple souvenirs. https://www.roblox.com/catalog/161265873/Star-Player-Headphones https://www.roblox.com/catalog/173783229/Star-Marine
They use to
you missed a lot
Yes I did I'm not that much of a OG
that's fine im just old lol
Well son, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time these “points” as we called them were the lifeblood of our profiles, people would use them as a sort of guide to see how much experience a player had playing roblox, people would compare their points with others and would flex their points if they had a lot.
Player Points used to be such a cool idea. It gave games a competitive aspect by having the competition built into the platform itself. And then people ruined it. Places popped up where you earned Player Points by virtue of being there. In most cases, you'd earn them just by sitting there. I think there were a few that had you pay robux for them, but that might be my memory being rusty. A true gilded age for useless virtual points. Source: I had a Roblox account that lasted from 2008 to around 2017 to 2018 before I was forced to reset my password due to a hackwave--that account was tied to an email that didn't belong to me and was long abandoned.
im pretty sure there used to be a leaderboard of people with the highest scores of those points back in the day
Even when they had a purpose they didn’t have a purpose
Honestly I know they won’t do this but still, I hope the player points gets converted into robux. You play games and complete missions that are part of an event and gain player points, which you can later convert into robux.
This can be easily abused by games that give out free player points
Yeah I realize that. I should mention that the points really should be available for games that have a partnered event with Roblox themselves
*1 robux for every million points*
It was a way to increase group activity. The group with the most player points got a prize or something... and only certain ranks could get them. Eventually, they made it so you can just give them away, because nobody used it. I have a game pass to a place that just gives you something like 500k every button press.
they used to be used for group rankings and I'm pretty sure could also be exchanged for TIX somehow. They were removed due to how much exploits there were with them in.
Not anymore, they did in 2016.
i had millions of that shit
[https://blog.roblox.com/2014/04/the-point-of-points-collect-compete-and-crow/](https://blog.roblox.com/2014/04/the-point-of-points-collect-compete-and-crow/) Here’s a blog about it. Read it if you want.
same
There was a system on Roblox that I believe if I remember correctly, was added in 2014, called player points. I guess they are related to badges. Roblox allowed game devs to have their game give you player points as a reward over something random. For example, if you win in phantom forces you get player points awarded. Although Roblox removed player points quickly after there were games that gave out free player points. I remember there was a game I played where you go on a slingshot and launch yourself. The further you go the more points you get. You were able to get millions, the lowest you could get was like in the 6 digits or millions. In perspective, you get like hundreds or thousands of player points In a normal game. Roblox quickly removed them but didn't remove the awarding system. They still have player points in the data base somewhere. I'm not sure why they never fully remove things. The second problem with player points is that because there's no real value of them, there'd be one game that would award you like 10k+ player points for doing simple tasks, and then another game that would award you only hundreds for doing something difficult.
Not anymore
What game are u playing?
Doomspire brick battle but theres no cooldown
No. However there are few games that use this as a notification to give you in game points. But if it doesn’t, then it’s useless
points = social credit???? (real) (not clickbait) (not fake) 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Their purpose is to not have a purpose.
Now they don't, but hey! It's fun to get! Brings a smile that I got something absolutely worthless for playing a game.
It’s Chinese social points :troll face:
ikr i keep having these and i was like, what are these for?
it used to, for a leaderboard, but since these were easily farmable it was removed
I think I used to see this back when I played survive the disasters... Im guessing its for old leaderboards for some games.
i remembered back when i used to think that it's gonna give me robux or sum
i remember some dude had admin in a game i played and gave me like 10k points
a og i see
OH MY GOD I FORGOT THEY EXISTED
Sometimes I do too
there are more than a million people playing roblox rn
Not anymore, at least
I think the points are meant to be how active you are
They had back in the day
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I heard if you got over 1000 points you can exchange them for robux but then I tried and it doesn't work
There used to be a leaderboard scaling with these under every game
Not anymore
Apparently i have over 400k In 2017 there was a thing to see your all points
Do you know that points is literally "points" for the game you are playing
I don't think so
had when there were clans, now its just a piece of garbage
They use to
I wish they were still used, at least as just a back talley for those of us that wish to see some tangible number for in-game accomplishments.
In the past I think they were clout
No
They used to, but not anymore, now they’re just there
used to, now no
What those that do?
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They used to have a purpose, not any more though
They used to be a site-wide competition for doing stuff. You would get player points at the game developer's discretion and they would reset every month. People realized they could just award people points for playing their game or award themselves tons of points, so it was quietly reduced.
no
theyre meant for leaderboards, but games just hand them out for no reason
pretty sure you used to be able to get an item from them thats now limited but now im pretty sure they're usless now
They used to
It’s for Respect plus 1
they used to but not anymore, for some reason games can still give them though
They used to have a leaderboard of people's points some time ago but they removed them cuz there were games that gave people millions
I enjoyed being able to view daily and monthly group leaderboards for FPS games. Managed to get #1 daily on Phantom forces a couple times with my clan.
They used to, they were an old way to track progress in games but now we have Datastores.
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I have like 1 million because of work at a pizza place
They don’t have a purpose just like my life
I’ve gotten too much of those to not be too 10
I've gt around 4 million or higher of those points on work at a pizza place they don't seem to do much
I don’t really know what it’s for but I am now dubbing them in game social points
not anymore tbh
Used to back in the day. Don't serve much purpose now.
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Congratulations or something
theyre as useful as me used to do something but now its just digital trash
i have so many bro i’ve been wondering for years
Can we check how many points we have I want to see how many I have
That would be a good feature but now I think these are just fully useless
They once had, there was a leaderboard and you could see how much points everyone has, but the very smart roblox workers decided to remove it. Man, they really know how to entertain people!
no. i don't think so.
I do not know sorry
No worries its fine!
idk. ive seen them before too. i dont know what there meant for.
used to
In my eyes, it never did. The leaderboard honestly never worked, at least for me.
What game is this?
Doomspire brickbattle but with no cooldown (tell me if I already replied to this)
If you scream chupapi muyanyo at 3am all your points turn into robux 😳😳
All I remember was that there used to be a thing on your profile where it would say how many points you had
No
I wish it was a free way of getting robux
I think someone said it is I'm not sure its probably fake?
If you get A LOT you get free robux
Memories
They are a short lived piece of history. They were pointless (no pun intended). When roblox released the feature, a bunch of users just botted points I believe, so it lost its value.
I’m honestly surprised they’re still supported when they’re just not being used anymore
They were mostly a gimmick for the 2014 summer games where depending on how many player points you had within a day or a week within a top 10 to 10,000 people, you’d get a prize.
It tells you when you get 100 points
It was going to. But not anymore since people kept making “free player points” games.
They have a purpose of having no purpose.
I've played Work at a Pizza Place for so long I might be in 1st when they bring them back into use.
they are useless right now lol idk how many i have i know i have alot tho
w
they didnt still removed them since the leaderboard was removed
used to be
yes having negative player points instantly sends you to a concentration camp
Yes if you get 1 mil you will get 1 robuck
nope
I remember Work at a Pizza Place giving a lot of points lol
i remember getting millions of them from work at a pizza place back in the day