You’ve probably seen a little icon like the one to the right that says Player Points: (some number) if you viewed any user profile recently. That’s because ROBLOX is implementing a new feature called “Player Points”!

Player Points are a currently beta feature in which users earn Player Points in ROBLOX games that offer them, and show them off on their profiles. Player Points are NOT a form of currency, meaning you cannot buy items in the ROBLOX Catalog with Player Points; they are just a ranking system for games.

However, a ranking system for games is pretty neat. Many users claim to be the best at a certain game, and with Player Points, we will know for sure if that’s true or not. The players/groups with the highest Player Points get displayed on a new “Leaderboards” tab on individual games, and the players/groups that generally have the most Player Points get an entire new category on the ROBLOX website, called “Leaderboards”.

You can find your spot at a click of a button for either an individual game, or in general compared to the rest of the Player Point – hunters.

Also, since game developers decide how many Player Points to give out, there has to be SOME limit, right? Otherwise, players could just make games that give you 1 billion Player Points, and it wouldn’t even be a competition. ROBLOX worked around this by developing a system that allows games to gain points to give to players through sales from Developer Products, Game Passes, and Paid Access.

Here’s how it works: There is a “tax” put on the Developer Products, Game Passes, and Paid Access. Currently, this tax is 90% for ex-BC, and 30% for BC, meaning that if you sell a Game Pass for 10 ROBUX, you get 7 out of those 10 ROBUX, and the other 3 go to ROBLOX, in other words, vanish. However, with Player Points, those ROBUX get turned into 3 Player Points that the game creator can use to give to players in-game.

The Player Points that a game has to give to its players are initially hidden; it’s up to the game developer whether to show the points available or not.

Player Points are a great feature, and I use them in my game “Sword Fighting Battles”. You can transfer 1000 Sword Points, which are the currency specific to Sword Fighting Battles, for 1 Player Point! So, if you want to start earning some Player Points, Sword Fighting Battles is a great game to get started!