I’d say this was handled quite alright but it could be done better.
10 uploads per month is a big underestimation of just how much developers would need it right now. I would recommend that the limit would be bumped to 30-50.
If the staff does not want to do that, atleast remove the limit for the rest of the deadline to ensure that developers would replace all of their audios before march 22 as uploads are much need due to the short deadline this change has.
you may tell me to just verify my age but I refuse to give my actual information to a company that has a notoriously bad moderation.
no offense to moderators, but you guys really could do better (taking to account that if you guys had better moderation for copyrighted content, this wouldnt have happened in the first place.)
Why is this privacy update so damn important? Roblox staff are like a middle aged man with OCD wiping the whole counter just because of 2 breadcrumbs. I’m so done with this garbage corporation, daniel the tax evader can lovingly kiss my rear end.
Yes, But all of the UGC Audio (Aka, All of the GOOD audio) is completely missing.
Except for sound effects shorter than 6 seconds, But still. Practically 90% of it, is gone.
Sorry to break this to you but that tells you almost nothing. The current situation in Ukraine is making stocks everywhere wonky.
Let’s look at AT&T for instance:
11am Mar 9:
4pm Mar 9:
11am Mar 10:
Current stock price:
Don’t think AT&T stock would be affected by Roblox’s update. Neither are the investors. This update is not affecting stock prices. Not saying the update is great, but it’s not the “downfall of Roblox” like everyone thinks it is.
Roblox moderation randomly bans you for assets that are completely fine. If we have to upload it on our main accounts, we pretty much can’t develop games anymore because guess what? We are banned for nothing.
I just want to make it clear that most of the developers who “quit” will hardly affect Roblox, nor it’s stock. The stock is actually low because Roblox is simply being less active as the pandemic passes and people spend more time elsewhere. Furthermore, a lawsuit against Roblox on audio copyright is probably responsible for causing a drop in stock prices.
If you quit, you most likely have no or little effect on this platform. Roblox profits off of the top games, which in turn profit off of Roblox, and there is little chance they will leave.
Setting all audio longer than 6 seconds to private will break almost all existing games AND free models.
This is the worst thing that can be done. Instead of automaticly setting audio to private, they should add option to set it to private and only newly uploaded audio will be set private.
But they made audio uploading free… but at what cost. Almost everyone uses player created audio.
Player created audio that is on sale is suppose to allow players to use it.
Personally i don’t really want to use roblox stock audio
TLDR Privating all exesting audio that is longer than 6 secons is the worst idea. It will ruin free models and most of created games
Assuming a game with 150 audios needs to have them replaced, and each audio takes 3 minutes to find a replacement, that’s around 8 HOURS spent changing audios. Unacceptable.
As far as I am aware, it has to do with Roblox being sued for A LOT of money due to copyrighted audio. Hence why you can’t make it public and only private, although with proper checks, this problem could be somewhat combatted.
I just thought of a way to slightly help any developers that can only upload a small amount of audios a month, with way too many audios you need to upload.
You can thread a bunch of audios together (without exceeding 7 minutes) and have a second of silence or so in-between them.
Then you can have a script that starts the audio at a certain time, and when that part of the audio is finished, either stop or move the audio time back to the beginning of the audio.
That still would take a lot of time anyways, and in some cases you don’t want to merge audios into a single audio. For music, that is probably fine; but sound effects probably not.
