systemic racism =/= update on children’s game
Gotta say, that was quite the jump there.
I don’t think this update is really gonna affect us our entire lives and also be around for decades after we perish. C’mon, now…
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My idea: Why don’t we give some constructive criticism here to the devs and make sure they can see it. Not just insult them and each other but try to make an open discussion happen somehow. We understand now why they are doing it so why not butt heads and try to figure out the answer to their dilemma instead of just chewing them out.
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Although I support the free audio uploads, I am against the change to audio privacy on Roblox. I’m sure that just about every game without a sound designer on their development team will struggle as a result of this, and what if the current sounds they use in their games are exactly perfect and or had scripts attached to them? I’m pretty sure this change will be a detriment to a lot of games on Roblox, especially games with a big number of sounds. I don’t really find it fair that many of my games will lose some life to them as a result of this change, and same for many other games. I understand that there will be an expansive catalog for sounds and sound fx, but I feel like it isn’t really necessary to limit the privacy of just about every audio on Roblox.
Right, I respect your stance on not wanting to take any side, usually I tend to take the same approach as well.
Of course, in this circumstance I just can’t see any good that will come out of this update.
It’s going to break so many games, it’s going to make development so much more difficult, and people are just accepting this?
sorry for lack of elaboration /gen
I was comparing how systemic racism is relatively “forgotten” but still effects silently
us today
and this can be applied to this update
this update might be relatively “forgotten” but the lack of community made music would effect us silently
same for this
I do admit I coulda just said “it will effect us silently”
im very sorry
I also kinda hate the 5 minute limit
PURE SPECULATION but it kinda sounds like they KNEW this would be contreversial 
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You guys are thinking about this update with a short term mindset, when this change goes into effect, roblox audio moderation will probably be really strict, which in turn means that uploading bypassed audio will be really hard, and us developers don’t have to worry about using copyrighted audio in your game anymore. plus free audio :). i see this update has a net positive
I disagree there, I mean as much as monstercat is OK ish, EDM doesn’t fit any of the vibes my games have. Id rather be more comfortable uploading my own stuff that I have gotten permission from the rights holder to upload rather than rely on roblox.
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why not make the auto moderation strict and a few more things that won’t destroy a lot of games
keep in mind this still makes all of the community made sounds private
I dont really recall you even mentioning that topic
Why in the post do you talk about Monstercat as the best music on the platform, you guys know the update isn’t that good and has a lack of library of any music. Like you mention Roblox’s Stock Audio and Monstercat as options.
if you have permission then upload it, all roblox is really doing is wiping audio that might be in valuation of copyright
I don’t want to be “that guy”
but you’re probably giving Roblox a bit too much credit here.
IF and this is a HUGE IF they do manage to improve the automoderation that still doesn’t excuse how the only thing we’re going to have for the next year or so is just royalty free music and probably a SMALL amount of stingers and sound effects that will be genuinely bare bones from what we used to have.
This doesn’t even account for the fact that they’re saying this is going to be done for other assets, which is a HUGE red flag if you’ve ever seen anyone trying to police image copyright enforcement.
Actually this brings up a really good question…
How is this going to help with this supposed copyright infringement issue if people will still find ways around it? This is just going to go back to square one…
This just makes me wish more that they would have been open to us about this issue beforehand, this lawsuit isn’t new, they could have found a compromise with us from the get-go if they would have not left us out of the discussion.
no company what’s to be open about them getting sued bro
There’s reasons you don’t say anything about a legal issue while it’s ongoing, while I don’t blame them for being forced into this situation, I 100% blame them for how they are handling it especially when there are much better ways of going about it.
a large music company might have threatened them with a new lawsuit cause this update came out of nowhere, and it seems really rushed. don’t be surprised if clothing is next
Exactly! There’s much better ways to go about this without having basically the whole catalog wiped out in 2 weeks.
I dont mean discuss the legal case, but do discuss things that can be done.
For instance, they could say something along the line of:
"Hello Robloxians,
We are needing ideas from you as to ways we can better our moderation and distribution of audios on the game to make the site safer and better for all! These are some ideas we have come up with and would like to hear your take on them. We have a deadline of (insert date here) to complete this so do give us your feedback!!!"
That doesn’t say why necessarily but its a lot more open than just saying we are making X changes and you need to alter your games or risk them being ruined.
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The main thing that still bothers me is that most people (including me) have only 10 audio uploads per month. I do not have any sort of ID that Roblox will accept, and we still have no idea what the criteria for 2000 a month is. One thing’s for sure, 10 per month is not nearly enough for me.
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If you are planning to leave this site if they actually roll out the update
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i’d say the most important step of the journey is learning how to learn well
this lecture is especially important for skills that are very very difficulty and time consuming such as art/programming
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yes
Yeah? I think you’re overlooking a couple things, keep in mind that these are the same people that introduced/support:
The entire concept of rthro, devex rates, requiring IDs to use voice chat, accidentally releasing broken layered clothing, breaking cookies, increasing pending sales, hiring people who’ve accepted bribes to access the admin panel (although who could have known they were going to do that?), the entire CSG system, game discovery, terrible customer service & moderation, lack of communication with the community (remember when Roblox went down for 3 days because of a burrito and left us with 2 tweets?), failure to implement proper support systems for developers to players, privating #feature-requests, this, the release of many invasive/annoying, non-disable-able features (like the require output thing), a laggy script editor when using GSync or Mac (somehow caused by colour profiles like what?!??!), whatever this is, somehow uploading audios with explicit names, somehow allowing users to get hacked without rolling back (1 rollback per account per lifetime!!!), terrible bias when it comes to ugc (I’ve seen many talented 3D modellers get denied but somehow star creators get instant access to ugc), and don’t get me started on the terrible people in that program but that’s for another discussion…, deprecation of surfaces (come on we want nostalgia), keeping the develop tab the same for like a decade, removing tix (debatable), horrible filter, not listening to the countless good feature requests, weird moderation on the devforum, lack of transparency on the devforum, frankly poorly optimized rendering engine, not considering feedback on new features, weeks of delay on bug reports, continued pursuance of features that have little to no support (I’m sure roblox would remove r6 if it weren’t for the handful of games that give Roblox a significant amount of revenue that would break if they removed r6, broken AutomaticSizing, not having basic fundamental UI features (blur? why is uistroke not scalar?), the few individuals that continue to suck up to Roblox and manage to defend them even when it’s a clearly stupid feature not naming anyone but I hope you know who you are ;), and that doesn’t begin to scrape the surface.
I can get behind wanting new technology but focus on things that actually matter first.
Yeah, the entire community being outraged and countless games being unplayable will sooo be forgotten in a week!
also not to mention this thread has 2.5k replies in 2 days.
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