As excited as I was for this update, It feels more like a way to appeal to greedy EDM music labels and force a more corporate soulless feeling to sounds on the platform.
I’ve always been annoyed by the fee for uploading audio and the fee for badge uploading but 10 every month is ridiculous and having to give my ID to some people who have never even heard or interacted with me IRL is not something I feel like doing at all just so I can have the freedom to upload the audios for my “eXpERiENce” updates. (Or buying a membership that seems more like a cash grab at this point just to upload my audio)
It’s horrible, this update needs rethinking or I’m probably moving to Core or even just a standalone engine where I can be successful without some big business practically standing over my shoulder and telling me what I can and can’t do with my own creative freedom.
DevEx does not affect audio upload limit. No one knows how the limit is calculated or determined, but there were cases of people having premium or devex still being stuck to 100 per month. (or 10 per month if no id)
one suggestion could be if we could use the audio only in studio and test its performance in game before really upload it, that could avoid consumes the limits with audios that you think it is good but actually goes bad when whithing game atmosphere.
I literally make my own audios. And as we have seen, it’s not me that would get sued - it would be Roblox. See what happened to pokemon brick bronze, the entire reason why this new update exists, etc etc.
Just stick to unity until the day comes or an announcement is made that they’re having a change of plans, no point holding out for something that’s unlikely to happen.
Still trash considering all the background music I use in levels that were uploaded by other users. Honestly this update overall aside from the free music upload part is just awful.
The moment I read this I automatically went “oh yeah no they’re just gonna conveniently forget that they ever said that.” I don’t see them ever making longer audios public again with how big of a liability that is.
Off topic, but that reminds me of something. Roblox practically removed all methods of getting to the Regular level here on the DevForum, and have never told us anything about it for like, 2-3 years now?
I can very much see that happening, especially if this abused as much as I expect it to be.
I said this earlier, but it’s very much relevant. I absolutely expect someone to create a tool for this kind of thing and release it to the public, especially since audios are now free without any real barrier to them.
In response to roblox limiting audios to 10 a month and only allowing 6 seconds or less audio to be public. the community should create a plugin where developers can upload whatever audio they want and not have to use roblox’s crappy audios. with a audio plugin developers will have a full audio library where they have the freedom for unlimited uploads or a 10 minute upload music limit this will help a lot of games if someone makes a plugin for it.
As cool as this would be, this would be ludicrously hard to do or even impossible due to the way roblox deals with audio playback. I haven’t exactly delved into the roblox engine to know exactly how it works, but I really doubt that this kind of expansive plugin is even possible.
