[Action Needed] Upcoming Changes to Asset Privacy for Audio

As if.
I been on roblox since 2013, started dev in 2016-2017 ish
As a player and a dev. I haven’t seen much improvement and more downgrades
Was removing Super Safe Chat a good choice? Questionable. Was making the filter stupidly strict a good move? Questionable at best. Was removing guests a good move? Yes and no.
Roblox has done good, I won’t lie.
They redid R15 due to backlash, they delayed Rthro for a while.

Roblox has done good but it’s just seems to be getting bad now, it’s updates keep breaking more and more stuff which worked fine. They even are planning to roll this out to other assets.
They sued a guy who tried to help them.
Roblox isn’t doomed, but it’s far from doing stuff which will help it’s future.

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short answer is, copyright holders.

Welcome to the future of Roblox! Where everything is ruined! So cool right? You now can upload audio 10 per month, which shouldn’t be enough replacing all game sfx!

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roblox won’t care as long as they can continue to count the fat stacks of cash they’re making

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I think all developers can relate to this exact reply, lol

Exactly! This whole situation just continues to frustrate me. :unamused:

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After almost 24 hours, I finally got 1 of my audio uploads to be approved, definitely not suffering at all

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And at the future, there’s only business here too! Nothing to worry about right?

Yeah lol

Ah yes, I’ll use money I don’t have to hire people.

Most small devs do it out of passion or to learn.
Most of the time small devs don’t have the money to hire someone.
I don’t run ACS, it’s a free to use combat system a bunch of much more skilled people made for others to use, and design their own guns for it.
I’m a small dev, I don’t have the time to make my own assets, I have other things to do. I’m taking a game design course, it’s in unity.

I use free models, ACS is a free model gun system , viethin is a free model gun system.
I even see front page games that use free models.

This update, as I said before in my first few posts on this.
Hurts small devs in massive ways.

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What will developers like you do with the “Radio” gamepass? Since it will be basically useless after this.
If it gets taken offsale the players who bought it should get some kind of compensation.

As per most people under this topic, this isn’t necessarily acceptable. I do not entirely support this change. In just about 10 days, all audio assets longer than 6 seconds will not be accessible if you don’t own any of them, which I find a little ridiculous.

Then comes the “Free Audio Uploads”, which you can now upload audio for free… but with a monthly limit. Seems like a good addition in replacement for removing thousands, if not millions, of preexisting audio. I understand that this monthly limit is to avoid spam and all, but the fact that you’d have to wait until 30 days to finish to be able to upload the same amount you can upload is generally a bad idea (mostly for people who can upload 10 and/or 100 per month with hundreds of audios to replace). For me, I can only upload 10 audio files within 30 days, which is definitely a bummer as an active developer.

I just dislike how all existing audio assets will be private. This is totally unnecessary. The private option is already good enough, why automatically set every audio asset to private?

I am aware of the copyright lawsuit, which is likely the reason why this update is happening in the first place. But if this is really the reason, I can understand why they are doing this. But what they really should fix is the moderation system… There is just so many problems with roblox, to the point where Roblox needs to suffer to realize what wrong they have been doing to their platform.

This will possibly be the worst rated update in roblox in history. But if this update does happen, hopefully it won’t be as bad as it sounds.

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I think some developers won’t give compensation just yet because either they are waiting for the change to be executed or for it to be cancelled or put on hold.

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Roblox’s developer community is already crumbling because of this, So Roblox will be going extremely downhill from here on out if this comes out to actually happen.

I’ve already lost all of my workflow and game projects because of this, Only a matter of time before I move entirely if this actually happens.

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One of the developers for a game I work on received a 7 day long ban for reuploading audio to the group that hosts the game in compliance with the update.


We have over hundreds of audios that need to be reuploaded, and we don’t have the time to check what could be minutes upon minutes of audios given our schedules and the time span Roblox gave us.

This is unacceptable, we shouldn’t be given bans for complying with this awful update.

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Exact , and I believe you need have the rights to use it .

Allow me to add that this audio must have already been approved by Roblox once, and because of how it was acquired, it’s quite literally the exact same audio file. I have reuploaded audio in the past and it’s been approved instantly, which means whatever bot scanned this got it wrong this time and falsely flagged it.

I cannot believe we’re expected to comply with this crap.

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Reminds me of when a game was taken down for blood…

Remember Roblox did a game review of bloodfest.

I will probably lose almost all music in all my games. Probably nothing I can do about it to keep it as it is. GG.

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Most small devs do it out of passion or to learn. <<< Well, you could always give Audio a try then couldn’t you?

Ah yes, I’ll use money I don’t have to hire people. <<< I did say you could always get someone to do said passion project with you.

I don’t run ACS, it’s a free to use combat system a bunch of much more skilled people made for others to use, and design their own guns for it. <<<< Most of ACS sounds are fine, the only affected sounds from ACS is the Marbal footstep sounds and Metal and Alert and a other, i went out my way to show you its okay https://gyazo.com/78ccf2ca99ddc9e63d7475233eb9fec2.mp4 << See, all good

Might be completely unrelated but could roblox be doing this to get rid of inactive developers? Its quite a wild theory I barely believe it myself but maybe…?