[Action Needed] Upcoming Changes to Asset Privacy for Audio

[daansken20 (Sculpture)]

Unreal and unity are okay, its basically just your own opinion of what you like, anyways, revert update pls roblox

[steven4547466 (Steven)]

Godot is pretty cool and light weight.

[steel_apples (scary steel_apples)]

i know they deleted the audio but it was funny (but i deleted the post due to not wanting to be banned incase they undo this awful update)

[Heimdul]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[TheBigC10 (Tbc)]

I mean, it needed to happen, ROBLOX doesn’t want to get sued for others uploading songs in their place.

[Nimcbyte (nrbtq)]

The problem is they don’t allow sounds even if licensed. They just claim to.

[EternalEthel (Eternity)]

Or, and this is quite a crazy proposition, they make it unlimited? Like wow, such a revolutionary prospect.

Honestly, we should go back to the old catalog with unlimited free uploads and they should just improve their moderation for christ’s sake.

[spydercam500 (Spu)]

Originally when i first read this post i thought it was a good update since audios are free now but its not.

The whole “All audios will go private on march 22nd” thing is insane who had the bright idea that hey! we should make all audios private! Oh but of course we gotta let audios FINALLY be free after like 8 years.

People that dont know how to make music or sound effects will be in a predicament of having 2 choices.

1. spend the next year or 2 of your life to learn how to make sound effects and audios

2. use the audios roblox provided because EVERYONE USES THOSE RIGHT?? and they TOTALLY have sound effects in them

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This will ruin games that dont get updated anymore. Developers will seriously get demotivated cause now they have to spend the next hour to a couple days of work fixing the audio problems depending on how many audios they have in the game.

AND THE FACT that they are planning to do this to other assets like meshes, animations etc.

Ive never liked roblox audios because they dont sound good they spam the marketplace when i try to look up something that slightly relates to the name.

Oh and dont get me started on the monthly system garbage.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[ShutzCh (Shutz)]

You’re asking for Steam Workshop, that would be too good.

[Lord_BradyRocks]

AND even group owned sounds if they are not from the owner of the group do not even work…GREAT

[vrs2210]

I’m still waiting for the highlight effect roblox promised around about half a month/a month ago, still no news.

[EmotiveCloudiest (Emotive)]

Sure is gonna be helpful when you (in this case me) have a system that’s literally BASED around audio…

Thanks for the “specific finger”, very much appreciated. :'D

While on one side this is for copyright reasons, this has more cons than pros, and if not no pros at all.

Limits can easily be exploited via alts, all sounds going private is REALLY DUMB as sounds are set public for one reason, being used by other developers, literally ALL GAMES are gonna be affected by this, not talking about old games or like, a front page game, but ANYTHING THAT HAD SOUND INVOLVED is just gonna feel like watching a movie on mute while you interact with it.

[TheGreatPwner45]

Literally dont private any of the existing audios and this update is fine. This is literally just bad.

[munkuush (Pepper)]

STOP… it with these darn updates

[Nimcbyte (nrbtq)]

And what if you wanted to make a game where characters spoke? where sounds are realistic.
10 sounds?! 10?! There might be an argument of “there’s plenty of other sounds!” except all sounds will be private and wont be able to be taken out of private until

@BitFist

Can I change my audio assets back to public if they are made private on March 22?

• No, the ability to set audio to public will be temporarily paused while other solutions are being looked into. We do not have an estimate for when we will re-enable the ability for you to change an asset from private to public.

[AicatProto]

No, a perfect example of them making crap updates.

[ValiantWind (Val)]

HAHAHHAHAHA. Wow. I’m extremely stunned.

I just woke up a few hours ago., and I come to the DevForum to see people are still debating over this. There’s already 1.8k replies on this topic in under 48 hours.

I can’t blame you guys for still protesting nor can I blame DevRel for putting a cooldown between replies.

[LevelIer (Lev)]

I have a full list of audios that I use with my boomboxes in my notepad, and most of the people who own those audios haven’t logged in in a long time.

People who have stopped being active, or who have died, may no longer be able to update their games to comply w/the new policy… Also, what about the legacy games??

[2smg]

Sorry, I’m just confused because I only get 10 a month, and I don’t have any ID

[RayGun4528]

My opinion of this is pretty much the same as mostly everyone else so I’ma just say it:
Don’t.
Please don’t.
Pretty much the vast majority of this thread disagree with this change, nobody likes to tediously reupload and update their game to use the reuploaded audio just because of this update