Heyo, local American football game enthusiast here.
I’ve made two football games so far with the second being wildly successful a couple years ago. That game (along will all the other major football games) unfortunately is full of NFL, NCAA, CFL etc etc teams w/ their logos etc. It’s been almost 3 years since I released that game, and I decided this past April that I should make a sequel to that game with all original and self-made content.
The community of the first game have been very (to be nice about it) critical of this decision to have new original teams rather than them being able to play as their favorite real-life team. As a compromise between the need to use original content and a hesitant community I brought up the idea of having custom teams that players could make and use in public and private servers. However, here stands my question.
Are players allowed to upload their OWN content to their profile (i.e. shirts/pants/decals/ etc etc) and insert those ID’s into a custom team maker UI that they could then use in game? (Keep in mind this means that up to 6-8 players in a 8v8 match will wear those uniforms etc).
Say that I make 32 original teams completely unrelated to any real life team, and Player1 decides, “I hate all of these, I want to add the Seattle Seahawks to this game so that my friends and I can play as them”. He then proceeds to upload the decals and uniforms and punches the IDs into the custom team UI.
Would I as the game creator be penalized for allowing him to use copyrighted and unoriginal content in my game? Would it fall to Roblox to moderate that content? Would it fall to me?
I asked similar questions in a previous forum post here and the answer was that I myself cannot add NFL/NCAA/etc teams to my game, but it left the option open for users to input their own content.
Hopefully you guys can clear up this whole mess and I appreciate any reply that clears the fog a little. Thank you!