Creator Roadmap - AMA with Dan and Manuel [Jan 24, 2024]

Thanks for the questions! We ask to please keep it to one question per message to allow us to answer as many people as we can.

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Under Reporting & Appeals it says that in the future we will be able to manage our reports. Does this mean we will have more insight on our reports such as the status of our report (accepted, rejected, pending) and maybe a reason incase our report gets rejected?

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Can we ever edit the core ui like background colour image colour transperancy and ui corner or maybe edit the intire core ui or disable things so we more free to make our game how we like since close and arow back are go to the home page and way we can’t disable or edit it

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Is more control over instance replication (like being able to replicate an instance to a specific player) planned or noted? I would really like more control over replication, especially due to the fact that StarterGui and ReplicatedStorage are incredibly inefficient to use for storage due to how they replicate. It’d be very nice to have more control over what instances replicate to who, because it’d mean that I don’t have to use hacks like parenting things into PlayerGui just to save memory on the server.

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Regarding: New UIListLayout Flex Features [Beta]

The roadmap says this is now live but it appears to still be in beta (only works in studio.) Are there any updates as to when this will be fully released?

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Will developers ever be able to use OpenCloudService in games? if so is there any eta on when this will happen, and will we be able to access the entirety of open cloud?

As it would be nice to nolonger have to use proxies for interacting with roblox apis.

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With recent platform expansions (playstation, vr), are there no plans to support Roblox on Linux/Steamdeck?

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Hey there!

As we all know there has been alot involved about the UGC Marketplace lately, but I’ve got a little question. We all know that in the layered clothing category of the UGC Marketplace there’s a section for shoes, but as of right now UGC creators cannot upload their shoe items in there only Roblox can/does. I was wondering if there’s a reason for why its like that? Many UGC creators are putting their shoe items in the pants category. Any chance you could let us know when we’ll be able to upload our shoe items in the actual shoes section?

Thanks!
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Do you guys ever plan on allowing us to run our code in a Roblox environment through CI? There have been numerous times that our workflows has been broken due to changes to how the security cookie works. But at the same time there doesn’t seem to be any other alternatives offered like headless studio, roblox-cli or analogous.

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Hey Dan & Manuel! Hope you all had a great New Years and a good break.

I had a question regarding the new Communities that have started rolling out.
Back a few RDCs ago, we were shown that there were plans to roll-out an in-game group join prompt.

Are there still plans as Communities roll out to include this or are there no plans at this time to include the in-game group join prompt?

Thanks!

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you guys say this one line quote on nearly every post touching on the topic of UGC “to help grow creator earnings”

however in this specific context of the avatar marketplace, creators continue to get the short end of the stick with no meaningful progress.

when can we expect a more fair split for avatar products, especially in regards to affiliate fees earning a higher split than creators of the products themselves?

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Hello, I just want to ask when the public ugc will be released?

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Many moons ago it was announced that the CLOUDS feature would be getting an update introducing things like new cloud types, cloud height and more. That update never came. Is there any reason as to why? This was a highly anticipated feature for many.

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Will Roblox Brand Limiteds and Drops, and even the off-sale classic item go Limiteds for 2024 to finish the classics and to continue the Roblox Brand Limited Series? If so what is the future of real Roblox Brand Products and their direction for it, as the customer and users and the community wish for content to be on the Roblox Brand and to be tradable as well under the Roblox Brand only, since UGC Limiteds do not follow the same stuff. I am looking forward to the return of Roblox Brand Limited products and would be willing to spend Robux on just only those. I don’t support UGC Limiteds.

Here is the question again:
Will Roblox Brand Limiteds and Drops, and even the off-sale classic items go Limiteds for 2024 to finish the classics and to continue the Roblox Brand Limited Series?

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When will future updates like the “Up Direction” to the new character physics controller be released?

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Are you planning on adding an API which allows to rank up or down. This can range from in-game to external stuff so we can rank remotely with ease without going into Roblox? [GROUP API]

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Are there going to be any changes to Game Discovery / the algorithm in the near future?

It feels very hard to find interesting and engaging games, most of the discovery page is plastered with games for much younger age groups which isn’t very encouraging if developers want to make more interesting and varied games for a wider range of ages.

Even with a lot of effort and hours of work on a game that would otherwise do well on a platform like steam, because it does not appeal to younger audiences or otherwise market itself with tons of cash, it will almost never pick up a consistent player base or otherwise be picked up by the algorithm.

It feels discouraging to make unique or different games when they will never be found or played by the majority of the player base.

(I am not referring to 17+ games, but just in general most games shown in the Game Discovery page are either shown multiple times, or are highly saturated and suited for a much younger audience.)

It doesn’t help there are no ways to search for games using genre or other metrics. Almost 9 times out of 10 if I find an interesting new game, its from an outside source or friend-group, because they are not promoted inside of Roblox itself.

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What are your plans regarding roblox-made limited items? Back in 2022 you started making old items go limited from time to time, and i was wondering if you plan on doing that again.

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What is going to happen to already existing UGC applications? Applications are closed, and have been for some time now, but it’s unclear whether those who haven’t heard back from Roblox about their application are still being reviewed or not.
Thanks!

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Why don’t you update the old Releasnotes? You can go back as far as you want but never see one singel Release note were all things are green!

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