Dan (@TheKingsHappyFool) and Manuel (@aelarix) here, and we are excited to continue our Creator AMA series!
We made some major strides on our Creator Roadmap in 2023 and are so excited for what we have in store for you all in 2024.
From 10 AM PT to 12 PM PT today, we will be available to answer any questions related to roadmap progress in 2023 and the year ahead. For your questions to be answered, please share them in a comment below.
To ensure we can get to as many questions as possible, we ask you to please keep to one question per message and try to keep the questions brief where possible.
We look forward to connecting with you today!
Dan and Manuel
A few years ago, at RDC 2021, Dan Sturman revealed that he had plans to bring dedicated servers to South America, which we still don’t have, although Brazil, for example, is the second country with the most Roblox players and developers.
Does Roblox still have these plans? We’re excited to be able to play our favorite games with lower latency and I can say, on behalf of the entire community, that we’d love to hear from you. You can see this in the comments on Roblox’s Twitter posts, which are full of people asking for a server here in Brazil.
Are there plans to allow selling of models on the creator marketplace? It would allow creators a large amount of autonomy and trust when actually selling items, and would bring the Creator Store to an entirely new level.
If not, how do you plan on improving the Creator Marketplace?
What does the future of Robux look like for developers? Can we expect that developers will be using USD (or some other real-world currency) for all developer-related transactions at some point in the future? If that’s the case, how do you plan to support creators who aren’t able to pay for things with real-world currency? This is an especially prevalent question, given the latest Creator Store announcement.
Hello! it has soon been eight years without any official response or awareness regarding the ability to change colors of MeshParts - in the same way as how you can edit the colors of decals. This has been requested my many reputable studios and developers, and the lack of this feature makes asset reuse multiples of times harder and wastes memory by reuploading the same texture under a different hue. Even if it is not technically plausible at this stage, receiving an acknowledgement towards the issue would be highly appreciated!
There has been talk behind the scenes about engine changes holding back very anticipated improvements to SurfaceAppearance - notably allowing them to be recolored / color shifted. Where is this currently sitting? Can we anticipate this to happen this year?
Thank you for your engagement into the Roblox platform. I would like to ask for some details about the “Alt Detection” and “Banning API”. Can we have more information about envisioned functionality of these such as will there be a possibly new Disconnect screen along with the new api, will users be able to provide ban reasons, length etc. Will these features come along in one function or separate?
Being able to implement things like push to talk, walkie talkies, etc.
I have been noticing additions to the sound API that excite me a lot (all the new audio related instances), but I’d really like to have some official word on it.
My question regards the reworked Studio UI, generally, whats the progress on it, but also, at RDC 2023, it looked like Studio would support multiple WorldModels in the tab divider, where tools could render their own isolated views per tab (though I might be misremembering here)
In your previous communication, it was stated that user-generated content (UGC) accessories would be open for public uploads by early 2024. As we have entered this timeframe, I would like to inquire about the measures Roblox intends to implement to address the challenges of counterfeit and inappropriate items in the catalog, particularly in light of the multitude of counterfeit and inappropriate accessories during the current private UGC access period?
