As a developer it is currently too hard to add custom fonts for different situations.
I was recently working on vehicles for my game, where of course, you need license plates. At first I went with a license plate number for every vehicle model, not every car individually meaning;
For example all Dodge Chargers would have the same license plate digits, yet the Ford Crown Victoria, on the other hand would have different digits;
Sorry if the explaining was terrible, but I hope you get the point.
I digress. After thinking it through again, I changed my mind about this thing, and looked for a way to make a license plate system, with randomly generated license plate digits.
I slapped a TextBox on a part with my license plate template. Wasn’t going bad, but then I got the the whole font deal.
I couldn’t find the font I wanted (in this case being FE-Schrift), after looking for a similar font for just about half an hour.
THIS is why we need the ability to upload/add custom fonts, thank you for listening to my TED talk.
I think you missed my point. Moderation was just the obvious example. There’d be way more issues with this such as copyright etc. More UGC is just bad… it’s better when people have less access to abuse the platform which is why this won’t happen as shown by the audio update and isn’t needed so I don’t see why they’re requesting this since they’ve been doing this a several times now with obvious reasons to why roblox can’t. This is just a waste of resources for roblox and hides other way more important requests. Also when roblox announces new stuff it’s always when it already had a working demo. We basically got a beta of all announced features that I’ve seen so far and if anything got removed later cuz of some complications
This is already an issue with Audios, and Roblox is working on this. Also, excluding copyrighted fonts, there are many open-source fonts that Google Fonts doesn’t have.
I also wouldn’t consider this to be UGC, as it doesn’t really have to be made by the user, however reducing the amount of features just because of some bad actors (which will find a way to bypass the system no matter what), isn’t practical for developers on a platform which is Roblox’s scale.
But yeah, I agree with you that there are better features that Roblox should work on instead, and in comparison to such features this is a waste of Roblox’s resources. However, if they can make this a thing, it would be pretty cool, which makes it valuable enough for a feature request in my opinion.
