I have a suggestion for a replacement. In order to be eligible for rewards the member would have to be a member of the developer forum for an certain time period (preferably several months) and also if part of a group you would have to be a member of the group for a certain amount of time (months probably).
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Finally, something has been done to prevent people from getting the Crown of O’s illegitimately.
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The DevForum isn’t used as a metric of if you’re a dev or not because of how open it is
Developers already do that and also it would kill eligibility for a lot of newer games that popped out within days of reaching the milestones.
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I am well aware of this, but some kind of dated schedule would still be nice. If a wave is indeed coming up though, can’t complain for now
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The MAU requirement for this should never have been as low as 100. It was bound to invite a crazy amount of work onto devrel to verify people and meant pretty much everyone thought they would qualify. The easiest way to fix the program in future is to raise the threshold of the Gold Crown.
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I also haven’t received any crowns, and if this method was applied, I will never receive any, since I’m a GFX designer and artist, I ussually do not have editing perms on the experiences I’ve contributed to, so no, not a good idea to check this way.
Sad to hear we won’t receive any in the near future.
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The requirements to become a member in the Dev Forums don’t require you to have developed a game or have helped contribute to a game from a development standpoint. So this wouldn’t really be a good metric to determine if someone has “contributed” to the development of a game.
Also could possibly see an issue if a game blows up quickly (somehow) and the developer want to give the Crown of O’s to the side-developers and contributes but they haven’t been in the group for an certain amount of time
Sucks that this had to happen since side-developers and contributes can’t get the Crown of O’s (temporary) although I understand and accept the reasoning behind it all.
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What if the developer has a system where their side-developers/contributes don’t have editing access to the place (the side-developer/contribute gives the things and the (main) developer adds it into the main game)? Could possibly see an issue with that.
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Or their field of profession isn’t on Studio itself. Certain development fields like GFX and music composing aren’t done in Studio and users often don’t have edit access to the places they work on.
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True, the group I develop for has several developers under a rank that doesn’t have access to the game.
Maybe having a “game contributor” role in the group could help instead, or something that shows that a user has helped with a group game in some form.
There are a few possible solutions, but it is still difficult to group in 3rd party developers since they don’t solely work in studio
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Visits are not the same as MAU. You need 100 MAU, not visits. In order to be eligible for the Golden Crown of O’s you need 100 unique players to join your game over the course of a month.
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I even tried to Download Monthly Experience Stats Data but I can’t access to it at this point.
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And with that said prediction it is a time to say goodbye to developer crowns
You need to have a certain amount of MAU to be able to download it, somewhere from 1-5k. Not entirely sure because it’s never been documented, but it also takes 1-2 months until the data becomes available for your selected month.
But usually most normal players would never actually spend time in the developer forums.
Will people who have waited almost 3 months for their crowns receive it then (I’ve waited 2 months and 21 days now and the owner of the game I helped work on had it for that period of time)?
I honestly don’t think this is going to stop anything as groups to get people the crowns still exist, nothings stopping people getting the Crowns for using the starter place and gaining a certain amount of MAU.
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Usually isn’t good enough. Still don’t think being in the Developer Forums should be accounted when someone is trying to give the crown of O’s to a side-developer/contributor. And what if the specific side-developer/contributor. rarely look at the Dev Forums (And aren’t a "member)?
Also the specific user having to be a “member” in the Developer Forums for possibly months seems like a while. Could stop newer developers from getting the Crown of O’s. Still believe there are better ways of deciding if someone is “eligible” for the Crown of O’s
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This is sad that they needed to do this because NON-DEVS wanted something meant to reward devs for their hard work. Here are some potential solutions:
- They need to be at least a member of the devfourm
- x amount of time in studio
This approach is very flawed. There are a LOT of groups out there whose owners do legitimately nothing and reap the rewards of the crowns from having all their subordinates doing all the work. Its better to have the dishonest submissions then kill it entirely, because I can say first hand that this is going to cause a massive lack of motivation.
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Very disappointing seeing that they made it give the award only to the owner of the game. I understand as to why this happened but at the end of the day its a virtual crown. I understand that it is an award but rather then giving out some ones that weren’t supposed to be given, they are instead taking the ones away from those who deserve the crowns. Makes sense overall just a bit sad I guess. Also, I sent an email to devawards@roblox.com after waiting 3 months for my crown. It has been two weeks without a response, should I wait longer or is ROBLOX support taking longer then it should?
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