It’s genuinely surprising that someone at Roblox believed this was a brilliant idea and that it would revolutionize the platform. What’s even more astonishing is that someone else within the company agreed and approved it.
When it comes to Roblox updates, they typically fall into three categories: some are okay, very few are truly fantastic, but most of the time, they’re just plain disappointing.
And it’s not just this; there are other issues like changes to the audio, the removal of the original 2D faces, and more.
Roblox is removing elements that define its identity, making the platform, in my opinion, worse. While User-Generated Content (UGC) was initially a cool concept, it now feels chaotic. This issue is further compounded by Roblox’s dismal moderation and unhelpful support, which makes appealing or seeking assistance a frustrating experience.
Roblox seems to be on an irreversible path, and continuing in this direction doesn’t bode well. The growing disconnect between Roblox and its user base is becoming increasingly evident.
First, preston DMCA’ing people who use (or used) cube pets.
now this.
There’s no pattern, just pointing that out.
also pretty much it looks like roblox isnt changing their minds on this update
ROBLOX claims to care about IP and then this bs is a regular occurance. I feel like ROBLOX lies to us more than Activision-Blizzard, which is ridiculously impressive.
I genuinely hate being a ROBLOX dev. Not because their engine is bad, at the end of the day it really isn’t. But because of crap like this policy change being a regular occurance and constantly threatening to completely kill everything I worked for in an instant, thanks to some brainrotted billionaire investor wanting to line their pockets even more.
And yes, I do think that this is worse than the audio update. The audio update was bad and incredibly inconvenient but was ultimately not entirely game-killing. This update will DIRECTLY lead to millions of games being banned and ROBLOX themselves have confirmed this.
I’ve asked for clarification on this from Roblox staff for ages (since what the ToS seemed to say and common practice have always been very different). Glad to eventually have clarification …
but the required purchase prompt is insanity. Does this requirement seriously force us to make our games blast annoying purchase prompts every time players try to equip something with UGC IP?
If a game did this to me I would leave thinking the game was one of those scams because I as a player did not ask for a purchase prompt and the game forced one on to me.
I’m guessing that since Roblox’s primary concern is UGC items, they don’t want to be given an unfair advantage, or look like they prioritize their own items above others, so they’re trying to do their version of “evening the player field”.
Which just makes the update even worse and more ludicrous-sounding. Nothing justifies this update, whether it be IP-related or otherwise.
Allow UGC developers to decide how their IP should be treated and allow developers to access this information
When UGC creators upload they should be able to select how their assets can be used:
In-game, any use (can file a removal request)
In-game, only worn by avatars
In-game, purchase prompt, any use
In-game, purchase prompt, only worn by avatars
Never without explicit permission
Then, developers should be able to access this information. The Avatar Editor Service should have extended API for search to filter for different IP permission levels and potentially some web based way for developers to manually do it (maybe a small icon, though that would be an easy and fast plugin for studio).
Additionally all Roblox items should fall under the first category above, as they have since the literal creation of Robux.
ok guys so basically how it works is like, you have to prompt things now
like if someone else is wearing an item then you have to prompt the player who saw it
if they kindly decline you have to keep prompting them until they buy it
Why did this need to happen?? Wasn’t it fine before? Nobody was complaining about stolen assets. If its such a big deal the original creator could call out the person.
Hey anyone who’s still reading, I have updated this post to include a list of games that may or will be affected by this change. If you know of any games that will be affected, please send me those games so that I can add them to the list! Send me any games you know of that may or will be affected by this and I’ll add them to this list. Just send me the name, creator, and reasons for deletion of the game (preferably formatted like the entries in the lists are) and a link to the game so I can put it into a hyperlink.
I am really, really hoping that, at the very least, this policy update will include a clause somewhere that states that ROBLOX-made items are exempt from the policy.
They should cancel / revert all the other garbage updates too.
From December 2022 (when I made my account) to June 2023, Roblox wasn’t all that bad.
When July 2023 rolled around, the original Stevie Standard face was being forced onto players, Roblox offsold a lot of classic faces to be remade as Dynamic Heads, and now this update.
I think that UGC items should have licensing terms on what you can and can’t do (like some GitHub projects). As for Roblox assets, that should continue to be normalized like it has been for years.
It’s not only video games that get this treatment. It happens to TV shows too!
Not just your typical anime shows, but the shows we all watched as children!
I’m not only angry that Roblox isn’t doing anything about this, but just the fact that they did Super Why like this
Sad how many classic games could be lost due to this stupid change.
