After thinking about this for a few days, I have some thoughts on my mind I’d like to share in regard to this upcoming change, I’m aware that this update isn’t cancelled since well…
If this update comes out and it’s equally bad as the initial rollout then I think my times up with this platform because think about it there’s no point in continue to develop if I’m just going to be punished for using classic ROBLOX related items off the catalog.
I’ve stayed while others quit and despite thinking about retirement, since I enjoy playing games and wanting to eventually go big with developing and achieve my dream of going to RDC one day.
There would be no point in logging on anymore if classic games I like are wiped out, let alone modern ones such as arcane odyssey over the use of catalog items.
We already know very little are going to comply with this change and I wouldn’t either.
I would just let my place go into limbo land of being placed under review, because I don’t think forcing the player to buy said catalog item to use it in the game is a good idea.
There’s no sugar coating it.
I’d like to state that again it’s understandable for only UGC related items on the catalog made by others and again in the event I did use an item and the creator was upset over I would comply with a request for removal including a DMCA, but classic ROBLOX made items and off sale items not being allowed???
Even developer relations members were scratching their heads over this announcement says a lot, and I believe it’s coming from the higher-ups that are severely out of touch with the community or that never played ROBLOX in the first place, if not anyone else that’s incompetent enough which shouldn’t be working at the company in the foreseeable future.
I will say that sometimes it honestly feels like ROBLOX as a corporation has it out for us developers.
^ I won’t be going in depth since that would be going off topic.
But regarding my feelings this to me is an example.
Are we not the blood that powers the imagination platform?
Often, we get these types of updates that ROBLOX puts out which hurts us but this out of all of them is the worst I have ever seen, this could destroy the platform in my opinion.
The hypocrisy of ROBLOX suddenly caring about us using UGC in our experiences/games whilst ignoring the UGC members pleading to not destroy the market with limiteds.
Continuing to fail at moderating the catalog with users that don’t deserve UGC privileges by abusing it while at the same time giving a written detailed way of reporting us which I have never seen before up until this point.
I think this is a good example of the hypocrisy with ROBLOX expecting users to report us while letting stolen assets go on the marketplace like this for example:
Assets that are ripped from other websites are on this platform, assets that are ripped from other users are also on the catalog and remaining on sale, assets that actually violate copyright remain, as you can see with this image above it’s not hard to tell where these assets were “inspired” (stolen) from.
^^ As of typing, none of these have been taken down for the blatant copyright abuse clearly going on, I’m not trying to start trouble but really this needs to be pointed out with ROBLOX initially expecting users to report this type of stuff, it’s not that hard to see why this is stupid.
It’s pretty tiring, I do care for this platform since I’ve been here for nearly 15 years of my life, I do not enjoy coming on here to yell at terrible announcements, while the audio update was necessary I can work around that, I can make my own stuff and just use free sounds, this however? Is it really necessary?
I just wonder who thought this was a good idea, and again just please don’t go through with this.
I think ROBLOX as a whole would be a healthier place if corporate just listened to us for once, instead of making decisions that they think is a “good idea” which ultimately hurts us in the end.