When adding a video to your game, the maximum supported video length is 31 seconds which is extremely small and should be increased to at least 2 minutes. It’s very hard to work with 30 seconds, as it doesn’t show as much about your game as you would like. A stereotypical video works something like this ATM:
3-5 seconds of fading in/intro
about 23 seconds to work with (people usually do 5 ~4 second transition slides explaining certain aspects of their game)
3-5 seconds of fading out/end
That literally leaves us ~20 seconds to give a pitch of our game that isn’t extremely misleading; that’s absurd.
Why such a small limit? I’d love to hear what’s keeping this from being increased.
I don’t think anybody wants to watch 2 minutes of footage on a tiny embed player. I agree with you wanting more time, though. Maybe 45 seconds would be the sweet spot.
I disagree. Whenever I see a steam game that I think is interesting I’ll happily spend 10 minutes watching trailers on the game page, especially cool cinematic ones.
As someone who’s making games for 11 year olds who watch Snapchat stories that are 4 seconds long I don’t think they’ll have the attention span to watch 2 minutes of video, but I could be wrong.
I feel like it should be up to the person to make a good trailer. Some just suck, an extra minute of it wont make it any worse. But an extra minute of a really amazing trailer can only seal the deal for the viewer even more.
I find this interesting and think I’d prefer to have 2mins myself, however I feel there is a reason a giant corp like Roblox has decided to keep a part of game advertising the way it is.
I think Steam works in a very different way than Roblox for making people play a game and has a very different audience, also Steam has the job of often letting devs sell their game (and super diverse games), most Roblox games are free to play and due to no need to download etc etc, I think people are way more down to just think, why not try it, after 30 seconds of something that seems a little interesting.
If many Roblox games were 10k robux and felt more like you can buy the game to keep like Minecraft, gta (storymode), elden ring etc, I believe it would change how Roblox would let devs make their page in many ways, like 2min videos and probably much more, right now maybe Roblox sees that too many would make their own game less likeable by having too long videos if 2mins were a thing, because players has to sit 2min to click a green button if they wanna see the trailer
