I appreciate the addition of new categories, but they all rank very similar and often the same experiences. You can literally play tic tac toe on the chart page. Look how simple it is:
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I’m failing to see how they are any different in any meaningful way. Both sorts are just displaying games that are already popular and don’t need even more visibility. This sort does nothing to actually improve game discovery and only aids well-established games.
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how about instead of duplicate posts, we have an “indie spotlight” where its just a list of curated smaller games (let’s say between 500 and 2000 players)?
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Good update, thank you for this. People here don’t seem to understand the differences of this sort and the Most Popular sort so let me show you all:
This update brings back the sort we had in the old Roblox days and I’m thankful for that. Now I just wish you would make it so it displays even more games without it being capped at 99 results.
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The issue with this update is how similar they are. Both sorts will bring up the most popular games on the platform in every circumstance. This isn’t discovery, this is promotion.
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If you want something that’s also similar to Most Popular take Top Trending as an example.
I think this update is good as it is while the others offer similar functionality with additional filters. Do you view this update more as cluttering up the charts view? If so I do agree to a certain degree since we now have quite a few of these views / discoveries with similar queries. Maybe they will eventually come up with a better system but I think it’s fine as is, especially considering Roblox has kids and I doubt they want to create custom discovery queries from a drop-down instead if the staff reworked the charts page into something like that. I do want that as an additional feature tho.
Yes, these big front page games don’t need this much promotion. I know I sound anti-capitalist right now, but these games have already proven themselfs and don’t need help. They pull in millions of dollars every year. They won’t collapse if they aren’t seen on the front page 3 times in a row. And if they do, they need to market their game correctly.
What we do need is a rework of the charts game that shows a diverse set of games and sorts. I’m not saying that Roblox should purposely promote small games with no playerbase, but they should not only promote the big ones.
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In the context of this conversation, I believe this would not apply to something as simple as ‘mild snark’. Your comment is somewhat inflammatory itself, accusing the ROBLOX community for being immature and misbehaving.
Singling out a user or group for ridicule or abuse, either publicly or privately
Furthermore, this is no longer constructive dialogue and I suggest we both cease communication.
I hear that people will have an opinion no matter what Roblox does, but when the company makes a post saying they want niche content to thrive on the platform, and then do this, shouldn’t we question that?
I don’t just have a opinion. I have an educated opinion based on the company’s word. The platform is working against its goals and is not hearing feedback.
Actionable feedback: systemically hear the community on discovery, work on the products already announced on the roadmap, and add CCU filter via Filter & Tags update. This system has merit, but in face of company goals, or the guise of them, of matching niche content to an audience… this shouldn’t be the focus.
The rancor is from years of feature request, lack of response from that team at Roblox, and 2 updates back to back reinforcing popularity. There’s merit in annoyance. I assume good intent and remain respectful despite that though.
I feel as though the majority aren’t being disrespectful and the minority of those who are stand out.
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This is very out of touch with what people want.
Let’s not even talk about how several front page games dominate multiple Categories; don’t you think this wares out your user base?
Give us Recently Updated, with a 0-100 Player base Category, that’s what I’d love to see. A way out of the developer trenches.
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keep in mind this is the platform that wants >10% of the whole gaming market
at this point just move the most profitable (Top Earning) category to the top
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I find exactly what you’re describing on the Home page through the “Recommended for you” view and it has actually been great. Would be good to have this as the first result on the charts view though. It shows these smaller games and other games that actually peak my interest. I totally agree with you that the charts page needs to be reworked to do something like this with added filters. I still to this day wish we had the old Roblox games page. It was so simple, the “Genres” list was great and it all worked really well. It all went downhill in 2014.
Please bring this back Roblox.
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I would absolutely play the top 4 games and some of the other ones. No low quality trash on the page 
Edt: Modern Roblox games are normally higher quality like doors but but if I saw it in 2011 I would play
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So… it’s another duplicate of the Popular category.
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why don’t we introduce a spin off of the up and coming category. it promotes smaller games that actually look fun to play
instead we got a new top earning, most popular, and top trending category
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I understand what this category does, but couldnt it be more like, applying a filter to the popular category?
Kinda like marketplace filters, you could apply and sort games on the popular page by daily users, current player count, or whatever other filter
This would remove otherwise redundant content, as a lot of people have already pointed out, the same games repeat often way too many times and just seems like its the same sorting as popular.
Yeah it is a duplicate. The experiences in ‘Most Popular’ category shouldn’t be in ‘Hot Right Now’ because they are already in one category.
Good concept of yours. But we literally said our own category concepts similar to yours and Roblox hasn’t done anything about that so it looks like Roblox will not make a category where there are not popular experiences that attract people easily anytime soon. 
Enough said. This is sad/makes me sad. I say remove the duplicate of top trending leave the new hot right now and replace it with something entirely different that wont have duplicate games. But its ROBLOX STAFF. They don’t take our advice.
I remember when these chart lists were Semi attainable for anyone to get one. Now it is BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. And the same games will stay their forever.
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Yeah honestly its depressing how Roblox is refusing to change experiences on those specific categories causing their fanbase’s experiences/projects to die out quicker because of how much it is being shown on the specific categories. This is a very bad thing that they are doing to experiences/projects and force the developers of those to constantly update the projects/experiences with new content to keep up with the community or else their experience/project dies so much like Caseoh’s Basics for example, although it didn’t die out for this reason. Just that the attention on the experience just went away. It still regularly gets 1-150 estimated concurrent players daily though from what I saw one time when it was in the middle of the day for me and it was at 100 concurrent players.
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I really wished there was a sort to promote smaller games rather than having more sorts to cater for already existing popular games. That’s pretty much what I don’t like about this update, but other than that…
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