My upcoming game is a simulation (not a simulator/clicker) of running a business. Practically all of the sub genres under ‘Simulation’ refer to physics based gameplay or clicker/tycoon style games. I’m afraid of potential players seeing “Simulation” and just walking off.
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Yeah, fair enough but it’s quite useless releasing this without a way to search through these games, might as well have let the community forget about it and release it fully in 2025.
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I love this change! Thank you so much for improving genres!
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that function was already on roblox before it was removed, and now you’re bringing this back? atleast a legacy feature returns on roblox. Something good from roblox.
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That’s something I’m worried about too, the genre not fitting due to what else is in that Genre + Subgenres not fitting, but I think it can be fixed with the Tags update.
It sounds like your game is more modern and/or you think your game is not like most in the Simulation (Tycoon) Genre + Subgenre. I still think you should go with that combo though, only based off what I know.
I’d describe my game as an Adventure 3D Platformer Collect-a-Thon, but my game doesn’t match any of the sub-genres in the Obby & Platformer Genre. I could go for Adventure (Scavenger Hunt) as the game does involve exploration, interacting with NPCs, and has a story. The subgenre fits collecting things is a core part of the experience. But, that means I leave out the Platforming side of things. If I could add 3D Platformer as a Tag, I think that’d solve my issue.
Link broken and also have you been able to review the other Genre page you created, no response has been given to issues discussed in the other page. I have tried multiple times today to use the proper report channel to submit a problem ticket and I keep getting the Page is non responsive try again later,
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This is probably to put genres on games so that when people in early 2025 can sort after genres they can instantly get accurate results of games with the specific genres they search for.
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to be exact after I get approved by the Verification system it errors.
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Why do we have to wait 3 whole months to update an existing genre?
It’s not like there’s any cooldown between submitting new content maturity labels; you could make your game Moderate (13+) to Minimal (All Ages) to Moderate (13+) again, all within a few minutes.
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Hey. This is amazing! Would it be possible to advertise to specific users in the future that are interested in XYZ genre? Currently, we sponsor a wide range of users, which is problematic, every real advertising platform allows you to choose very specifically which users you want to attract, and having the same for Roblox would be extremely beneficial. I have spent over 1.6 million robux in ad credits alone and the performance of ads has fallen drastically over the past months in my opinion.
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Cannot believe it took this long to finally get this feature reimplemented. Sorting by genre was originally part of the functionality of the front page for as long as I could remember until it was inexplicably removed sometime around October of 2017…
I’m extremely glad that this feature is being reimplemented, I’m just genuinely curious as to why it was removed at all when its only intended purpose was to help users easily discover the kinds of games they were looking for.
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Really cool, but why is it releasing in like 3 months?
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thank you, too many different descriptors gets confusing really quick
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Will this affect discovery of horror games in the meantime? I’m not sure if my games would fit into any other categories aside from horror.
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Roblox is starting to get good like the pre-covid era
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Good update, however:
Why not just allow us to change this directly within Game Settings?
Great update to see, I’m also excited for custom tags to describe games to become a thing, but… a three month cooldown to change the genre? That’s ridiculous, it’d make more sense if it was something like, 3 days to a week, but three MONTHS?
I assume this is to prevent people from abusing the algorithm by constantly switching their genre, but come on…
That’s gonna be torture for people who mistakenly set an incorrect genre for their game and want to correct it.
Disclaimer: I didn’t read this announcement in its entirety and only skimmed through it
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condo devs can bypass everything anyways, genre has nothing to do with the questionaire
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