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.
Really cool, but why is it releasing in like 3 months?
thank you, too many different descriptors gets confusing really quick
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.
Roblox is starting to get good like the pre-covid era
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
condo devs can bypass everything anyways, genre has nothing to do with the questionaire
Could you send me the link to the game? I could give an opinion based on the core loop.
Think of what actions the player does while playing. Explore a haunted house? Simulate working at a gas station? Fight against ghosts? Think of the main game mechanic. Hope that helps!
Adding tags / search terms like how they do with search based sponsored experiences would definitely help remedy the issue to some degree.
The act of developers choosing their genre and subgenre initially, aka this update, is Live right now. It takes 3 months to have access to change it though AFTER you do so for the first time.
I assume that’s what you meant, but you could be misunderstanding. As to why there is a time limit to change your genre, I’m unsure. Maybe to not overwhelm the algorithm/machine learning models behind the scenes, but idk.
In the meantime all of you can use this game to find stuff and I’m pretty sure it’s BETTER than this as players can rate the games and pick the genres. (shows %)
In fact, pretty sure it has even more genres than this does lmao
TL;DR rely on better discovery for this type of stuff, not developer-set genres (that is, assuming you aren’t against player set genres) especially since you can’t add multiple genres anymore from what I know, and:
It’s a game about exploring different haunted houses mostly. I’ve set it to adventure/exploration for now as that’s probably the best fit.
How do we update if its locked and we cant appeal due to the system issues with sending in a trouble ticket?
Do genres and sub-genres directly affect the audience(s) that our games are recommended to on their home page?
This is a great feature though! I’ve previously had games go without genres for quite some time - which actually makes this an even more epic change if the answer to my question is any form of “yes”.
Ah, yes, “Showcase & Hub”, likely the only genre of games I’ll be publishing from here on out!
Thanks for reporting this problem. We identified an issue where some experiences cannot update their genre, and we’re are working on a fix right now. We will let you know once the problem is resolved.
Do you know when you guys will have a Sci-Fi genre?
This issue has now been resolved.
