This seems like a good idea. More space for games!
I noticed it some days ago and I have to say I really like the change.
It really improves the experience in my opinion!
That’d mean complete content censorship. It’s true that the ads were spammed with random stuff but this is the imagination platform, so we should be allowed freedom when creating ads.
More space for games + Less random ads = Win-Win
This is a good change to the games page!
As someone who uses adblock anyway to block all ads on Roblox - including the user ads/front page I’m all for this. I prefer to maximise the possible screen estate to the max to enable more games to be displayed at once. My only gripe is I still can’t peak into one of the games thumbnails from the games page yet which would be pretty nice.
I dont fully support this decision because a vast majority of roblox users will be at 2 sections; the home page and the games page. I feel like we could just make it so that the same ads arnt repeated over and over again. I also have other critiques for ads but for the sake of this post I’m going to end it here.
Yea even tho the “Flamingo has admin” Type of ads were especially repetitive and taking up the space that other ads could have used.
Or have an algorithm of what you play and it can tailor the ads for you
The only thing about this that bothers me is that developers paying for ads will not get as many clicks. I think it would be nice to have more space for ads on the Home Page, where there is a lot of empty space but only two ads.
Where are rectangular ads (300 x 250 ads) placed now? I believe those types of ads only sat on the games page and nowhere else if I’m not wrong.
This is honestly a good update. It provides less advertisements for the users and more space for games.
Have a good day!
Downloaded Adblock a long time ago for the overly spam heavy websites you sometimes have to travel to to get something you need (example a lot of font websites) and then I started using for the Roblox ads. Roblox Ads are among some of the worst looking ads out there. Much of the time being copy and paste crap over and over and generally are made with the intent to trick young users. My life was so much happier with Adblock taking care of them lol.
Now can we have ads removed from the Create/Develop pages? I highly doubt that anyone from the developer gets inticed enough to even bother with those ads. Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing some optional advertisements in games through an API (like that long ago planned update) especially if it was for a reward, similar to mobile games that let you watch an ad for stuff.
I like this update. You don’t get an ad for something you aren’t even looking for.
They are on user profiles at the bottom.
They changed this over a week ago I think, annoying that they’ve only just announced about it.
Absolute nonsense! You tell your developers to get ready for changes before you make them! I really want my Robux back, I now need to pay designers for new advertisements and run them again!
EDIT: I emailed Roblox support about this. I’ll share what happens here.
Its a shame, with the removal of featured sort actually featuring new games and the removal of more places for ads its going to be harder for new games to advertise themselves and get new players.
I can’t say I agree with this change. It doesn’t seem to have any sort of reason other than standardizing different platforms. I believe the games page is probably one of the best places to put game advertisements since it can be assumed that people who are on the game page are looking for games to play. This change will hurt up and coming developers who hope to get there game out there through advertisements. The sponsored section of the games page is still a good idea, but it doesn’t provide the same visibility a large ad does. I’ve heard from successful developers that in terms of ads the longer rectangle ones and banner ads are much more effective than square ads so the loss of them on the games page will likely be a significant factor to those who are relying on ads to get their game noticed.
I’m sure there are other reasons for this change, but based off this post it seems like the only stated reason was to unify all platforms which makes me believe the cons outweigh the pros in this circumstance.
There are also other types of ads that people could make. But I think ROBLOX should’ve said this like a week or a month ago.