Removed Favorites and the Death of Earned Media

Feature Requests Website Features
#6

Aurarus and I may be different, but that is exactly why I asked what others thought, and gave my opinion.

Additionally, it is an effective form of earned media (at least on Roblox, given the short supply of other earned media tactics) because it is saying to other users that you liked the game enough to endorse it.
Admittedly the small sum of users that Aurarus lost does show how local the game is disseminated to via favorites, but I guarantee the majority of those players were all returning customers.
That’s the point of earned media: it comes down to the 80/20 rule, so those returning customers are much more likely to buy any gamepasses or consumables.

#7

Are you trying to tell me that the returning customers are coming from random people’s favorites boxes?

#8

If that user enjoys the game, they have no reason not to return. I know I do if I like the game.

#9

I’m failing to see how the favorites box, a means of discovery by a microscopic number of users, is helpful in getting a game off the ground while advertisements, which are seen by hundreds of thousands, are ineffective. Are there any examples of this?

For my hack week project I made a game with Rukiryo in 4 days and used sponsored ads and a couple tweets to get it onto the front page. It worked better than I had originally expected and we were on the front page in a couple hours. The favorites box may be good for having a constant trickle of random people, but it is simply not comparable to the flood of users a sponsored ad will get you.

#10

Favorite games are listed on the profile page as Sharksie noted. Here is a screenshot:

FavGames.PNG

#11

This shows your favorite games. The problem here is that you cannot view the favorites of another player.

#12

I don’t understand. Do I have some special power that allows me to see other people’s favorites?

335×651 79 KB

#13

I don’t have that at all. Edit: It seems I have it on some profiles, but not all. Is it a privacy setting?

1009×552 59.3 KB

#14

Weird. I don’t see a setting anywhere and I haven’t seen a profile without it. Maybe some people don’t have any favorites?

#15

I took that picture in Incognito to make sure I wasn’t logged in as anyone. I’m pretty sure that section shows up unless the person has no favorites games.

#16

Farming with/among Friends got a bunch of new traffic after it was favorited by Gusmanak. Was that a coincident? Heck no. People would join and tell me about how they saw it on his profile. Players sharing their favorite games is great for creators because it allows people to showcase content they like (your game) and give the developer FREE advertising.

3 Likes
#17

Not ten, dozens of constant and unique visitors. There’s no reason a lot of the time for players to come back, since it would only be a small tech demo/ idea without much depth.

20-35 concurrent players, thousands of visits in a week.
Then it turned to 0-2 concurrent players.

2 Likes
#18

http://www.roblox.com/users/28491111/favorites#!/places
http://www.roblox.com/users/28491111/favorites#!/places720×216 10 KB

He has no favorites to show, therefore none are shown.

Favorites are shown on all profiles. If a user has no favorites, the category is skipped.

#19

But the favourites box didn’t disappear so that can’t be the cause?

#20

The favorites box is there. Sorry everyone for wasting time, I knew it wasn’t there at one point (Around November) and just assumed they had not added it. Now that it is… Well this is embarrassing.

#21

It disappeared for some time, and this was across several of my own games + games of close friends

The primary source of these visits are from popular users btw

#22

Most people switch over to the creations tab, which doesn’t have favorites on it.

With the old profile they were right below places, so when you were scrolling through somebody’s places you’d also see their favorites.

#23

We don’t have data. However the favourites box was a key feature of old profiles, it no longer is. I used to find everything through there.

Intuitively that sounds like it would hurt smaller games… but hey… what do I know?

#24

Most people use the games page.

I agree favorites should be under the Creations tab.

#25

I feel like Friend Activity is probably more effective for finding these kind of games than through the favorites list of your friends.

(Though you can only have 200 and it doesn’t apply to people that you follow, so it wouldn’t quite have the same effect as it used to be when a “popular” user favorited a place.)