We are actively working to gain a deeper understanding of our creator community. Because of this, we’re asking you to help fill out our Roblox Creator Experience Survey. We want to hear about your experience as a Roblox creator in 2024. Your feedback will be invaluable in helping us understand, discuss, and ultimately improve the experiences of our creators and everyone on our platform.
The survey should take approx. 10 minutes to complete, and will go a long way to help us understand the creator community better.
For those of you who want to complete the survey, but do not reside in the United States / United Kingdom, stay tuned as we plan to roll out more surveys for other countries in the future.
Any creator that completes the survey before May 14th will be entered into a random drawing to receive a $100 Amazon gift card! We will randomly select 10 creators and will notify you by email if you are selected.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey.
I will never understand why these surveys are always limited to one or two countries. What causes these limitations? You’d think that MORE feedback would be better, no?
Doesn’t really represent the creator community, but oh well!
I don’t think these should have ever been launched with country restrictions in the first place. I’m assuming the surveys are restricted primarily on account of the incentive, otherwise you wouldn’t have published without completing them for other countries (Canada is very similar to US so the issue must be legal). We have had platform wide surveys before with no issue as far as I know. Bribery historically does not get you valuable responses because people just want to put their name in the pot, they don’t care what they answer with. Dropping a massive portion of userbase just so you can offer incentive which many invested developers don’t even want in order to answer seems backwards.
Even if you’re just looking for demographic info, you really don’t need all this. Even an on-platform reward would be enough if you really want a million faked responses.
Bringing out a “Creator Experience Survey” but restricting it to developers from two countries makes it sound misleading. As a US-based developer, I feel that my answers to this form may undermine the credibility of future conclusions from this survey–they simply don’t represent the voices of the many other non-US, non-UK developers around the world. If the purpose of the Creator Experience Survey was to gather data on US/UK participants, I feel like it would be more appropriate to have stated that in the title.
You guys need to understand that roblox just said they would roll out more surveys for other countries later. Perhaps as of right now, they just want their biggest engaging developer countries to fill out a form as priority, other than that the only negative I could find is them being misleading and only making us provide our income. Missing out on a slim chance of getting a 100$ amazon gift card isnt a loss.
The survey is flawed. I can’t select 0% for the sliders. I’ve made no money on Roblox or off Roblox for making video games in 2024. My cost for game dev is more my own time, as I do the marketing and every other aspect of game development myself.
If buying Logic Pro for making music counts, then that $199.99 fee. I’m in college for Game Design right now, and that’s cost me at least $2,000. (There was no ‘some college’ option, just an ‘other’ option.) I have scholarships, so it’s mostly been covered. Again, it’s mostly time.
That said, I’ll likely be spending money on the Ads Manager, and then I’ll both be losing and making money. That’s 2025, though. So, until I make more than 30,000 Robux and can cash it out, I’ve made no money in my 5 years of game development. Game jams on Itch don’t pay either.
I quit the survey when it got to money. When they said “Share your feedback!” I was expecting questions like “How was your time on roblox?” Or “Which game genres do you end up playing most?”.
This survey should be renamed to “Share your background history!” It would be a bit more fitting.
I’m from the U.S. and got to participate in the survey but there are so many developers that don’t live in the U.S. or UK so I feel its unfair… Roblox should make it available to a variety of countries and even give a Roblox hat as a reward for doing it even if you don’t win the 100$
Exactly, it was giving questions as if all of us are highly payed developers. I wanted questions as you said about the game itself and the genres I enjoy playing and creating.
the tragedy of the moderation system has gone far enough and i demand changes to the system as a whole; for years, we’ve been subject to not just being terminated for no reason, but not even being able to appeal it???
the fact that this hasn’t been resolved in years is extremely concerning… you need to consider serious bloody changes to the system as THIS is what is causing developers to leave, we don’t want to stay on a platform where your entire history can be wiped out within milliseconds without any evidence/recourse… just for getting unlucky that day??? HAVE YOU TAKEN A LOOK AT ANY OF THIS?
…in case you haven’t, i’ve gone ahead and done the work for you. here are just a few of the many, many examples of the abuse we’ve been suffering through:
in this post, multiple people share their stories of being randomly terminated for crimes such as… group payouts? buying people’s shirts?? the most recent reply as of writing even describes a warning being upgraded to a 3 day ban just for appealing it which, in my 10 years on this platform, have never even heard of before
here we see another case of this happening, however even more intriguing was the amount of links posted to other cases of these blunders happening to other people in this post (thank you very much for saving me a ton of time @TimeFrenzied) at Wrongful Auto-moderation Support - #10 by TimeFrenzied… this is not an isolated issue, it can happen to anyone, it could even be you one day
here a user gets terminated not just once, but twice with multiple automatically closed appeals; another user shares the same thing happening to them here too:
important to note is that these are just a handful of the people who actually have had the courage to come and speak out about this here; who knows how many people have had their accounts deleted and have not spoken out about it?
if it looks like i’m coming off as angry in this post, it’s because i am. i am tired of seeing genuine talent on this platform being snapped out of existence because of the incompetence of the system that YOU have created, that WE have to deal with. i think i speak for everyone here that moderation needs serious reform; no more of this ai moderation crap, ESPECIALLY for appeals as that has been a major contributing factor to how we got here. i better see a response to this, it doesn’t matter if it’s a reply to this or not, i just want to see a change for once
I completely agree with you.
This is completely unacceptable.
The current moderation system is beyond broken—it’s scary how easily years of work can just vanish with no warning, no proper reasoning, and no way to fight back.
We just want fairness, consistency, and a system that listens. Random terminations with no appeal are completely unacceptable, some probably even made with AI.
Really? An income census? Man, I expected to give some actual FEEDBACK. Which I have a lot of.
I like the direction that the engineers are taking the engine - it’s looking really really good. Tons of awesome new engine features that I can’t wait to sink my teeth into, and hopefully more on the way (Skybox overhaul/expanded lighting effect controls when??? I want my SunRays.Color property!!). It’s looking like 2025 will be a great year for the engine.
However, the ROBLOX corporation is taking an increasingly anti-creator, anti-consumer approach, with more paywalls being erected and more limitations being instituted. Combine this with increasingly lackluster child safety and a seemingly higher-than-ever false ban rate, it’s becoming more and more difficult to justify staying here. I would not ever even consider doing ROBLOX as a career simply for the risk that it might be obliterated out of nowhere overnight.
tl;dr ROBLOX engineers are awesome, ROBLOX corp is not.
This. This is the single biggest issue the platform has right now. Frankly sickening that ROBLOX continues to stick their thumb in their rear and ignore it.
@Roblox are you ever, at any point in time, EVER gonna do as much as admit that you have a problem? Can you PLEASE at least allude to it?
To anybody reading this: do not rely on ROBLOX for money. Actually, don’t try to make money on ROBLOX at all. It isn’t worth the risk. If you try to turn this into a career, you’ll be stuck without a paddle the moment your account gets falsely terminated (and trust me, it will be). People have lost their income to BS moderation and it’s depressing to see. Do yourself a favor and get a different job. It won’t be as enjoyable or easy but it’ll be way less risk for far greater reward.
If you already depend on ROBLOX for income, you might want to find a different source of income as soon as you can.
False moderation is simply to great of a risk for ROBLOX to be a viable source of income.
