Roblox needs to start pushing GOOD games

As developers on Roblox, many of us want to create something unique and special. The quality of the experiences we create shouldn’t be compromised by an algorithm that only pushes games that farm money out of people and focus on gameplay second.

From what I’ve seen many games that get pushed by the algorithm all look the same. They all spam different icons and thumbnails. This is usually done by someone who buys a percentage of a game and makes a ton of similar games and creates an ad for each one, and then has all those places direct to their main game.

This and the fact that many games that are pushed by the algorithm include very generic titles and uninspiring design. Most of the mare just simulators that are carbon copies of other games with one new variable in the mix. Overall the website is losing it’s magic. When every game you’re being recommended is almost the same, it’s hard to find new games that are actually innovative. And due to the recent push of crummy games, good games are forced to take similar routes in monetization and gameplay loops styles in order to compete with the brain-dead games.

Overall it would be nice to see a push of higher-quality and unique games on the platform. Currently people are just abusing the algorithm to their advantage.

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Good games don’t make roblox money and roblox wants all of that so this probably won’t get added any-time soon.

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Long-term it doesn’t really make sense to have games that are all the same.

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I agree that good games should be shown more often, however, any sort of “good” game would have to be pushed out manually by staff; there’s no definitive metric on what makes a game “good,” for it to be an automated system

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i mean if people are choosing to play it enough that the algorithm is pushing it than it probably isn’t “bad”. everyone has different criteria for good

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