For example, here is my avatar thumbnail on R15 holding the “Gravity Gun” gear, it has no issues and the idle animation works.
But then, here’s my avatar on R15 holding for example the “Neon 80s Boombox” gear from the Neon Party Guy bundle, the idle animation does not work.
I’m not exactly sure what is causing this? Some gears work some don’t, this isn’t just limited to that boombox gear, but even more modern gears like the Eggphone gear, or even the Snow Shredder’s Board have this issue too. It’s likely just how the gears were made?
Why is this if I may ask? It would make more sense if support for their use in experiences was sunset given that barely any devs utilize them in any capacity nowadays, and for those that do, they generally just cause players to have a really full hotbar or disrupt gameplay for others.
However, many gears on the catalog are still onsale for varying amounts of Robux, as well as unredeemed toycodes for certain ones still being in circulation. This specific category has been enthusiastically collected by many players over the years in the same way other items such as Hats and Faces have been, and therefore if a player owns and wishes to simply display a gear on their avatar, they should ideally be given the same treatment as other accessories, that hypothetical player being able to do exactly so without concern of that gear effectively ruining that avatar.
Can we pause here for a moment? Because the game LUCKY BLOCKS Battlegrounds by @silky_dev is entirely built around Roblox’s gears, has maintained a consistent CCU for years, and has almost 1.6B visits.
There won’t be a fix for gears because they simply discontinued them many years ago, and an admin has specifically mentioned that they no longer support them, so that makes sense.
@Hooksmith This situation needs to be sorted out. It’s unprofessional to continue to be intentionally inconsistent by picking and choosing what to fix. I have pointed this out on other reports and have been ignored. This disregard of the reporter’s time is disrespectful. If they can’t even bother to update the category’s description to state these policies/limitations, then I think that these types of issues should be rightfully fixed. It can’t be assumed that users have seen these policies be stated for previous reports.
Knowingly selling nonfunctional gears (especially, to children) without any disclaimers is not a good look. I would strongly suggest fixing them, taking them off sale, stating in their descriptions that they are no longer supported, or converting them into accessories. If nothing is going to be done to make things right, then refunds should be issued.
Kind of new to DevForum so correct me if i’m wrong here but:
You should probably turn that “knowingly selling nonfunctional gears” part into a new post of its own specifically for that, it’s something very important and making Roblox see it is important too, especially now that they seem to have stopped fixing gears.
I’ve been “scammed” by broken gears before, it’s very annoying, and while I might just have to wait out a few premium payouts to repay it, some kid might have to wait until his next birthday to do the same.
I personally think that Roblox should take all non-limited gears off sale, but keep Limited ones onsale with a “this item is obsolete and might not function as intended, it should only be bought for collection or decoration purposes” warning while they figure out what to do.
Alternatively, maybe they could make all gears go limited with the same warning, but that’s just a few ideas i thoguht of, this is up to Roblox to decide.
I also had gears absolutely destroy my console logs a few times on my games with gears allowed, they just spam the game with errors when importing a mainmodule i already reported as faulty.
If gears are no longer supported, the catalog team should take every Gear off-sale and phase out the system and refund everyone for their limited purchases & trades in the last 15 years.
Considering players can still buy Gear, I believe they should be entirely supported and ideally the feature would be modernized and we should have the option to wear some non-disruptive gear in experiences. It would be nearly impossible to refund people when their limiteds are taken away since RAP isn’t an accurate indicator of valuation nor is best price / Rolimon’s community valuations.
Gear hasmanybugsreported today and we’ve been told that they will be ignored due to Gear not being supported.
Regardless, since I can still buy & trade for Gear today, I’m also having this issue. I’m using Popular - Idle.
As you can see, with Sword Cane my pose still appears, just with my hand out.
The current policy, as far as I am aware from recent comments made by this team and other Roblox admins, is that gear functionality* is discontinued and will not be fixed.
*Gear functionality meaning extra features, unique to gears, that go beyond the mesh/texture/particle issues that other accessories have. For example, if a bug pops up with the texture, this would be fixed, but in-game scripts wouldn’t be. Poses are also a feature unique to gears afaik, and I believe this is why they are not fixing them.
The first issue you linked is already confirmed to be fixed in a future update, because it is an issue with the texture/renderer.
When it comes to in-game scripts, I believe most people can understand why it’s unrealistic for Roblox to actively maintain all of these gear scripts. With poses, it is less clear to me, but I could probably come around to Roblox’s POV if they shared their reasoning point by point.
At this point, what is needed is simply some updated communication on the vision for gears going forward - it’s been around a year since Roblox last shared their thinking on this.
I actually did make a mistake on that Darkheart vertex color bug - they did mention they’re working on this but there’s no ETA. However, the first issue with Dual Venomshanks I haven’t gotten a response on yet.
I do see why they wouldn’t fix gear scripts as a whole though- it’s an old feature and it doesn’t make sense to have in modern games, and the few niche gear testing games can always fix them up themselves if desired by the developer.
Gears today are mostly used as extra accessories or ‘props’ that you can show off on your profile (much like poses), but they don’t actually show up in game.
Given this, I feel it’s unusual to come to a conclusion that certain gears with broken grips can be fixed, but other issues like Linked Sword’s behavior not working with modern features like animation packs (introduced around when gears were no longer published) are off the table for fixes.
I agree that understanding their direction with Gear in the future would help so this category could be more insightful in getting things fixed that they’ll even consider.
While I do understand most of the policies that help account for the influx of reports and understaffing, I still stand by my original statement and disagree with this policy. Roblox can’t be that naive of this situation and definitely doesn’t want to potentially mislead younger consumers. Some younger consumer might even purchase them thinking they can be used in any game because their descriptions don’t say otherwise. It wouldn’t be difficult to publicly communicate the limitations with gears; Roblox just needs to update their descriptions with disclaimers (i.e., gears are deprecated and can only be used in games that allow them). Inaction in this situation is unacceptable and inappropriate. This is a problem.
If anyone is interested in making things right regarding this situation with gears, please feel free to post about it in my feature request. Creator Success should be able to forward the feedback.
