Hi
Interesting case study.
However, I think it’s missing one vital answer: was it worth it?
Is it worth the effort of adding subscriptions to the game?
What do players think of it?
I’m not asking for specific numbers, but a general answer would be nice to hear.
I dislike the pressure Roblox is giving to implement unethical monetization practices.
It makes sense from a business standpoint. If Roblox knows they can make money by showing my game, they will do that. However, the “act now and get higher percentage of revenue” really annoys me. Sure, have monetization in the algorithm, but stop catering to this idea of subscriptions more than other things.
I think it’s cool that someone was able to implement this and we’re given details on that. But, I don’t like subscription models. It’s predatory by nature. No matter the implementation, you’d have to make players pay to continue to use the contents of the subscription. I stand by ethics, I don’t want to implement this.
This is not an announcement, nor update you could have just edited the original subscription announcement to include this.
This adds nothing to the community.
Can you guys please make a section called “New Game Implementation” OR “Dev-Related Social Media.” The “announcement” is good but should be moved to an already existing or a new news section.
Hi Nexus,
I totally get that this isn’t a typical announcement. We hear your feedback and are working on fleshing out the DevForum and its categories to create the best category for a post like this. More on that coming soon.
With this feature being available to users as of last week, we’ve had plenty of creators reaching out and asking for examples and best practices! For this instance, the creators of Livetopia were gracious enough to share their best practices with the community, and we decided this was the right avenue to share that information.
I think this post should be flagged with #documentation like the Roblox Sketch Series on Subscriptions. That way, people who want to know more can enjoy a guide without having everyone be notified as if it was a major Roblox update.
Announcements has already previously been misused for an advertisement back in November 2020 but that one was more egregious in that it suggested financially supporting someone who had been actively working against developers on the platform. Use case examples already exist on the Creator Hub for other articles and Roblox previously had an exclusive category under Resources called Roblox Tutorials that they used to share content that otherwise doesn’t fit right on the Creator Hub.
Please make this the last time. I track Announcements because I want important creator updates in my feed, not noise. I bluntly do not care to hear about implementation stories like this nor for Roblox to continue trying to entice me to use a feature with carrot stick benefits that both already do not resonate with me at all. Announcements is never the right avenue to advertise.
I tried to report this announcement as being spam, because this is not an announcement, it’s an advertisement. It appears this post has been manually approved. Roblox staff, please stop violating your own rules.
this is not the correct topic, consider keeping stuff like this out of announcements
Hi discodorothy,
I totally don’t understand the massive wall of text that you wrote that has nothing to do with what the person actually replied, and just talked about the feature related in the post.
We understand that Livetopia would like to share this, but what does this have to do with the inappropriate placement? There are already existing categories that this post could have gone in.
Sincerely, Raterix.
people would 100% be more on board with shilling to roblox if their game actually ended up getting any recognition, yet instead roblox (and its staff) does… this.
I think a post such as this could go here:
On the subject of DevForum category reform, could you provide an ETA, if there is one, about the following?
How ironic for a ROBLOX to misuse their own categories.
Few Issues:
Why not just add this to the existing post or the documentation page?
This is the Announcement channel, not a promote existing features channel. People rely on this channel to get important updates on features and potentially game breaking changes. It’s not respectful to add unhelpful noise which makes it harder to sort out the actually important information.
Seems like Roblox really loves subscriptions.
Can we not advertise creator’s games in the announcements channel? Thanks.
The bots that are mods won’t do anything. Welcome to dev forums!
I could not care less. Subscriptions are predatory to small devs and players.
first off, why is this an announcement? second off, for the love of god, subscriptions are going to be HORRIBLE for newer devs and communities. ofc it’s going to be good for the giant developers with tons of robux to just get more robux but as a whole this is going to hurt so many more people than it will help. for the love of god
