Glad we postponed oof leaving 
Tommy pays attention to criticism and that’s good!
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But still, can we start negotiating price tags. I don’t like having to waste all this Robux on uploading some sounds. It should be able to auto-upload to not have to pay extra to upload sounds.
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Are you saying we have to pay the 10 dollars + uploading it to roblox? I’m not sure how fair this is.
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Imagine paying to upload all 10,000 sounds, and as someone else here said, imagine uploading 10,000 sounds one at a time. Now imagine 100 developers uploading all 10,000 sounds. that’s 100k audio files. This feels redundant, and I feel like having to upload files to the library to use it in a game is outdated, and needs to be changed to uploading the files directly from your computer into the game. They can still be submitted for moderation, but not uploaded into a database to clutter it. The library would still exist (in the form of the new marketplace) as an option though.
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Yeah, the fact that the sounds are provided in an external library instead of being uploaded directly to Roblox is real questionable. If anyone’d want to buy this, probably better off waiting for them to be released on the Roblox marketplace rather than buying it off the site directly.
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So you finally admit that you’ve breached your own rules after a week? You should of put out this response as soon as you was receiving backlash. I want the oof not being removed altogether, can you come up with something like paying him a one time sum for using it or pay him one a recurring basis as none of us developers want to see it go.
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Thank you for understanding the announcement was very iffy. Even though it was basically an advertisement, it’s still a decent pack of sounds. However I’m not on the same side to buy a sound pack for like 10 dollars (or about 8 Euro in my case) and then spend Robux to upload it to Roblox. Doesn’t really make much sense to me.
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To be quite honest, this doesn’t sound like a win for anyone but yourselves. You can’t just sugar coat the situation by then attempting to mitigate it saying “we’re opening up a marketplace” - you bend your own ideology just to satisfy a sound designer who clearly has no care for the platform. It looks to me as if this was your scapegoat to a potential legal battle with Tommy - in which this is a way to compensate him for his minor work: a lot of games actually change the “Oof!” sound.
How do you think any of this is smart:
Well hey, you may not get our money but at least you made a T-Shirt with the guy containing oof on it which totally hasn’t existed for years…
A disappointing joke 
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I’ve honestly have never heard of this guy until recently. Nor have I ever in my life seen a human being gloat about petty accomplishment so much. It’s hilarious. Anything with this persons name on it has him talking about some record or other paper with his name on it.
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I’m sorry if I’m wrong about this but wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you guys just bought the rights to use it? Wasn’t that an original offer before? I don’t want to pay 10 bucks for a sound pack that I want only one sound to use.
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Just wanna say that this was a very good decision on behalf of both Tommy Tallarico and Roblox. Having people essentially pay for these sounds twice is extremely redundant and I believe that announcing that the new developer marketplace would be coming soon within this post accentuated this opinion.
With that being said, I’m still a bit confused with how Roblox is indulging on this new ‘developer marketplace’. It appears that Roblox themselves are even confused on when it will be released.
From the original post;
From the updated excerpt;
While it’s awesome to see Roblox being much more transparent with this situation, I still think this whole fiasco could of ultimately been avoided had Roblox waited until the new marketplace shipped. Good to see the company willing to own up to its mistakes to some degree, however.
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This isn’t too bad but I will miss the oof sound
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A few regards to this post.
Different Topic, PLEASE!
This topic is for announcements regarding Roblox. The part with the oof sound leaving may be, but the audio kit certainly is not. That’s a straight up advertisement.
Hasn’t Roblox owned OOF for years??
Roblox has used the oof sound for as long as I can remember, and now suddenly they don’t own it? That doesn’t check out. Not to throw complete accusations, but was there any sort of blackmail?
This kit will destroy SFX designers!
Personally, I will always hire an SFX designer over this kit no matter what, but other people may buy it just for how quick it is. That will destroy all SFX designers on this platform.
Honestly, Kinda Sus
Again, why is Roblox suddenly saying they don’t own this sound?? It is really suspicious. I don’t know if there was something Roblox did or Tommy, but it’s not right. If I see another post for something like this, I may switch to another platform until it’s gone. I most likely will never buy this kit or anything from its owner.
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I get that this is confusing to people who aren’t caught up, but here’s the tl;dr.
Roblox technically stole and used the “oof” sound effect back in 2007 or 2009 and kept using it since then, most likely without knowing that it was copyrighted.
Tommy, the owner of the sound effect, found out a year ago and was angered over the idea of a billion-dollar company using his work secretly all that time.
Due to Tommy’s anger, he threatened to go to court and made some posts on Twitter that offended 90% of the DevForum community.
Roblox likely knew that they would lose money over this since they did breach copyright for a decade, so they and Tommy went into talks secretly for a while.
Fast forward to now and Roblox and Tommy made an agreement, with this announcement being created as a result.
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ah yes, typical corporate talk; not actually adressing the problem at hand as to why tommy is getting special treatment, and how the rules are being broken
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I just noticed that this will make old games that aren’t being updated be almost impossible to enjoy.
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Someone else uploading it is definitely murky and anything could happen - but just because it rarely gets reported doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be on the safe side.
Glad to hear ROBLOX and Tommy settled on an agreement. Though I’ll miss the oof sound. 
Never will I support someone who was directly rude to the Roblox community.
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Ok, so you apologized that you used the announcements category for a literal ad, which keep in mind about how harsh the DevForum members are shoved around about wrong category.
So what do you do? You leave it… you didn’t even try to change it, you literally are disobeying your own rules.
What, you don’t know where to put it?
Why not use the never to be used and never has been used #uncategorized category?
Even then I’m sure site engineers could literally make a whole new category.
And also, you’d think that a multi-billion dollar company could pay Tommy to keep the sound instead of literally removing it.
Don’t get me wrong, Tommy has every right to want the “Oof!” to not be used by Roblox, but come one…
Honestly it’s quite ridiculous.
Also, after a week you apologized for the ad in announcement (that notified EVERYONE and you never changed it!), and still you leave many people confused on multiple problems and question.
Like the comments below the update, what’s the fate for SFX artist? Can’t we pay for the “Oof!” sound? Why can’t we negotiate with Tommy, even though he doesn’t even care about this platform and it’s community at all?!
What does this mean for Tommy?
Sense he has obviously disrespected our community, he is getting quite a lot of backlash.
How will this affect his career?
One thing I’d like to address that no one else really has, in the other post you stated that Tommy never actually showed any form on ownership… Did he any time later?
(As stated here).
One last thing…
Don’t you think Tommy’s sound kit might get scam versions?
Sense you have to go to a different site, some people might make a site with a scam version on the sound kit.
I mean it’s already questionable to why we need to go to an external site.
Regarding to the update, people are still confused on things.
I heard that you could buy the “Oof!” sound for 100 Robux!
I even had someone say that you would never be able to upload sounds to the library and you have to buy Tommy’s sounds, which most of them probably won’t even fit our games.
With things like that in the concern, Roblox you’re leaving many people confused.
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