As someone who enjoys creating avatar bodies ( (5) Catalog - Roblox), I believe that the 30% robux we receive from their sales is far too low to justify the amount of work that goes into them.
Unlike normal UGC accessories, creating avatar bodies requires knowledge of weight painting, caging, etc. My first avatar body ( Manacat - Roblox) required over 50 hours of work. I have been an experienced animator and character modeler on the platform for several years, and regardless, it still took this much time commitment to troubleshoot/bug fix, model, rig, animate, and texture my model (troubleshooting/bug fixing taking the vast majority).
What is the point of creating avatar bodies if we obtain the same amount of robux as accessories, but with a price floor of 0, and an excessive amount of work?
I know Roblox needs money to upkeep their servers and whatnot, but 30% still sounds like a ridiculous amount considering devs and UGC artists actually are the reason Roblox exists in the first place.
Not to mention, Roblox already likes taking cuts here and there, for every Robux transaction you make or any Robux that gets send to you, a small cut is always taken if I recall.
Now, I’m not a UGC creator myself YET, but don’t you also need like PREMIUM to be able to sell items in the first place?
To me it looks like Roblox is actually profiting more of all these creations than the creators, doesn’t seem all too fair if you ask me.
So I definitely think creators should be getting like at least 50% (or higher) of the Robux instead of the currently low 30%.
My rough proposal is that non-Premium users can sell their items and get 50% of the Robux and Premium users get 80% of the Robux since their subscription already earns Roblox quite a bit of money.
