It’s actually more than a double edge sword. This actually hurts the clothing designers more than the bots.
There must be another way to prevent botting, but a high fee with this will just ruin clothing designers and groups.
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It cuts into their business model, in the long term they cannot sustain the uploading due to the high costs and low returns. They cannot simply just reupload entire libraries of clothing anymore.
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if people can bot clothing they can bot robux
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50R$ is hardly a high fee, and I’m personally surprised by how low it is - far too low to prevent a tidal wave of botting and stolen clothing. Personally, I think 100R$ would’ve been a far better compromise, having it MAYBE placed at 50R$ for Premium users.
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You actually think that 50R$ is low?
It may seem low, but it’s actually 100R$ for a whole set, and even more to upload it and put it on sale. And it’s also highly difficult to recover all those robux. 50R$ may actually be a “low price”. However if you take it out of the box, it’s actually WAY more than that.
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I’m disappointed with this upcoming change. Many designers including myself looked forward to having Premium because it came with the benefit of being able to upload clothing. With this new change that the Roblox team is presenting, it will only destroy the clothing community. Many designers who own clothing groups depend on Premium in order for their group to prosper. Taking this privilege away will not only make it harder for designers to upload clothing, but it will also make earning Robux difficult. Uploading clothes with a fee will barely help designers make profit. Instead, it’ll drag our profits down. Designers can only make so little, 50 robux is a lot to ask for. Most of the clothing on the market is sold for 5 robux, having 50 robux will drastically and most definitely take away any profit designers earn. Implementing this new feature will not prevent bots from reuploading clothing. There are many programs which can navigate people’s templates easily. Furthermore, there are already many clothes on the catalog that are duplicates, and I doubt they’ll be taken away with this feature. The clothing catalog cannot be fixed unless the Roblox team takes each single duplicate down which is impossible. I urge the Roblox team to revoke the idea of having a fee to upload any clothes. The design community will be destroyed within weeks time if the benefit of uploading clothes with Premium isn’t kept. As designers, we come on Roblox with different programs in order to create items such as pants and shirts for others. It’s the one thing that bonds the community together. In order to show our passion and creativity, it all starts with being able to upload clothing in the most beneficial way possible which is using Premium.
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I’ve thought of a few different approaches to eradicating clothing botting, that also benefit legitimate clothing artists. I urge developers/clothing artists/and Roblox staff alike to read the problem and my solutions here:
A pay barrier isn’t the best solution to fix this issue of botting.
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Out of curiosity, why the specific exemption for T-Shirts? Is there a technical reason?
I actually prefer the idea of free uploads with a fee only being required to publish the item and sell it. It would allow for tests and revisions, as well as creating personal items, without having to spend extra Robux. Would be cool if the T-Shirt exemption became the norm for all of these item types.
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When will there be instructions or a system to allow us to test / update clothing as we work? I usually make tons of uploads just to check proportions, how things look, and how they align. This will become very expensive if I don’t get it perfect on the first try. It seems unfair to roll this out to any users before there are instructions or a way to test things.
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I agree. What if our clothing get moderated? They should at least make it so that it’s free to upload, but you must pay a small fee to put it on sale.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I’ve seen, it costs 50 robux to upload, and 50 robux to put on sale.
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How I’d do is to just upload it as a decal and then put the ID in the shirt/pants accessory.
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50 robux alone does not seem like a lot but let’s fully analyze this. Most people sell their clothings around 50 robux and less especially if your starting out. So let’s say your selling a shirt for 50 robux and your lucky enough for someone to find your clothing which is already hard by itself. Roblox automatically takes 15 robux from that 50. Your still at a loss. So that means you need two sales to even make a profit on a product. Any business man will tell you that your business is a terrible business investment and most will increase their price or just straight up leave. Yes your right, 50 robux is not a lot of robux… for big groups. But you forgot to think about the smaller creators.
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How will we know if our clothing will get moderated?
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So now 50 robux? I’m disappointed with this update, it’s ruining small clothing designers and forcing them to quit, it’s really sad to see how roblox don’t care about their developers.
Plus us clothing designers only get 3 robux per sale, we won’t tolerate something like that.
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You won’t until you upload it. Just like it always was lol
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But apparently it costs 50 robux to upload a piece of clothing. If it gets moderated, how will we get our robux back?
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I think the reason for excluding T-Shirts from the upload fee is because they have always been free to upload, for both free and Premium members, and it wouldn’t look very good if they suddenly took away one of the few free and unlimited customisation features that all players have.
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I don’t know. Wish I could help you with that. I guess just upload it as a decal?
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Uh, it’s better to just hire a more advanced software engineer to program a function to detect duplicate uploads and moderate them instead of enraging the community and taking the lazy way out and just putting a fee on everything. Putting a fee is merely making the problem worse.
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Hm. I don’t think uploading it as a decal can determine if it would be moderated.
Thanks for your suggestion though, I really hope the upload fee can be removed so it’s only 50 robux to upload and put on sale, rather than 100.
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