This is true, all I can say is, designers must brace themselves for this upcoming update as it changes their entire market completely and delivers a new competitive status which, while bringing bigger quality pieces, will make it difficult for others and at the same time encourage the use of devforum in order to fund themselves for their new investment; clothing making in a platform that is slowly turning too commercial for its own good.
It is indeed a bittersweet road and I doubt they’re going back.
I’m a little confused as to why this fee is being applied to t-shirt sales along with shirts/pants when historically in the past the upload abuse has been fairly limited to shirts/pants. What’s the point of now locking t-shirts behind a paywall when in the past they’ve been completely free to upload? Most t-shirts don’t earn money anyway, that’s shirts and pants that do most of the earning.
This could be a great change, but I am concerned that this is just going to add an extra fee on top of the same old system. Creating clothing hasn’t been profitable for years so you are basically throwing away money. In order for this change to fully make a change in the clothing community, something has to be done about all the stolen clothing currently in the catalog. I am hoping that there is already a plan to clean up the avatar shop, but I can’t help but fear that this isn’t gonna make a difference.
I get that Roblox is trying to take a specific course of action to stop clothes hitting, but this isn’t it.
Them going through with this action means most small clothing groups as well as rosports will die.
What’s the point of making a shirt costing 100 R$, only to make less then 70-80 R$ from it?
It’s basically making you go back to them, so they can make more money. It’s all about money for them.
You’re removing the premium requirement and charging ROBUX. So either way, you’re still going to have to pay for upload permissions-
This decision was made on the assumption that it would decrease the amount of cloned or botted clothing items in the catalog. That is simply not the case. As said by several developers replying to this post, bot accounts have ROBUX.
Clearly, all of the effects that this decision would have were not fully considered.
To all of the designers that are being affected by this, I am sorry.
I’m afraid I have to disagree with this decision. In some cases, this may result in the loss of revenue by designers, especially if they are unknown and just starting. I think a lot of designers go into designing to gain Robux.
We can’t ensure that people uploading assets will have Robux. I think you’ve gone too far.
Definitely quite the bittersweet update, on one hand, I’m truly delighted that all developers will have the ability to upload clothing regardless of Premium status, but on the other hand, this was one of the key benefits of having Premium in the first place so there should be something to compensate. Furthermore, it’s evident how this hurts the clothing design community who struggle to make ends meet already; paying a fee for every single asset they upload would hurt them tremendously and for that I express great sorrow. In regard to botting, wouldn’t just an actually strong captcha be effective, at least in theory?
Overall, I don’t think this was a bad update, it just needs some amends to make it beneficial, e.g., perhaps keeping uploads free for Premium members.
I honestly don’t see how, with premium you get robux, you could invest that into uploading shirts/pants. If you didn’t have premium, then thats a massive barrier lifted instead of paying $5 which some people may not have access to. If anything it will help because the price to upload is going from $5 minimum to ~$1. Keeping the premium barrier in response to botting isn’t helping because it isn’t affecting those who bot with premium at all. I understand maybe a discount, but I honestly think this is a massive step in the right direction.
I don’t find this very well thought of. There is no difference whether you change it from needing Premium membership or needing Robux. The members who do steal other designers content and upload them will still have Robux to do so. As you said, only “Premium” members would be able to upload under the current regulation. How do you think they uploaded them though. With money. So instead of them buying Premium they would just buy Robux. I believe this needs to be brought up to discussion with Roblox again. Feel bad for the designers who have to go through this.
I agree with some of your ideas; however, with the others, I don’t. Designers who upload over five clothing items a month are already paying more than paying for premium. Again, this hurts small clothing groups that do not have adequate funding.