honestly, this isn’t doing good for anyone. speaking as a person who owns a big clothing group, if this is a cause of concern to me i can only think about the difficulties this is causing for smaller designers. this platform was made to power imagination, we don’t see you charging developers, asset creators or even coders for programming, so why is designing any difference? we are the base behind Roblox, without us there would be no clothing that ultimately allows people to be themselves. ranging from different thematic apparel to different apparel that applies to small groups of people, it’s now a fee to upload? i don’t get the purpose, there’s way better ways of coping with the copying issue, which starts with creating a better front page algorithm; it could be made so much better through something like an UGC application where you’re able to apply to release clothing onto the catalog. it provides groups and people equal opportunities.
i feel like dealing with this through ignorance, even after seeing how outraged people are when it was suggested to be integrated, yet you still went forward with the plan is just not okay. the community for designing is so important to Roblox, and some people rely on Roblox as a source of income. a fee is making it jeopardy based system which is now basically gambling, because you won’t know what’ll do good and what won’t. you can literally add a stricter enforced moderation system, privatize the asset templates as well as make other alternatives which i’m sure is in your budget to do. there’s still clothing made by me and other original designers on the front-page, and with fear of false dmca strikes we’re not even able to take the assets down.
i’m pretty sure the clothing designers agree on this, that you’re taking away an opportunity for so so many people and you are doing the complete opposite of your motto, once again.
It was stated in RDC 2020 that ROBLOX would be working on removing botted clothing from the catalog, I understand that this update will lessen the amount of bots, but the old copies are still there. Has there been any progress in the clean-up? I’ve had a shirt deleted after 28.000+ sales and 5 months after it had been approved, and there are plenty of copies of it on the catalog. I’ve reposted it after it got deleted, but will ROBLOX delete my own repost, assuming that the copies are the original shirt?
Most of us designers disagreed about this and came up with better alternatives to carry out the “bot issue.” How come you guys don’t consider us and the community as a whole?
Also, why do we have to pay to upload our work that we spend literally time in our lives to produce? Even with this, at least give us the other 30% tax you take away. The Roblox economy is literally falling apart
They set their minds on “the future” and do not change it. I’ll never understand it either. I think we should try something to make it slightly harder to steal clothing, perhaps have 1 template you can upload to the catalog, but it makes 10 versions of the uploaded item that the client can read, not including the original. That way they can’t just grab the clothing so easily? If we’re just going around slapping band-aid patches on things, how about we use a more effective band-aid patch?
What a start of the year! Im very disappointed on how Roblox always looking for a simplest and easiest solutions to prevent everything. They could’ve discuss it in public other than sticking into a one solution that doesn’t make sense.
Thinking of more permanent solutions, possibly something where creators who get something such as verification like UGC have their clothing recommended more often? At least if you plan to keep this implemented, make it cheaper, I’ve seen lots of clothing groups that reach 5-7 sales on every asset, but nothing more. 50 ROBUX is too much, and hurts a large amount of clothing creators.
No one is going to buy overpriced clothing. They need to be relatively low. The designers are going to make profit as easily if you proceed to make this change. Be better.
In my opinion, yes. I wanted to upload some (commissioned) clothing but at a very slow pace, now, even though premium is trying to appeal more to regular players than developers, at least I can just spend 50 R$ on 1 clothing instead of wasting money with a subscription service.
I wonder what people think about this, now that it is in effect.
The upload and selling fees feature is being rolled out for some users.
Omg!!! It must be SO exciting to be one of the lucky few who are allowed early to use a “feature” that forces you to pay a stupid overpriced fee on all of your future clothing uploads!
Don’t get me wrong. I really needed to write such a stupid joke…
Congratulations… you just made it harder for 90% of clothing creators on the platform to create more of one of Roblox’s biggest features.
Most of the bots are still thriving anyways. And even before this update Roblox was quietly deleting and removing hundreds of innocent designers clothing.
Years of lack of Moderation and enforcement of the clothing catalog by Roblox is hurting the already hurt. Hope to see this update never come.
As an independent clothing creator who is friends with several other people who create custom outfits, we highly disagree with this upcoming change. I believe that adding a paywall will limit and demotivate people who make them, especially those who bought Premium specifically to upload and/or sell clothes. Most clothing creators already have a lack of profit for what they make, and bots can still plague the catalog by boosting their outfits to the frontpage with the profit they’ve already gained in the past.
The catalog has always been broken but that’s because of Roblox’s inconsistency to moderate and enforce the catalog. In the end, the catalog is unfixable thanks to the billions of clothing pieces that have made their way to the catalog via unfair methods.
With all due respect, I don’t see any good in that.
Imagine if I was the owner of a small Mom n’ Pop shop. My shop comes up with a revolutionary idea, but how do I get that idea to generate profit? Advertising, marketplace fees, etc. Now a big corporation like Walmart sees this “great idea” and takes it. Walmart has just enough and more to pay for all the cost to get the idea out there. And in the end, Walmart wins.
This is almost basically the same case with smaller clothing designers on the platform. They make a great piece of clothing and have to pay 50 ROBUX to get it on the marketplace, then a bot farmer steals it and easily sells and makes profit from your great piece of clothing.
(and adding more insult to injury, 30% of the revenue the designer makes is given to Roblox.)
Please at least do a purge of botted clothing, and take Content Deleted clothes and clothes from locked groups off-sale to clear out space for legitimate clothes, otherwise the issue still remains.
Yep. Despite the efforts me and my friends take to create unique clothing, we usually don’t receive much profit - maybe 15 or so sales, without any help from clothing groups.
A 50 robux fee would be game-over for us, literally nothing gained other than a finished product for the work we do.
Lowering the fee to upload would pretty much not even make a difference (if the was like 5 Robux or around that ballpark). The cost of premium is $4.99 USD and for years now the bots have been able to get premium/builders club. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they have hoarded that Robux from the premium purchase ON TOP of the Robux already made from the botted clothing items. Even if they have hoarded premium rewards, these people have made millions if not billions of Robux from stealing and botting the hard work of designers on Roblox.
I don’t really like it. I like seeing a push to stop it but it will kill some new designers. Nobody can afford to take off and keep up with those prices. Like I said, these copy paste spammers will just put robux on the accounts and program their way around it just like they do with the current captchas.
I really hope 3D clothing is coming soon, that will be sick!
