The Games page is a centerpiece of attraction on the Roblox platform: every Robloxian visits this page in search of experiences that will connect them with millions of players across the globe. Roblox’s goal is to continue making it easier to discover great games. In order to achieve this goal, we will soon be testing a variety of algorithmic game sorts. After this test, we intend to roll the most effective sorts out to everybody, and test more new sorts over time, including ideas that come from the community.
You can see the current structure of the Games sort here. These sorts vary depending on whether or not you are logged into an account.
The current company goals for new game sorts can be found below. We’re sharing this information to give you an idea of what types of new sorts would align with our vision.
Connect players with games fostering long-term engagement.
Enable players to discover new games.
Support a diverse set of game experiences.
Incentivize developer adoption of new technology
Rthro and more! Tell us which ones you would like to see.
Allow new developers to gain exposure to wider audiences.
Format for replying with your new sort ideas:
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More information about your sort idea & any other feedback.
We will consider your feedback and ensure that any changes to our goals and plans regarding these new sorts are communicated to the developer community. We’d love to hear your feedback on what sorts you would like to see added! Share your ideas by replying to this topic.
I don’t understand what this mean’s these are really vague goals, but it sounds like good progress!
I hope we get better explanations of what those changes are gonna be.
Can we please get genre sorts back, they are very much needed for exposure on lesser known games!
Roblox should be very careful when touching these algorithms, one wrong choice and a lot of money may be lost to tons of devs. I hope the changes dont have too many drawbacks to them.
We’ve needed a better sort for a long time, but when you release these changes for the algorithm will you make a public post and notify the developers here about it so we can adjust.
Will the popular pages and etc… continue to be the same in design, having popular first and will it be age based + platform + genre…? Will we get more inner categories like “horror” (there were but got removed) and etc…
Also, will the old tabs for things like “recently played” and “favorites” come back to the main page…?
I must ask, why Rthro. Basically only 10% of the community use of it if I’m not mistaken. Also most developers only promote it so they can be on the games page.
EDIT: This post was originally made because of this…
I believe that the points made in the original post are great and align with many players’ best interests of the game sort, however I’m wondering, will there be a list for all games sorted by players based on raw statistics again?
with the player count being mixed up (Adopt Me has the most players on the list but is in 6th position), with some smaller numbers ahead of the others. Call me weird, but I would like to see a sort that’s based on statistics again. It could also help developers as then they could see what currently interests the entire community instead of having biases based on your age (and gender?) (or region).
EDIT: Thanks to @madattak for specifying, the sort might be region based.
I think they’re mixed up so that the most popular games aren’t always in the same position, which increases the chance of discovery for some other games
Currently, some/most of the games you see on the front page aren’t games that me (or someone my age) would enjoy. To fix this, I propose a sort called “Players Your Age Liked”. This would insure that older audiences coming to Roblox for the first time and long-time players will get to find games suited towards a more mature audience, instead of finding things like “Adopt Me” and “Meep City” which playerbase is mainly comprised of younger players. Please correct me on that if I am wrong.
The overall idea to rework the game page is nice, although I’d rather see an older idea brought back where users could filter based on the genre they like, war rpg etc. As for the Rthro aspect I feel it’s a pointless thing to keep up as stated by others above most developers use it just to get on the game page, rthro is used from my eyes as a way to troll rather than make the player look different, but that is my outlook everyone has their own. But I do strongly thing the genre filter options should be added back as it helps players find games THEY want to find, not games that are always on front page that have been played a number of times. Nonetheless it is great to see changes done to this!
The current game sorts looks good, but i think we should return with being able to sort games by it’s genre, (sort by Adventure, RPG, etc) it’s a feature that i really missed from the past, and i have no ideia why Roblox decided to remove it. It was a great way to discover new games!
Also, do we really need the ‘‘Popular Near You’’ sort? I’m sure almost no one used that sort, and for me it currently have showing up the same games as the Popular sort.
For some reason, the ‘‘Because you liked X’’ sort keeps recommending me random games that could be considered as ‘‘spam games’’? It’s showing up games like ‘‘Escape X Obby’’, Games that got moderated - as their titles are named as [Content Deleted], and the majority of these games are with 0 players on it with more dislikes than likes.
As other people say, i agree that we should have a sort based on players with your age. Would be great if we could find players with our age range.
