This update makes many things a whole lot clearer - I suspected this update primarily targeted music and that the intent wasn’t to demolish the SFX that other developers have made available to us, not to name any potential motivations for this. Appreciate the teams vanguarding the effort to keep these SFX available and not blanket wipe out all >6 second audio.
I am also content with the fast tracking of asset permissions. Knowing Roblox this was my main fear in that it would take an absurd amount of time to get permissions rolled out to us while this update is being pushed. If the intent is to roll this out later this week, that means this is one of the good times when Roblox gives us the alternatives and tools needed before a workflow-interrupting update is pushed. Please do more of that. It helps big time. I didn’t want to trouble my sound designer with having to reupload hundreds of SFX.
Something I never covered in the post I made in the previous thread is that on a whole, it’ll take a while to get used to and this is a very imposing deadline, but it’s not overall bad. Not only is it a step towards protecting creators’ rights (and hopefully Roblox protects us too by understanding we made a mistake, allowing us to take down assets in good faith without getting deleted on the fly) but rolling this out to other asset types is super beneficial, especially meshes for example. Can you imagine: this also helps against theft at an asset-level, meaning people won’t be able to just reupload ripped content because they’ll have no permission to render the asset in their experience. That’s pretty good.
I understand this change is difficult for both Roblox and us as developers but I’m sure a lot of us thank you too for taking the time to communicate to us en masse rather than keeping us in the dark about a change that will permanently change our workflows. This transparency is very important, as is assisting us in getting back on track.
Also a big thanks for fast tracking the SFX. Already took a look through the library and there’s some amazing stuff in there. I was looking forward to the SFX uploads the most. 