I’m pretty iffy on the whole part about games not being able to use “Roblox” or any similar derivatives in game titles, when that has been a long running phenomenon for decades, seems very arbitrary to me.
And from what I can gather, the change regarding R6 and R15 not being usable only applies to commercial use, and it shouldn’t really affect anyone on site. I could possibly be wrong however.
Can’t really speak on anything else because I either don’t get it or don’t really care, but from what I am gathering from the thread, I can see how the shutdown of the Star Licensing Program is a slap in the face, and that should be addressed as soon as possible.
I’ve actually never heard of the developer stars program before tbh, I assumed that we only had the Youtuber one instead.
It’s not really talked about as much as the Youtuber Stars Program, so I guess it never crossed my mind.
If that’s the case, I guess they’re shutting it down to save costs since their toys aren’t selling as much as they thought?
I’ve never actually heard of anyone buying a Roblox toy to begin with, aside from a few youtubers who purchase them only to destroy them for a video or something.
That’s really the only logical reason I can think of that actually makes sense.
What ever happened to helping your indie developers and independent teams. You ask for the developers to provide you feedback, yet the communication is just not there.
Instead of focusing on forcing Rthro, how about focusing on the people that make the platform what it is.
I have a doubt. I have a site called “RoBlog” where I post things related to Roblox, my name as already said and my logo make many relationships with the platform itself, can I be affected by this?
Okay so if im reading this right, all you’re trying to do is promote Roblox itself by getting rid of the ability to freely promote ones game with out putting a big ON ROBLOX label on it?
And when you search Roblox all their gonna see is the platforms new avatars and not the old.
You guys are trying to phase out the past and all the old creations that people have made on this platform with your no-effort, no-sense system of a new platform.
I dont understand why the company is only seeking to see their name everywhere but its all probably for money. Truthfully I dont think the Roblox corp seems to care what developers, influencers or anybody wants.
You’re slowy making us leave the platform diminishing yourself as a company for what?
Since you got right, so your bad update has been changed.
But Instead, after period June 22, as we now on cannot using games since format using making toys, so this mean there’s no new roblox toys after since June 22 of creators/experiences ? Also, we improved opinions about R6 and R15 or Rthro we complain just using it there’s nobody to provide of many since brad guidelines after yesterday we apart to using have permission to requesting of star program ?
Well according to roblox has been changed program and brand guidelines that does not word say “Roblox”, “Blox” cannot be using to permission, it was completely changed lost your minds when updated so terrible things for making permission allowing to using avatars instead and censor bars are going on new platform. That make sense on developers and players that people make putting ON ROBLOX label and also things making of the past on new avatar and old
But I Believe and only truth about star program what’s done using developer for ?
This move, while punishing or harmful to developers, makes sense. Roblox went public on the stock market, resulting in a lot more pressure to monetize and protect assets. Roblox was at risk of losing intellectual property due to how large of a platform it was - their name, characters, and branding could have become not theirs any more. This same concept applies to any large company - “Google” had to protect their name and branding so they didn’t just become a common verb (ie “google it”, “Googling”, etc). In a court case, it could have been argued that Roblox doesn’t own their intellectual property. This change fixes that.
This is a logical, tactical move geared towards monetizing the platform. That is not to say it isn’t a terrible decision for developers, just that it legally had to be done. This update puts Roblox in a better position to monetize the platform, so it can make profit as a company. I wouldn’t be surprised if their next step would be to make Roblox Studio payed access.
These are just my views. I don’t seek to validate Roblox, and I despise this update, but it makes sense.
Not sure if this was asked/answered yet but here it goes:
I have an experience whose start place has “Roblox” in the name. We recently changed the main place’s name for RDC coming up. Would I be able to change the main experience’s name back to having “Roblox” as this was created way before June 22nd, 2022?
It’s been a long time coming, but now I realize that anyone who chooses not to use Rthro will continue to be punished. This is just another example of being forced into using it, and clearly, nobody is enjoying it:
Before I edited this post I was much more critical. I still don’t understand why Blox and similar terms need to be restricted, but at least from what I understand it applies mainly to experiences.
The star program wasn’t something I was part of, but I still don’t see why it’s being removed.
This is not the direction me and many others wanted to see go forward.
Will developers in the Star Program continue to be paid for our toys?
Why haven’t some of us been paid quarterly as per our contract? I haven’t been paid in over a year. I reached out to the licensing team twice with no response (based on another response on this thread, I’m not alone).
Hey, in the exact same boat. Haven’t been paid for my three toys in over a year. I contacted licensing twice with no response. Sorry to hear it’s happening to you too. I’m getting really concerned and this news isn’t good.
I am a part of a YouTube news production team (Top Hat Mediaz) dedicated to producing shows for the Roblox platform on YouTube. Our flagship product, ‘The Roblox Live Show,’ features the Roblox logo in its logo, branding, and graphics. For this case, would we be required to change our branding to something totally out of the light of the Roblox name, and our associated advertisements and graphics? However, it is a news show about the happenings on the Roblox platform, or would we have to request permission to use the name and logo further?
Guess I’m never putting a Roblox character in promotional material ever again. Roblox is shooting themselves in the foot here because this restricts how developers market their product instead of opening it up. Developers do not use Rthro to advertise their product because it looks really jarring and out of place
