As much as the naming change makes little sense, it is satisfying that people will finally have to put a bit more creativity in their names and stop adding “-blox” to the end of everything.
As for R6, other than nostalgia, I don’t really see any good reason for new work to use it since the rig is so basic and limiting. Yes, R15 requires more complex animations, but with the use of IK, barely so. Unless you’re trying to make a simulator in a day, the extra animation work won’t be significant.
This is completely apalling. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. Im so unbelievably done with this platform.
All you guys do is meat ride the investors, and then proceed to give the players minimal say. This is why your stock is doing poorly.
Yes. it is a common marketing tactic for them to push modern content, like any company. I mean, have you seen Activision-Blizzard pushing Overwatch one content lately?
However, the rig is literally based off of the R15 bone scheme. It quite frankly, is R15. I’m not suggesting it should be synonymous because It’s definitely a different product, but it is a subset of R15, like any other package on the catalog. I’m quite content with roblox pushing out the old parts of the platform. A lot of it is legacy and has very little use cases. To call me ignorant while I’m only pushing what is blatantly there and digging more in depth is quite a stretch. Unlike many who comment on this thread, I actually understand why and how they’ve moved, and don’t hide behind rose-tinted glasses that I have from 10 years ago.
This is very interesting, I wonder what else Roblox will do in the future?
I mean, it’s doing poorly for financial reasons and because the market as a whole is getting more conservative, but that too.
I agree, thank you for bringing this up. As an avid investor who follows the market daily, I find it funny that people on the Devforum and on YouTube believe every negatively received update has a direct impact on the stock price of Roblox. Investors are not engaged in the platform listening to essentially inconsequential updates and complaints from developers and players, instead they are leaning on key metrics such as financials, profitability, and projections. The market in general is doing poorly (due to Covid, Ukraine, Inflation, etc…).
It is true that Roblox is more volatile than more stable companies, but in general it is tracking with the market. That isn’t to say Roblox’s decisions never impact their market cap. If these decisions impact Roblox on a more broad scale (player/ revenue loss) then their stock will be negatively effected as investors evaluate the value of the company and their potential for long term success. But as you said, these updates are not directly impacting Roblox’s stock price, they only have the potential to indirectly impact them in the future.
I’ve updated my post, pointing out the vague & blocking areas of the ToS changes. Roblox needs to update the ToS to be more clear!
I’ve also updated the post with another problem these changes bring up that I hadn’t initially considered:
You say that like you don’t realize why devs do it. It’s not for lack of creativity. I can create dozens of names in a minute to describe any game that exists, the point of using roblox-themed names is your trying to give the game a Roblox theme, as some people like that. Also, they are not getting rid of the old rigs; they just want to market the new ones more because they haven’t received the reception they hoped for.
Honestly the more I look into these changes the more unnecessary they seem. I can’t put into words how some of these changes put a sour taste in my mouth. Weren’t some of these changes attempted in the past, but were reverted due to community backlash? Why is another attempt being made?
I’m just so confused behind the motive of these changes, obviously it’s Roblox trying to “Modernise” but I can’t seem to figure out any other reason. Especially the sunsetting of the Developer Stars Program, which makes no sense in my head.
Is this a joke?
Ok maybe I understand a little the logo & badge thing, but now we can’t use R6 and R15 avatars anymore? What? Have you guys lost your minds or something?
There’s no way I am using Rthro, have a nice day.
But there are users who “Made fake AD game into real”
Yeah, i understand if this was just for stuff outside the platform or scam games called “Roblox Rewards” or stuff like that but for average games its kinda weird.
What do you mean Roblox is gonna do false advertising
Can one of you guys explain what the deal with R15/R6 characters means? I don’t understand it
It’s was commented on by a Roblox admin earlier. Pretty much afaik, Roblox doesn’t want you using their R6/R15 characters for your own brand. (When making toys or irl stuff)
You can still promote your game digitally with R6/R15 rigs (on Twitter, YouTube, Roblox, etc)
What if Roblox advertises deprecated thingy, it’s false advertising.
So, does this mean we can make our own toys?
One of the head managers for the Roblox Toy Brand released a tweet saying he’d be willing to work with any Roblox Developer to keep making new toys with them, thankfully. I know wasn’t the main part of your post just wanted to share.
Im aware of that. The issue isn’t roblox’s stock doing poorly. I’m trying to relay the fact that roblox is making the goofiest dookiest decisions imaginable.
