My personal opinion is there was too many scams and/or invalid posts, clogging up the forums and leaving some people victim. I can see why it’s gone.
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I personally think the removal of the asset marketplace was a good thing because it was doing more harm than good:
- There were far too many assets being sold that were made in under one hour. These sorts of assets could be easily remade or found in the toolbox and most of the time being sold for literal cents.
- The support categories were getting flooded with pricing and rate my build threads.
- There was lots of arguing over pricing which lead to a chain of spammy replies stating the exact same thing.
- I am guessing a lot of work was being put on the developer engagement team because they had to deal with scamming and other related issues with flagged posts.
I think the main reason why the asset marketplace was removed was because it was putting out a bad message about Roblox’s developer community. There was far too much spam and low-quality assets being sold there. This forum is meant to be a semi-professional environment.
It is usually better to get a contractor in to make assets for you rather than buying them from a marketplace because contacted work generally has to stick to specific guidelines. Rather than buying an asset from a marketplace and having to remake half of it to make it fit into your game.
Based of the prices assets were being sold for in the marketplace you are more likely to earn more money from doing contracted work.
P.S: For anyone reading this please don’t post asset sales in other categories because the asset marketplace was removed for a reason.
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I disagree with reason 1. One category being filled with trash because the other category that the trash used to be posted in has been removed isn’t a good reason to bring it back.
Flag posts that are in the incorrect category and help to teach new members to pay more attention to the categories they are posting in.
The asset marketplace was so full of scams and low quality assets and free models that it’s better if people just commission work and use contracts if necessary instead of buying premade. Also helps devs spend their time more effectively instead of gambling whether or not anyone will want to buy some random model they’ve decided to make.
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While I myself actually benefited from the Asset Marketplace, I can see why it was removed.
Inherently, the category was with good intentions, but their was a decent lack of quality with these builds, often with many beginners in developing attempting to jump to sales almost immediately, rather than attempting to improve skill.
Of course, other developers did benefit from this section. Perhaps it could be introduced again, but restricted like #platform-feedback. Members can create topics, and New Members can, with approval.
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Rather than bringing the section back at all, I think Roblox should use this debacle to further teach aspiring game developers how to use mature practices when selling there assets.
Strategies such as creating a Portfolio with the aspirations to land a contract, or simply sharing your development on a social medium (Twitter, Twitch), should be seen as a viable solution to anybody trying to make more than a few bucks at a time.
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I brought up some other reasons in the post PeZsmistic referenced to why you shouldn’t sell something you made as-is.
I didn’t think about moderation when creating this post. Considering becoming a New Member is fairly easy and posting in the asset marketplace was open to everyone, I could see this being a problem. My guess moderating fell on the responsibility of DevRel instead of Customer Support, and Custom Support didn’t help in cases where people lost money or didn’t pay.
Contracting work is definitely what should be done over using the asset marketplace. I also went over this in another post in more detail.
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As someone who had actively used the marketplace up until about a week before its removal, I am very thankful it is gone.
While there was an odd gem admist the rust, most of it was stuff that would simply never sell.
I found in the category I was a lot more critical then it was necessarily fair to be, and while I have now refined the posts I make and the contents within them with the removal of the category I hope less people will fall into the same trap of negativity I was introduced to upon joining this wonderful forum.
Now dont get me wrong, I have a baseplate with hundreds of random goods i’ve bought and don’t need. I enjoyed collecting cool things from the category. But I feel this change is for the best and I am personally experiencing the forums as a much more positive community.
Furthermore the way this change encourages people to use portfolios I think its great, since it gives developers a better chance to build a reputation and charge fairer prices, rather then being outclassed by the dirt cheap assets in the category.
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Wait, what? What happened exactly? They’re removing models?
no no noooooooo…
Asset Marketplace was a subcategory on the developer forum for buying assets off of other people. They’re removing it because some people were making low-quality builds that were probably made under 20 minutes, could easily be replicated, and pricing was an issue too.
Oh and they don’t want us to use portfolios for asset selling either.
The alternative I can think of is just take commissions. Assets should be reusable most of the time and not be too specific. Taking commissions means the person hiring you gets what they want. The build you make suits their needs. This often wasn’t the case through asset marketplace
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Gotcha. For a moment I was confused when I thought you said they removed models lol
Is “low-quality assets” really a legitimate reason for its removal? I wouldn’t think it’s that difficult to ignore crappy posts (they are literally everywhere) and move on with your life. I browsed that forum frequently and I can’t say that “low-quality assets” ever caused me a problem.
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I’m with a majority of voters here.
It’s better practice to commission someone for something specific than to look for something and hope it fits your needs.
My first experience on the asset marketplace was a set of gun models that had been sourced by the seller here, from another seller on another site and was being distributed illegitimately. This seems to be a common thing in places like this especially when there is nothing in place to stop it.
There is still a risk of this with a commission, but at least it is possible to guard yourself from potential scams. I won’t go into how I do that, because I’m not sure what the rules are here regarding the reference to third party sites.
You just assume that Roblox moderation staff never makes mistakes?
Not all of it was, and there’s also a decent lack of quality in the portfolios category. Does that mean that the ROBLOX staff should remove the portfolios category too? Should they remove low quality games because they’re not up to the standard of high quality games?
*Roblox
No no… portfolios are there for employers looking for people that do a role in game development. People were often misusing the asset marketplace for a place to get reviews on their build, like “rate my building /10”, the pricing, and while I don’t believe low quality assets are the only reason, the reason would probably be misuse. The “low quality” could be applied to games, yes, but that would go against Roblox’s motto “Powering Imagination”.
Quality is subjective, and shouldn’t be the only reason for a removal. There were other reasons.
I think it was one of the BEST things to have happened to the forum. Most of the assets were of extremely low quality and spited a lot of arguments.
The forum is a place to inform and help one another developer. The asset-marketplace contradicted this purpose/belief so its removal was bound to happen.
I really hope some of the mods see this post and the people’s responses to it…
I feel this wasn’t the best idea on Robloxs be half but I think it was good too. I feel that it should be brought back but ban things like auctions and scamming. I think the approach should have been different…
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There is “most likely” which means probably. No I don’t think that they don’t make mistakes but as someone who would laugh at the offers in that category I see why they removed it.
We got by without the asset marketplace. It’s removal is of no significance when the category was just misused and full of low-quality work.
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