Here’s my opinion on the subject;
I’m glad it’s gone. However, the reason that the assets were too low quality, in my opinion, it’s a bad reason. When the DevForums made it open for public access based on the sole reason you read the forums for a certain amount of time, the quality argument is silly to me. You cannot allow non-experienced developers into the forum and demand that the quality to remain the same as when it as manually approved. If you disapprove of this change in general (The New Member system) then I can understand why you’d be upset a lot of low-quality posts were made.
As someone who joined through this program, and as someone who’s a New Member, the Asset Marketplace should be a manual experience to join, such as how the Beta Testing program is. (Which means users like me would be left out of this experience. Which isn’t the worse thing in the world.) This should only be done if this is coming back, which by the looks of it, it’s not. If quality in builds is the main issue, then I can understand how moving it to a manual experience might help. However, I also understand the reason why this new program was added to begin with. It was to avoid having staff sit through a long progress of manually approving users all the time into parts of the forums.
There was a lot wrong with the Asset Marketplace.
- In general, the original post wasn’t actually talking about the asset and so a lot of users had to request for details that should of been included already.
- The assets would be sold for
100 or less. Which makes them almost worth nothing. If assets are being sold for that low, they should of been made free. - Most of the assets were debated in the replies in regards of price - as in if the price was fair or not. This was also something I took part of, trying to debate with those who dropped the price by a large amount. Which means I was also apart of the problem.
- The time spent on them were typically an hour or less. Which, in general, doesn’t make it a bad build by default - but it means users figured out a quick way to earn Robux rather than actually attempting to sell assets they were proud of.
- Not only that but most of the assets weren’t really the original poster’s assets to sell. They were either stolen, or the buyer would resell assets they longer needed, which made them not the original creator for the assets.
- When selling some assets, such as one building or something, those assets wouldn’t normally ease in with an existing build/map. So some people would sell something - like a chair - and that’ll be it, instead of full maps. When those small assets could be put up as a free model.
- Speaking of free models, a lot of assets sold in the DevForums could of been made into a free model instead of attempting to sell it. Not every asset you make should be attempted to be sold, and a beginner’s builds definitely shouldn’t of been attempted to be sold.
100 or less. Which makes them almost worth nothing. If assets are being sold for that low, they should of been made free.There’s a lot of issues with buying preexisting maps and assets to begin with, that’s not limited to just the DevForum’s Asset Marketplace subcategory. Despite the staff and other users trying to make posts to warn users to be weary when buying assets, users being scammed daily was a huge thing.
I wasn’t apart of the DevForums when it was during the manually approved system, and I’ve only joined recently through the New Member system. So take this next comment with a grain of salt, but as long as I’ve been in these forums, there were users being scammed all the time. There was zero way to offer protection to these users and there’s still no way to offer protection to these users even if it was manually approved.
If you’re attempting to sell preexisting assets and not sure where to do so, there’s hundreds of Discord servers and Roblox groups you could attempt to sell them on. And/or you could attempt selling them on Twitter. With as many issues this subcategory had, and as someone who viewed it daily when it was up, it should probably remain down without an attempt to bring it back.
@coneylove133 & to anyone else who it may concern - Hidden Developers is a good resource. They allow you to sell preexisting assets in their Discord server and you can put yourself up for hire. If you don’t have a Discord account, you could always try selling them on Twitter using the #RobloxDev hashtag. You will always have another place to sell Roblox assets.